nations':" and, in another Psalm, which is altogether on this subject, he says, " Christ shall have dominion from sea to sea : all kings shall fall down before him ; all nations shall serve him"^." To cite what Isaiah speaks to this effect, would be to repeat whole chapters ^ Jeremiah, confirming at the same time the truth we have before insisted on, that true religion consists in the knowledge of the Lord, says, " In that day they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, saying. Know the Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest of them, saith the Lord""." Daniel assures us, that " the kingdom which God himself will then erect, shall break in pieces all adverse powers, and fill the whole earth"." Ze- chariah tells us, that " Holiness to the Lord shall be written upon the very bells of the horses; that the most common things in every place shall be consecrated, as it were, to God in their daily use : and that there shall then be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts"." The apostles also, and our Lord himself, add their testimony ; St. Paul affirms, not only that " the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in," but that " the Jews shall be again engrafted on their own olive-tree P;" and our Lord says, that all, Jews and Gentiles, "shall be one fold under one shepherd'':" and St. John, passing over the intermediate space of time, represents the angels in heaven as already rejoicing in the accomplishment of this event, and saying, " The kingdoms of the world are be- come the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever""."]
2. Deep in its degree — [The knowledge which the Jews enjoyed was very con- tracted : ours, since the completion of the canon of Scripture, is considerably enlarged ; insomuch that the least of true Christians is, in respect of knowledge, greater than even John the Baptist, who was himself the greatest of all the prophets®. But in that day the light will shine far brighter ; and the know- ledge of all true converts will be, in comparison of ours, as the ocean's depth to a shallow stream. This also is declared with very abundant evidence in the prophetic writings. " The veil that is spread over all nations, is then to be taken away*." Nor are any, whose eyes are opened, to have an indistinct view of the truth : the Prophet Isaiah says, " the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken ; the heart also of the rash shall understand know- ledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to
i Ps. xxii. 27. ^ Ps. Ixxii. 8, 11, 17. • SeeTsai.xlix.andlx,
m Jer, xxxi. 34. " Dan. ii. 44. " Zech. xiv. 20, 21.
P Rom. xi. 24, 25. i John x. 16, '^ Rev. xi. 15.
s Matt. xi. 11. t Isai. xxv. 7.