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 beforehand the suffering of Christ, and glory should follow. The oracles Heaven, through succeeding  referred to the cross of Christ.

In this the Mosaic rites and ordinance types and symbols, had their accomplishment. If we consider them not in this light, what are they all, but pompous and unmeaning institutions, utterly in worthy wisdom of their great Author! What significancy could there be in the shedding of so much blood, the slaughtering of so many innocent victims, the consuming of so much flesh, if the whole were not to teach us, that without the shedding of Jesus' blood, there could be no remission of sins for us? The constant sacrificing of many inoffensive animals, pointed to the one great sacrifice which Jesus was to offer up without spot to God. Considered in this light, every institution of this kind had its significancy. We are therefore taught, in the New Testament, to understand them as shadows of good things to come, of which the body is Christ. The ambiguity of types vanished in his cross, when he appeared once in the end of the world, to put away. sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Many of the most remarkable events, and many of the most distinguished personages, mentioned in the Old Testament, were