of spoil, he shall come up against the tribes of Israel dwelling in unwalled villages, in an unfortified and secure condition. Then it is that the sons of Zion and the sons of Greece are stirred up against one another; when the confederate nations come trooping under the banner of Gog prince of Ross, Meshec, and Tubal: and then shall the Greek superstition receive its judgment; and then shall the three remaining kingdoms be all destroyed; and then shall the tribes of Israel, in the terrible conflict against the confederated nations, be brought into those awful straits described in all the Prophets, and especially in the last chapters of Zechariah, when two thirds of them shall perish, when Jerusalem shall be taken; and then, as I judge, shall be the great making bare of the arm of the Lord, and revelation of his righteous judgment upon all the forms of Apostasy, Greek, Mohammedan, Infidel, and wrecks of the Roman, But whether Britain shall be preserved from that fearful confederacy, and be employed by God for purposes of grace and mercy, I cannot find grounds for deciding, though I most devoutly wish and pray it might be so. If it would please God to turn the attention of our governors to the subjects treated of in the third and seventh discourses, and the attention of the church to the subjects treated of in the first and fifth discourses, we might indeed hope that the time for favour is not yet expired.—I have done my feeble part, as an individual minister of the church, and subject of the kingdom. However they may revile me, my purposes are both pious and honourable, and my guides-my only guides--are God's Word and Spirit. If I have offended Him in what I have written, then indeed I have offended; but if I have prevailed, through grace, to open any portion of his blessed truth unto his beloved church, then am I honoured indeed, and may well abide the scorn, and the scoff, and the falsehood, and the malediction of those ignorant and unstable men, who seal up the prophecy, and wrest the other Scriptures unto their own destruction. I commend my book unto thy patronage, O thou Enlightener of every man who cometh into the world! I submit my work unto the review and censure of that righteous judgment which shall yet be holden upon all the works of all men; and meanwhile unto thee, O Holy Spirit, whose minister I am, I offer these various thoughts and counsels, that thou mayest use them for the sake of the faithful in Christ Jesus, whom I love in my heart, and for whom I desire patiently to bear all pains and travails of this mortal estate. And, O Father of my spirit, I fervently pray unto thee, that thou wouldest in thy great mercy forgive whatever, in these and all my writings, may be inharmonious with thy only holy mind, or derogatory from the honour and glory of thine only begotten Son, or vexatious and hindersome to the work of the Holy Spirit, remembering not the sins of thy servant, neither suffering them to make the least of thy little ones to offend. Amen and Amen. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. SERMON I.-That the Beginning and Origin of the Mystery that the Eternal Word should take unto himself a body, is the holy will Page SERMON III.-The Method of accomplishing the Mystery, is by taking up the Fallen Humanity into the Personality of the eternal Son of God 140 Part I. The Composition of Christ's Person (140) ii II. The Universal Reconciliation wrought by his Death, and the Particular Elec- |