was so carefully copied, that there is not so much as a pin in his tabernacle which has not its corresponding- article in the Christian Edifice. From him we have such a view of Christianity as the Gospel itself can scarcely be said to afford. Doubtless, till the cere- monies prescribed by him had the true light reflected on them, they were very obscure : but now that they have been explained to us from above, we see the Gospel embodied, as it were, and made visible even to the eye of sense. Who that contemplates one goat offered in sacrifice to God, and the other bearing away all the sins of all the people of Israel that had been laid upon his head, does not see, before his very face, what the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, is daily effecting for all that believe in him ? Even the moral law itself, which Moses also has recorded, has the very same tendency, and, in the ears of all who un- derstand it, proclaims the utter impossibility of being saved, except by the sacrifice that should in due time be offered; insomuch that St. Paul calls it "a school- master, to bring us to Christ." All the prophets concur with him in the very same testimony ; and proclaim with one voice, that " there is no remission of sins but by blood ; " and that ' ' there is no other name given under heaven whereby we can be saved, but the name of Jesus Christ." We are told, that " to him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." Ask we of Isaiah? His testimony is, " He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and by his stripes we are healed." To the same effect speaks also the Prophet Daniel: " Messiah shall be cut off; but not for himself." " He shall make an end of sin, and make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness." And Joel points him out, as " that Lord, on whom who- soever shall call, shall be saved."
The last and greatest of all the prophets was John the Baptist : and he pointed out the very Saviour himself in these emphatic words ; " Behold the Lamb
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