but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye fee the day approaching, remembering it fo cometh as a thief in the night, when they shall say peace and fafety. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. Therefore let us not fleep (be flothful) as do others, but let us watch and be fober, as knowing not when this Mafter of the house cometh at even or at midnight or at the cock-crowing or in the morning. Mar. xiii. 35. For feeing all these things fhall be diffolved, what manner of perfons ought ye to be in (all) holy conversation and godlinefs, looking for and haftening unto the coming of this day of GOD! Surely if men looked for this blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great GOD and our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, who gave HIMSELF for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto HIMSELF a peculiar people zealous of good works, (as it was to be fuch they were delivered under the typic JESUS, Deut. xxi. 18,) they would give diligence to be found of HIM in peace without spot and blameless; their anger, as knowing the unforgiving cannot find mercy, be against their fins, their covetousness to lay up treafure in heaven, their ambition to be fons of GOD, their strife for the faith once delivered, their love holily violent for the prize of their high calling in this day of CHRIST, when nothing, nor mountains, nor hills can cover us from the wrath of the LAMB but being a new creature. Let us then for this pray, fervently pray, Quicken me, O LORD, for thy NAME's fakes, Pf. cxliii. 11, and remember me, O LORD, with the favour that THOU beareft unto THY people, &c. that I may have glory with

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THINE inheritance. And let us be frong in the LORD, who has faid, No, I will not leave thee, no, never, never for fake thee, (a) Heb. xiii. 5. For the decree is paft concerning the myftic temple or body of JESUS, the church as concerning its type, 2 C. xxxvi. 23, Ez. i. ii. 6, 8, & al. however builders of hope refufe this corner-fione, or adver faries weaken our hands or the dragon foams, Rev. though the ftones its members lay in the duft and are turned to deftruction, that it fhall be built up from the grave when HIS GLORY fhall appear, and HE fhall fay, come again ye children of men, Pf. cii, 14, xc. 3. Let then this great day of judgment (not one of twelve hours, but a duration as Pf. 95, vii. and as the JEWS own) be ever in the eye of our faith. Let us, the JEW in particular, make this NAME our boat, emembering Zec. xiii. 9, Fer. ii. 9, 12, Then (after the feventy, fatisfaction) fhall ye call on ME, and I will hearken unto you and ye fhall feek ME, and find ME when ye shall fearch for ME with all your heart and I will bring you again (at the refurrection c. xxxi. 8, 12, &c. from the [JEPEN north] overspread grave (b) Be the reft of JESUS from our forrow, &c. If. 14, 3, and His kingdom Dan. vii. 14, what we feek; His holy steps ours; His SPIRIT our guide in peace, like ISRAEL in one body, to the land of JeHovaн, v. 2, and our lamps burning with His love, as they that wait for their LORD; that when antichrift fhall be deftroyed,

(a) In the Gr. there are five negatives, which it is hard to exprefs in English.

(a) The word [ JUP] from the fame root, as Mr. Parkburft obferves, is ufed for a cell of honey P. xix. 11. the comb; fo for the northern hemisphere fpread over as, Compare If. xxv. 7.

deftroyed, Dan. vii. 11, they may be found citizens of the new JeRusa LeM, Zec. xiv, 11, 12, Rev. xxi. And be our eyes on this Jeнovaн in this glorious fanctuary (CHRIST), P. xcvi. 8, 9, Zec. ix. 1, Rev. ii. 22. For they only, who are arrayed in His righteousness and poffeffed of this SPIRIT, fhall efcape the things that are coming upon all the loftiness of man, If. ii. and be counted worthy to Stand before the SON OF MAN, Luk. xxi. 36, that fays, I come QUICKLY, Rev. xxii, 12.

But after all the LORD alone by the SPIRIT impreffing His word as to St. PAUL can convert the heart to the fight of HIM by faith. may it be fo accompanied with power to our fouls that in this tremendous day when death and hell fhall be caft into the lake, we waked by the laft trump to blifs may find in our judge [JESUS] THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR giving us an everlafting fabbath and reft in the glory of all lands, a ceaseless triumph in all the fullness of this most excellent NAME. For HE COMETH, for HE COMETH to judge the earth, Pf. xcvi. 13. AMEN.

Bleed be Jeнovaн the [GOD] ALLIED ONES, the [GOD] ALLIED ONES of ISRAEL, who doeth miracles alone. And blessed be the NAME (JE in JESUS) THE GLORY of HIM for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with His GLORY, AMEN and AMEN, P. lxxii. 19. Rev. xviii. 1.

(a) They who object to CHRIST's imputed obedience will find an answer in Num. viii. 11, 19, where the Levites, His types, are faid to do the service or work of the children of ISRAEL, called alfo the fervice of Jeнovaн. See Mede's Difcourfes, P. IV. P. 41, 52, 107, 110.

FINI S.