CONTENTS OF PART IV. Dedication to the Sovereigns of Europe, on the Power of Christian Princes to promote the Reunion of Christians: Being an inquiry in what manner and to what extent they may follow the example of Constantine, and promote, by some joint act of influence and authority,-on principles founded on Scripture, sanctioned by antiquity, and alike useful and acceptable, to the Sovereigns, Churches, clergy, and laity of the nations whom they govern (whether with or without the concurrence and sanction of the bishop of Rome), the predicted union of Christians for which their common I. Introduction, 2.-II. Present state of the world, ib. The hope and prospect of continued peace.— III. Religious dissensions alone prevent the harmony and love, which are the best foundations of the hope of continued peace, 4.-IV. Some power to lessen these evils is given, by the Providence of God, to the Christian Sovereigns, who have succeeded Constantine in his empire, 7.-V. Parallel between the condition of the Christian world, in the age of Constantine and in the present day, in or cruel, or sanguinary punishments, on individuals or communities, for holding or teaching opinions which are not detrimental to morality nor society; though they are neither sanctioned by the secular nor ecclesiastical government; while the power to consider the effect or tendency of all opinions, whether civil or religious, is still claimed by those governments. Secondly. In the abuses of toleration among Christians, after the cessation of persecution. Thirdly. In the anticipation of a great and overwhelming religious calamity, which unavoidably compels the attention, and demands the vigilance of the most tolerant sovereigns, 11.-VI. The remedies for the evils, and the plans of good adopted by Constantine, may be wisely followed by his successors in the empire, in the following seven particulars: 1. His impartiality between the Controversialists. 2. His upholding his own supremacy, without acknowledging the supremacy of the bishop of Rome. 3. His consulting the Catholic Episcopacy. 4. His adopting a Catholic, but not a Papal Creed. 5. His maintaining the Universal Episcopate, and the Canons of the Universal, not the Roman, Church. 6. His care to extend the knowledge and reception of the Scriptures. 7. His sanctioning the primitive liturgies of the Church, and the worship of Christ as divine...... 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS x. 1–20. 4. PRAYER. That we be preserved, by God's grace, from falling into the condemnation of those who believe the truth of Scripture, and the judgments of God upon others; but who never apply the threatenings of God to them- selves that we remember, as certainly as the ten plagues were sent upon the Egyptians, as Moses had foretold, so will every prophetic threatening and warning be accomplished upon the souls that refuse to repent. 4. PRAYER. 1. That we learn from the ordinance of the Passover in Egypt, the right mode of commemorating the death of the true Passover, Jesus, the Lamb of God; 2. that we never se- parate the grace of God from the means of grace; 3. nor be cut off from the communion of those, who are saved from the destroying angel, by 5. NOTES. The position in the arranged text of Exod. xii. 1-20, considered as a key to various minute coincidences in the account of the miracles in Egypt, hitherto unobserved. The theory of the Egyptian miracles, and the pro- bable observance of the Sabbath by the Israel- ites in Egypt, before their Exodus.-On the use of the words Altar and Table. Introduc- tion to the Section.-On the expression, “the beginning of months."-On the sacrifice of the Passover being taken from among the goats, as 21-27, xi. 1-8, x. 28, 29, and xi. 9, 10. 4. PRAYER. That we may escape the darkness which will not, and therefore cannot, see the evil of sin, the danger of destruction, nor the truth of the threatenings of the Most High; that we may have the light of knowledge in our understandings; and offer to God the sacrifice of ourselves, our souls, and bodies, with faith in the Passover, and with the sprinkling of its blood upon our consciences. 5. NOTES. On the position of Exod. x. 28, 29, and of Exod. xi. 9,10.-On the darkness which might be felt. Whether the rite of circumcision was performed by the Israelites during the darkness on the Egyptians, while the Israelites had light in their dwellings.-On Exod. xi. 1-3, and the necessity of rejecting the theories of the Neological writers. On the funeral cries of the Egyptians. On the arrangement of Exod. xi. Of the meaning of the word "dog" in Exod. xi. 7: "A dog shall not move his tongue against any of the children of Israel." SECTION 94.-p. 87. 1. TITLE. Death, "inexorable, just, and mighty death," can alone convince those of the truth of God's word and threatenings, who have hardened their hearts against the warnings of conscience, the knowledge of religion, and the expostulations of the ministers of God, and who have provided no lamb for a sacrifice. The destroying angel passes over Egypt; spares the Israelites; slays the first-born in every house of the Egyptians. Every prophecy of God is fulfilled, and Israel leaves Egypt laden with the spoil of the Egyptians. 2. INTRODUCTION. 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. 21-36, and 40-42. EXODUS xii. 4. PRAYER. That we live in the Egypt of this world under the influence of the faith in the true Passover; that we spiritually eat His flesh and drink His blood; that our hearts be sprinkled from an evil conscience; and that, when the day of death shall come, we escape the sentence of those who, having been dedicated and offered to God, live in sin, and die without hope in the God of Israel. 5. NOTE. On the evidence in favour of the truth of Christianity, derived from prophetic numbers. SECTION 95.-p. 94. 1. TITLE. The study of Scripture is only the anticipation of our employment in our immortality hereafter. The Israelites begin their journeys from Egypt through the wilderness to Canaan. Their numbers and order. Their first journey from Rameses to Succoth. They keep their first Sabbath, after leaving Egypt, at Succoth. The command to observe the Passover is renewed, and extended on that Sabbath. 