as St. Peter expresses, 1 Ep. i. 18, 20, " fore-ordained (or covenanted) to redeem us, before the foundation of the world:" and as St. Paul affirms, Eph. i. 4, "that God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world." Jah signifies Divine Essence. Jehovah. Self-existent essence, the source and sustainer of life, translated generally Lord. Jehovah-jireh. Gen. xxii. 14. The Lord will pro vide. Jehovah-nissi. Exod. xvii. 15. The Lord my banner. Jehovah-shalom. Judges vi. 24. The Lord send peace. Jehovah-shammar. Ezek. xlviii. 37. The Lord is there. Jehovah-tsidkenu. righteousness. Jer. xxiii. 6. The Lord our Al. Strength and power. Shaddai (translated Almighty). All-sufficient. Sabaoth (translated Hosts) means, every thing is dependant on his power, and controllable to his will; that all the universe is full of his presence, and all creatures to be ranked amongst the army of the God of Hosts. Wisdom. The Hebrew word is plural: God himself, the Fountain of Wisdom; no other can make man holy and happy, but the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. Branch of the seed of David, Isaiah iv. a rapid vigorous increase, and xi. (another Hebrew word likewise translated Branch), a tender shoot. Christ in humiliation or humanity. Star, "to arise out of Jacob," Numb. xxiv. 17; "the day-star," "the morning-star." The light of the world; Christ alone being the underived Light, the only true source of glory. Angel, and Angel of the Covenant. One sent; an agent; one covenanting to bear the embassy of the covenant. Glory of the Lord. The word signifies weight, gravity, essence; it denotes likewise intrinsic grandeur or real splendour. Word of the Lord. Mind of Jehovah. The Jews always understood the Messiah by this name; the living medium between the mind of Jehovah and the intellect of man; the mind of the God-head substantially expressed. Prophet. The word means a teacher under the Old Testament, and a preacher of the gospel under the New. In both, "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy," in Him as the central point united in the Testaments. Priest. The high-priest a type of Christ, Jesus an everlasting priest. King. Christ a ruler of his people, now in love and grace, and hereafter in perpetual glory and blessed ness. Messiah. The Anointed One, consecrated, a person authorised qualified for a design. Jesus. Saviour. Redeemer. Avenger, one who recovers what is lost, and reinstates to a forfeited possession. Shiloh. The messenger-one sent. Adonai. (Translated Lord.) Basis, support; it refers to the Redeemer's operation in the covenant of grace. Light. The word signifies light in action, representing the active influence of Christ engaged in the salvation and happiness of man. Servant. As man, Christ the servant of God. Lawgiver. Jehovah-Jesus could alone reveal a law which is one great complication of perfection, prophecy, authority, and providence. The whole ceremonial law was to reveal, establish, and confirm the gospel of Christ. The external application reached to the outward man only, inculcating moral conduct and affecting all professing to be under its authority, whether truly converted or not. Its inward purpose and power, as taught under the influence of the Spirit of Wisdom, was salvation by Jesus Christ. Thus the books of Exodus and Leviticus with all its shadows and commemorations "of good things to come," were to the redeemed of old, under the law, what the blessed gospel is to the redeemed now. Stone, and Corner Stone. Sure foundation used in all ages for a memorial or witness of a covenant. Thus Jacob mentions the "stone of Israel." Gen. xlix. 24. Portion of Jacob. Jeremiah thus beautifully styles Jehovah, x. 16; li. 19. Christ as God-man and Mediator could alone be our portion, and believers his portion, from being his purchased ones. These are some of the titles of Divinity, which show in both testaments the all-important doctrine of a plurality of persons in the unity of the Godhead, and that the true believer in both dispensations had one and the same faith. The manifestation of divine power in the person of an angel was, undoubtedly too, very generally the second person of the Trinity; such as the angel who appeared to Abraham, Gen. xxii. 11, and again, xlviii. 10, and to Manoah, Judges xiii. 19, &c. and those mentioned by the prophets. The institution of sacrifice, let it be re membered, was of divine ordination, coeval with the existence of sin into the world, and with the first promise of a Redeemer from its guilt and penalty: the offering of these prefigurative victims were continued and practised in successive generations from the fall, till the appearance of Christ to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself: thus no interval of time has ever elapsed in which salvation by redeeming blood has not been confirmed and enforced; for in the patriarchial and Levitical dispensation, Jesus Christ has been the one great object of revelation. The believer then looked forward to the time when Christ should come, and since his manifestation in the flesh looks backward to his finished work; time alone is changed, but not the faith: “ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever." Christ crucified, with the penitent thief on one side of him, and the impenitent on the other, is a representation of Christ upon his throne of judgment, with the saved on his right, and the wicked on his left. Thus Christ, in ascending his cross, ascended his throne, and manifested forth his glory. Yea, all all that is most glorious in Christ, shone forth upon his cross.-Thoughts in Retirement. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN MADAM, WILL you allow the letter of one who has never yet ventured to appear in print, a place in your useful and interesting magazine? It is a subject, which for many years I have felt the importance of, and have longed to see wiser heads than my own taking it up. I address myself to all those who write for the poor and uneducated classes. There is scarcely a tract written in language which they can understand, unless I except Miss Plumtree's, which are very simple and most excellent. As I have been much in the habit of reading to the poor, I feel that I am capable of judging on this point, and I find that they only understand the most common and simple language, such as is used among themselves. Most of these little books, therefore, which are written expressly for them, are very like Latin and Greek to them. I will take as an instance, among many others, only one page of an excellent little book lately published by the Religious Tract Society, and which is so well and so usefully written, that it causes one doubly to regret that those for whom it is intended can understand but very little of it; I mean the little work entitled, Hints to Girls on Dress;'-open it at the twelfth page, and see the list of hard words, of which, if you ask the meaning |