are the storms to which we are exposed in this dreary wilder- ness, which threaten our extinction ; but he is able to preserve us : and as he has made it our duty to " burn continually," so he will give us " supplies of his Spirit" for that purpose: he will " keep us by his power through faith unto everlasting salvation y." " He will keep the feet of his saints; but the wicked shall be silent in darkness2" -]
y 1 Pet. i. 5. z 1 Sam. ii. 9.
Lev. xxiv. 5 — 9. And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof : two tenth-deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. And thou shalt put pure frank- incense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a me- morial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. And it shall be Aaron s and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place : for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.
WHEN God appointed a dwelling-place to be erected for him in the wilderness, he ordered it to be furnished with such appendages as are common in the dwellings of men. There was in the sanctuary, as St. Paul observes, a candlestick, a table, and bread, called the shew-breada. But there was an infinitely higher purpose to be answered by these things, than a mere accommodation of them to the habits of men : they were typical ; every one of them was typical ; " they were shadows of good things to come." The mystical import of some is much clearer than that of others. Where the writers of the New Testament have explained them, we are able to speak with con- fidence : but where they are silent, we must proceed in our explanation of them " with fear and trembling." The mystery of the shew-bread is applied by some to Christ, who called himself " the true bread," and, at the institution of his last supper, " took bread, and
a Ileb. ix. 2.