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counsels of the Father, of whom these types werc emblems.

Among the human prefigurations of our divine Saviour, Job and Joseph are conspicuous for holiness. Job, typified" the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," in his sufferings and patience under them; and he possessed "the faith of God's elect "in this spotless Redeemer, who should stand in impeccable flesh and blood at the "latter day upon the earth," as the deliverer of his people from the bondage of sin and Satan. That patriarch describes the humanity of" Christ, who is the wisdom of God in a mystery," in such metaphorical language, as represents his infinite preciousness to be so great, on account of its inherent purity, as to exceed in value the richest treasures of the material world. "It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal cannot equal it; and the exchange of it shall

not be for vessels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold." While Job had such exalted views of the pre-eminent holiness of his kinsman Surety, he entertained the most debasing conceptions of his

* Job, xix. 25. + 1 Cor. ii. 7. Job, xxviii. 15-19.

own native pollution, and acknowledged the necessity which existed, for the decomposition of his vile body, every particle of which he knew to be impregnated with sin. "My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. I have said to corruption, thou art my father; to the worm, thou art my mother, and my sister."*

The immaculate holiness of our glorious Immanuel is prefigured in the external character of Joseph, though of course he was not inwardly exempt from the inherent corruption incident to every child of Adam. It is of the pre-eminent purity and sinlessness of the great Shepherd and precious Corner-stone of Zion, and his separation from the Adamic covenant, which involves all its children in sin and death, that Israel speaks, when he declares, among other refreshing predictions, "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of thy progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren."+ Christ, the everlasting Father, whose name is Wonderful, was constituted the Head of an "everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure,"‡ which brings in an eternal righteousness, immortal life, and unchangeable bliss for ever and ever. The

* Job, xvii. 1, 14. † Gen. xlix. 26. 2 Sam. xxiii. 5.

apostle to the Hebrews, referring to the suitableness, of a spotless and impeccable glorious Melchizedek, to our fallen condition, says: "For such an high-priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." *

"The bush that burned with fire, and was not consumed," + in which the beloved messenger of the covenant appeared to Moses, was an emblem of the Son of God "manifest in the flesh," to offer himself a whole burnt-offering for the sins of his people; tried, tempted, bruised, afflicted, and scorched with the extremity of human suffering, yet, surviving like a mighty indestructible flame. "The enemy could not exact upon him" by infusing sin into his holy and impeccable humanity; nor could it "see corruption," being unchangeable as the Godhead which raised him out of the tomb, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it."+

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The Jewish passover was "a shadow of good things to come; but the body is Christ."§ The inherent purity and innocence of our substantial passover, the "man who endured affliction by the rod of the Father's wrath," || was typified in the spotlessness of the pascal lamb, and in its being eaten with the entrails. "Then said I, lo, I come: in the volume

*Heb. vii. 26. § Col. ii. 17.

+ Exod. iii. 2.
|| Lam. iii. 1.

Acts, ii. 24.

of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is in the midst of my bowels."* "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: and they shall take the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts, and on the upper door-post of the houses wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof."+ The prohibition of leaven, one particle of which was not to be found in the house of an Israelite at this solemn season, has also a reference to our divine Substitute's exemption from inward pollution. "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.” ‡

The children of God, who were taught of the Holy Spirit, under the levitical dispensation, were fully aware that the sacrifice of lambs, bulls, and goats, could present to Jehovah no equivalent for a human soul; but they were instructed by the unblemished type, to look for the glorious reality in the future expiation of Immanuel, who, by one

* Ps. xl. 7, S. † Exod. xii. 5—9. ‡ Ibid. xii. 19.

apostle to the Hebrews, referring to the suitableness, of a spotless and impeccable glorious Melchizedek, to our fallen condition, says: "For such an high-priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." *

“The bush that burned with fire, and was not consumed," in which the beloved messenger of the covenant appeared to Moses, was an emblem of the Son of God "manifest in the flesh," to offer himself a whole burnt-offering for the sins of his people; tried, tempted, bruised, afflicted, and scorched with the extremity of human suffering, yet, surviving like a mighty indestructible flame. "The enemy could not exact upon him " by infusing sin into his holy and impeccable humanity; nor could it "see corruption," being unchangeable as the Godhead which raised him out of the tomb, "having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it."+

The Jewish passover was "a shadow of good things to come; but the body is Christ."§ The inherent purity and innocence of our substantial passover, the "man who endured affliction by the rod of the Father's wrath," was typified in the spotlessness of the pascal lamb, and in its being eaten with the entrails. "Then said I, lo, I come: in the volume

*Heb. vii. 26. § Col. ii. 17.

+ Exod. iii. 2.
Lam. iii. 1.

Acts, ii. 24.

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