6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.

7. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him.

Alleluiah. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts, &c. cxlviii. 1, 2.

For his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. 13. Halleluiah. Praise the Lord-which keepeth truth for ever, which executeth judgment for the oppressed-but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down, &c. cxlyi. 1, 6, 7, 9.

Halleluiah. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. Let the high praise of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people-to execute upon them the judgment written, &c. cxlix. 1, 6, 7, 9.

This honor have all his saints, Alleluia. cxlix. 1, 6, 7, 9. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy name, and to triumph in thy praise. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Halleluia. cvi. 47, 48.

The Lord shall reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Halleluiah. cxlvi. 10.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their king. Let the saints be joyful in glory. cxlix. 2, 5.

7, 8. For the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

-The Lord taketh pleasure in his people: He will beautify the meek with salvation. 4.

9. And he said unto me write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Rev. v. 13. And all the angelsworshiped God, saying, Amen, vii. 11, 12.

O visit me with thy salvation; that I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the glodness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. cvi. 4, 5. Let the saints be joyful in glory.

Praise ye the Lord from the heavens. Praise ye him, all his angels. Praise ye the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps -mountains and all hills-beasts and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl-kings of the earth and all people, princes and all judges of the earth: both young men and maidens; old men and children-his glory is above the earth and heaven. He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints. Psa. cxlviii. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. cl. 6.

The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. The time that thou shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth. xi. 15, 18.

The time-that thou shouldest give reward to thy saints. xi. 18.

He gathered them in a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. The wine-press was trodden without the city.-Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel ii. 17.

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him 144,000, having his Father's name in their foreheads. And I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps; and they sung as it were a new song before the throne.

And before the living creatures and the elders. xiv. 1-3. Sealed 144,000 out of all the tribes of the children of Israel. After this I

The way of the wicked He turneth upside down. The Lord shall reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. cxlvi. 9, 10.

Let the saints be joyful in glory. cxlix. 5.

-He regarded their affliction when he heard their cry; and He remembered for them his covennant, and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies. cvi. 44, 45. To execute upon the heathen the judgment written. cxlix. 7, 9.

Hallelujah. Sing unto the Lord a new song. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their king. Let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. cxlix. 1-3.

Sing unto the Lord a new song, his praises in the congregation of saints. cxlix. 1.

beheld a great multitude-of all nations stood before the throne, &c. vii. 4, 9.

And they sung as it were a new song-and no man could learn that song but the 144,000.... the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. xiv. 3, 4.

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. xxi. 1, 2. I will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down. Acts xv. 16; Amos ix. 11. I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Isa. lxv. 18.

He hath not dealt so with any nation. cxlvii. 20.

Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name (is) to be praised. cxiii. 2, 3. The Lord shall reign for ever, (even) thy God, O Zion, to all generations. cxlvi. 10. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee. cxlvii. 2,

12-14.

Ascribe ye greatness to 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. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people; for He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 3, 4, 43. And they sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and TRUE are thy ways. Thou hast taken to thee thy great power, &c. xv. 3; xi.

17.

Thy judgments are made mani

fest.

He hath showed his people the power of his works, that He may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of his hands are VERITY and judgment. cxi. 6, 7. Which made heaven and earth -which keepeth truth for ever; which executeth judgment for the oppressed. The Lord loveth the righteous; but the way of the wicked He turneth upside down. The Lord shall reign for ever, thy God, O Zion. cxlvi. 6-10.

To execute the judgment written. cxlix. 9.

CHAPTER X.

PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH COMPARED WITH THE BOOK OF

REVELATION, ETC.

TRUTH can bear every trial. Testimonies that are faithful and true can never be shaken. The word of God abideth forever. As the Scriptures are searched to see whether these things are so, prophet after prophet shows how they all spake by the same Spirit, as of the same times of the restitution of all things. In courts where distinctions are made between law and equity, and where truth is not always distinguishable from error, and in which witnesses often disagree and judges differ-and in regard to things spiritual, a decision vainly deemed expedient for settling a church, can be given without any reference to one word of Scripture it is a special pleader's part, as a case advances to proof, to extract contradictions if he can, or to neutralize, if it be adverse, the testimony of one witness by that of another. The witnesses whom God hath chosen, and by whom He spake, may be gainsaid; but their evidence can not be confuted; and scriptural questions can be settled by Scripture alone. Futurity, to which it was the office and the prerogative of the prophets to appeal, has never failed, when changed into the present or the past, to ratify their sentences and ere the times of restitution come, desolations show, in city after city, and country after country, the effects, as they predicted, of another rule than that of the Lord, and of another faith than that of his word. As they testified of local judgments that are past, their words agree together as the things agree with them. And in whatever manner their testimony he tried-whether verse by verse in single psalms or visions be compared with other scriptures for their own as well as mutual illustration, or different testimonies to the same things be compared, as in the separate sections of the Tables, with those of various scriptures-the word of truth, if thus rightly divided, shows its inherent brightness,

even as, when suffered to shine in its own light, and kept from contact with the grosser earth, the diamond ever sparkles, whichever way it be turned. The word of the Father of lights is not to be outshone by any of his works. The preciousness of the knowledge it imparts, though incomparably greater than that of all earthly gems, is not unsearchable like that of the richness of the grace which it reveals.

Isaiah has been called "the evangelical prophet." He testified indeed of the incarnation and of the decease, but also of the deity and the dominion of Jesus, as the gospel itself is the gospel of the kingdom. He alone of all the prophets records in express terms the promise of the new heavens and the new earth, for which apostles and primitive believers looked, according to it. But, as God spake by the prophet, He identifies his own creating of these with his creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy, at the coming and kingdom of the Lord, when He shall plead with all flesh by fire and by his sword, and the worm shall not die nor the fire be quenched of them that have transgressed against him, and the blessedness and peace even on earth shall be such that only incomprehensible figures adequately picture its inconceivable nature and degree.

The subject of his prophecy throughout, according to the title of his book, is, if his testimony be believed, the things which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of the four kings of Judah, during whose reigns he prophesied. He saw the judgments that have come upon that people and that city, as the burden which they have borne for ages bears witness to their literality; nor was it kept from the view of the prophet that the last would be the greatest, and that the Lord at his coming will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, to the Jew first, when Jerusalem shall be his furnace, and the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall purge the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning; thereafter to be made an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. -Akin to the same theme, or linked, in judgments on their enemies, to Judah and Jerusalem, testimonies were borne by Isaiah as by other prophets, to things that they saw concerning the enemies of Israel of old, and their cities and countries; the accomplishment of which has shown and still