Exodus 30:22. How strikingly doth this holy oil represent the anointing gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost!
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Reader! do not hastily pass over this Chapter, but pause, as you read, and remark as you go, how very precious ought he to be in his Church, and among his people, whom God the Holy Ghost was pleased to shadow forth by such a variety of representations. Oh! blessed Spirit, thou that art the glorifier of Christ Jesus, since thou hast been pleased to represent the Redeemer to thy Church by such a diversity of imagery, do thou unfold him to my heart as he is, and give me to look through the shadows to him who is the substance of all. Enable me to be looking at him, as my mercy-seat, my propitiation, my table of living bread, my altar of incense, my all: and so to live upon his fullness, and depend upon his righteousness, that I may be growing, up in him an holy temple to the Lord.