WITH THEIR USE AND PLACE IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD UNDER THE DID' Testament Dispensation: ALSO A Brief Description of the Temple, its Furniture, &c. and a Spiritual and Typical Exhibition of Christ in those Sa- Interspersed with Others. BY SAMUEL EYLES PIERCE. With a Recommendatory Preface by the Rev. I. NICHOLSON. LONDON: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street, and LEIGH, 18, Strand; Button and Son, Paternoster 1805. PREFACE. Itisan admirable saying of a wise Roman", who nevertheless was an entire stranger to “The Bookb," “ The Book of Books," “ The precious, precious Book of God",” á Horace, the brightest genius in the court of Augustus. b “ The Book” is the genuine English of the word, Bible, which is of Greek derivation, and exclusively applied to the Holy Scriptures. c Usher, the learned and venerable Bishop of Armagh, constantly distinguished the Holy Scriptures by this appropriate character. d These words formed a part of the last address of a dying martyr. When he had arrived at the stake, and adjusted every thing preparatory to his execution, he took his final leave of all terrestrial objects in this empassioned language. “ Farewell Sun and Moon! Farewell all the beauties of Creation, and comforts of life! Farewell my honoured |