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Show 1S DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. rang again with their praises, uttered DESTRUCTION for all the migh- OF JERUSALEM. gathereth her chickens under her wings ; and Avould not! Behold, your house is left unto you / solate. For I say unto you, ye shall not see me hence: ty works they had seen. They sang, Hosanna! Blessed be the King that cometh im the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven ; and glory in the highest. Our Lord (superior to all their adulation, and knowing how soon | forth, till ye shall say, the hosannas of some of them would turn to, ** Cruci- fy him ;’—and being touched with sympathy and pity for a devoted city, now going to fill up their guilty the measwute of iniquity) “beheld the city, and wept over it.” to Christ of the magnificence of the sacred editice ; how it was adorned with goodly stones and sgifts. _(* Master, (said they,) see what manner of stones andy, He said; ‘ If theu hadst known. even thou, in thy day, the things which belong to thy p€ace! now they are hid from thine eyes! come when thine enemies shall this but For the days shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round; and keep thee in on every side; and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee. And they shall not leave thee one stone upon another; because thou: knewest not the time of thy visitation.” he day but one after, Christ went into the temple for the last time, to instract the people. While he was thus employed, the high priest, elders, Herodians, Sad- ducees,and Pharisees, gathered in turn around him.with? a malicious view to entangle him in his talk. Christ returned such answers, spake such parables, and set home such reproof and conviction te their souls, as disciples, administered the pocrisy, aid pride, of the Scribes and Pharisees. He meet with at their hands; and then the vyeageaaee on falling city, which not oaty to astonish and silence them; but to give them some awful prel «ion of the final judgment, whichawaited them at Ins bar. Ile thus, ina free and pungeut address to the most dignified aad keen foretold the malicious that crimes had been this cup of divine reproofs for the cruelty, hy- treatment the accumulating. indignation disciples wouid denounced for ages their He forewarned should that be poured on His teader feelings of soul then melthat generation. “ O Jerusalem, ted ta. a most moving apostrophe: Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest How often would I them that are sent unto thee! have gathered thy children together, even as a hen ** Blessed is he that cometh in Upon this our Saviour left the name of the Lord.”? temple. The disciples took an occasion to speak f buildings are here.” “ Jesus said unto them; See ; ye not all these things? Verily, I say unto you, there » shall not be left here one stone upon another, that » shall not be thrown down.’?? How very unlikely must ~ “such an event have seemed! But it was filled upon that generation. | indeed ful- Jesus and his disciples retired to the mount of O}- ives. Here the temple rose before them in all its majestick elegance. The surrounding scenery naturally suggested the conversation which followed. The disciples petitioned ;—* Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled 2”? Their minds seem to have been impressed with the preceding discourse ; and they. fell most readily upon the same subject, and wished to know when such awful events should come > and what warnings should announce their approach, Our { Lord replied ; “Take heed that no man deceive you: | for many shall come in my name, saying, lam Chrisi; \ Vand shall deceive many.’ As though he had saidThis shall be one signal token of the vent, both as my denunciations relate to a primary accomplishment in the destruction of Jerusalem ; andtoa more general and dreadfa! tichrist in the fulfilment in the destruction last days. False religionists shall deceive us trace the fulfilment of An- Impostors . shall aboound, and ruin man | y. of this and Let. several succeed-. Ing predictions. was fulfitle d in relation MuChis ench to Jerusalem Not ng after Christ’s ascension, the Samaritan , Dositheus! appeared and declared himse! { the Messia dicted b y Moses. r OS 38 pre Simon Magus also declar h ed himself ; ; yy ] ‘ve ak ior ] 7. ; ae “ So ~ |
