But there are, in this quotation especially, fome expreffions which merit particular notice, from their fo accurately coinciding with other predictions, that when compared no doubt can remain of the time to which either are to be applied. In the paffage before us we are affured, that God will fit to judge the heathen round about; and in the 7th chapter of the book of Daniel, ver. 26, we are told, That the judgement fhall fit to take away the dominion of that tyrannical and blafphemous power, which the prophet had seen arife after the divifion of the laft great empire. The former prophet informs us, That this fhall be in the day when God fhall bring again the captivity of Judah; and the latter places it at that period, when the kingdom fhall be given to the people of the faints of the Moft High While in the 20th chapter of the Revelations, the deftruction of the fame power is faid to be followed by the fame circumstance. Again, in the prophecy of Joel, the image of an harveft and a vintage is ufed, and there is an allu fion to the fame in the words above quoted from Ifaiah; in the latter part of the 14th chapter of Revelations too, the fame is repeated; and in the 63d chapter of Isaiah, and the 19th of Revelations, we have revealed to us, the great Agent in this deliverance of God's people, and the punishment of his enemies-"Who is this

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"from Bozrah? This that is glorious in hist "apparel, travelling in the greatness of his

ftrength? I that speak in Righteousness, "mighty to fave. Wherefore art thou red in "thine apparel, and thy garments like him that "treadeth in the wine-fat? I have trodden the "wine-press alone, and of the people there was "none with me: For I will tread them in mine ર anger, and trample them in my fury, and "their blood fhall be fprinkled upon my gar

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ments, and I will stain all my raiment. For "the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and "the year of my Redeemed is come. And I “looked, and there was none to help: And I "wondered that there was none to uphold: "Therefore mine own arm brought falvation "unto me, and my fury it upheld me. "I will tread down the people in mine anger, "and make them drunk in my fury, and I will "bring their strength to the earth."-Thus faith the prophet; now hear the apostle: "And "I faw heaven opened, and behold, a white "horfe; and He that fate upon him was called "Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth "He judge, and make war. His eyes were as "a flame of fire, and on his head were many 66 crowns; and He had a name written that no ' one knew but Himfelf: And He was clothed "with a vesture dipped in blood: And his name is called The Word of God. And the

"armies

armies which were in heaven followed Him '' on white horfes, clothed in fine linen, white "and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a

sharp fword, that with it He should fmite the "nations: and he fhall rule them with a rod of "iron and He treadeth the wine prefs of the "fiercenefs and wrath of Almighty God: And "He hath on his vefture, and on his thigh a

name written, King of Kings, and Lord of "Lords." It is needless to tranfcribe all the parallel paffages in which the fame circumstances of this fignal vengeance, to be taken on a wicked world, are predicted, by the antient or the later prophets; fuffice it to fay, that as in the parti culars already repeated, fo do they agree in others, even to the mentioning of the fame fpot, as the great scene of flaughter ‡,

LET us now turn from the contemplation of this distressful scene, which will be wholly dif closed, when the measure of our iniquities is full, to view an event of far different kind, the confequent grand completion of the prophecies, that the gospel fhall be preached to all nations, and all the ends of the earth turn unto the Lord, till it be full of the knowledge of Him, as the waters cover the fea, and all the nations of it be bleffed in the feed of Abraham; for though the gospel, on its first publication, quickly ex

Compare Joel iii, 14; Rev. xvi, 16; and fee the Notes of Drufius and L. Cappellus on this last paffage.

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tended itself through the Roman world, and the voice of its preachers had, even in the apoftolic age, reached to what were then efteemed the ends of the earth, yet its reception, in point either of univerfality or fincerity, has not been hitherto by any mean adequate to what the Scriptures teach us to expect; the royal Pfalmift declares, that all the ends of the world fhall remember, "and turn unto the Lord; and all the kindreds "of the nations fhall kneel before Him." Pf. xxii, 27.—And in the 72d Pfalm we find him, when defcribing the profperity of his fon Solomon's reign, carried on by the fpirit of prophecy to the mention of that Son, of whose greatness the glories of this formed but a faint shadow, Yea; all kings fhall fall down before All nations fhall ferve Him." And among the prophecies of Ifaiah we meet the following moft folemn declaration, that the God of Ifrael fhall be univerfally worshipped; "Look "unto me, and be ye faved, all ye ends of the

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earth: For I am God, and there is none else. 66 I have fworn by Myfelf, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteoufnefs, and fhall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue fhall fwear §." The fame full converfion of the nations is thus spoken of by Jeremiah," O Lord, my ftrength, &c.—the Gentiles fhall come unto Thee from the ends

of the earth, and fhall fay, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein "there is no profit *!" And by the prophet' Malachi thus-"From the rifing of the fun ❝ unto the going down of the fame, my name "fhall be great among the Gentiles, and in every "place incense shall be offered unto my name, "and a pure offering: For my name fhall be "great among the heathen, faith the Lord of "Hofts +" And Daniel faw "given unto the "Son of Man, dominion, and glory, and a "kingdom, that all peoples, and nations, and

languages fhould ferve Him t." That these predictions have not yet had their full completion, I need not take pains to demonstrate; it is plain, that no small part of the world still continues in the darkness of paganism; another portion of it is at open enmity with the gofpel, while the countries which profess to receive it, cannot well be faid to offer a pure offering: When then are we to look for this accomplishment? Is the example of the present generation of those who are within the church fuch, that we may hope, it will have power to work a change in the fentiments of those without? Or, Are there now any appearances which will warrant a prefumption, that the next, or fucceeding generation of Chriftians will, by the light of their good works, lead the rest of mankind to glorify • Jer. xvi, 19. + Mal. i, 11. Dan. vii, 14.

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