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type or course of typical teaching with the analogy of Christian 
doctrine. Whenever the teaching is correct and true, it fits 
in with an exactness which cannot be accidental. And when 
faith and intelligence are thus satisfied, the fullest confirmation 
is afforded both to the truth and reality of the type and to the 
truth and reality of that which is typified. There is in it all 
that force of undesigned coincidence which forbids the idea of 
chance, or of unreality, or of untruth. 
Thus, then, runs the parallel. In the beginning God 
created the heaven and the earth : a perfect work. He 
created man upright in His own image : a perfect work also. 
After a time the earth fell into a state of desolation and 
darkness and death. From his state of uprightness man fell 
into a state termed a “ death of trespasses and sins.” Dark- 
ness filled every soul. “ Darkness covered the earth and 
gross darkness the people.” “ Death reigned over all.” 
The state of desolation and darkness was closed by the 
Spirit of God moving upon or brooding over the face of the 
waters. And none can enter into the kingdom of God, — 
none, that is, can pass from death unto life, except he be born 
again of water and of the Spirit. 
The imparting of the life-giving energy of the Spirit of 
God was immediately followed by the command, “ Let there 
be light.” And that was no sooner given than “ light was.” 
St. Paul, pointing to this very fact, says , — “ God, who com- 
manded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our 
hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of God in the 
face of Jesus Christ.” 
In that restoration of the earth God did not entirely dispel 
the darkness. With the light of day the darkness of night 
continued to alternate. So in the regenerate and enlightened 
soul the heart is renewed, but corruption remains ; and the 
darkness of doubt will ever mingle with the light of faith. 
I might easily follow the particulars of these types through 
the whole history of the restoration of the earth, and in that 
of the creation of man as it is contained in the first two 
chapters of Genesis. But I must pass on to one or two of the 
instances of this teaching in the narrative of the Noachian 
Deluge. This in the Scriptures is clearly regarded as a type 
of the coming destruction of the earth by fire. How, into the 
Ark, prepared by the believing patriarch, he and his family 
were received, and, together with the clean and unclean animals, 
gathered there by them, were saved. 
The Holy Spirit taught St. Peter (Acts x.) that the gather- 
ing together of all manner of clean v and unclean animals 
(limited however to such, be it observed, as he might kill and 
