CONTENTS The subject is still continued, and advancing in sublimity. Here is great honour shown to the Prince, whose entrance through the East gate forbad all others from so doing, to notify his glory and distinction. After this, divers ordinances are appointed in this Chapter, concerning those who... [ Continue Reading ]
Surely there is in those verses so plain an allusion to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is hardly possible for any to mistake it, or make application to any other. And not only to his person, on account of his infinite dignity, but also to his offices and character. For Jesus is not onl... [ Continue Reading ]
What a beautiful view is again and again given of the Shechinah, or glory of the Lord filling the house. And what an holy awe do we always find induced by it, on the minds of holy men of old. Isaiah 6:1; Daniel 10:7. Reader! what a blessed dispensation is that of the Gospel, to which we are called,... [ Continue Reading ]
Here are very important commissions given to the Prophet to deliver to the people, all which are plain and express, and in which we find the sacred jealousy the Lord hath for his holy name and ordinances. Reader! our approaches now under the gospel dispensation, ought not to lessen our reverence, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
I pray the Reader not to overlook the abundant grace of our adorable Jesus in what is here said, that he is the inheritance, and he is the possession of his people. Twice it is repeated in one verse; as if the Lord would have the impression of it not to pass away from their minds. If the Reader obse... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS AND art thou, my soul, indeed a Priest, in this glorious House of thy God? Oh! then consider the great Apostle, and High Priest of thy profession, Christ Jesus. It is by virtue of thy union with Him, and redemption, by Him, that thou art brought into this royal Priesthood, and made an he... [ Continue Reading ]