he liveth after the power of an endless life, tó continue it to his church and people. Holy Ghost! thou art the peace bringer, do thou most sweetly give us to enjoy it in our hearts.

How all-sufficient must our Surety be, for every part of his work and office, seeing his "name is. Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." The perfection of his work exceeds our utmost conceptions. He is almighty; we cannot fail or perish, if we rely on him. He is all-sufficient; we can have no want, but he is able to supply it, and will do so, he being able to do for us, and to work in us, above all we think or ask.

These great and glorious names here given to Jesus Christ, are to shew us, how able he was to perform his mediatory work; and we may well trust in him, seeing he hath made an end of sins, redeemed us from the curse of the law, brought in everlasting righteousness, and made peace by the blood of his cross. And he is our peace.

I come, fourthly, to shew, that his throne and kingdom is not of this world, but is in his church, and is set up in the hearts of his people; it is a delegated one; of the increase and peace of it there shall be no end. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty

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God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace: of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end; upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and justice, from henceforth, even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts, will perform this."

Thus the prophet, having set forth Christ, in his essential, personal, mediatorial, and relative glories, and by an aggregate of names and titles, set forth the matchless Saviour's glory; he closes the subject with an account of his throne and kingdom, with the increase, peace, and duration thereof; "Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end." This proclaims the blessings and permanency of it: "Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it, with judg ment and justice from henceforth, even for ever." This shews that the Lord Jesus, the king of Zion, will reign for ever and ever. Christ, as king and governor in Zion, was foreshadowed by David, who was king of Judah and Israel.

Jehovah declared, "Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne." Psalm cxxxii. 11. This promise had a two-fold meaning: it related to Solomon in type and shadow, and to Christ in truth and substance; that it belongs to Messiah, the prince, we have Peter's authority in Acts ii. 30. " David being a prophet, and

knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne," &c.

David's throne and kingdom was a typical re presentation of Christ, the antitypical and true son of David, of whom the prophet hath been speaking.

In the testament times, and to old testament saints, Jerusalem was a type of the church, as surrounded by the Lord's protection, and blessed with the Lord's presence and peace.

David was a type of Christ, as being the anointed of Jehovah, crowned with victory, and placed triumphantly on the sacred hill of Zion, as expressed in the second psalm; which, as expressed there, shews the whole was divinely prophetical of the exaltation and enthronization of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hence the application of it to him in the new testament, Acts iv. 25.

Christ's throne and kingdom indeed is not of this world, it is a spiritual one, it is by his Father's appointment and delegation, according to the counsel and covenant, which obtained between the Three in Jehovah, before the world was in consequence of which, Christ, Godman, is king mediator.

His throne is a throne of grace. To set up a church, is to set up Christ a throne.

and who having assumed our nature into personal union with himself, stamped the actions and sufferings performed in that humanity, with Godlike dignity, and everlasting efficacy; so that his blood cleanseth from all sin. Our Jesus proclaims himself to be mighty to save, Isaiah Ixiii. 1. and the Almighty, Rev. i. 8. O Lord the Spirit, do thou help us to believe him to be God over all blessed for ever, Amen; and to trust in him as such.

His name is also, the Everlasting Father, or the Father of eternity, or of the ages to come. He stood in relation to his church and people from everlasting; he was their everlasting Father, and they were his children. His love to them is immutable and everlasting; his mercy towards them is from everlasting to everlasting: there is in his fulness an everlasting treasury of grace and glory for them. He will take everlasting care of them, and remember them with everlasting kindness: he will be their everlasting light, and their everlasting glory. O thou Spirit Jehovah, take of these things of Christ, and shew them unto us.

He is also named the Prince of Peace. He came from heaven to be the peace-maker: he obtained it by the blood of his cross; he publishes it in the everlasting gospel; he bestows it on his people. He is seated on the right hand of the majesty on high, as the Prince of Peace ;

he liveth after the power of an endless life, to continue it to his church and people. Holy Ghost! thou art the peace bringer, do thou most sweetly give us to enjoy it in our hearts.

How all-sufficient must our Surety be, for every part of his work and office, seeing his "name is. Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." The perfection of his work exceeds our utmost conceptions. He is almighty; we cannot fail or perish, if we rely on him. He is all-sufficient; we can have no want, but he is able to supply it, and will do so, he being able to do for us, and to work in us, above all we think or ask.

These great and glorious names here given to Jesus Christ, are to shew us, how able he was to perform his mediatory work; and we may well trust in him, seeing he hath made an end of sins, redeemed us from the curse of the law, brought in everlasting righteousness, and made peace by the blood of his cross. And he is our peace.

I come, fourthly, to shew, that his throne and kingdom is not of this world, but is in his church, and is set up in the hearts of his people; it is a delegated one; of the increase and peace of it there shall be no end. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty