promises to the spiritual and not the literal Israel-I say, it will be very hard for these to bow down to the literal Israel with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of their feet; and not only these, but kings and queens, even such as the Emperor Nicholas, Louis Philippe, and Queen Victoria; and this, I say, they shall do. Yea, "princes shall be afraid of the ensign, (the visible Glory of Jehovah) saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem." (Isa. xxxi.9.)

"Be wise therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little." (Ps. ii. 10—12.)

4th and lastly, Laws.-Isa. ii. 3: "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

Micah iv. 2, confirms Isaiah's testimony, in different words, but amounting to the same thing, thus: "For the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

We can now plainly see, that a King, Place, Subjects, and Laws, are fully supported by the inspired prophets, in language that cannot be spiritualized away, nor denied; therefore, "believe, and ye shall be established," and by faith have part in the coming kingdom.

Ah me! when I contemplate, by faith, the

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blessings, the power, the riches, the honour, and the glory that are promised by God himself, it almost overcomes me, and I cry out even now, "It is enough." What will it be, when our faith is swallowed up in vision ? Well may we say, "The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob! rious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." "And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her and the Highest himself shall establish her. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. As well the singers as the players on the instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee." What an expression, this last; truly his foundation is in the Holy Mountain, and although now trampled down, and under the foot of the haughty Turk, yet the time cometh, and is now almost fulfilled, when, as Daniel says (xi. 45), "He shall come to his end, and none shall help him." The present condition of Jerusalem is correctly described by the following lines, which I have somewhere met with: "It is indeed true that Jerusalem is still trampled down and desolated, steeped in idolatry, superstition, and crime; but a watchfire of promise has been lighted up on Zion's brow, and the hearts of true Christians once more begin to turn, with love and yearning and thankfulness the profoundest, to the Holy City, so

called by Christ himself. moreover, that

And we do know,

"A latent power

Of Life and Glory in her withered soil

Is buried. It will rise when Judah comes,
Like music sleeping on a haughty lyre,
Whose muteness, only to the Master's touch,
Breaks into sound and ravishes a world."

The above words are very remarkable; and if I am right-which I have not the least doubt of-that Paul alluded to the Shechinah Glory alone, when he said that "To Israel pertaineth (or belongeth) the Glory;" and dear old Simeon, when the Holy Ghost was upon him, confirms this view with these memorable words, "A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the Glory of my people Israel" (Luke ii. 32); -I say, if this view is correct, that to the literal Israel belongs the Glory; that they are the recipients of the Glory of God (exclusively in the first instance); that this dispensation of light was wisely intended to dovetail in the next, as light expands into glory; that God's promise to Abraham might be verified, "That in thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed,"-I say, when this Glory is made visible, Israel will know it, and God will raise up a correspondent Life and Glory in Palestina's withered soil, as far as she hath a recipient to receive it—“When he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord." (Isa. li. 3.)

Yes, it will rise when Judah comes; then the blessing of Jacob upon Judah will be verified "Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?" (Genesis xlix. 9.)

Balaam prophesied: "Behold the pople shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain." (Numb. xxiii. 24.)

Again: "He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee." (Num. xxiv. 9.)

Micah v. 7, 8: "And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men." (This is the effect the Shechinah Glory will have upon God's friends, and Israel's friends.) "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goeth through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." This is the effect of the Shechinah Glory upon God's enemies, and Israel's enemies, as the next verse shows. "Thine hand

shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off."

Zech. xii. 5-8: "And the governors of Judah shall say in their hearts, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the Glory of the house of David and the Glory of the inhabitants of Jesusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the Angel of the Lord before them." This angel of the Lord, or God, is always represented as the Shechinah. (See Exodus xiv. 19; xxiii. 20, 21; and xxiv. 16.)

"O, what a day! O, what a day!

Now when Judah's on his way,

Like a Torch* of Fire in the Sheaf.

All the mighty and the stout

He'll consume round about,

When he comes for Jacob's sure relief.

*Zech. xii. 6-8.