REMNANTS OF TIME.. 505 It is bvident that Aaron's idol, which was called the golden calf, had more of the resemblance of an ox or calf than of a man, because the Israelites are said to change their glory, that is, their God, into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass ; Ps. cvi. 19, 20. which would hardly have been thus exprest if the idol had nothing of a calf but its feet. If any will imagine that in Ps. xviii. where God is said to ride upon a cherub, the grandeur and terror of the appearance may require the whole figure of a flying ox rather than of a flying man, or rather of a flying animal with all these four faces, I will not oppose it, since it is plain from this whole account that a cherub is described sometimes more like a winged ok and sometimes more like a winged man with feet like oxen or calves. But where it is represented complete in all its various forms united as in the first and tenth chapters of Ezekiel, it seems to be the body of a winged man with calves' feet, and with four faces, namely, that of a man, an ox, a lion, and an eagle ; and thus it is always de- signed to represent the various properties of angels, which are attendants upon the blessed God, more perfectly than any one of these creatures could do alone. Perhaps when the Jewish nation shall be converted and be- come believers in Christ, there may be such a new effusion of the Spirit on men, or such a happy discovery some way made of the darker parts of the Mosaic economy and the writings of the pro- phets, as may shew us much more of the resemblance which God designed between the types of the law in the temple and priest- hood, and their antitypes in the gospel, than has ever yet appeared ; and among other things the form of a cherub, as an attendance of angelic beings ton the majesty of God in the holy of holies, may appear more conspicuously in its original truth and glory. XXI. The Author's solemn Address to the great and ever - blessed God on a Review of what he had written in the Trini- tarian Controversy, prefixed by hive to some Pieces on that Sub- ject, which it was not judged necessary to publish. RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee ; yet I may talk with thee concerning thy judgments. Permit me, O my God and Father, to plead with thee concerning the reve- lations of thy nature and thy grace, which are made in thy gos- pel : And let me do it with all that humble reverence, and that holy awe of thy Majesty, which becomes a creature in the pre- sence of his God.' Hast thou not, O Lord God Almighty, hast thounot transact- ed thy divine and important affairs among men by thy Son Jesus Christ, and by thy holy Spirit ? and hast thou not ordained that men should transact their highest and most momentous concerns with Vol.. Ix. K k
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