THIRD LECTURE.

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man. The veil of eternity is rent; time, fpace, andmatter teem in the creation of the elements and ofearth ; life ifTues from God and adoration from man, in'the creation of Adam and his mate ; tranfgreffion of theprecept at the tree of knowledge proves the origin ofevil, and of expullion from the immediate intercourfewith God ; the ceconomy of juftice and grace com-mences in the revolutions of the deluge, and the co-venant made with Noah; and the germs of focial cha-racter are traced in the fubfequent fcene between himand his fons; the awful fynod of prophets and fibylsare the heralds of the Redeemer; and the hofb of pa-triachs the pedigree of the Son. of Man ; the brazenferpent and the fall of Haman , the giant fubdued bythe {tripling in Goliah and David, and the conquerourdeftroyed by female weaknefs in Judith, are types ofhis myfterious progrefs, till Jonah pronounces him im-mortal; and the magnificence of the lafl judgmentby fhewing the Saviour in the judge of man, fums upthe whole, and reunites the founder and the race.

Such is the fpirit of the Siftine chapel, and the outlineof its ge?ieral invention, with regard to the cycle of itsfubjeCts—as in their choice they lead to each other with-out intermediate chafms in the tranfition; as each pre-ceding one prepares and direds the condud; of the next,

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