tinct in their nuptials. For though this last be true, he never understood it on its phyfical ground as delivered by * Mofes. Under the gospel, when the bridegroom comes, and in fire marries his brides, they will forget their father's houfe and name, this world of bondage, and all the miferies of their former revolt and false adulterous will, transmitted from Adam to us, when the heavenly man fhall give them according to the law of the figures, the fpiritual life, joy, food, and clothing, whiter than fnow of Salmon, and the nuptial union never to ceafe. The Pentecofte unvailed all the altars of Mofes in the face of all nations according to the fpirit, but who has heard the name of them for * This ground of true philofophy has been explained through the myfteries of the first born, &c. The Jews were taught the union and operation of the threefold power of the invisible God by the fire, light and air of the altar: these three, they commonly fay, are one. The doctrine of matter of various degrees, even to the Shekakim, the utmost rarity of the highest heavens, was furnished from all the oblations afcending in clouds and vapors at the altars; and particularly at the cloud of odorous incenfe in the first boly place, which the seven lights penetrated and inhabited as the dwelling place under the figure. These things are largely explained in the gospel of the daily fervice; in which work, the great truths of a phyfical regeneration, as well as the love of God to all nations, were proclaimed in every ear, and pointed out to every eye that did not feal up its own vifion. These things will soon appear, when the Jews fhall come in to publish the grace of God, according to the apoftle. Rom. xi. 32. nearly nearly thirteen centuries. By Chuppah, the nuptial heaven, the wifer Jews understand the whole fyftem called Azluth, emanations, where fpirits of the highest order are clothed with the purest matter; and fo involved and wrapped up together, that there is no more diftinction to be seen between both in that perfect unity, than when fulphur, falt and oil, by way of comparison, are thrown into fire, and form one wonderful light and glory. But we must find thefe Hamebafferoth, or preachers of good news again. The Chaldée refers the paffage to Mofes and Aaron, when they published the word of God to the great company, or hofts of Ifrael; fo a greater than these, the word, a great God himself shall preach as king of kings, and lord of lords at the feventh trumpet glad tidings to all nations, and will baptize with the deluge of fire, according to the apostle's fpiritual sense, all flesh, when the earth fhall be filled with the glory, and all fhall know him from the leaft to the greatest. 1 Pet. iii. 21. Jer. xxxi. 4. Hab. ii. 14. Verfe 12. Kings of armies fhall flee: and he that tarrieth at home, fhall divide the fpoil. Some tranflate, do; others, did flee. But greater conquefts than over the Phenicians, Egyptians or Philiftines, are intimated in this fudden flight, terror and deftruction of kings of armies. They fled under the gofpel, (where every myftery is manifested,) K 2 manifefted,) when Jefus Chrift faw Satan fall from heaven. Luke x. 18. 2dly, in John xii. 28. When the father answered by a voice like thunder, saying, I have glorified my name, and I will glorify it again. When Chrift faid, now is the judgment of this world: now the prince of this world shall be caft out: and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 3dly, When the feventy disciples, preachers in Samaria, the portion of the nations in that figurative land, returned rejoycing, because the devils were fubject unto them. Luke ix. 1, 10, 17. By the apostle they are called principalities and powers, and rulers of the darkness of this age, and fpiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. vi. 12. Luke xxii. 23. David and all the prophets faw eternal victories under the temporal: and these enemies, (whofe existence the lying philofophy of this day calls in question,) are more terrible than the swords and arrows of Phenicians, Moabites, Edomites, or Egyptians. They fled, when their conqueror cried with a loud voice, faying, it is finifhed: when at that omnipotent cry, the vail of the old temple was rent in twain from top to bottom; when the earth quaked, the rocks rent, the graves were opened, and many bodies of the faints that flept arofe. Mat. xxvii. 50-52. When the fun was darkened, when the water and blood flowed out of the wounded fide of the healer of the divifion of Adam and pursued the piercer, the enemy with the great falvation, falvation, when these powers of the first heavens now openly drawn out from the figures of the law, fhall work, even for those that brought him to the cross. What heighth, and depth, what length and breadth of the love of Chrift furpaffing knowledge. Eph. iii. 18-20. Then were the mighty men of war, the chariots and horfemen of fpiritual Egypt overthrown, when they faw their kingdom of darkness and compaction broken up, and the dead awakened into life by that loud cry, which will again fpeak with the trump and voice of an archangel, and with feven thunders, till all be made alive in feven refurrections, pledged to man in the feven congregations and the feven golden candlefticks, and the feven fabbaths concluding at Pentecofte with the * octave, the Strong bridegroom, or ETERNAL SUN of living light to blefs all nations. "She *The reafon of the eighth day concluding the great feftivals of the law, and rifing in dignity and power above the seventh, cannot be now fully explained. The mystery is marked alfo in this day being appointed for circumcifion, and for the time of the priests making burnt offerings in Ezekiel's temple. chap. xliii. 27. The Jews call it the kingdom, the eighth glory from Chochmab, collecting and confining in itself all the emanation or influx from this fecond number of the three primary ones. And here we muft fearch the true fenfe of the eighth king in Gen. xxxvi. 39. who was called Hadar, in whofe dominion there was no mention of death, for he died not as the others, but rather restored and raised up the seven former kings that died before him. And to this part of the law, belong "She that tarrieth at home, fhall divide the *Spoil." The characteristic of a virgin, as Bucer obferves, is, that she is shut up in a retired part of the house. The virgin before us is the fame, as in the Canticles fountain fealed, and a garden inclofed is my fifter, my fpoufe. chap. iv. 12. The Spoil declareth the blessings which the righteous Adam, Jefus of Ñazareth, fhall procure by his death for the virgin company, having got the victory over the beaft, Salan by way of eminence, whofe name as the ferpent, and old dragon is mentioned firft in fcripture. His image is our divided nature, by which death came through his envy, and Adam's fin. The goods of the conqueror over the fallen angels and their works are given in greater measure to fuch, as adhere to him moft: to fuch who have loved the the seven kings, five of which are fallen, one is, and the other is bride |