blem of the torrent of God's wrath) through the valley of Jehoshaphat to the mount of Olives, barefoot and weeping as he went; so Christ when he had finished his last supper" went forth with his disciples over the same brook Cedron, and from thence unto the mount of Olives," where he sweat great drops of blood falling down to the ground, and such was his sorrow as to need an angel from heaven to strengthen him, for his great conflict.

Here David worshipped, wept and prayed-and Christ" fell on his face and prayed, O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt-This he repeated at three different times, and his soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death."

Here lttai David's friend promised to live and die with him, and Peter said to Christ" though I should die with thee yet will I not deny thee."

Ahitophel, David's counsellor, by his council be trayed him, that he might be taken when he fled from Absalom, and afterwards Ahitophef went and hanged himself; so Judas one of Christ's disciples betrayed his master, and afterwards went and hanged himself.

David obtained a final victory over all his enemies and was exalted to a throne-Christ after obtaining a glorious victory over death, hell and the grave, arose triumphant and " was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God."

The great principal feasts of the Jews, were designed partly for the remembrance of things past, aud partly as types of things to come-The feast of unleavened bread, or the passover, was designed as a grateful remembrance of the deliverance of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt: this was the remembrance of things past-the type or figure of things to come, was our deliverance from the bondage of sin and satan, by our Lord Jesus Christ, who was prefigured by the paschal Lamb without blemish, and who in the same month, and on the same day of the month, was fore ordained by God to be crucified on the cross for the sins of the whole world, whose blood applied by a lively faith, is to be the deliverance of every soul on whom it is found.

The feast of weeks, or Pentecost (50 days) after the feast of unleavened bread, was in remembrance of the law being given on Mount Sinai, with thundering and lightening-and as a type or figure of the publishing of the doctrines of the gospel on the same day, with a sound from heaven, when cloven tongues of fire fell upon the apostles, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

The feast of tabernacles was in remembrance of the Israelites' long dwelling in tents or tabernacles, and was a type of Christ's incarnation, when the divine nature tabernacled in the flesh; and the word became Immanuel or God with us.

The conduct of the Jews relative to our Saviour, on his incarnation and their essential mistakes, ought

to warn christians, that they run not into the same errors to their greater loss. For may it not be seriously questioned, if there is not, at least, an equal degree of unbelief among Christians, with regard to his second coming, as there was among the Jews, with regard to the Messiah's first coming.-They looked for a mere temporal Prince: we are looking for the mere spiritual coming of Christ, in a universal revival of religion among men; both run to extremes, without submitting to the true word of prophecy, when Christ himself assures us of his second coming in glory, not only by types, figures and prophetic revelations; but also by his ordinances; especially that which he has instituted to show forth his death, until he shall come.

This language, one would have imagined, was sufficiently explicit; but fond of our own conceits, and unwilling to submit our judgments, in things we do not immediately comprehend in all their parts, we are directly engaged to enquire how this can be, and start a thousand objections to the fulfilment of the words of Omnipotence, with all the obstinacy and prevarication of the Jews.-In order to get rid of these men of straw, of our own raising, we fly to the merely spiritual presence of Christ in his church ¿ and by this means, cause all the express declarations of a God of truth, to be reasoned away, and become of no effect, by preferring the doubts and objections of men, to the positive predictions of unerring wisdom. This was not the conduct of the first patriarchs,

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of either the Jewish or Christian churches.-It pears from ancient writings that the pious Jews, before the coming of Christ, believed in, and expected the coming of the Messiah in glory, at the end of the Roman monarchy as related by Daniel-This is mentioned by many Jewish writers, and particularly by Jonathan Ben Uzziel, the Chaldee Paraphrast.*

In the 2d book of Esdrass,† 2d chap. he calls to the heathen to hear and understand; to look for their shepherd who would give them everlasting rest, for that he was nigh at hand and should come in the end of the world, (by which was generally meant the Roman world or government.)

* Rabbi Abarbinel's testimony is sufficient for the consent of all the Jewish writers, as it is known that he was one of the most learned of his nation-He says, " Our masters are right in their tradition, that the fourth beast does signify the Roman emperors," by this it appears to have been the common tradition of the learned Jews.

Demon. of the prophetic application of the Apoc. 5th of appendix.

Mr Mede says, that the Roman empire was the 4th kingdom of Daniel, was believed by the church of Israel, both before and in our Saviour's time: received by the disciples of the apostles and the whole christian church for the first 400 years without any known contradiction-and I confess having so good grounds in scripture, it is with me," tantum non articulus fidei," little less than an article of faith. Mede's works, 736.

+ This is the 1st of the 70 books of the Cabala of the Jew

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He openly and plainly testifies of the Saviour, and bids them to rejoice that they are called to the heavenly kingdom.

He says, "that he saw on mount Zion a great people, who he could not number, praising the Lord with songs, and among them a young man, taller than the rest, setting crowns on each of their heads. -The angel told him, that the young man was the son of God, whom those who were crowned had confessed in the world"—and afterwards chap. 9" and when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world, then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things even from the beginning; and every one who shall be saved and be able to escape by his works, and by his faith whereby ye have believed, shall be preserved from the perils, and shall see my salvation in my land and within my borders, for I have sanctified them for me, from the beginning."-In chap. 13th the angel explains the vision, and in the 29th verse says, "behold the days come when the most High shall begin to deliver them that are upon the earth. And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell upon the earth. And the time shall be, when these things come to pass, and the signs shall happen, which I showed thee before, then shall my son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascendingand he shall stand on the top of mount Zion; and Zion shall come, and shall be showed to all men,