and all Oferings made in his Name, p It was a Coffer or Cheſt of ittim-wood, plated ail over with Gold, Exod. 25. lo, to 23. t, 6. and 20. 29,21. This Cheſt had for its Cover a Mer- lifted or verged with a Crown of Gold roundit ; and 1s called the 47h of the Covenznt, becauſe the Tables of Teſtimony were Ivid up in it, Frd, 25. 16, and 40. 20, Thoſe two Stone Tables wrought by Mojes, and carried up into the Mount (after he had on the Idolatry of J/rar} broken thoſe of God's own making, and on which God had written the Ten Laws, the Terms of his Covenant with them) on which God wrote afreſh his Laws, and renewed his Covenant with them, Exod. 34. 1, 2, 28, 29. compare chap. 31. 18. This Ark was a Tyre of Chriſt interpoſing bet ween God and us, who had broken the Covenant of his Laws. q Wherein refers not tothe Ark mentioned juſt before, for in it was nothing put but the Tivo Tables of the Covenant, but to the Tabernacle called the Holy of Fhlicit, in which was referved the Golden Cenſer, Pot of Manna, provided by God's Charge before the giving of the Law, and laid up afterwards in that Archive by God's Order, Exod. 15.32, 33, 34- This Manna was the Bread God fed Jrael his Church with Forty Years in the Wilderneſs, and is called Angels Food, Pſal. 78. 25. a Type of Chriſt the true Bread, that God gave from Heaven to his Church, John 6.31, 32,33, to 59. r Which was by God's Or- der put befsre the Teſtimony in the Holy of. Holieſt, and not into the Ark, for 1t was to be in ' view there as a token of the true Prieſt- hood the Type of Chriſt's againſt all Atter-Murmurers amd Uſurp- ers, See Numb. 17. 1, to 11. and as theſe the Urn of Manna and Rod of Aron were in the Holy of Holieſt ; ſo eſpecially { the Two Tables of the Covenant were there too, but laid up in the Ark which was in that place ; ſee 1 Kings 8. 9. and 2 Chron, 5. 10, Others think the Prepofition « is to be read, by which, or about, near which Ark, as 'tis uſed of Chriſt's fitting i :#:« Chap. x. 3. and fo notes as to the Potof Manna and Aaron's Rod, an appoſition of them to or by the Ark, when the Tables of the Covenant were unde- n1able put into it,
5 And over it the cheruhims 7 of glory ſhadowing the mercy-leat; of which we cannot now ſpeak par- ticularly .
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