magnify it beyond its due value. Did they preach any doctrine frequently, and to all classes of mankind, and apply it practically in every possible bearing? We must beware lest we lightly esteem what God hath highly honoured. Our duty, then, is to take heed unto the advice which Paul gives to Timothy, when speaking of the second coming of the Lord. He says: It is a faithful saying: for, if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: if we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful; he cannot deny himself. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim. ii. 11-15.” The testimony here recorded, in-so-far as the present author is enabled to determine, is worthy of all credence; and he earnestly trusts that his own feebler statements will be found corroborative of its general utility and worth. He will only further express his affectionate desire that all those assemblies of the saints whom it has been his privilege to serve successively in the gospel, in Bedfordshire, in Dorsetshire, in Suffolk, in Lincolnshire, again in Suffolk, in Gloucestershire, and in Huntingdonshire, will receive the present volume as a token of continued and unabated interest in their spiritual well being. All the orbs of immensity are held in their several spheres, and circulate around a common centre, by the law of gravitation: what the law of gravitation is in the natural world, the law of love becomes in the moral : and by this Divine communion, all the righteous followers of the Lamb are kept in perpetual association with each other and with their Lord. Oh for the day of consummation, when they shall meet to part no more! Finally. In order to real benefit and enjoyment in the perusal of his work, the author ventures to advertise the reader that it must not be read cursorily or hastily, but quietly and meditatively, and even with a degree of studious care and observation. True is the proverb, The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat ; and wise is the counsel, Meditate upon these things: give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear unto all; or, more properly, that thy profiting may appear in all things. Jan. 4, 1842. CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. DISCOURSE I. Introductory: the Tabernacle entire. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the Page DISCOURSE II. The Ark of the Covenant. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with DISCOURSE III. The Table of Shew-bread. And thou shalt set upon the table shew-bread before me a DISCOURSE IV. The Golden Candlestick. And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold; of beaten DISCOURSE V. The Vail. And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, DISCOURSE VI. The Altar of Burnt-offering. And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt-offering, and all Page 77 99 116 DISCOURSE VII. The Pure Oil-olive. And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they 141 DISCOURSE VIII. The Priesthood. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate DISCOURSE IX. The Holy Garments. And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, DISCOURSE X. The Incense-Altar. And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon.-Ex. XV Page 163 189 216 The Laver. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Thou shalt also DISCOURSE XII. The Anointing Oil. Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take thou 239 265 |