Description of the Foregoing Diagram.

Israel, by means of the eyes glancing backward, is here represented as seeing from generation to generation, in the ordinances of the tabernacle, and in the twelve stones set up at Gilgal, two things—First, the memorials of their deliverance through the Red Sea, out of Egypt, and of their forty years in the wilderness; Secondly, that of their crossing the Jordan, and entering the land under the conduct of Joshua.

Again, by means of the eyes looking forward, they are represented as discerning in the Levitical rites the shadows of heavenly things, Christ being foreshown in the priesthood, the sacrifices, the sabbath, and all the other observances, both of the tabernacle and the temple.

In these cases, then, The Four Marks make it wholly impossible that the Books of Moses could have been, according to the Deists, a fabrication or an imposture. What was it that the Lord said to those two whom He met on the way to Emmaus? "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: ought page 10 not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." (Luke xxiv. 25-27.) What a wondrous word this must have been! How must it have shown the unity of purpose, the marvellous connection of one part with another that pervades the whole book of God, just what we here see, that the history of man, from beginning to end, is One Grand Event, and that all minor events, all subordinate histories, are but the links in a chain which no power can break, which is to last through eternity.