shall burn for ever, he points out the safe and everlasting Refuge of the faithful: A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of OUR sanctuary. O Lord, the HOPE OF ISRAEL, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth (to be destroyed clearly by the same fate,) because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Then, pointing out to the people the utter insufficiency of all personal righteousness, he prays, heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for Thou art my praise. THOU ART MY HOPE IN THE DAY OF EVIL. Nor are public examples, in this faith, wanting in these records; witness that of the house of the Rechabites, mentioned in the thirty-fifth chapter:-They said we will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father, commanded us saying, ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: Neither shall ye build house, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days, ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days

in the land where ye be strangers. It might be urged that the Rechabites were not of the blood of Israel, but descended from the father-in-law of Moses', for from that early period they had dwelt amongst the people: but it appears undoubted that Jehonadab, illustrious as he was in his zeal for his God, took these means, strong as they were, to teach his descendants that here they had no continuing city; fully understanding from the law of Moses, that they were strangers and pilgrims upon the earth.

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The prophecy of Nahum (X), not the least sublime amongst these Sacred writings, as well as that of Jonah, the most ancient of the whole, is directed chiefly against the city of Nineveh; nor, need the type of Jonah, from which the Jews might have gathered faith in the power, and will of their God, to raise His people from the grave, be now insisted on. Micah, seems to have been contemporary throughout his ministry, with

1 Judges i. 16, and 1 Chron. ii. 55.

22 Kings x. 15.

3 LXX. EK Koiλíaç "Adov. Jonah ii. 32.

Isaiah, in the same country; and, he also, asserts the day of the Lord, and the Redeemer's everlasting kingdom; when WE (saith the Prophet to his people,) will walk in the name of the Lord our God, FOR EVER AND EVER. In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; and I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast off a strong Nation and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion, from henceforth, EVEN FOR EVER'. Thou (saith he, in the close of his book, alluding doubtless to the promise of life eternal,) Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. In indignation at the incorrigible disobedience of the people, Amos proclaims, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel; while he plainly teaches, that the hope of the hypocrite shall perish; though they dig into Hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb to Hea

ven, thence will I bring them down; though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. Hosea, is still stronger in asserting these doctrines beyond all dispute; Come (saith he, in the sixth chapter) and let us return unto the Lord for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will

bind us up. After two days will He

REVIVE us: in the third day He will raise us up. The particular object of this prophecy is well known; but, it also conveys, a direct promise of a revival and Resurrection to the Lord's faithful people there is, also, a singular seeming connection with the type of Jonah, which had occurred many years before, and to which the Prophet may have here alluded. Again, the promise is reiterated in the thirteenth chapter, in the most clear and decisive terms; I will RANSOM them (saith the Lord of his faithful,) FROM the power of the Grave'; I will REDEEM them FROM DEATH. O Death, I will be thy

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plagues; O Grave', I will be thy destruction! Was this an earthly, or a perishing REDEMPTION, which Hosea, preached to the Israelites?

Of all the Prophets, however, Isaiah has left in his writings the most full and decided evidence, of a future life; and when the length of his ministry, which endured through nearly sixty years, and his repute, both with king Hezekiah and his Nation, is considered, it is literally impossible that any should have been ignorant, in his age, that there was a state of future rewards and punishments. The allusions are so numerous, that half of them, can scarcely be brought forward. One single passage would be sufficient to show, that Isaiah, insisting upon no other law but that of Moses, preached life Eternal:-Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: BUT

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