However far, and however long men may put asunder what God hath thus joined together in his word, "the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb" shall be sung by them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, when the judgments of God are made manifest. And in farther extending the comparison of Scripture with Scripture, a first place may here be suitably given to judgments recorded in that song-the last words of which are those of the mercy of God to his land and his people-which have yet to be made manifest ere the triumphant saints in glory shall take up their harps to sing it, as fulfilled.

Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after. Heb. iii. 5. In his writings is the record of the word of the Lord, coeval with the fall, I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen. iii. 15. The heel of the seed of the woman was bruised, in the hour of Satan and the power of darkness; the head of the serpent has yet to be bruised and this work shall be that of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Of him Moses testified, in recording what the Lord said unto him, I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Deut. xviii. 18, 19. The word that I speak unto you, said Christ, by it shall ye be judged at the last day. When the king shall return, his enemies shall be slain before him. The rejecting of the Jews followed their rejection of him. Faithful as a servant of God, the leader and legislator of Israel set curses as well as blessings before them; and the judgments of God, as hitherto they have fallen on that once chosen race, are to be read as clearly in his writings, before they first entered Canaan, as in their history in ages past, stricken as they have been from generation to generation, and scattered as they still are throughout the world. These have a place in his song but not these only. Other things besides are written in it, and also other judgments, of which the nations of the earth, with whom the Lord hath a controversy, because

of his people Israel, have yet to be the witnesses, as the Jews have been, and have still to be of theirs. The end of this age is not yet. The history neither of Jew nor Gentile is finished; but the end of it, in respect to both, may be read in the word of Him whose eyes behold the nations, and who has said of Jerusalem which He chose, Thy walls are continually before me. The first part of the testimony which He has given concerning the end of these things, has to be read in the writings of Moses. Whether its harmony with the words of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and other scriptures, be not such that the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb shall then be sung together, as the same harps are attuned to each, let the reader judge, as the words of God determine. They whom John saw as they sung them both, and had gotten the victory (over what beast, testimonies to be adduced in the next volume will show), stood as it were on a sea of glass mingled with fire-meet symbol, it may be, as other scriptures teach, of that day of wrath and consummating judgments of which Moses wrote and Jesus testified-even as the singing of these conjoined songs is more than the symbol of their triumph and their joy.

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them is filled up the wrath of God. And I saw as it were a sea of glass, mingled with fire; and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou king of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments ure made manifest. Rev. xv. 1-4.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain: my speech shall distill as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. Because I will publish the name of the Lord; ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment: a God of

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truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and

shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword with

out, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance and recompense: their foot shall slide in due time; for the day of calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For the Lord

shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants; when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left. And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted: which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood (and my sword shall devour flesh), and that with the blood of the slain, and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.Deut. xxxii. 1–4, 7–9, 20–43.

3, 4. Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the rock, his work is perfect for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity; just and right is He.

7-9. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee; when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. -(In thee (Jacob), and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Gen. xxviii. 14).

20. And He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be. 29. O that they were wise, that they

Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy.

For all nations shall come and worship before thee. xv. 3, 4. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matt. xxv. 34.

Abraham was the heir of the world through faith. Rom. iv. 13. And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth.—And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.—And had twelve gates-and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. xxi. 1, 2, 12.

The day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds-to the Jew

understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 36. For the Lord shall judge his people.

20. For they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

first. As many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law-in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel. Rom. ii. 5-16.

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on

their lees that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. Zeph. i. 12.

21. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities.

They rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them. Isa. lxiii. 10. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; a people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face. lxv. 2, 3.

And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? Ezek. xxxviii. 17.-Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen; let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Joel iii. 11, And He gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Rev. xvi. 16.

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22. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell,

A fiery stream issued and came forth before him. Dan. vii. 10. For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots, like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire-will the Lord plead with all flesh. Their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched. Isa. lxvi. 15, 16, 24.-The day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God: who will render-unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth-indignanation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile. Rom. ii. 5-9. But the fearful, and unbelieving, &c., shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone : which is the second death. Rev. xxi. 8; xiv. 10, 11; xviii. 8, 9; xix. 3, 20; xx. 13, 14.

And shall consume the earth with her increase,

I will utterly consume all things from off the land. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked.-All the earth shall be devoured