...hath said: He hath said, rvho heard the wards of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, who saw the vision of the< Almighty, 'falling into a trance,...shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but notnigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite...

...depart from either are not fit members of a gospel-church. B. EXPLANATION OF NUMBERS MIv 17. / i,hall see Him, but not now; I shall behold Him, but not nigh. BALAAM was a true prophet, but a bad man: "he loved the wages of unrighteousness, and was rebuked for...

...the man whose eyes are open hath said ; he hath said, who heard the words of God, who saw the visions of the Almighty, falling into a trance but having his eyes open." 5. Finally, this joy. renders the true believer also holy ; he sees nothing now but holiness in God,...

...Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said, and the man whose eyes arc open, hath said; he hath said which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of...falling into a trance, but having his eyes open." And what does he see? He sees his own way to be perverse before God; he sees beforehand a drawn sword,...

...righteous; and the suspicion of having none was intolerable. " Who shall live when God does this? 1 shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh." Multitudes will see an interest in Christ to be of infinite importance, and their rejection to be intolerable,...

...without vent; It is ready to burst, like the monthly dnincrs \." Balaam speaks of himself, as " seeing the vision of the ALMIGHTY, falling into a trance, but having his [mental} eyei open." Numb. xxiv. 16. And the Cumttan Sibyl, " priestess of the tun and moon,'' or of...

...Balaam, with all his faults, was in an extacy of heavenly thought when he " heard the words of God, and saw " the vision of the Almighty, falling " into a trance but having his eyes " open*." But into jio superstitious trance let us fall. Divine contemplation opens the purest sources of mental...

...Prince and Lord! see him — not as did Balaam when he reluctantly predicted his coming, and said, "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh!" — See him — not as did the Jews, who discerned no form nor comeliness in him; who saw no beauty...

...false prophet. He thus expresses himself in the 24th chapter of Numbers (16, 17)—" He hath said, who heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a tr;mce, but having hiseyes open : I shall see him...

...blot out of my book," Exod. xxxii. 33. In the same list ire may also place Balaam, who, though he " heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, Num. xxiv. 16, 21, chap, viii; and was permitted to converse with God, and bless in his name, in a...