THE OLD MINE AND THE Golden Ore of the Gospel extracted, IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN AND APPLY SOME OF THE BY JAMES SLYE, POTTERSPURY. "Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ," Col. ii. 17. LONDON: PARTRIDGE & OAKEY, PATERNOSTER-ROW. MDCCCL. CHAPTER I. On the Typical Character of the Old Testament Dispensation...... The early Practice of Sacrificing not to be reasonably accounted for but by supposing it to have been Divinely appointed, with PAGE The Scriptural authority for believing the Old Testament Dispen- sation to be Typical, Figurative, and transitory in its nature.... 11-18 On the Definition of a Type-How the Types may be known-The Jeremiah breaking a potter's vessel Joash shooting with a bow by the direction of Elisha Jeremiah digging through the wall of his house................ 277240 We may see in them a manifestation of the wisdom of God in his manner of dealing with intelligent creatures-the harmony in the works PREFACE. THE following Work originated in a course of Lectures which the Author delivered to his own congregation on Sabbath evenings, without a thought of their being known beyond the circle for which they were prepared. In adopting the suggestion made to him to bring them before the public, in preference to another work to which his attention was at that time directed, the inducement was a conviction that of all the works extant on the Typography of Scripture, but few were entitled to an implicit reliance. There is scarcely one of the old writers in this department of sacred literature whose labours discover a judgment and discrimination equal to the exuberance of his fancy. Almost every person and object to which a fruitful imagination could find a resemblance in Christ has been made a type; and even those similes and parallels which have been justly |