Imagination, stretch thy pinions wide; Faith, lend thy wing; and thou, great Spirit, guide, "The world upspringing at my voice, not long Tempting, allure the man from innocence, "And thrust him 'neath my wrath :-their federal head, "His sin will his posterity condemn; "And sin infused will gendering make all base. "Yet will my love remain; fain would I save, "But holiness recoils from crime, and God "Must be immutable, and God is just." Thus God the mighty Father; and at once No pause ensuing, thus the Son replies "Our being one, thy love is also mine. I too would save, "The sin immense, nought but a boundless price "Can purchase pardon; pardon not alone, "I mean to buy a justifying robe, "A passport for my chosen up to God "Their pardon; and my life, the sinless life "My loved ones thou wilt take upon my pledge; "They shall believe my coming, and when come, "My chosen shall depend upon my work: "And this their mutual faith, my gift, shall save their soul.' He ceased when instant rose the Paraclete, Third witness, and co-equal, and he thus: "Be it my work to herald thee, by signs, "By inspiration of the prophets; and when come, "When thy return shall give the Comforter. "Be it for me to gather in the elect: "I will inspire apostles, teachers, men, "Such as earth's wise call worthless: they shall preach "I will subdue the obdurate, bend the proud, "Out of the fulness of thy treasured worth.” "Twas done, the covenanted scheme to save, THE NEW COVENANT. Though oft she wanders from my And revels in iniquity; She shall not quite depart from me. Backslider while I chasten thee; Yet, like a father still I'll chide, For thou shalt not depart from me. For Zion is my heart's delight, The first-fruits of all creatures she; My own inheritance, my right, And never shall depart from me. In her all comeliness I see; And she shall not depart from me. free: THE Spiritual Magazine ; OR, SAINTS' TREASURY. **There are Three that bear record in heaven; the FATHER. the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these Three are One." "Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." APRIL, 1834. MOSES, A TYPE OF CHRIST. 1 John v. 7. Jude 3. In his person, he is described as a goodly child, as exceeding fair, and as a proper child. And surely, every spiritual reader will at once say, what a beautiful description of my Jesus! The beauty of Jesus has been the admiration of the church of God in all ages. While all the works of nature are good, wonderful, and beautiful; yet they owe their all to Jesus. Who can look at the curious form and features of the human frame, without astonishment? but this is but one work of the great workman, Jesus. Let us look at the redeemed of the Lord in their low and lapsed estate; how deformed by sin-how that curious piece of workmanship that God made is spoiled; not a wheel in the machinery but has been turned against the God that made it; not a power but has been prostrated to some evil or idol. But how the goodness of God may be seen in the everlasting love he bore to his church; in the selection he made of her; in the great and glorious provision he has made for her; and in what he works within her. He forms her beauties like his own: she is made all fair; beautiful in his beauty, and comely in his comeliness-accepted in the Beloved; so that whether we dive into the beauties of the mineral or vegetable world, and they are full of beauties--or if we look at man as the master-piece of machinery-or the church of God in her pardoned, justified, or glorified state, we only see a part, and but a small part of the goodliness and beauty of him who was the antitype of Moses; and the apostle describes him as "a proper child," Hebrews xi. 23. And surely, the souls of my spiritual readers will here be led to admire him whom Moses was but a type of. Who so proper to be a messenger of mercy from heaven, as the Son of God? He who was present at all the discussions in the council of peace held in heaven. Who so proper to undertake the cause of the bride, and to raise her VOL. X.--No. 121.] out of her ruins, as the blessed Bridegroom, who was married unto her? Who so proper to remove all the maladies, and cure all the complaints of the church, as Christ, the great Physician, who perfectly understands the cause and effect of the various miseries that have invaded the souls and bodies of saints? Who so proper to make known to a lost world that everlasting salvation contrived in the everlasting covenant of grace, as the great Saviour himself? Christ as God, and Christ as man, God and man united, become the proper Redeemer, and righteousness of all the election of grace; and by the great work of God the Son, salvation is completed; a perfect and proper redemption price is paid; a glorious righteousness provided; the safety of the Church secured; every demand paid; every injury repaired; every sin atoned for so that if we could search the debt-book of heaven, we should not find one account against the church unsettled; not one claim unpaid; not one outstanding bill; but all crossed and closed for ever, by the Almighty Creditor; and God the Holy Spirit, agreeable to covenant engagements, has come as the Comforter, the Remembrancer, as the caller forth of men to publish and preach Christ as the only proper way to God and happiness hereafter" fairer than the children of men.' Secondly. Moses, in his office, set forth the Lord Jesus as a Prophet, which the Lord raised up from among their brethren, see Deut. xviii. 