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SECTION 101.-p. 161.

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SECTION 103.-p. 180.

1. TITLE. Order to be adopted in the following
Sections, till the death of Moses. Archbishop
Laud's Harmony of the Laws of Moses. No

1. TITLE. The builders of the ark were drowned

in the deluge. The partakers of the miraculous
gifts were banished from the society in heaven
of those they helped to save. Nadab and

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1, 2 DEUTERONOMY v. 30, 31. EXODUS xx. 24-26, and xxiv. 3—18.

4. PRAYER. That as we know both the law of God and the will of God, we make a covenant with God, with the blood of the great sacrifice, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience; and so ascending higher and higher in communion with God, from a true conversion from evil, to rejoicing in the imitation of Christ, to the attainment of that peace with God which passeth all understanding; that we may find the cares and troubles of life to be the sources of our greatest praise, and the sense of God's presence to be the purest enjoyment of the soul. 5. NOTES. On the arrangement of the passages of Scripture in this Section.-On the altars and sacrifices of the Mosaic Law.-On the expression, "the paved work of a sapphire stone," and as it were the body of heaven in its clearness."-On the expression, "on the elders of Israel he lay not his hands."-On the gradations in the spiritual life, and the three gradations of approach to God.

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1. TITLE.

SECTION 106.-p. 210.

As the heaven of heavens cannot contain the invisible Spirit of God, yet the Spirit of God dwells in the humble and contrite heart; so though Mount Sinai could not contain the visible manifestation of His Glory, the promise is given, that the visible glory of God should be manifested in the sanctuary which Moses is commanded to build. Free-will offerings to God are the result of covenanting with God. The ark of the covenant, covered with the mercy-seat, and surmounted with figures of the cherubim, is to be placed within the sanctuary. The probable meaning of these commands. God promises to commune with the people from the visible glory between the cherubim.

2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xxv. 1-22.

4. PRAYER. That as we know God's law, and have made a covenant with Him by the sacrifice of Christ, we may offer Him, with a willing heart, our affections, our substance, and ourselves to His service; that we build up the sanctuary of God in the world around us, and in our hearts within us, according to the pattern which God hath set before us in the Gospel of His Son; that our hearts, like the ark of God, rest in heaven, adorned with the crowns of gold and the graces of His Spirit, and rejoice in communion with God in His mercy-seat in heaven.

5. NOTE. On the ark, the cherubim, and on the making of the sanctuary and its furniture; the

ark of the covenant and its furniture with the cherubims, after the pattern which Moses was caused to see in the Mount.

SECTION 107.-p. 218.

1. TITLE. God is revealed to us as the Lord of the world, of the Church, and of the soul. Those who commune with God daily at His mercy-seat, will rejoice to meet Him weekly at His holy table. Moses is commanded to make the table on which the show-bread was placed, which was to be eaten at the end of the week by the priests. A candlestick of gold, with its lamps and ornaments, the emblem of the Church and of the soul, is ordained for daily light in the holy place. Every thing in the service of God must be of God's appointment, and not of man's invention.

2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. 23, to the end.

EXODUS xxv.

4. PRAYER. That God would prepare a table before us in the wilderness of life, as the God of the world, the Church, and the soul; and that He would enable us to walk in light before Him, as the God of Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification; and that the Creator would bless us by His Providence, the Saviour by His mediation and atonement, the Holy Spirit by His influence and power; and that the holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity may be revealed to our souls and dwell in our souls, as believers in His mercy, in creation, revelation, and hope. 5. NOTE. The minuteness of the directions given by the Almighty to Moses respecting the structure and furniture of the tabernacle, is consistent with a philosophical estimate of the greatness and glory of the Deity.

SECTION 108.-p. 225.

1. TITLE. We learn from God's Revelation, that it is harder to save a soul than to create a world. The construction of the Tabernacle; its curtains, boards, breadth, and length, considered as a type of the identity of the one united visible and invisible Church of Godthe emblematical design of the Holy of Holies, with the mercy-seat; of the Holy Place, with the veil of the table of show-bread, of the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense. 2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE.

EXODUS xxvi. 1-35; xxx. 1-10; and xxvi. 36, 37.

4. PRAYER. That as the tabernacle in the wilderness united the Holy of Holies with the Holy Place, so it will please God to enable us in the unity of the Church of England to commemorate the death of Christ, the true sacrifice, as at the altar of burnt offering:-to offer up our prayers, as at the altar of incense-to walk in the light of the preaching of the Holy Gospel, as in the light of the golden candlestick -to commune with God as at the table of show-bread-till we pass through the veil of death, to the true Holy of Holies, and dwell with God and Christ for ever.

5. NOTE. The tabernacle in the wilderness the type of the Universal Church on earth, and in heaven, and of every national Church.

SECTION 109.-p. 233.

1. TITLE. Jesus Christ, as the pre-existent Angel Jehovah, is as certainly the Institutor of the minute ritual of the Jews, as He is the giver of the command that we approach to God through Him, and love one another; and as the Christian studies the law of Christ, the Jews studied the law of Moses, as the alphabet of the learning of immortality.-The altar of burnt offering, and the probable meaning of some of the enactments concerning it.-The court of the Tabernacle, and the manner in which Churches should be built.-The oil for the lamps, and the manner in which prayer should be offered.

