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Show 928 ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISAYAH, ADDRESS But the ob ect of this chapter is to examine and illustrate an Interesting portion of ancient prophetic writing, which is thought s An address to embrace this very coucern. 1s found in the eighteenth chapter of the | —It Is a passage which 1 2. the time their true intent of their would throw fulfilment. hight upon lain and satisfactory. a j some sub.ects of the address; dedinit. To of the address, let several 1. Some or at leastare especially inclu- prepare the way for the consideration things be premised. of the greatest and best of divines thought it would have be strange, if nothing should be found in the prophetic scriptures having a special allusion to our western world. which by propitious Heaven was destined to act so distinguishing a part, both in the reliThey have gious and political world, in the tast days. spt cial some that felt as though it might be presumed allusions would be had in some ci ihe prophetic to so distinguishing a community of Zion, writtngs and of mene Under this impression Mir. Edwards apprehende d yassave of Isaiah mizht aliude to Amerneca; Ihiey fear tie name of the Lord from the west.’ ~~ * So shal Aimost Mil- 63; which 3. The address then cannot have been to any battle, and the restoration of the Jews, Lhe call then must be to a people of the last days; a nation now on earth; and a nation to be peculiarly instrumental in the restoration of the Hebrews in the last days. For this He found it to be an address to some Christian people of the last days, just at the time of the fiual restoration of God’s ancient peopie; anaddress to sucha people beheld | It now appears to him far more probabie that the Christian people of the United States of America are the 5 and the ancient people or nation. This appears with certainty, from their being cotemporary with the even ts of that great } ~The writer was affected with this passage some years ago, when writing his Dissertation on the Prophecies. far to the north of the directton specified in the address. is to introduce Jennium. This is evident in verses will be noted. import in vision away over the mouths of the Nile, orin some * region of the west ; acall and solemn divine charze to them to awake and aid that final restoration. He then apprehended it might apply to Britain, though he felt the difficulty arising from the, fact that Britain hes so The address in the eighteenth of Isaiah to be con- future and not far distant, and incidents render their 229 last days ; and concerning events intimately connected with the battle of that great day of God, whic h is now misapplied, tili near Then them, and ISAIAH. : templated, is clearly an address to some people of these has been es- teeined singularly enigmatical. This circumstance has usually attended the prophecies. in proportion to the distance of their events. Aad they have ofien been lett in silence, or PROPHET | all other parts of the world are noted in prophecy. It certainly then is not incredible that our land should be / \ manifestly noted. prophet Isaiah, which is apprehended to be of deep interest to America, OF THE ,4s the very object of the address; to go and collect the f ‘ancient people of God ; because “ in that time shall the: present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of scattered é and peeled,(the very people of the iciaus eee venantin manifest descriptions repeatedly given) to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zien.” This duty of the restoration assigned is in the add res connected with the tremen dous scenes of jud anak which shall subvert anti-chr istian Europe ala » e. Jutors hostile to the church; as ci 4, I'he address then seems may be seen. manifestly toa natio that May seem to have leisure for the important Bess assigned; while the bu . old World (engaved in anti-christi and eastern parts of the an hostilities) shall be f, d in the effervescence of revolutions, and in those gles which precede ican: dissolution.” This con sideration seems clearly distant from Christian lands : & Bg ot including Britain. Should it be proy our contineit ce Ssraels it would heichte a ta e tainty » that we are = e aborigines of ao ebab eii € ten tribes of to a moral: cer. pecially addressed, and ~ |
