Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-28

| spiritual stones Let us notice their operation.
We are reading the history ofIsrael. We learn
how God selected them to he his people; how
he brought them through great dangers, deliv-
cred them in a thousand straits, gave them pc
| culiar laws, drove olt and subdued their enc
mics, the previous possessors of Canaan, and
| blest them with safety and abundance so long
as they were obedient so that they supposed
themselves the favorites of heaven. But, now,
how shall nationally understand this? lean
not conceive the Lord OF all to have favorites,
to be capricious, or make especial selections.
/ could not love with all my heart a being who
was so partial,-that had not the same love for
others as for me. Heaven itself would have
no-charms for me if were placed there by fa-
vortism by a partial will, which rejected and
condemned Others who were equally deserving
oft, and prepared to enjoy it, with myself
Much rather would say with the apostle, 81
would he accursed for my brethren, if they
might be sayedn The partial view will not
agree with supreme love to God, nor love to
man. But what, if the Israelites were selected
for the sake of Others that they might repre-
sent those who were Israeltes indeed, who arc
Jews inwardly, owning allegiance to the great
Saviour, the divine King of the Jews What
if these laws are spiritually TO be understood,
and thus become universal ones, true of every
nation and every age? What if their enemies
were types of our evils, which must be cast out,
for us to be prepared for happiness? What if
their country was an expressive symbol of
heaven? Strip off the husks of the divine
teaching, its temporal covering, its letter, and
then you find the fine -four within, the lessons
of goodness in strictest harmony with love to
God, and charity to man. Nay, your love will,
with every lesson, rise higher. Yon will be
satisfied with honey from the rock, and be fed
with the finest of the wheat, Ps lxxx l6.
Take the character and history of David as
the subject, and the bearing of it in the letter
of the Word is certainly not such as to lead us
to select him as the example of gentleness, of
chastity, or of mercy. He was fierce and cruel
to his enemies, and revenged at the last hour
of his lite. 1t would not increase our love to
God to consider him as an individual person,
a man after Gods own heart. 1t certainly
would not illustrate love to our neighbor for
us to act in like manner But let us remove
the husk, and get to the interior of the lesson.
Let us regard David as type, but not a pat
tern. Let us regard him as representing the
Lord Jesus Christ, the divine King OF the spir-
itual Jews in all ages. The victories Of David,
as the shadows Of the victories of the Redeem-
ing God over internal powers, those conflicts
! and trnmphs by which he saw OF the travail OF
his soul and was satisfied Let us think of
him also as representing in more particular
application of his history, each Christian rs
he seeks to follow his divine leader in the re-
generation, and then the foes, which are con-
demned and rooted out are not persons, but
wicked principles, The charge to Solomon to
put the foe TO death whom David himself could
not himself destroy, declares the desire of the
SOUL that the last yestige of interior evil,
should be extirpated when it enters upon the
possession of higher principles, though it is
unable to do it now. Thus may spiritual food
be obtained, when the rational faculty really
seeks it, Thus we obtain bread to eat that the
world knows not of.
But what field for sucha spiritual supply
is the life of our adorable Lord. His birth,
his journeys, his miracles, his sayings, his
death, his resurrecton and his ascension, high
above the heavens, all are fraught with wisdom
for contemnlotion and for life. He must be
horn in nc ba ,npst wa,k in ne be mnst calm
our stormy sea, open our blind eyes, strength
an onr 1vitbored forms and enable us TO walk
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