ham begat Isaac,-and Isaac begat Jacob; here the plan of man's recovery farther opens itself. Abraham, a shadow of God the Father,-Isaac, of Christ the Son,-Jacob, a shadow of the spririt that proceeds from Father and Son. We do not find their descendants denominated the house of Abraham, or the house of Isaac,-but the house of Jacob, or house of Israel. -Abraham had an Ishmael, the figure or shadow of infidels.—Isaac had an Esau, the figure and shadow of careless believers,-professors without seeking the spirit to make them possessors of the inheritance.

Only they who descended from Jacob were the peculiar, the chosen, and elect people of God. And they, and they only that are humbled as little children, to be taught by the spirit of God, can be the subjects of Christ's kingdom.-And this must be without any rival, no mixture of human wisdom. Now, although Satan appears in a degree to have passed these three individuals unnoticed, yet, when the three became twelve, he began to rouse himself.-One of this twelve had faith in God, in his youth; and God communed with him by dreams.-They interpreted them, that is Joseph's ten brethren. Benjamin was still younger, thus out of it. They became Cains, but their murderous designs were prevented. They that conspired against his life were to have their lives saved by him, -to have coals of fire heaped on their heads, by his feeling, his affection.

When they multiplied in Egypt, Satan kept a very watchful eye over them; stirred up his agent and type Pharoah, to fear, to jealousy. As the numbers increased his fears increased; for he could no more prevent their procreation, than he could beget: he could only oppress, and tempt to sin. An edict was

passed to strangle all the males at their birth: this was the contrivance of Satan, by his type Pharoah. Here he was outwitted: a Moses slipped into existence, and was nourished by Satan's agents.

These were God's own people; he claimed them, and brought them, miraculously, into the wilderness; secluded them from the society of others, that they might be fitted for the promised land; miraculously fed them, without toil or care, that their minds. might be free for instruction; yet Satan, though he had the undisturbed possession of all the rest of the inhabitants of the earth, could not rest.

He was ever in the wilderness with them, ever alluring, tempting, and torturing them. Why all this? saith the reasoner-why not drive him away? For the best of all reasons, to give us instructions by them, that we may be acquainted with his power; that we may profit by their example. But this is lost on us, when we conceive all ends at death. We amuse ourselves with an idea of making a most marvellous leap, a sudden transition from this vale of tears, to be the companion and associates of angels. Yet those that so very confidently tell this tale to others, when it comes to their turn, how reluctant to enter on this state of bliss!-What doctors are not feed; what prayers are not made, to keep them out of it! How readily would they part with all they have got, and accept life on any terms, rather than die! How can this be reconciled with their opinion? Is there not here some appearance of doubt?

The law was given, and these people chosen, as a mere shadow. When Christ's great reign of peace is established, election and reprobation will be understood, not as now. Those that are the subjects of it,

will be able practically to love God, with all their hearts, and their neighbours as themselves." The law," saith Paul," is a shadow of good things to come." And to make it more clear to our understanding, Solomon was called forth. He raised the nation to a pitch of happiness and prosperity that no nation ever enjoyed before or since. As the patriarch Isaac was a type of the suffering Saviour, so was Solomon a type of the glorified Redeemer, victorious conqueror and ruler. Aye, say you, but that will be in heaven. True, Christ will make the place he rules in, a heaven: and it will be universal, from pole to pole, and shore to shore: has heaven you mean got poles and shores?

This appears to me to have been the meridian of time, viz. Solomon's reign.-One half of that allotted for man to be under the conflicting struggle of the two contending powers of good and evil, for mastery over the world, had arrived. God's peculiar people were in as much security and happiness as they could possibly enjoy, with the respect and esteem of all other nations, and a cheerful desire of serving them. And all this was only to give us a faint idea of the happiness that will be when the antitype of Solomon sways a universal sceptre; when that kingdom we are taught to pray for, comes. And when we are fitted to be the subjects of it by "doing the will of God on earth as it is done in heaven." Here let me ask, whether the recital of the words can be any service, if it goes no farther? A very respectable clergyman once said to me, that he desired to know no more than what the Lord had told him ;-and the mode of worship formed by the wisdom and piety of the church, was for him quite sufficient. Another person observed, the Lord taught

us to use that form of words in prayer, and the use of them was an evidence and proof of our obedience. This really appears to me to be very loose reasoning. I am made to look on Satan as a usurper, who, by art and deceit, has obtained the government of the world. The legitimate Sovereign has some among mortals that maintain their attachment to him; and with them he has oftimes in various ways held communion secretly, pointed out how he may be restored to them. But they, instead of uniting under his instructions, have constantly been differing, contending, and quarrelling with each other. The peaceful and quiet among them, content with reading the instructions instead of acting from them, the usurper is secure.In the usurpation of a nation or empire, would the subjects of a state act thus? Would not those that were loyally attached to their legitimate Sovereign combine their efforts for his restoration ? What prevents this? False notions. What are they? I answer, that idea that is entertained, of mortals going to heaven at death; and the attention of the people being engrossed by the variety of ways devised by human ingenuity for the attainment of that object, no room is left for inquiry. It is supposed those oracles that have crowds around them, know all about it; and from this confidence few inquire for themselves.

The following will be found a correct statement from scripture. God created the world for the government of his Son. Adam, as before shown, was that Son. Luke, iii. 18. To look at it according to our ideas of such relationship, will not do. Paul gives us a definition of it: he tells us, or the spirit by him; that "The Son must reign till he hath put all enemies

"under his feet; and that the last enemy that shall "be destroyed, is death. And when all things are "subdued to him, then also the Son shall be subject "to him, that put all things under him, that God "may be all in all." This, when duly studied free and separate from the clouds of man's wisdom, is clear to the simplest mind. Adam, in his original state, had deity in him, as all will whose recovery is effected.. "God be all in all." 1 Cor. xv. 28.

Deity was passive. Man uuinfluenced, was free. He was made fit to stand, without constraint; and left free to fall, without restraint. Under these circumstances man fell. Satan usurped the dominion, and Deity retired from man, who consequently became a mere animal, being distinguished from the brute creation only by the faculty of reason.

The Deity in him, after the fall, was a separate and distinct existence-yet spake this language, "I could "have restrained you from yielding; but the reason "why I did not, you, at present, are incapable of comprehending. The wisdom, however, you will know "hereafter, and if you will be entirely guided by me, "I will now undertake your complete recovery, and "perfect restoration." What can be more simple; what more plain?-Yet alas! Whatever is easily obtained, is lightly esteemed. The animal sordidly cleaves to the earth to which it belongs; and to the accommodation to be obtained during its passage through it, is all consideration given: whilst the important design of the future existence is committed to the management of some fellow animals, whose faculty of reason has been improved by human. learning.

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