as a royal priesthood, receive pardon of their sins, and acceptance with GOD.]
Num. xx. 11. And with his rod he smote the rock twice, and the water came out abundantly,
xxi. 8. Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Josh. ii. 21. She bound the scarlet line in the window.
1 Sam. ii. 16. Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, [or, as it is in the Vulgate, first, and then take s much as thy soul desireth ; [that is, by means of the Passion of CHRIST first suffered, all that the soul of His people can desire, is given to them : a parallel passage in this sense, with " He that spared not His Own SON, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things ?"]
1 Kings xvii. 3. Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
2 Kings iv. 40. O thou man of GOD, there is death in the pot. But he said, Then bring meal, and he cast it into the pot .... and there was no harm in the pot. [That is, the wild gourds are a type of sin; the vessel, of the human heart; the meal, of the Holy Eucharist, and its effect in preserving against the dangers of temptation.]
Ps. xxv. 20. Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me. [That is, the perfect righteousness of our LORD : wait upon me, in the sense of that verse, "The SON of MAN came not to be ministered unto but to minister."]
