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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

Saviour prayed

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

three respects :-First. In the very general cessation of the legal infliction of unnecessarily severe,

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......

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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
SINCERE in our Christian profession; and that
we ESCAPE from all dangers, and from the hands
of all that hate us, directed and guided by day
and by night by the cloud and fire of the Pro-
vidence of God.

5. NOTES. On the Passover as a type of Christ;
with a short list of institutions, &c., of the
Mosaic Law, declared in the New Testament to
be typical. Note on the Introduction.-On the
spiritual meaning of the names of the forty-two
stations of the Israelites.

SECTION 98.-p. 121.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. NUMBERS xxxiii.
8. EXODUS xiv. 19, to the end, and xv.
1-21.

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
Fire and Cloud guiding the Israelites from
Egypt through the Red Sea and the wilderness.
Superstition is the chief promoter and cause of
Infidelity. On the wind which divided the
waters of the Red Sea, and the nature and
extent of the miracle.-On the passage of the
Red Sea, and the place where the Israelites
passed through. The appearance of the angel
Jehovah at the Red Sea, is the earnest of the
manifestation of Christ in His glorified human
nature, when He shall come to judge the living
and the dead. The Song of Triumph over
Egypt at the Red Sea, is typical of the Song of
Triumph by the Universal Church in the future
world, over sin, death, and evil.-On the sus-
pension of the laws of nature at the passage of
the Red Sea. On the union of miracle with

1. TITLE. Theory of the Types of Scripture.
The history of the wanderings of the Israelites
between their deliverance from the Red Sea and
their safe arrival at Canaan is, for the most
part, a divinely intended and general repre-
sentation of the progress of the Christian soul,
from the first consciousness of baptismal or
Christian privileges, till its arrival at the
heavenly Canaan. The encampment at Marah.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh journeys in the
wilderness. The murmuring for water at Ma-
rah. The refreshment at Elim. The promise
of the quails and manna in the wilderness of
Sin.

2. INTRODUCTION.

2. INTRODUCTION.

3. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE. EXODUS xvi. 13,
to the end.

4. PRAYER. That in all our journeyings through
the wilderness of this life, we never turn back
in heart and soul to seek our provision, strength,
and comfort, in the pleasures and labours of
Egypt; but that as we dwell in the tents of the
Church and people of God, we may there, both
in holy conversation, in private meditation, and
at the blessed sacrament of the communion of
the body and blood of Christ-eat of the manna,
the food of the soul, which cometh down from
heaven, blended with the dew of the Spirit;
and so begin to partake, while still we live upon
earth, of the hidden manna, which is laid up for
the Christian soul in heaven.

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