glorious shining appearance on the Mount, Moses was like our blessed Lord. Moses went up to God on Mount Sinai a second time to receive the law, after having broken the two first tables. When he came down, his face shone so, that Aaron and all the people were afraid to go near him. Moses was obliged to put a vail on his face when he spoke to them. They could not bear the glory of God reflected in Moses' face. This reminds us of our Lord, who vailed His glory, when He took our flesh upon Him. The Israelites, you see, could not bear to look upon the dazzling brightness of Moses' face, after he had been but a short time in the presence of God. So, if our Lord had not taken our flesh upon Him when He came into this world, we could not have borne to have seen Him in His Godhead only.

Moses, too, met with great opposition from his own relations. Aaron and Miriam quarrelled with him on account of his marriage with Zipporah, who was an Ethiopian woman. Jews were angry with our Lord because He took the Gentiles for His people, His Church, or Bride.

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Moses, again, wrought miracles which were typical of what our Lord did literally and spiritually, for His people. I will only speak

of one; the rest you must find out. The manna is too remarkable to pass quite over. For forty years the Israelites were fed with manna: all the time they were in the wilderness. Those who had the least, had enough. Those who had the most, had not too much. (Ex. xvi. 18.) This is beautifully typical of Christ. He feeds His people with Himself. Those who have the weakest faith in Him, as long as it is real, genuine, are saved-safe. Those who have the strongest faith, have not too much.

There are other miracles that Moses wrought, equally profitable for us to meditate upon; and what he did for the Israelites literally, our Lord does for His people spiritually. He makes their bitter waters sweet, cures them of spiritual diseases, and gives them all they need.

The last thing I shall speak about is the nearness of communion with God that Moses had. We read (Deut. xxxiv. 10),-" And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face." And when Aaron and Miriam spoke against Moses, the Lord told them that He would speak with Moses "mouth to mouth, and not in dark speeches, and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold." And we are told (Ex. xxxiii. 11),-" And the Lord spake unto

Moses face to face, as a man speaketh with his friend."

Moses therefore was, in character as well as in his calling, a fitting type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us study his excellences more than we have done; but let it always be with this end,—to see them as shadows of the graces of our Lord. Let all our learning tend to this, to show us more and more of the loveliness, the preciousness of Christ. We never can see a grace in any creature that was not perfect in Christ; always imperfect in us, but without flaw in Him. May the study of this and every type lead us to love Jesus more, to

imitate His graces, and to follow the steps of His most blessed life. So shall our study be a blessing to us now, and through the countless ages of eternity.

SUBJECTS FOR TEXTS

ON THE HISTORY OF MOSES AS A TYPE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Moses delivered the Israelites from the power of Pharaoh.

Our Lord delivers His people from the power of sin and Satan.

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JOSHUA.

THE very name of Joshua tells us that he was a type of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the same as Jesus, and signifies, as no doubt you all know, Saviour. It was not his name at first. Moses, we are told (Num. xiii. 16), changed the name of Oshea to Jehoshua, or Joshua, when he was chosen, with eleven other men, one from each tribe, to go and spy out the land of Canaan. We had not heard much of Joshua before this. The first time he is mentioned is in Ex. xvii. 9, where we read,"And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand." Joshua obeyed Moses, and Amalek was discomfited. In the 13th and 14th verses we read,-" And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." Joshua seems to have

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