help not forward, to the utmost of our power, this glorious consummation, of which their deliverance from Egypt was but a faint shadow ! Truly, God calls us to enter into the subject with our whole hearts, and to help it forward with our whole souls. " Thus saith the Lord : Sing with gladness for Jacob : shout among the chief of the nations : publish ye ; praise ye ; and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israela!" This is addressed to us : and if it was the duty of Gentiles five hundred years before the first coming of Christ, what must it be now that his second advent is so nigh at hand ? Come, Brethren; rise to the occasion : prepare to keep the feast. If ye refuse to participate in this joy, no wonder " ye have no rain " upon your souls ; no wonder ye are visited with plagues : but, if ye will enter fully into the design of this mystery, then shall ye " come with singing unto Zion, and with everlasting joy upon your heads."]
a Jer. xxxi. 7.
Zech. xiv. 20,21. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord ; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts : and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein : and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
THE period to which the text refers is yet future. If there be in the preceding context much that is diffi- cult to be understood, there is much also that is plain. It is here plainly foretold, that the Jews shall be re- stored once more to their own landa: that those who oppose their settlement there, how numerous or power- ful soever they may be, shall be destroyed b : that both Jews and Gentiles shall embrace the faith of Christ0: that those who refuse to do so, whether Jews or Gen- tiles, shall be visited with heavy plagues d: and that, amongst those who do turn unto the Lord, there shall
ver. 11. b ver. 12 — 15.
ver. 9. d ver. 16—19.