changed his name, and called him fon of the right hand, where is no judgment, and not of the left hand, where judgment reigns in the principle of darkness, or the northern region. Now, as Meffiah. fat in the cloud of glory in the holy of holies with his face toward the caft: his right hand was towards the fouth, the ftrength of light, which is the glory, the nourisher, balfam and confervator of all things in every fyftem: his left hand according to that Anthropomorphitifm, or figure of man spoken to our infirmities and weak apprehenfions, was to the north, or the fource of darkness, and of death, when ever divided from the light, as it is in the fallen angels, now become fpirits of darkness. This will explain the reafon of Jacob, in affigning a new and most excellent name to him, who caufed in the figure the very death of his most beloved wife. Gen. xxxv. 16. When this word on, the name or the place of Potipheras's priesthood in Egypt, fignifies iniquity from the fame root, it fhews us fhofeph marrying Afenath, the daughter of the once high-priest who brought forth fin; which this favored fon by marrying to himfelf (for good muft leaven the evil) hath taken away the flesh of Egypt, the true houfe of bondage to fin and death. Gen. xli. 45. and in this word, we must find Ezekiel's Bethaven, temple of vanity, or houfe of fin in chap. xxx. 17. which fignifies our nature born flesh from fin, and as fuch, foon to perish and moulder into duft and and afhes of its Egyptian original, or fpiritually underflood, the flesh of Hagar, where the wild Ishmael dwells, caft out from the house as the prodigal fon, but who will return in forrowing and contrition of heart for his follies and vices, and then have a new garment, and fpiritual body from the blood of the lamb, and become meek, humble, loving and grateful forever. * Now Benjamin might be called little, both in quality, age and condition ; and the ftone refused of the builders: fo Jofeph was covered with the goat's fkin, the flesh of the fin; and that which was to appear after his and his mother's pangs on the cross, fhould rise the son of the right hand, whole ftone was the jafper under the law, and the laft of the twelve precious ftones; but under the gospel, it is the firft ftone of the new Jerufalem. The first foundation was jafper. Rev. xxi. 19: in Exodus xxviii. 10, 20, 21. Benjamin's name was written on the last ftone of jafper." He, in the new Jerufalem, takes place of Reuben, unstable as water, and the defiler of his father's bed; and we fee fulfilled this prophecy, he that humbleth himfelf, fhall be exalted; and he that exalteth himself, fhall be abafed. Now Jacob of the figure in the birth of this laft fon by Rachet, (the bowels of maternal love, and the beloved wife,) had finished the * Calmet tranflates little Benjamin, ravished with joy, as the feptuagint did, of his extafy, interpreting from Radam to be in a trance or fleep, or a prophetic ectafy, which made the person seem befide themselves, or inebriated, as at Pentecofte. twelve ftones, or twelve ftars, fountains of light ip the old letter. Therefore Rachel died, having confummated in the type the twelve foundations of Jeru falem, the city of the living God, because ftones of fire or light are wonted to rebuild the fallen taber nacle of David. Amos ix. 11. As the high-prieft with all his garments, stones, pomegranates and bells was the figure of one perfect man from the head to his feet, all the living spirits concurred in one work of the prieft-hood, and never separate from the paternal tree, but are generated as fo many rich and glorious branches of one living root and origin. Had not hofeph by a prophetic view seen a myftery in Benjamin's name, he would not have sent a portion five times to the leaft according to his littlenefs, which the brethren wondered at among them. felves. Gen. xliii. 33, 34. In the bleffing foretold of this youngest and least in age, and apparent quality, we shall find something extraordinary and most excellent in the fpiritual import. Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning, he shall eat the prey; and in the evening, he fhall divide the Spoil." Gen. xlix. 27. which concludes the twelve bleffings of the father of Ifrael. *The Chaldee paraphraft, and Jerufalem Targum explain these myftic * In the splendid description of the cherub in Ezek. 28. called the sum of wisdom, and perfect in beauty, we see this anointed cherub that covereth, clothed with ten glories: he was therefore in his tenth myftic words very justly of the temple and facrifices: "Benjamin, in his land shall the divine majefty (Schechinah) dwell: in his poffeffion fhall the fanctuary be built. At morning and at evening the priests shall offer oblations, and at even-tide they fhall divide the remainder of their portions of the gifts which are fanctified. But where fhall we find the evangelical antitypes, as the law was fpiritual; and in the letter a fervant to the gospel of the Meffiah? The victories of Ehud the Benjamite; of Saul; of Mordecai and Efther, and of Paul of this tribe, are vanished; to whom many writers refer the completion of the blessing promised to this fon, who closed the twelve births from Jacob. We must search for an altar of everlasting fire, where "the fins and trefpaffes, not only of Ifrael, but of tenth, or his riches, gnafer, a priest and king of the firft order, or a Melchizedek, till his tranfgreffion caft him down. It is said, thou, O covering cherub, walkedst in the midst of stones of fire; and into this priesthood, the younger son of God is lifted up with twelve ftones, or luminous materiality. And here in the important sense of the prophefy, in Haggai chap. ii. 9. The glory of this latter boufe fhall be greater than the glory of the former. And that this prophefy intends the new Jerufalem formed out of the fiones of the old Jerufalem, fallen in ancient times, is plain, because Jebovah gives peace on mount Zion above, and in that city and temple, which John fhews is heaven itself; or in other words, the body of glory of the Meftah containing all nations, tongues, languages and peoples, within its vafte fea of cryftal clothed with fire of tranfcendent life, joy, and nuptial garments for the bridegroom's prefence and vifits. all all nations and tongues, must be abolished; and no memorial of the flesh of fin, the beast, with the garments of captivity, (as the wifer Jews called our flesh and blood) must be left, but be confumed as unclean in the holy wrath of eternal fire. For, as under the law, the altar of perpetual fire, stood in Benjamin's land near to the portion of Judah, where the lamb fat as a wolf, ready for the fin and trefpafs-offerings, from morning to evening, tearing them to pieces, and grinding their bones to powder, as a figure of that evangelical fire of Pentecofte, which was to take away, and spiritually devour the evil of chaff, hay, ftubble, and tares, and abolish the image of the flesh which bore the impure mixture, to appear no more. Ugolinus in various citations from the Jewish writers, hath fhewn us, that they faw a glance of the mystery concealed under the character of a wolf: and even God compares himself to a leopard, a bear and a lion by which laft name, the outer altar fo largely explained by the above author was called by Ifa. chap. xxix. 1. But little is feen by him, or by Millius, who juftly ftyles this altar, the mediator : scarce do either give a fhadow of the evangelical ministration performed in the beautiful figures and rites tranfacting daily under the law. Ifaac Ben Arama speaking of victims at this altar, fays: "The finner, when he fees his facrifice for fin, offered, by ftripping off the fkin, dividing it into pieces, and |