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in these comprehensive words, " In thee* shall all the families ol' 

 the earth be l)lessecl." It is then unquestionable that all the em- 

 blems which connect the descendants of this Patriarch with , the 

 promise of redemption, bear an extended reference to mankind. 



I do not think it necessary to detail tlie several texts of both 

 Testaments which speak of the Tabernacle, the Temple, and the 

 Church of Christ, as being in scriptural allusion the same. 

 •f-These texts so fully justify the opinion, which rests also upon the 

 nuthoi'ity of Sir J Isaac Newton, and the principal commentators, 

 that I may consider it as proved ; and quote only such of them 

 as will elucidate the remainder of this discussion. ||St. Paul, ad- 

 dressing the Corinthian Christians, tells them, " Ye are llie tem- 

 " pie of the living God," a church, as he afterwards expresses 

 it, § " built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the Pro- 

 " phets ;" the allusion which is contained in this latter text is 

 afterwards more fully illustrated by St. John,^ where those found- 



* Gen. 12. 3. See also Gen. 18. 18—22. 18 and 26. 4. Ps. 72. 17. Acts 3. 25. Gal. 3. 

 8, &c. 



f Rev. 21. 3. See also Kev. 7. 15, which Mr. Faber remarks should be construed, 

 " shall dwell as in a tabernacle among them.'' Heb. 3. 6. Is. ch. 54 passim, and c. 4. v. 5. 

 and 6. Levit. 26. 11 and 12. Ezek. 37. 26, &c. and frequently in the Epistles. 



J See his work quoted above, p. 259, &c. See also Faber, V. 3. p. 6S4. 



II 2 Cor. 6. 16. 



§ Ephes. 2. 20. This analogy has so strongly impressed the minds of the primitive Cliiis- 

 tiaiis, that the}' usually designate the four Evangelists, as the leading Apostles, by the em- 

 blems of the Lion, the Ox, the Eagle, and a Man, the devices of the four principal tribes. 

 This practice is coeval with the existence of the earliest MSS. and, although strained, de. 

 monstrates clearly the conceptions of primitive Christians and the Fathers of the church: it 

 also coincides with whatever of Rabbinical tradition can be reconciled with a Christian creed. 

 I call this practice a strained symbolification ; for St Mark and St. Luke are but the repre- 

 sentatives of St. Peter and St. Paul, which latter besides was not one of the twelve. 



^ Hevel. chap. 21 throughout. 