18. Says God, "I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I command him ;" and Jesus, the church's Prophet, speaks for them, and to them. How blessedly he spoke for his people before time began-engaged to be their tutor in time, to reveal all the transactions of eternity;-how Jehovah the Father loved them—the large revenues of grace he intended to spend upon them-what glory and blessedness he had prepared for them; his mouth is most sweet; and his words are sweeter than honey, or the honey-comb." None of his doctrines are dry, as some dry professors say there is the water of life in them; and the peace that flows from them is like a river. And often, very often, he speaks in his promises to the heart. Life and salvation come by the gospel; and always he is speaking for his chosen in heaven; and he obtains all he asks for. Moses was set apart and appointed by God to his office-so was Christ. Moses was a shepherd-so is our Jesus and he leads his flock through the wide wilderness of this world; leads them into green pastures. Moses was a great miracle-worker under "God; but the Lord Jesus worked many miracles by his own power. He often did what Moses his type could not do, impart life to those who were dead, and whose bodies had laid in the grave; give sight to the blind, both objectively and subjectively. His ancient prophecies were often fulfilled literally and locally; "the lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; and in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert," Isaiah xxxv. 6. And Jehovah-Rophi, the great Physician, is continually performing his miracles, in curing the sinful maladies of the soul: : the hard heart of a Manasseh he can melt and purify. All the returnIng needs of his people he constantly supplies; and the bread of life with the bread that perisheth, how regularly he rains down upon his Israel, in the desert. Like a loving shepherd, he is continually looking up his lost sheep, and looking after his folded ones, and never, omits to feed them with food convenient in quantity and quality. Moses was a great deliverer out of Egyptian tyranny, hard bondage, and most cruel slavery. But Jesus outshines his servant, and completely emancipates out of a far worse state of servitude, and from a much more oppressive yoke, even from the cruel tyranny of Satan; from the hell that the sinner merits, from the curse of the law, his most righteous due, and from the lordly dominion of sin. But some may enquire, how does Jesus deliver? The answer to such enquiries is he delivers by becoming a substitute for them-by becoming a servant in their stead by paying an adequate price, even precious blood, all divine, infinitely meritorious-by being made a burnt-offering, but a sweet-smelling sacrifice, acceptable to God. Yes, reader, Christ was delivered for the offences of his people, made sin and a curse for them. Moses was married to an Ethiopian gentile sinner. The spiritual reader may here be helped to contemplate the marriage union of eternal duration, subsisting between him, a poor gentile sinner, and Jesus-the obligations that lay upon a husband to love, to succour, to take care of, and to provide for his wife-the society and fellowship often enjoyed the mutual confidence reposed in each other, and the decided preference manifested. Was Moses often engaged in the office of the Mediator? so was Jesus; having once made peace, he is ever ready to manifest it to the seeking soul. Both in Moses the type, and in Jesus the antitype, the sweet and cheering doctrine of the resurrection of the body is set forth and confirmed. Moses was buried by God, in the land of Moab, and none knew of his grave; but God who buried him, raised him up again, and he shone forth gloriously on Mount Tabor at the transfiguration of Christ. The beautiful and blessed body of Jesus was buried by Joseph, and in his grave-but God raised him from the dead, and it ascended up gloriously from Bethany. May writer and reader often experience the resurrection-power of Jesus put forth in our souls. Hampstead, Feb. 28, 1834. JAMES. PRAYER TO GOD FOR OUR CHILDREN, WARRANTED BY THE WORD OF GOD. (Concluded from page 71.) E. M. says of the Canaanitish woman, "What did she pray for ?" I say what is that to him, or to any one else? The fact is, she prays; and she prayed to the Lord, and she prayed for her child, and the Lord heard her prayer; and that is enough for me, and every other parent, or other saint, as a warrant to pray for our for |