1. How awful will it be to be found amongst his enemies !
[" We may be sure, whoever we are, that he will over- come at last : his name is a pledge of universal conquest ".
And
"" 2 Kin. xxi. 13. ''1 Sam. vi. 20. ■» Ps. ix. l6.
''') Isai. XXV. 10, 11. Ps. vii. 11—13. Deut. xxxii.41, -12. "^ Ps. xi. 6. & xxi. 8, 9. 'Col. 1,13.
* Rom. vi. 16. John xv. 14. " Rev. xvii. 14. Luke xix. 27.
And how terrible will be the wrath of the lamb " ! O let us kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and we perish from the way^.]
3. How secure are all his faithful subjects!
[Other kings may be subdued ; but He never can : other kings may bring the heaviest calamities upon their subjects ; He will bring nothing to them but peace and joy. " None can harm us, if we be his followers." *' If He be for us, none can be effectually against us." '' Let the Children of Zion therefore be joyful in their King^:" yea, to all his subjects we will say, with David, " The Lord is King over all the earth j sing ye praises with understanding*."]
" Rev. vi. \6. " Ps. ii. 12. * Ps. cxlix. 2. * Ps. xlvii. 7.
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Rev. XX. 6. Blessed and lioly is he that hath part in the Jirst resurrection.
RESPECTING the events spoken of in my text, and which are generally known under the name of The Millennium, Commentators have been greatly divided. What has been spoken on the subject by wild enthusiasts, I shall pass over without notice : but the two leading opinions of pious and judicious men may fitly come under our review. Some have thought that there will really be a resurrection of saints and martyrs, who shall again live upon the earth a thousand years, and that the Lord Jesus Christ also will come down from heaven to reign over them during that period. Others conceive the resur- rection to be altogether figurative, and that it imports no more, than that for the space of a thousand years there will arise a succession of holy men, resembling the saints and martyrs of former ages ; and that the spiritual kingdom of Christ wilf for that period be established upon thejfti^e of th6 whole earth. I con- fess that, in my opinion, this latter sentiment is by far the more just and Scriptural ; and, feeling that per- suasion, I will endeavour to shew you,
I. What