OTH

TO THE

REV. JOHN WITHERINGTON PEERS, LL.D.

RECTOR OF MORDON, SURREY,

AND ICKLEFORD CUM PIRTON, HERTS.

THIS WORK

IS MOST GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS DUTIFUL

AND AFFECTIONATE SON,

THE AUTHOR.

1828

455.

PREFACE.

THE Author does not present this work to the public as a full and complete explanation of all the types employed by the Head of the covenant for the instruction of his church, but only as an interpretation of some of them, illustrative of that mode of teaching; and with an earnest hope that the present attempt may induce Christians generally, and ministers particularly, to study more diligently and attentively the purposes of the Supreme Being, as revealed or recorded in symbols.

In a Treatise designed for the benefit of all classes of Christians, plainness of style with