2. INTRODUCTION.

EXODUS xxvii.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. 4. PRAYER. That as we believe the institutions of the law of Moses to have been given by the Great Head of the Church, to separate the Jews from the idolaters, and to direct their minds to Christ; we may also seek in the types and shadows of the law new motives to holiness, and ever new knowledge of Christ;-that we may know Him as our sacrifice, and offer at His altar-visit His courts with praise and joy, and look and long for the better Church in heaven, after our worship and communion with the Church on earth.

5. NOTE. On the instruction afforded to the clergy by the command to prepare oil for the lamps in the tabernacle.

SECTION 110.—p. 240.

1. TITLE. The design of Revelation is twofold -to restore the dominion of God eventually over the world in general, and in the heart of each individual in particular; and the one plan by which that object of Revelation is made effectual, is the establishment of the visible Church, and the appointment of an authorized ministry. The family of Aaron is set apart to the office of the Priesthood. Holy garments are commanded them, to excite reverence among the people, and to remind the Priesthood of their duty.

2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xxviii. 1-21.

4. PRAYER. That we be ever mindful of the true dignity of man at the beginning;-of the depth of our sinfulness by the fall; and of the provision which has been made for us in the visible Church of God, to enable us to return to the communion on earth and therefore in heaven, which our father lost-that we put on the holy garments of salvation, for glory and for beauty, and pray, and think, and live, as the royal priesthood of the Church of God.

5. NOTES. On the causes of the minute directions respecting the Aaronical dresses.-On the typical meaning of the precious stones in the breastplate, &c.-On the colours of the Ephod.

SECTION 111.-p. 246.

1. TITLE. The institutions of the law of Moses, have generally both a literal and spiritual meaning, but they are only rightly understood

by the Christian, when the spiritual meaning is made a personal or self-applicatory meaning.The dress of the high priest typically describes the appearance of Christ in heaven; but it relates also the fitness of the Christian to commune with God now on earth, and hereafter in heaven.

2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xxviii. 22, to the end.

4. PRAYER. That we not only believe in the blessedness of the communion of the soul with Christ and God after the death of the body, but that we begin the happiness of the world to come in communion with God and His Church on earth, by approaching to God with the Urim and Thummim of knowledge in the head, with perfection of action in the life, and with holiness of motive, will, affection, and intention in the thoughts of the heart.

5. NOTES. On the Urim and Thummim.-Exodus xxviii. 42.

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and devote our souls to Him, in holy thought, as a wave offering; that we put on us the robes of righteousness, and daily, morning and evening, with purity, praise, and cheerfulness, offer to Him our hearts and souls, that Christ may dwell in us.

5. NOTES. On the sacrament considered as a feast upon a sacrifice.-Theodoret on the wave offering and the heave offering.

SECTION 114.—p. 264.

1. TITLE As the aged forget the tears or toys of infancy, in the occupations or engagements of their more mature years, so will the soul in its immortality consider the prosperity or adversity of its mortal life of seventy or eighty years. All souls are of equal value before God, and the salvation of the soul is the one thing needful. The atonement money demanded in equal sums of all. The brazen laver-the holy oilthe holy perfume.

2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xxx. 11-33.

4. PRAYER. That whatever be the joys, or the Sorrows, or the adversities of our progress through life, we regard our peculiar position in the world as the scene of our trial and probation, in which we are called upon to benefit others, to serve, fear, and love God, to prepare for death, and seek the salvation of the soul; that we devote our hearts and lives to God as His baptized people; that the oil of gladness be poured upon us by the Spirit of God, and that our prayers be as fragrant incense offered and accepted from a broken and contrite heart. 5. NOTES. On the spiritual interpretation by Beda, of the payment of ten gerahs as the ranson money for the soul.-Cardinal Bellarmine

on the holy ointment.-On the materials of the holy perfume. On the prohibition of making the holy perfume for strangers.

SECTION 115.-p. 270.

1. TITLE. Abstract and undoubted truths may become for a time unacceptable, and even injurious, when they have been much perverted. The abuse of the doctrine of a future state among the Egyptians was probably the cause of the absence of any inspired direction to Moses, to establish his laws on the foundation of that important truth. The inspiration of the builders of the tabernacle. The perpetual obligation of the Sabbath, as a sign between God and the soul of man, upon all who believe in God as their Creator, value His holy covenant, rejoice in their weekly religious rest, and humbly anticipate their better rest in heaven. 2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xxxi. 4. PRAYER. That we be found worthy to serve and honour God, as the faithful and holy members of His visible Church on earth; and be so imbued with the graces of His Holy Spirit, that we be received after death into that better Tabernacle not made with hands, in heaven; that we observe with gratitude and humility the Lord's-day Sabbaths in the Church upon earth, as a sign between God and ourselves, in remembrance of God the Creator, of Christ's resurrection, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Church and upon our own souls; that the rest of the Sabbath upon earth be the anticipation and beginning of the rest in heaven.

5. NOTE. On the reasons for which Moses was not instructed to establish his laws on the sanction of a future state.

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