ESSAY 



ON THE 



NATURE, AND SYMBOLICAL CHARACTER, 



OF THE 



CHERUBIM OF THE JEWISH TABERNACLE. 



BY H. J. MONCK MASON, ESQ. L.L.D. AND M.R.I.A. 



Read, Jan. 20, 181S. 



HAVING observed, from the example of Science, that it is gene- 

 rally desirable in an abstruse inquiry, first to propose the subject 

 of discussion, I shall do so shortly here. It is my intention in the 

 following pages to endeavour to demonstrate, that the Cherubim, 

 in their simple and more obvious use, were a consecrated banner of 

 the Israelites : and that, a.s symbols, they were not only types of 

 the family of Judah, but of the entire redeemed body of the faith- 

 ful of the Christian church ; and, in these allegorical senses, col- 

 lateral emblems with, and similar to, some of the zodiacal signs. 

 I shall also in this paper lay the foundation of proof, and even 

 proceed as far as its limits will allow in the demonstration, that 



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