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l the truth, not a little, darkeucd the light unta us. The other, and the true view of the matter, is, that the one event to which tlic spirit applietb it in the New Testament, is typical of, and in* tended by Uod for, the foreshewiiig of the great future event to which it is primarily and perma- nently intended to refer. And thi?& i» tnie of al- most all the prophecies, respecting the evi-nts of onr Lord's advent in humility, which are almost all typical of the events which shall attend bis advent in power and glory. For example, bis rid< ing into JeruKtlcm in triumphant statr, his cIcat* ing the temple of the money-changers, bis trans- figuration, his changing water into wine, ai many more, which we need not enumerate, are .Vr] OR THE TiN rfitBKfl*i'> ^51 ypica) of eveuU to come, »iid titvrefura may have ese prophetic Scriptures applied to them, svhicli loretel tho&e events, and in these three types also. How then arc these t^vo events, Rachel weeping tor her children that had been Alain dl llatnah, typical of tliis weeping of iluchbl For her cluldren, ^h shall be uonifortt^d in the rc»tomtjon of Eph- ? The exposition of thiii will cast much light pon the mystery into which we are inquirinf^. To take it up from the beginning,— the birth of Emmanuel, the child of the virgin, was given to the hou&c of David, as tiic sign of the utter destruction and cutting olT of Ephraim, from be- ii^ a nation : " Wiiliin threescore and five years Ephraim sihall be broken, that it be notapoople/' it answered the crwls of God's wisdom to bring on the judgment of Epbraim, before he brought into manifestation the sign or cause of it, that is Emninikuel : wherefore he constituted the i^ropbet'it son into d ty]ic of him fi»r thiM end, and pledged the fulfilment of it upon Sliearjashub'a» lifsd, say- ing, " Before the child ttliall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land which ihou abhorrent shall be forsaken of both her kings." This which was pledged upon the head of Shear- jashub, constituted a type for that eiii], was truly brought to pahS, however, by the wrath of Christ, whose royal office they hod Kcorned, in relating Rehoboaoifl anointed sceptre^ and now more especiaUy in conspiring to cut off David s line Therefore, aB in Christ all the types did meet, it wa« D(.-ce«ftary to ^haw forth by Aome demonstra- hoii, that in rc^viigu for ihv itijurrd honour of him Kphraim had been broken; and to make the ty|>e good, itmust be before the age that children know JI62 THE KIKGS OP TH£ £AST»