2. INTRODUCTION. 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. NUMBERS xxxiii. 1-5. EXODUS xii. 37-39, and 43, to the end. 4. PRAYER. That no sinful allurements or temptations of the world prevent us from setting forth and persevering in the journey from Egypt to Canaan; that we rejoice in the hope of our final deliverance from all evil, and welcome the Sabbaths of God as a privilege, more than a duty; that we remove all leaven of inward sin from the heart, and be always ready to march on our way to heaven, as the true Israelites and the pilgrims of God. 5. NOTES. On the judgments executed upon the gods of Egypt, during the ten plagues and at the time of the Exodus.-On the danger of war with the tribes near to Egypt.-On the manner and order by which the Israelites came out of Egypt, "six hundred thousand in number" (Exod. xii. 37); as "the hosts of the Lord” (Exod. xii. 41); "by their armies" (Exod. xii. 51); and "harnessed" (Exod. xiii. 18). SECTION 96.—p. 102. 1. TITLE. The ordinance of the Passover anticipated, and the ordinance of the Sacrament commemorated, the one, true, only sacrifice of Christ. Both were instituted by the same authority. The four periods at which the Passover was instituted, and directions given for the manner of its observance. The term, the time, the place, the ministers, guests, rites, and mysteries of the Passover. The redemption of the first-born. The march of the Israelites. The bones of Joseph are taken with them. 2. INTRODUCTION. 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. 1-19. EXODUS xiii. 4. PRAYER. That as the Israelites in Egypt, by faith in God's promise, kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood of the lamb upon the door-posts of their houses, lest He that destroyed the first-born should touch themwe also, amidst the darkness of surrounding infidelity, the threatenings of God's judgments, the death of souls, and the journeyings through the wilderness of life, may spiritually eat the flesh of the Lamb of God-that we consecrate ourselves to God as members of the Church of the first-born-that we follow the guidings of His providence, and remember the promises which comforted our dying friends. 5. NOTE. On the Totaphot, or frontlets between the eyes, commanded to be worn by the Israelites. SECTION 97.-p. 109. 1. TITLE. The Passover further considered, under its name, time, place, ministers, guests, rites, and mysteries. The SECOND journey of the Israelites from Succoth to Etham. They are guided by the pillar of cloud and fire. The THIRD journey of the Israelites from Etham to Pi-hahiroth. The Egyptians pursue them. The despair of the people. The conduct of Moses. 2. INTRODUCTION. 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. NUMBERS xxxiii. 6. EXODUS xiii. 20, to the end. NUMBERS xxxiii. 7. EXODUS xiv. 1-18. 4. PRAYER. That whatever be the difficulties or the temptations in the wilderness of life, we go forward in our journey, refreshed and strength- ened by the partaking of the true Passover; that we proceed with joy from the CORRUPTIONS and BONDAGE of Egypt, to the TABERNACLES and TENTS of the spiritual Israel, looking for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God; that we be PERFECT and 5. NOTES. On the Passover as a type of Christ; SECTION 98.-p. 121. 1. TITLE. It is more philosophical to receive Christianity with its evidences, than to reject it with its difficulties. As the Egyptians approach nearer to the Israelites, the pillar of cloud and fire is removed by the Almighty from the van to the rear, to protect the people from the ad- vanced guard of the Egyptians. The Red Sea is divided before Israel, so that they march through the sea, as if they were on the dry ground. The Egyptians follow them. The God of nature, the God of Israel, commands the sea to return to its place. The Egyptians 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. NUMBERS xxxiii. 4. PRAYER. That we be so raised above the world, that the contemplation of the judgments of God upon His enemies, and the mercies of God to our own souls, be the beginning and earnest upon earth, of our uniting in that praise to God and Christ hereafter, which is called in the Book of Revelation, the Song of Moses and the Lamb; when we shall praise God for our deliverance from spiritual death, from the power of sin, and from the prison of the grave; and God and Christ shall dwell with us, and we shall dwell with God and Christ for ever. 5. NOTES. On Toland's theory of the Pillar of prophecy throughout Scripture, and the uniform preceding of miracle to prophecy.-On the con- struction of the Song of Moses, Miriam, and 1. TITLE. Theory of the Types of Scripture. 2. INTRODUCTION. 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS XV. xv. 27. NUMBERS xxxiii. 10, 11, and EX- 4. PRAYER. That we ever seek for Christ and His Gospel, in the types and shadows of the Law of Moses; that we be careful to interpret the Old Testament by the light of the New Testament; that with Israel at Marah, we seek for the removal of the bitterness of life from the Elim, we seek for refreshment in the wilder- word of God; that we ever be mindful of past mercies, and depend on God's providence for the daily supply of our bodily and spiritual 1. TITLE. As Natural Theology proves the in- terferences of God in the visible world, so does Revealed Theology prove the interferences of the same God in the moral world. The pro- mise of Moses, that God would create and pour down upon the Israelites, for the supply of their hunger, a new food from heaven, is com- pleted. The name and description of the manna. The time and mode of collecting it. The ob- servance of the Sabbath. The memorial of the phenomenon, and its duration through the wan- derings in the wilderness. 2. INTRODUCTION. 3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xvi. 13, 4. PRAYER. That in all our journeyings through |