MYSTICAL, ſomething myſterious or allegorical. Some of the commentators on the ſacred writings, beſides a literal ſenſe alſo a myſtical meaning. The ſenſe of ſcripture, ſay they, is either that immediately fix-
nified by the words and expreſſions in the common uſe
of language; or it is mediate, ſublime, typical, and
myſtical. The literal ſenſe they again divide into pro-
per literal, which is contained in the words taken
ſimply and properly; and metaphorical literal, where
the words are to be taken in a figurative and meta-
phorical ſenſe. The myſtical ſenſe of ſcripture they
divide into three kinds: the firſt correſponding to
faith, and called allegorical; the ſecond to hope,
called anagogical; and the third to charity, called the
tropological ſenſe. And ſometimes they take the ſame
word in ſcripture in all the four ſenſes: thus the word
Jeruſalem, literally ſignifies the capital of Judea; al-
legorically, the church militant; tropologically, a be-
liever; and anagogically, heaven. So that paſſage in
Genesis, let there be light, and there was light, literally
ſignifies corporeal light; by an allegory, the Meſſiah;
in the tropological ſenſe, grace; and anagogically,
beatitude, or the light of glory.