fumed the burnt-offering.. -And when the apoftate King of Ifrael (who ferved the ma terial agents, in oppofition to what they represented, the true, the very Jehovah) fent his captains of fifties to take Elijah the prophet of Jehovah, fire came down from heaven at his command, and destroyed them. So, when Nadab and Abihu offered ftrange fire, the fire from Jehovah avenged the affront, and devoured them. And fo, in the rebellion of Korah, fire from Jehovah confumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incenfe. So the vifible appearance of Jehovah, or his fchechinah, as the Jews call it, was fire breaking out of thick darkness. The appearance to Mofes in the bufh was fire: he led the Ifraelites through the wilderness by a pillar of fire; and at the reinftitution of the law by Mofes, mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Fehovah defcended upon it in fire. -The mountain burnt with fire, unto the midst of heaven in darkness, a cloud and thick darkness. There were thunders, and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount. And the If raelites called this appearance the glory and majesty majesty of Jehovah. And Daniel fays, that a fiery fiream issued and came forth before him. So in the Pfalms: He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet. He made darkness his fecret place round about bim, bis pavilion condensed waters, with thick clouds of the fkies. At the brightness before him, his thick clouds kindled, bailftones, and coals of fire. So in Ezekiel: A whirlwind came out of the fecret place, the great cloud, and a fire infolding itself: and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth light As light and fpirit are the peculiar titles of the second and third perfons of the Trinity, (as I fhall fhew below); and as fire is really a condition of the heavens, as much distinct from light, as light is from the fpirit; fo fire is the fymbol of the first perfon, who was in fulness of time to take vengeance upon the real facrifice for fin, as his fymbol fire did, in the mean time, confume the typical facrifices. 2 nings. THE fecond perfon is called the light. The people which fat in darkness faw a great light, [spoke of Chrift]; and to them which fat fat in the region and shadow of death light is Sprung up. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Ifrael. -In bim [Chrift] was life, and the life was the light of men. That was the true light, which lighteneth every one which cometh into the world.And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. a I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. If then Chrift be the light, and light be the life, those who reject Christ muft walk in darkness here, be caft into outer darkness hereafter, and be separated from God, which is the life of the foul. And this gives the reason why they are fuch friends to darkness, and oppose the light. Yet a little while is the light with you, walk while ye have the light. have the light. While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light, [i. e. Chriftians].—I have fet thee [Chrift] to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for falvation unto the ends of the earth. So in the Old Testament: The Lord Jehovah is my light and my falvation: spoke fpoke (as proved by Mr H.) of Jehovah the second perfon in Chrift; for if there be three perfons in Jehovah, each is Jehovah.Shew thy fervant the light of thy countenance.O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me, and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. Christ is called the light and truth in the New Testament; and it is he alone can lead us, and bring us to himself, his holy hill: For with thee [that is, Chrift] is the well of life, and in thy light shall we fee light. As Chrift is the light, through him, and him alone, we must hope to see the light. Those who expect to fee it by other means, will find themselves disappointed in darkness. THE second perfon is ftyled by Malachi the fun [or light from the fun, as Shemesh fignifies] of righteoufnefs: Mal. iv. 2. The fun of righteousness fhall arife; called, Luke i. 78. avatoλn ež vos, the day-spring [or fun-rifing] from on high. -I will give thee of the people, --I will also give that thou mayst for a covenant [Heb. purifier] be be my falvation unto the end of the earth.But I might run through the whole fcriptures, were I to cite all the places where the fecond perfon is described under the name light, and other equivalent terms: for as he, in the compound perfon Chrift Jefus, was the end of the law and prophets, of whom they all bare witness; the whole fcriptures were wrote to record him and his actions; the Hebrew records, predictively, what he was to be, do, and fuffer, for man's redemption; the Greek records, that he was that person, and that he did and fuffered what was predicted of him; and fo fully anfwered the predictions by the completion: and the believing Jews worshipped by types, in hope, through him who was to come, and be manifested; and prayed through him, and the Holy Ghoft, frequently, in words as plain as they can be expreffed now; though overlooked by modern Christians, by reason of their not understanding the emblem and type from whence the ideas are taken. As light, the emblematical name of the fecond perfon of the divine effence, is the |