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fiction; no heathen myth. To go into "But those outer darkness, and there bewail ourmine enemies, selves, saying, "His smiles, and countewhich would nance radiant with beams of joy and love, not that I should are for others than for me.' Is there reign over them, nothing in such sorrow? Look in the bring hither, & face of the Crucified One, and answer, slay them be- "Impossible!" A thousand years shall scarce suffice to wipe out the remembrance of those days wherein we said, "We will not have this man to reign over us." And wouldst thou denounce the Christian's joy in that day because of thine increased anguish? O say not so! Poor angry fool, Jesus yet waiteth to be gracious.

fore me."Luke xix. 27.

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6. Yet have I set My King upon my holy hill of Zion.

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"And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. "But I tell

Speaking after the manner of men we may say, That although there may have you of a truth, been no risk, there must of necessity be many widows much apparent contrariety in this trans- were in Israel mission, as well as superhuman agency; in the days of ness knoweth more especially when the event itself took Elias, when the not whither he place. This may be inferred from the heaven was goeth. word "yet." Moreover, some explana- shut up three "While ye tion may reasonably be expected, when years and six have light, be- the record of Jesus' meekness, forbearance, months, when lieve in the and death, are told as having been en- great famine was light, that ye dured by Him of whom a voice from throughout all may be the chil-heaven declared, that He, this persecuted the land; but dren of light. one, is MY beloved Son, yea, and the Son unto none of "These things in whom I am well pleased, saith the them was Elias spake Jesus, & Lord. Surely what He endured in the sent, save unto departed, and flesh and in the Spirit from the contra- Sarepta, a city did hide himself diction of sinners, might serve to keep us of Sidon, unto from them."- from murmurings and enable us to recon- a woman that John xii.35, 36. cile all the apparent anomalies of His was a widow. "The night Providences in His dealings with the "And many is far spent, the children of men. But what explanation lepers were in day is at hand can we give concerning the humiliation Israel in the let us therefore of the Son of GOD? If we appeal to the time of Eliseus cast off the reasoning of vain philosophy, straightway the prophet; & works of dark-we are told, that power and authority and none of them ness, and let us privileges united, as we believe them to was cleansed, put on the ar- have been in the person of Jesus, might saving Naaman mour of light. naturally have secured Him from the the Syrian. Let us walk ho- quips and scoffs; the spitting upon and "And all they buffeting; the rage and cruelty; the in the synascourging and the Death, which He met with gogue,

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day; not in riwhen oting & drunk- from the hands of cruel and unjust men: His they heard these enness, not in own creatures, and therefore His bounden chambering & servants. He might at least have escaped out of their hands, even though "He took not vengeance on His persecutors."

wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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led with wrath, and rose up, & thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their

Our answer to all such observations, come they from the gainsayer or from one, making them in the spirit of the Ethiopian to Philip, must be alike to all. Thus saith the Lord, how then would the Scripture city was built,

6. Yet have I set My King upon my holy hill of Zion.

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vision for the be fulfilled, for thus it is written, "He that they might flesh, to fulfil was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet cast him down the lusts there- He opened not His mouth: He is brought | headlong. of."-Romans as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep "But he passbefore her shearers is dumb, so He opened ing through the "And from not His mouth." (Isa. liii. 7.) And they midst of them Jesus Christ, to whom Jesus hath made himself known went his way." who is the faith- can say, "Our GOD is love," "for he loved-Luke iv. 24 ful witness, and us and gave Himself for us." Then, as the first be- regards His Providence towards us all; gotten of the Is He not waiting to be gracious? Sits fore said unto dead, and the He not at the right hand of GoD in him, Art thou prince of the heaven? there His power is yet put forth a king then? kings of the in our behalf. By-and-by it will be put Jesus answerearth. Unto forth here, in a way that shall stop the ed, Thou sayest him that loved mouth of the gainsayer, and fill that that I am a us, and washed of His saints with laughter and with king. us from our joy. end was I born, sins in his own Now, when this conviction of Jesus' & for this cause blood, and hath power taketh possession of the mind, came I into the made us kings nothing but madness can keep us from world, that I and priests unto coming to Him in the spirit of the should bear witGod and his afflicted father of the poor lunatic: we, ness unto the Father; to him for ourselves, as he, for his afflicted child. truth. Every be glory and Nor are we kept from coming and making one that is of dominion for our request known unto Himself directly, the truth hearever and ever. even though He be a king. The urgency or eth my voice." Amen."- Rev. the speciality of our case may preclude John xviii. i. 5, 6. the possibility of strictly observing the 37. rules of His court. The faith of His Ambassadors may be no stronger than that of His first disciples. Indeed, He Himself is pledged not to reject our suit. Like Queen Esther for her people, so each one of us for his own soul. The stake is too high to let a doubt keep us back. "If I perish I perish." Our interest in the issue is too near to admit of another to undertake for us: we employ the undertaker to deposit the body in the earth, "the house appointed for all living; but the Righteous One alone is able effectually to plead for our admission into His Father's house. This is a rule in His court which never can be broken with impunity. Our God is a jealous GOD, and will not give His honour to another. He alone is the Saviour; nor

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