Ixxiv INTRODUCTION. 



his tabernacle and temple between or above 

 the sculptured and symbolical cherubim, but 

 to his riding upon, sitting upon, or inhabiting, 

 that is ruling and directing those powers of 

 whatever description, which are symbolized 

 by those images, or signified by that name. 



When the Lord came to deliver David 

 from his enemies, it is stated that he rode 

 upon a cherub ; 1 and the prophet Habakkuk, 

 alluding probably to the delivery of the 

 Israelites by the destruction of the Egyptians 

 in the Red Sea, exclaims, Thou didst walk 

 through the sea with thine horses, through 

 the heap of great waters ; 2 and again, with a 

 prospective view before him, perhaps, of some 

 still mightier deliverance of the church from 

 her enemies, " Was the Lord displeased 

 against the rivers ? was thine anger against 

 the rivers ? Was thy wrath against the sea, 

 that thou didst ride upon thy horses and upon 

 thy chariots of salvation ?" 3 He uses the 

 same instruments when his will is to inflict 

 a curse and execute judgments. The Lord 

 will come with jfire, and with his chariots like 



1 2 Sam. xxii. 11. Ps. xviii. 10. 



2 Habak. iii. 15. ' Ibid. 8. 



