and sin, you shall for ever unite your voice "with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven who laud and magnify God's glorious name, evermore praising Him and saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory, glory be to Thee, O Lord Most High." LECTURE VII. REVELATION iii. 12. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. In our comments upon the last epistle, we brought before you those evidences, which we deemed sufficient to demonstrate that it was typical, and probably prophetical, of the state of the Christian Church at the present day. We also added, that we had reason to believe that the period in which our lot is cast, is the last church-state previous to the great spiritual change, of which the prophets have so frequently spoken; that glorious period, when the true Church of Christ shall have so lengthened her cords and strengthened her stakes, that she shall extend the shadow of her tabernacle throughout the inhabited portions of the globe on which we live. These prophecies are by many so little thought of, and so little known, that, confining ourselves to the language of Scripture, we shall, before commencing the epistle upon which we are to comment this morning, consider a few of these remarkable declarations of Jehovah upon the still future, but certain, prospects of the Church. "It shall come to pass in the last days," says the prophet Isaiah, "that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it."* "He shall have dominion from sea to sea," says David, speaking of our Lord * Isaiah ii. 2. |