PLATE I.

No. 1.-This angel, the first of the series, in a small scale, and with a minute scroll, appears in the day-spring; the southeast angle of the Presbyterium (somewhat darkened by its position, as is the opposite one, No. 30, the Revelations); symbolising in this circumstance, that comparative obscurity in which the Promises of the Almighty were, and for the future are, shadowed forth;-then the "hope" only of the Promise, and now to be confirmed by faith and patience. This angel may be regarded as the epitomised symbol of the covenant of promise to Abraham and the Patriarchs, from the beginning of the world, of the coming of the Messiah.

No. 2.-The Patriarch David plainly appears in this figure, in his spiritual, his prophetic, and his poetical characters; as the type of that King of Righteousness who should "sit upon the throne of his kingdom for ever:" apotheosised as it were, with extended wings, and sitting upon clouds, his harp in his left, his right (in royal Gothic fashion and feudal guise, inevitable in the 13th century) akimbo, crowned and enthroned.

"The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne;" Ps. cxxxii. 11; and John, vii. 42.

No. 3.-An angel holds a scroll of much greater extent than the first, seeming to announce those plainer and more developed prophecies exhibited to mankind by the inspired writings of David, and to foretel the certain advent of the Messiah, according to the expression of Peter, "which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you. Searching diligently of what people, or of what period, the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify," &c. &c.

PLATE II.

No. 4.-An angel in a bold action, remarkable for the energy of its expression, sounds the trumpet, as telling that "in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed;"