in full activity : they will have glorious views of the Gospel salvation : they will behold, with an evidence brighter than the meridian sun, 1. Its truth and certainty —
[Being already to a certain degree conversant with their types and prophecies, though ignorant as to their true import, they will, as soon as the veil is removed from their hearts, be astonished to see how every particle of them is fulfilled in Christ : and such will be their conviction of his Messiahship, that they can no more doubt of it than Paul did, after the revelation which he received in his way to Damascus. The Scriptures will then appear to them like the impression of a seal on which are engraven ten thousand figures ; so clear and manifest will be the correspondence between the shadow and the substance, the type and the antitype. Their views of this will be incomparably clearer than those of Christians in general at this day : " The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord shall bind up the breath of his people, and heal the stroke of their wound™."]
2. Its mysteriousness and sublimity —
[How " great will that mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh," appear to them, when they shall see, that that very Jesus, whom their fathers crucified, was indeed " the Lord of glory," " Jehovah's fellow," " Emmanuel, God with us !" Then they will see, that every part of their ceremonial law was fulfilled and realized in him : that he was the true Temple, " in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily ;" the altar, which sanctifieth all our gifts ; the sacrifice, that taketh away the sins of the whole world ; the pi'iest, that offered that sacrifice, and is gone with his own blood within the vail, and ever liveth there to make intercession for us. Then they will see why God repeatedly gave that particular command to Moses, " See thou make all things according to the pattern shewn to thee in the mount." Every the minutest point that was revealed to Moses, portrayed something in the character of Christ ; so that, if any thing had been omitted, or added, or altered in any respect, the resemblance between the type and antitype would have failed, and God's work would have been imperfect; the edifice and the model would not have been alike. All the offices of Christ, as Prophet, Priest, and King, together with all that he should do in the execution of them, was there delineated : and, when the completion and concentration of them all shall be made manifest to them, with
"» Isai. XXX. 2(3.