Iviii INTRODUCTION. 



all things put under his feet, there seems 

 to be no slight connection between the che- 

 rubim and the animal creation. If we regard 

 the antitypes of these images as exclusively 

 metaphysical, this argument will not hold ; 

 but if, as I hope to prove from Scripture, 

 they consist of physical as well as meta- 

 physical objects, by which the Deity acts 

 upon the whole animal kingdom, and par- 

 ticularly in all instinctive operations, I trust 

 I shall be justified in entering so fully into 

 this interesting subject. In this inquiry I 

 have endeavoured to guide myself entirely 

 by the word of God, comparing spiritual 

 things with spiritual; at the same time taking 

 into consideration those arguments, where 

 the case seemed to require it, that his works 

 supply. 



The Jewish tabernacle, which, as Philo 

 calls it, 1 was a portable temple, every reader 

 of Scripture knows was divided into two 

 principal parts, or, according to the apostle 

 to the Hebrews, tabernacles ; the first of 

 which was called the Holy Place ; and the 

 second, the Most Holy Place, or the Holy 



De Vita Mosis, 1. Hi. 



