intended to point to the value of his blood. This blood cleanseth his people from all sin; and there is such a perfume in this sacrifice, and "all his garments so smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia,*” that it comes up as with much incense before the throne. The paschal lamb was slain in the presence of the congregation; and this might lead the Israelites to look by faith at his bitter sufferings, and mourn for him whom they pierced: it was roasted with fire, to signify the fire of divine wrath with which he was enveloped; and it was to be eaten with bitter or savoury herbs, to signify how rich and savoury Christ is to faith, and how acceptable the rich perfume of his sacrifice is unto God.

The tabernacle in the wilderness was one of the most beautiful and rich moveable structures that was ever reared; not to go within his very boards were of cedar,†

* Psalm 45.

Exod. 26. The gopher wood of the ark, and the shittim wood of the tabernacle, are both the cedar.

overlaid with gold." Solomon's riches exceeded every thing: and there was nothing to be found like the temple, that we read of, amongst the boasted grandeur of profane history. These, with Aaron's costly robes, and many other things in the priest's garments, under the law, give us, as types, some faint idea of His unsearchable riches; and there are many other things, as types, in which are prefigured his unsearchable riches.

There is one point that must not be omitted, and that is, the riches of his inheritance-his people. "The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance:*" and Paul prays that the church at Ephesus might know what were the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints; and one characteristic of this unsearchable riches, which distinguishes it from all others, is, that draw from them as much as we may, they are still the same

* Deut. 32.

an overflowing fountain of all good, from which all the millions of his people have been constantly supplied, and which has been even more abundant the more it has been communicated.

His riches in glory are unsearchable, and the riches that he has to bestow on his

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ple in that happy state cannot be described; but he has said-" Father, I will that they. also whom thou hast given me, be with me' where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me:" and, "Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty: thou shalt behold the land that is very far off." It is a state of uninterrupted and perfect happiness, where they shall go no more out-a place, where "they have no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.*" The Lord Jesus himself is the Heaven of heavens. His smile is the bliss, the

* Rev. 21.

heaven, the all, to saints and angels. This is the heaven on earth: but here it is frequently interrupted, and this interruption makes those who have tasted of his love, and enjoyed his smiles, to long for the heaven above the uninterruption of fellowship and communion with him. There they will see him as he is, and drink in immortal vigour. With his " many crowns, he will then appear to them rich indeed; and at the same time that they gaze on him, tuneful alleluiahs will arise from the ten thousand times ten thousand tongues, in boundless rapture, and in one universal hymn of praise.

* Rev. 19.

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