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CHAP. is sounded in God's holy mountain, and by which the gospel of salvation is sounded, and the gathering together unto Christ is effected.

58. Thus, were it necessary, it might be shown wherein the whole typical and ceremonial law has its full and final accomplishment in the second appearing Isai. viii. of Christ. To the law and to the testimony of the prophets; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

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HE prophecies concerning the two foundation pillars in the work of Redemption, are, to the mind that is in any degree spiritual, still more plain, copious and convincing, than the types and shadows given in the Law. Were we to bring all that the prophets have uttered on this particular subject, and to state every thing in its proper light of correspondence, a large volume would contain but a very small portion. A few particulars, however, are necessary to be noticed at this time.

2. David, by the spirit of prophecy, in the fortyfifth Psalm, speaks expressly of the male and the female, in Christ's first and second appearing, in the following words: "My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee forever."

3.Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth, and meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the hearts of the King's enemies; whereby the Heb. people fall under thee. Thy throne, O God, is for

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ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre."

4. This has long been applied to Christ Jesus the Son of God; but this is not all, as distinct a character relating to the Daughter, as the first in the line of the female, is evidently described as follows:

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5. "Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in Pal.x, gold of Ophir. Hearken, daughter, and consider, ke and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is the Lord; and worship thou him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour."

6. "The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee with gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought : they shall enter into the King's palace. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever."

7. As it is sufficiently evident that the prophecy concerning the Son, al'uded to a particular person, and not to any collective body called the Church; so it is as evident, that the Daughter must have as particular an allusion, and so must her children, and the virgins her companions that follow her.

8. And as the one was to be a child born, a Son Imi given, whose name should be called, The everlasting Father; su the other was to be as expressly fulfilled in one who should be called The everlasting Mother: for she that hath children and companions that follow her, must be both a mother and a leader.

9. Therefore the truth is, that the prophecy has had its complete fulfilment, in such a manner as en tirely to exclude every other comment or application; being first of all fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the Father, and secondly in Ann Lee, the Mother of our redemp tion, and the followers of her example, who were begotten and brought forth by the word of life as her

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10. The promise of God through the prophet Jeremiah, in regard to salvation by Christ, was also expressly made to be fulfilled in the order of the male and the female: first distinctly to one male; and secondly, to the male and female in their correspondent relation.

11. Of the first he saith, "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the name whereby HE shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."

12. And of the second he saith, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel, and to the house of Judah. In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith SÃE shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."

13. Doubtless it appeared very new and strange to the Jews, to apply the first of these prophecies to the son of a carpenter; and no less strange it may appear to the great and wise of the present day, to apply the second to the daughter of a blacksmith. But as certain as the carpenter's son was the He, who set the example of righteousness for all men; so certain the blacksmith's daughter was the She, who hath set the example of righteousness for all women; and in her proper order is, The Lord our Righteousness, or God manifested in the flesh, according to the promise of the latter day.* .

Whatever application may be made to these passages of Jeremiah, by natural men, whose learned sagacity is confined to the letter of scripture, and who consequently confine the pronouns he and she to the names Israel and Jerusa lem as the antecedents, certain it is, that no just application can be made contrary to that which is here given: for, as the people of Israel and the city of Jerusalem were typical of God's Church and people, who are the offspring of the male and female in the work of regeneration; so, in their salvation, they can ascribe the glory to the parents of their redemption, knowing that, through them, the way of righteousness is made manifest; and therefore it is with the greatest propriety that both He and She, are called The Lord our Righteousnes.

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14. And therefore, as the righteousness of the lat- CHAP. ter day was to be infinite; comprehending both he and she, male and female, it could not enter but by something new and strange: as it is written of the new creation by the same prophet, "The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man."

15. After the kingdom of Israel had risen to its height of temporal glory, and the spiritual temple, or Church of Christ's first and second appearing, had been typified by the temple at large, the people fell into idolatry, which brought on the Babylonian captivity.

16. By this was typified the spiritual captivity, or falling away from that power and order in which the Primitive Church stood, as had in part been signified by the breaking of the first two tables of the covenant made with typical Israel; and this spiritual captivity, and treading under foot the holy city, was to continue until the time for the building of the second gospel Church, which was typified by the building of the second temple at Jerusalem.

17. Then at the return from the captivity, the second temple was built; not in every respect in full imitation of the first temple; for the substance of that was shortly to be fulfilled by the coming of Christ, to set up a spiritual temple; but in outward imitation of the inward temple, or most holy place, which pointed to the Church of Christ in his second appearing.

18. And therefore, the second temple was built more complete in its outward form, and more extensive in its size, being in length sixty cubits, in breadth sixty cubits, and in neight sixty cubits, in form four square. This still pointed to God's spiritual building, the holy city of the latter day, as the most holy place in the tabernacle, and first temple had done be

It is proper here to remark, that all those extraordinary patterns, which in the inner court of the first temple, and most holy place of the tabernacle, had pointed out the order and glory of God's spiritual building, were not in this se cond temple. The ark with the two tables of the covenant were lost by the captivity; the two cherubims and cloud of glory, which overshadowed the mer ey-seat; the Urim and Thumim (i. e. light and perfection) were also lost, and the tire from heaven upon the altar, was no more. So in the captivity of the saints, in spiritual Babylon, which continued during the reign of Antichrist, the true order of the Church, and all that pertahied to it, were lost or trodden ́un. der foot.

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CHAP. fore it. Its length, and breadth, and height were equal; signifying universal justice and righteousness.

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19. That the building of the second temple alluded to the building of God's spiritual house in the latter day, may be understood from the prophet Haggai. "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the DESIRE of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with my glory, saith the Lord of hosts."

20. Then as this second temple, prefigured the spiritual house of God in the latter day, and those extraordinary patterns, which pertained to the first temple, were now lost by the captivity, therefore they were again supplied by vision and prophecy, and other things of the same nature added, at the building of this second temple.

21. For this purpose was the remarkable vision of the prophet Zechariah, which is particularly worthy of notice. Thus in reply to the angel he said, "I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, Zeeh. iv. and seven pipes to the seven lamps-and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof."

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22. And the angel said, "This is the word of the •Zerub Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might nor by astra power, [not by the carnal weapons of an army] but ger at by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.-The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, his hands shall also finish it: and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you."

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23. The candlestick of gold, signified the truth and revelation of God upon which his Church or spiritual house is built, and supplied the place of the ark of the covenant, which contained the law of God, under the mercy-seat. And the bowl upon the top of the candiestick, between the two olive trees, prefigured the same as did the mercy-seat between the two cherubims.

24. And the seven lamps are the seven spirits of God, which are before his throne, and answer to the seven golden candlesticks of perpetual light before the

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