accomplish that good which he would do.Forever blessed be that God who loveth sinners, tho' he cannot for his justice sake save them, unless they will become holy through the means which he has provided. That fountain of unchangeable goodness was not changed, God still loved the creature he had made; man was the unreconciled party.

There needed a Saviour to magnify the law and make it honorable; and bring back the creature man, to God-not God to man. Well did Christ say to his disciples "without ME ye can do nothing." Thousands there

are, who talk of christianity, who never have yet submitted themselves to come to the cross, that they might be put to death in the flesh, and as the old man, or their fleshly powers are not crucified, they find themselves beset with pride and anger, with all the fruits of a concupiscent mind. Such find themselves under the necessity of daily beginning, but they are daily left to repent without being able to accomplish the good they would do. These are sensible of the law of sin working in them, but nothing short of giving up all, and being crucified with Christ will give them what they need; they must be quickened with Christ. Divine grace is the pool to which men had ought to come, but Jesus must yet be all to them, in a cure from their sins. The power of holy constancy to God, is not in men of themselves; this power was lost in the fall, and sin with weakness,

came in its place. Men may contend against sin in their own strength, but it will be like contending with the flood, for short of the work of sanctification, they will daily find themselves wrecked.

We have seen that man lost in the fall his righteousness and holiness, and so far fell short of the image of God; he lost the Spirit of God, which constituted the life and virtue of the covenant to God, on his part. As man had lost the covenant of the Spirit, there could be no restoration to man short of the Spirit again. Sin is at enmity with holiness, therefore it is said, the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (Rom. viii. 7.)

When man fell, God made haste to make his love known, by the promise of the Messiah, and that there should be enmity between the seed of the serpent, and the seed of the woman. This enmity, is the property of God's Spirit which works in opposition to the spirit of wickedness. This Spirit is the Holy Ghost, brought in, through the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ. It is by the weapons of the Spirit, the man of God is able to contend against spiritual wickedness in high places. Through the Spirit men are mighty in God to the pulling down of strong holds, and to cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." By the

Spirit the child of God is made holy and righteous, and sanctified, thoughout soul and body; and they which are sanctified have put on the new man, "which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness," they are "renewed in knowledge after the image of him," who created man in the beginning. Let my reader recollect, that such as are in Christ. are restored to the image of God, they are righteous and holy as Adam was, and more in knowledge than he, for Adam was created without a knowledge of sin; christians know that bane, and know how to escape it too.Let it be remembered, that the typical law was given in consequence of the fall; and was given for a certain time, that is, until the restorer (Christ) should come. But in the restoration of man, there is a new creation wherein dwelleth righteousness; man re, ceives holiness without unholiness, righteousness without unrighteousness, light without darkness, and having the substance, he needs no shadow. He that is advanced forward in the resurrection and life of Christ, knows more than types possibly can teach him.Man after the fall needed types, and not before, and as God's law was not in the heart of fallen men,they needed a Saviour,and as it was in the mind of God to give them one, it was needful to give them a type of it; and most likely it was by the directions of God, that mankind were first instructed in the use of the altar and sacrifice. As the Messiah was not

to come until a certain time, the typical law served mankind in their fallen state three valuable purposes: 1stly, it reminded them of their obligations to God. 2dly, such as came to the altar in faith, believing in the promise of the Messiah, God regarded their offering and testified of their gift by a visible sign, and too these gifts or sacrifices were expiatory, through faith in the Messiah, for such crimes as mankind, were subjugated to, in consequence of the fall. In this respect, Christ was to man as a lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. xiii. 8. 3dly, the law had its commencement by divine command, and was to continue until such a time as God should signify its abolishment, by the gift of His Spirit..

It came to pass at a time when God saw "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and when every imagination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil, and that continually," that God saw fit to remove them (with the exception of Noah and his family) from the earth. In process of time, when men had multiplied, they still went on in wickedness, and God saw that it was not enough that mankind should have such types as only represented Christ, but that it was necessary to teach them that they were polluted in their thoughts, imaginations and soul.Therefore, God having provided himself an elect people, commanded that the tabernacle be built. This tabernacle was to be built

with two apartments, namely: the sanctuary, and after the sanctuary, and after the second vail, there was to be an apartment called the HOLIEST OF ALL. In this tabernacle God commanded that there should be (as well as the offering which signified the Messiah) several kinds of purification. The furniture of the tabernacle was to be washed, and then anointed with oil. The water was a representation of the putting away of sin by repentance; (see Isa. i. 16.) the anointing of oil was to signify God's Holy Spirit, (2 Cor. i. 21-1 Johnii. 27.) so that men were taught by the natural defilement of a vessel that they were sin polluted in soul, and by the anointing they were taught that which they must be by grace, that they might be acceptable to God.

This tabernacle was the very capital of the law dispensation, and as it was built by the special direction of God, it was an oracle by which mankind were taught their fallen condition, as well as the means by which they must be restored. It is by this tabernacle we are to learn the duration of the law dispensation of types and shadows. This tabernacle was a representation of God's future dwelling in the hearts of his people. "Know ye not," saith the apostles, "that ye are the temples of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy; which temple ye are."