and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." This place is now in God's house in heaven; the mansions of the saints are now there, and Christ is preparing them. But he is coming again, and the glorious inheritance of the saints is to be revealed from heaven. 1 Peter i. 3-5: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be reyealed in the last time." The idea which many have obtained from John xiv., that the saints are to be taken up to those mansions and inherit them forever, is here rectified. The incorruptible in heritance is to be revealed from heaven in the last times. So also the Revelator, chap. xxi. 2, 10: "I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." And he car ried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending OUT OF HEAVEN, FROM GOD." When this city appears, then Abraham will receive the answer of his faith, 166 city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." There are few persons at present, but what admit that the New Jerusalem of Rev. xxi. is the heavenly state, and in the new earth. But then they deny that the Jerusalem spoken of by Isaiah, in almost the same words, is the same city. I find in the Hierophant, publish

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ed in New York, by Professor Bush, the parallel passages of Isaiah and Revelation, collated, which I will here insert. The descriptions are identical.

QUOTATIONS FROM PROFESSOR BUSH.

Professor Bush says, p. 8: "Assuming this then as a point unquestioned, we advance to another position equally certain, as we conceive, and fraught with the most momentous consequences to the whole scheme of prophetic interpretation. We affirm that the beatific state of things announced in the above-mentioned predictions of Isaiah-when the desert shall bud and blossom as the rose-when the valleys shall be exalted and the mountains and hills made low -when the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain-when the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together-when the Gentiles shall come to the light of Zion, and kings to the brightness of her rising-when instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier the myrtletree-when for brass shall be brought gold, for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron-when Jerusalem shall be created a rejoicing and her people a joy-when the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying-when the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and they shall no more hurt nor destroy in all the Lord's holy mountain-that this state is identical with the New Jerusalem of John. The proof of this can only be made palpable by a ta

bellated display of the parallelisms occurring in the two prophets, which we now present to the reader, with intervening remarks.

REV. XXI. 1, 2.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

REV. XXI. 19, 20.

And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth. a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth an amethyst.

ISAIAH LXV. 17, 18.

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoic ing, and her people a joy.

ISAIAH LIV. 11, 12.

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted! behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sap. phires.

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant

stones.

"The description in John is amplified, it will be seen, into more minute detail, but the identity of the subject discloses itself at once. Whether this graphic scenery is to find its accomplishment in a literal city, as well as in a spiritual polity, is wholly immaterial to the point which we have especially in hand, although for ourselves inclined to the opinion that it will.

REV. XXI. 23.

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

REV. XXII. 5.

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign forever and ever.

ISAIAH LX. 19, 20.

The sun shall be no more thy light by day: neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw it self: for the Lord shall be thine ev. erlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

"We are not, perhaps, required from this to suppose that at the period to which the spirit of prophecy points, either the natural sun or the natural moon will have ceased to shine. The import doubtless is, that in that favored age the transcendant brightness and glory of the divine presence, which shall be then enjoyed, will, as it were, supersede and eclipse the light of the luminaries of heaven, though they may continue to shine on as usual. There can be no doubt that there is, in the lustrous 'glory' which is here predicted, an allusion to the Shekinah which rested over the tabernacle in the wilderness.

REV. XXI. 24, 25, 26, And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into

it.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

ISAIAH LX. 3, 11.

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the bright ness of thy rising.

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gen tiles, and that their kings may be brought."

That such a city as is here described will come down on the earth and rest on the holy land, or in the same latitude and longitude, as promised to Abraham, for an everlasting possession, I must believe.

"No need of the sun." The divine glory will be so prevalent as to eclipse the glory of the sun, so that perpetual day will be enjoyed. Yet it does not follow that the sun will cease to shine, or that any of the luminaries of heaven will be blotted out. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that the planetary system will continue on as it now is, forever. There is no promise that every part of the earth will be illuminated continually by the glory of God, but only the glorious city.

"The nations of them that are saved." The redeemed of all the nations of the earth. Not that they will then be in the same sense that they are now, "nations," but in reference to their having been redeemed and saved among the nations. That the saints will be divided into tribes according to the tribes of Israel, under the twelve apostles as judges or leaders, while Christ is the great king, is probable.

"The glory and honor of the nations into it." The redeemed of the nations is the glory and honor of the nations; and they shall have a right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city.

"Bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles." This, too, must be understood conformably to the parallel passage above; that all the wealth and glory of all the Gentile kingdoms will be in possession of the saints, the children of the New Jerusalem, and all who have opposed and despised them here in their poverty and humiliation, will utterly perish. But all the kings of the earth and their subjects, who have chosen Christ for their portion, and have served him in time, will have right to the glories of that heavenly city.

REV. XXI. 4.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

ISAIAH LXV. 19, 20.

And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of cry. ing.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old: but the sinner, being an hun dred years old, shall be accursed.

The two states described in these two passages