IxX INTRODUCTION. 



jury as to the nature of the verdict they 

 ought to deliver. It would be a great and 

 irreparable loss to the devout and sober 

 student of Holy Scripture, if in his endeavours 

 to become acquainted with the different parts 

 of it, he is to be precluded from forming an 

 opinion as to certain events and doctrines, 

 because it has pleased the Wisdom of God 

 to record and reveal them not directly and 

 at once, but indirectly, in many parcels, and 

 under various forms. 



To apply this reasoning to the subject I 

 am discussing. Having rendered it probable 

 that the cherubim placed in a tabernacle at 

 the east of the Garden of Eden, repre- 

 sented the same objects, and were so far 

 synonymous, with those afterwards placed in 

 the Jewish Tabernacle in the most holy place 

 overshadowing the mercy-seat, and that the 

 Divine Presence was more particularly to be 

 regarded as taking there its constant station, 

 and there occasionally manifesting itself by 

 a cloud and a fiery splendor, I shall next 

 endeavour to show what the cherubic images 

 really symbolized. 



The word Cherub, in the Hebrew lan- 

 guage, has no root ; for the derivation of it 



