eternal life have been placed entirely on him. A much greater number will yet be raised through successive ages, until all compose the one general assembly and church of the first-born, who shall sing a new song in the heavenly Jerusalem, "saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." All this is the work of Jehovah, and it is marvellous to every beholder. The day on which Messiah arose from the dead, was emphatically" the day which the Lord hath made;" every one of his people have been glad in heart for that day, which is alike a proof of the completeness of his work, and an earnest of their own resurrection. Such a glorious event having taken place, the prayer of every believer will be, "Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord! O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Various cir David sang of the praises very young cumstances of children would give to Messiah, publicly, in his life in Ps. viii., XX., xxxi., his own temple, when no other lips dared lv., lxxviii. ; Matt. xiii. 35. openly to do so. The Jewish Church, on to the time of David, had learned, by its ceremonies, and many of the predictions already given, that the life of Messiah would be one of conflict and suffering; and his death expiatory. In the person of their king, when going forth to battle, its members express their sympathy with him (Messiah), and aspirations for his victory by which their own salvation. I would be obtained. In the important and necessary act of committing the soul to God, David speaks the words Messiah would use before he expired on the cross. The wounded feelings of Messiah, by the treachery of Judas, whose perfect mind was more keenly affected by base conduct than any of his people could be, are predicted by David in his exclamations regarding Ahithophel. Ahithophel had been David's bosom friend and counsellor; Judas, one of the apostles, and companion of the Lord Jesus Christ. Both were sharers of high religious privileges, and both came to the same end-the inflicters of their own death. Nor were those gems of composition, the parables, unspoken of by the prophets, so numerous, impromptu of irresistible moral power, and always most appropriate to the ever-varying and apparently accidental circumstances. that give rise to them. The sublime by David. 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. David had revealed much of the glories of truths revealed his Lord-of him who would afterwards be his Son. He had expressed what his feelings would be after he became man, in the times when they would be most intensely exercised. He made known how he would be received in heaven by its shining hosts, after his sufferings and toils on earth. He touches on a still higher theme, and reveals what the Father said to him-what he, the Son, said to the Father. Lest any should think it would be impossible for a mortal man to have such knowledge, he declares, "The Spirit of God spake by me, and his word was in my tongue" (2 Sam. xxiii. 2). David was a type of Messiah, as a king ruling in the hearts of his people, after having subdued them to his authority; another type was necessary to exhibit the peace and prosperity of his kingdom-that was given in his successor. CHAPTER IV. SOLOMON A TYPE OF MESSIAH, AND INSPIRED TO WRITE OF HIM. Solomon. SOLOMON reigned forty years over all Israel, which was longer than the reigns of any other of their kings. Never had there been such unbroken peace; the land was fruitful in all its borders; wealth was in overflowing abundance; cities were built, and useful and ornamental buildings erected; the understanding and taste were cultivated; equity and justice were administered throughout the kingdom; special attention was paid to the poor of the people in every part of his dominions. Bnt the greatest of all the works of that reign, and to which Solomon had been divinely appointed, was the building of the temple. He commenced it in the fourth year of his reign. David had prepared with all his might, for the house of his God, by giving gold and silver, brass and iron, wood, onyx stones, precious stones, and marble stones in abundance; amounting to immense value. Solomon was three years in making these materials, besides what he added to them, ready for its erection. It was built of stone, prepared before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was building-an emblem of the peace there must be where the Holy Spirit will descend. The temple.- As Moses was instructed by the Lord in what manner to construct the tabernacle, so was Solomon in the erection of the temple. "Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat; and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things" (1 Chron. xxviii. 11, 12). And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah; it was on that spot David built an altar to the Lord, and called upon the Lord: who answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burntoffering, and commanded the angel; "and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof." Mount Moriah was near to Zion, the city of David. The temple was about a hundred feet long, thirty-three feet wide, and fifty feet high. The inside walls were wainscoted with cedar of exquisite workmanship. The tabernacle reared up in the wilderness was balf as long, and rather more than half as wide, and as high. The use and typical meaning of the tabernacle and the temple were the same: it was divided in the same manner and proportion into two parts. “The oracle," or "the Most Holy Place," in which were put |