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speech" was as " the noise of an host !§" But let us examine 

 the context yet farther — it is said, the Lord is among these, (whe- 

 ther angels, or saints, or cherubim,) " as in Sinai in the holy 

 place ;" so that, were we even to suppose the above comment 

 strained, we are here told, that the Lord sitteth upon this glo- 

 rious chariot in the Heavens, as in the Tabernacle ; a ' compari- 

 son yet further illustrated and extended by the expressions of St. 

 Paul. " But * ye are come up to Mount Sion, and unto the 

 " city of the living God, and to an innumerable company of 

 " Angels ; to the general assembly, and church of the first born, 

 " which are tvritten in Heaven" Now, when we read^f of the Lord 

 riding upon a cherubim in one text, and upon the Heavens in 

 another, and on his angels in a third ; dwelling among them, 

 and " between them in Zion," (which is the acknowledged type 

 of the Church ;) Avhen we combine the glory which o'ershadowed 

 the mercy seat, which departed from Israel with the captivity 

 of the ark, J which was converted into the similitude of a calf by 

 the stupid Hebrews, and was the object of praise in Daniel, Eze- 

 kiel, Esdras, and the Revelations ; we cannot but admit, that 

 there is . that mystical connexion which I have conjectured, be- 

 tween the subjects of these various texts. 



But, before I proceed to produce others to strengthen it yet 

 more, I shall mention an example of allusion, in wliich another 

 part of the furniture of the Jewish temple is combined with 

 the stars, to form kindred types of institutions in the Christian 



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f See 2 Esdras 2. 42. 

 * Heb. 12. 22— and 2. Eadr. 2. ia. 



% See Ps. 18—10. 68. 4-78. 61—80. 1 and 99. 1— Is. 37. 16. 1 Sam. 4. 21 & 22, &C.2 

 Sam. 6. 2, &c. and several other texts appropriate here. 

 X See also in Ezek. 9. 3, and 43. 4; and Hos. 10.4. 



