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    it of him , and even to represent him as saying it . Witness the following passage of Mr . Chevallier , which we quote as a notable instance of the propensity of theologians to interpolate Scripture with the language of their own system , and then argue as if the whole were the word of God : " When the manna which tlieir fathers did eat in the wilderness is appealed to as a figure of that bread of life which came down from heaven ( John vi . ); when a fact so wonderful as a brazen serpent erected in the wilderness , upon

    which whoever looked was healed of the deadly effects of a venomous bite , is asserted to have foreshadowed the lifting up of the Son of Man [ John ill . 13 , As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so must the Son of Man be lifted up ]; whea the miraculous preservation of the prophet Jonah is declared in the same manner to have signified the time in which this prophet's body should continue in the earth [ Matt . xii . 40 , As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale '' s belly , so shall the Son of , Man be three days and three nights in the whales belly , so shall the Son of , Man be three days and

    three nights in the heart of the earth ]; when the sacrifice of the paschal lamb is set forth as a symbol which was to be fulfilled in the kingdom of God ;* and when , upon a closer inquiry , these and numerous other alleged circumstances in the history of the Jews are found to correspond both almost and altogether with the life , sufferings , death and resurrection of him who founds upon that resemblance the reality of his divine mission—we have surely a proof of unity of counsel in the purposes of God . "—P . 8 .

    The word rvito <; occurs in the epistles , but in senses which afford no support to the common use of it . Adam is said to be the twos , or counterpart , of Jesus Christ , ( Rom . v . 14 , ) because they resembled each other in this striking circumstance , that as by the transgression of an individual death came on all , so by the obedience of one favour abounded to all . Yet as a proof how far the use of this word is from implying an exact correspondence , the apostle goes on immediately to mention a circumstance in which

    they widely differed : " but not as was the offence so also is the free gift . " The Israelites , in the journey towards Canaan , and the events which befel them , are called , by the same writer tvtcqi to those whom he addressed , 1 Cor . x . 6 , 11 , that is , examples of the danger of unlawful desire , of tempting the Lord , and of murmuring against the decrees of Providence : and these ( with the exception of four or five passages in the epistles , where it is used of living persons and means an example ) are absolutely all the instances in the

    New Testament in which the word occurs . The Hulsean Lecturer has given us a volume of more than four hundred pages on the typical characters of Moses , Joshua the son of Josedech , David and Solomon , the brazen serpent , Jonah , the Passover , the Levitical priesthood and sacrifices , Isaac , Adam , and Melchisedec , to not one of whom is the expression ever applied in Scripture , with the exception in the case of Adam noticed before . Surely the " wood ,

    hay and stubble" must bear a large proportion here to the imperishable materials ! If things under -the old dispensation ( not historical personages be it observed ) are called a shadow of things . to come , ( Col . ii . 16 , Heb . x . 1 , ) the context plainly shews that it is not a shadow as exhibiting the form of that which causes it , but a shadow as an unsubstantial thing that is alluded to , and , consequently , that there is no warrant here for the technical use of adumbration- ^ - ^ , word which , from its convenient vagueness , is an especial favourite with typical writers .

    If the circumstance of a pre-ordained connexion be , as we have endea voured to shew , no criterion of a type , because all connexions and resem * Fulfilled , i . c . terminated , its uses having been attained and its obligation ceaa ing under a more perfect dispensation . Kev .

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    Review . — The Bampton and Hulsean Lectures . 41

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/41/