and stands in the gap for ever, to receive gifts for men, yea for the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell amongst them.

Furthermore,

Moses was a prophet. He foretold a Messiah to come, and that all the saints should be in his hand; that they should all sit down at his feet, and be taught of him; and the vengeance that should fall on the rejectors of him. He pointed out the word of faith and imputed righteousness. by him, which is witnessed both by the law and the prophets; shewed the vanity of all human righteousness, and foretold the calamities of those. that should lightly esteem this rock of salvation. In all which Christ is a prophet like unto him, who has foretold the salvation of the Gentiles and the restoration of the Jews; the righteousness, life, peace, rest, and happiness, that all should enjoy who receive him; and the destruction of the Jewish nation for rejecting him; the desolation of all that are incensed against him, and the dreadful damnation of all that hear and despise his everlasting gospel. Again,

Moses was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the tribes were gathered together. And in this he was a figure of the king of righteousness and king of peace, who is set upon the holy hill of Zion; and of whose increase, government, and kingdom, there shall be no end. This leads me to my second general head, which is to treat of

The glory of Moses' face. The Lord, having appeared on the mount in thick darkness, and

spoken to them in the secret place of thunder, and ordered bounds to be set all round the mount, that none might break through to gaze, left the following ways open. One was by having a name on the breastplate of the high-priest, who was to approach through the vail to the mercy-seat; and the other was by Moses as the mediator. Both these now centre in one, who is the mediator of the new covenant, the apostle and high-priest of our profession, and the only throne of grace, propitiation, and mercy-seat. There was a glory

between the cherubims; Urim and Thummim in the breastplate of judgment; and the glory of God on the face of Moses. But now he that dwelt between the cherubims has stirred up his strength and come among us; light and perfection are found in the Holy one; and the glory of God is only to be seen in the face of Jesus. Here we are to look that we may be enlightened, for every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights by and through Jesus Christ. If our language be, "Shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us;" the answer is, "Have I been so long with you, and hast thou not seen me, Philip?" To Jesus we must look for the express image of his person, and the brightness of his glory; and here we shall see him at once, for so it is written; "God, who caused the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." This is the light of the Lord's

countenance, which lay hid in Israel's blessing; "The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; and the Lord give thee peace." The lifting up the light of the Lord's countenance brings favour and life; and the light and love that are reflected by it shew us the cons secrated way through the vail, and sweetly attract the soul to God, until the heart is so inflamed, and our nearness so great, that he that loveth dwelleth in God, and God dwelleth in him and here we look as through a mirror, till we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory. And this was shewed to the three witnesses on mount Tabor, when Moses the mediator, and Elijah the prophet, appeared in glory, both to resign their offices to the only prophet of his church, and to the only mediator of the better testament. which time the Lord Jesus appeared in his proper lustre, and through the vail of his flesh let his natural rays of infinite divinity, glory and majesty, shine forth at which time Moses and Elijah resigned their offices; and in the glorious vision withdrew, and appeared no more to let the witnesses see that the borrowed rays on Moses' face are no where now to be seen but in the face of the Son of God, who is the fountain of glory, light, life, and love.

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Again. The light of glory on the face of Moses was to shew the origin of the law, to give a sanction to it, and to put an honour on the office

of Moses; that the law was given by the God of glory, and was to be received as such, being attended with the glory of God on the face of the mediator of it, who brought it to them. But then all this was to lead the people to another Mediator, to a brighter glory, and to another dispensation, which was to be written on the fleshly tables of sinners' hearts, and to be attended with the glory of God by the coming of the Holy Ghost: the original of which is from God, the fountain of all grace; and which brings life and immortality to light in the sinner's soul, that the ever-blessed Mediator may be glorified; for God will have the Son honoured even as himself is honoured by all that believe, and will display the riches of his grace in glory by Jesus Christ for this very end and purpose, that all who are saved and glorified may ascribe their salvation equally to God and the Lamb for ever and ever.

And, lastly, This glory on the face of Moses, in the ultimate end of its signification, was to shew, not only the glorious vision of faith in this militant state, but the glorious views of the Saviour in the world to come; when we shall see as we are seen, and know as we are known; awake in his likeness, and be for ever satisfied therewith. This is the mystery of Moses' rays. I come now,

Thirdly, To the vail upon his face. This vail sheweth, that the law then given was a vail, or covering, over the covenant of grace, which God

made with Abraham; and that this covenant lay hid under it; that Moses himself, and his law on tables of stone, were swaddling bands over the law of faith, which ever was and ever will be written on the fleshly tables of the heart of God's elect when called by grace; and this vail was a covering over the better Mediator, who stood behind this wall, and shewed himself through this lattice; and that the better covenant was hid under the law, and only here and there peeped out in an unconditional promise, here a little and there a little, in such passages as these; "The Lord will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord with all thine heart, that thou mayest live." "He shall raise you up a prophet like unto me; him shall ye hear." "He is thy life, and the length of thy days." "He is the rock, and his work is perfect." Say not, who shall ascend into Heaven, or descend." "That," says Paul, "is the word of faith that we preach." "The word is nigh thee," &c. "Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." "Pardoning iniquity, transgression, and sin; and will not clear the guilty;" that is, not without satisfaction by a surety. All these, with all the shadows of the ceremonial law, were so many branches of the everlasting gospel, which shone through the vail of that dark dispensation, and which Israel could not see; but took the law as their rule of righteousness, by which they thought to obtain eternal