membrance of the impression made on me many years ago, in the divinity class of Dr. Chalmers, when that illustrious man of God referred to this subject. He was remarking how oftentimes Christians, advancing in years, feel a growing relish for the types, and prophecies, and sketches of character, and pieces of picturesque history in which the Old Testament abounds. They see them pervaded with New Testament principle and truth. "There is," he said, "in this employment, somewhat even of the charm and delight of poetry. It is a regaling, as well as satisfactory exercise." Very pleasant as were the songs of Zion to good Bishop Horne, as every morning roused him to his task, and the silence of evening invited him to pursue it; very pleasant to many a humble Christian are the things which God hath spoken at sundry times, and in divers manners, to the fathers by the prophet. It is as if the delights of imagination were superadded to the delights of piety, when the doctrines of the New are expressed in the drapery of the Old economy. And if there be any aged Christian who has leisure to pursue the employment, we promise him not a different, but the same Gospel, seen through a veil of ever-brightening transparency, and heightened by time and youthful remembrances. Thus the decaying lights of age have often been revived again; and, in the solace of the perusal, such men have experienced that these things were written not alone for the generations that then lived, but for "our admonition, on whom the ends of the world have come.' 22 First-born, were they priests? 22, 23 First-fruits, green ears of corn 52 ripe barley, sheaf.. 401 Ignorance, sins of F 21 26, 59, 66, 142 Hyssop.. Horns, Altar of. 74 Hosea ii. 19 Huntsmen in Israel. 363 iv. 8 130 356 327 269, 270 I, J 69, 70 72 |