fanctified, accepted us. Love of them is the Caufe of our Obedience to their Example and Command to love our Brethren; and Love of them and our Brethren, on our Side is Luk. x. 27. Rom. xiii. 10: 1 Tim. i. 5. Fulfilling the Law. So Cant. viii. 6. Love is as ftrong as Death. This is putting the Law which was by typical Actions to keep the Object and Benefits in View. Heb. viii. 10. x. 16. in our Minds, in our Hearts; nay giving our Hearts, our Affections. 2 Sam. vii. 19. And this is the Law of the Man

(Adoni) my Lord Jehovah.

As all effential and human Perfections were in Chrift and in his Actions; and every Thing and Action which was to exhibit him, and his Actions before the Faces of the Rubbim in the S. S. was, as far as human Ideas could reach or be attained, to be perfect really or emblematically; the Priest was to be perfect in Body and Mind, clean, vested with the richest and most beautiful Garments, of the most beautiful Colours, Shape, Proportion, &c. though all emblematical. Befides the Sanctum San&torum, the Tabernacle and Temple of the most rich beautiful and of the most perfect Workmanship, of the most proper Proportions with all the Emblems of the typical Inhabitant most properly formed and disposed to exhibit what it and they reprefented, as we must fay, to be most beautiful and pleafing to the Eyes of the Rubbim; the Sacrifices of the most proper, perfect, clean Creatures, and the Manner of flaying and facri

ficing them the properlieft ordered to exhibit what they represented, the Sufferings and Death of Chrift: The Perfumes upon the Prieft, fumed upon the Altars, alone or with the Sacrifices, were the richest and most perfect Nature could afford; as we must ideally fay, to give the most grateful Smells to the Nofes of the Rubbim as a Type of what they reprefented, the fpiritual Actions of Chrift in his Life and at his Death; so they exhibited the most delightful Sounds by Voice and Mufick, (perhaps fometimes with Words) which could be invented or performed (tho' perhaps inftituted and directed) to entertain the Ears of the Rubbim with, to exhibit the grateful Voice to them, and the joyful Voice to Man, at the Times of Service, Sacrifice, at their Feafts, Jubilees, &c. of Chrift's publishing the Gospel by himself and Followers, at his Birth, in his Life, at his Conqueft, Acceffion to his Kingdom, and at laft in pronouncing the Sentence.

So in the written Descriptions of Christ by the Prophets, in the Pfalms or Canticles, his Perfon is described fometimes as Man, fometimes as Jehovah; as Man, with all the Perfections of Man, white and red; with the most proportionable Parts; the most tender and loving Spouse, decked, perfumed, and in all Respects made acceptable; as Jehovah, as vefted with Light, with Darknefs, as coming in a Whirlwind, as Fire proceeding out of his Mouth; as armed with Lightening, Thunder-bolts; as a

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King protecting his Subjects, destroying his Enemies, redeeming those they had taken Captives, reftoring them to their Poffeffions; in the New Testament under the borrowed Figures of a King, a rich Man, &c. in the Apocalypfe under the Figure of a Lion, a Lamb, &c. The Church is represented as a young tiful Woman, as a King's Daughter, as a Spouse, as a Queen: Her Beauties are spoken of and conveyed under the Cover of fuch fenfible Ideas as are the Objects of Defire or lawful Pleasure in Women to a Lover, in a Husband, in a King. Cant. ii. 14. Sweet is thy Voice and thy Countenance, comely, as the Creatures, Man, was in his natural State to him who fees the Perfections he gave to thofe Creatures, and which he is capable of restoring; befides the internal Beauties and the outward Veftments and Ornaments which he can and doth communicate to them under the Name of her; Befides her Relation to the King mentioned Pfal. xlv. where fhe is Daughter as well as Queen: 13. The King's Daughter is all glorious within ; her Cloathing is of wrought Gold. She Shall be brought unto the King in Raiment p of Needle Work. If this be the Converts of the first Church of the Jews, then the Virgins her Companions were the Converts of other Countries; as the Daughter of Tyre was to bring Prefents to her, and the Rich among the People were to entreat her Face, not to Rome. If this be taken as the Church in general, then

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the Angels are to be her Companions. (Query if the many Wives or Concubines of Kings did not allude to this.) She was not to be magnified by her Fathers but by her Children; and under the fuppofed Idea of a Queen to a King who was Lord of all the Earth, who fhould make her Children Princes of all Nations, the Glory of Believers here and hereafter are exhibited; and to her Honour who was the first Church, all Nations fhall remember her and confefs her for ever.

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T comes to our Knowledge by Revelation, and could not be known by us otherwife, that a Plurality of Agents, who, as they are intelligent, are properly called Perfons, created this System and our firft Parents; and that they are of the fame Effence or Substance, that the Property of this Substance is to bee, and to enjoy all active Powers in Perfection; and whether any one of the Branches of that Power be expreffed pofitively by perfect, or negatively by infinite, it must neceffarily follow that it must be exercised to the fame End; So, as it is also revealed fince the Fall of Man that there are three Perfons in this Effence by Types, Emblems, Names, and Words, it appears that each of them took upon him an œconomical Part in what concerned the Redemption and Salvation of Man, and that as the chief Part R

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was that one of them fhould take the Nature of Man, and in it perform Man's Part for all, perform perfect Righteoufnefs, by fuffering &c. make perfect Satisfaction, raife his Body and redeem Man; it appears he was by Confent to enjoy and exercife all Power in Heaven and Earth to protect, rule, judge, reward or punish Men and Angels, till his Followers were poffeffed of Heaven, and his Oppofers were caft into Hell for all Eternity, a parte post.

Sing. and Plur. Mamma, Ubera, those which by fucking poured out.

A Veffel ufed at Sacrifices to pour out Wine, fo Girls who waited to pour out Wine, Butlereffes at Feafts, Ecclef. ii. 8. (Marius, Marg.) Num. xi. 8. applied to pouring out Oil.

Ager, Ground which being opened or ploughed pours out part of itself, Water, &c. into Seeds or Roots.

A Plantation of Ground with Vines or &c. So Ifa. xxxvii. 27. pouring out the Sap by Heat before the Corn was ripe.

TT Contritio Glebarum, a Name for cultivated Ground. Hof. x: II. win arabit Jehudah, ¬¬ agricolabit fibi Jahacob.*

*Pf. cxxix. 2, 3. Many a Time have they afflicted me from my Youth, yet is they made not an End of me. 3. The Ploughers ploughed upon my Back: they made long Furrows, So perhaps Hof. x. 11. is afflicting the Perfens mentioned, Judah win all be ploughed. hacob fhall be wafted.

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