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Show 244 ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET [SATAFT, ADDRESS ‘* And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and com e; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice ior you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of israel, that ye may eat flesh, anddrink blood. eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the bloo d princes of the earth; Ye shall of the of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them failings of Bashan. And ye shall eat fat tilye l be full, and drink blood til] ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and ‘chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God.”? Also the further illustration of the same, Rev. xix. 17, 18; “ And I saw an angel standing in the sun; andhe cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them Lesh of all men, both great.”? that sit on them, and the free and bond, both small and Verse 7.‘ At that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts ofa people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from the beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, the rivers have spoiled, to the place whose land of the name of the“ Lard of hosts, the Mount Zion.”” Just at that period of the world, the present which [ claim of you shall be brought to the Lord of hosts, of that scattered and out- cast people; of that people so terrible in ancient times to their enemies by the presence and power of their God with them; that people of “ dine, line,” or depending solely on the measuring line of promise, or the en- tail of the covenant, found in the sacred oracles, for their restoration to their ancient inheritance in the church of God, and in the promised land ; inasmuchas the boundaries of their inheritance in both these respects have long since been swept away. A present of this people must be brought by you, sequestered land OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 245 shadowing with wings, unto the place of the name of the Lord of liosts, the Mouut ZiOlie ~ Ye triends of God in the land addressed; can you read this prophetic direction of the ancient prophet sarah, without having your hearts burn within you ? Surely you cannot, if yeu cao view it as an address of the Most Hizh to you. God here exalts you, in the last days, the aye of terror aud blood, as high as the. siaidard to be raised for the collection of the seed of Abraham ; ‘on the mountains.’? Nor is this the only passage, i which thts your exaltation is recognized, See the same honour alluded to, in Zeph. iii. :0.—There, nearly counecied with the battle of the great day of God, in which he there asserts he * will gather the nations, aud assembie the kingdoms, to pour upon them his indignation, even all his fierce anger, and all the earth shali be devoured with the fire of his jealousy ;” aiid thai he will tieu * turn to the guage, that they may people all call upon a pure lan- the name of the Lord, and serve him witb one consent ;”’ he informs, as in the address in Isaiah; From beyond the rivers of Kihiopia, my suppliants (or a people who are my worshippers.) shail bring mine oliering, even the daugh- ter of my dispersed,” (as the verse should be read), Here is the same people, away i the same direction, over the mouths of the Nile, who are called God’s suppliants, and who, in those days of vengeance, are to bring their offering to God, consisting of the descend- ants of his ancient people. hice tor & hk t's If these views be co correct. Christians in our lan may | well bless God that it is their happy lot to land shadowing with wings; this protecting live in this | realm, an asylum ofliberty and religion; aland so distant from : the seat of anti-christ and_of the judgments to be thundered down on old corrupt establishmen ts in the last days. And their devout gratitude to rise, for the blessing of having their Heaven ought to the period alluded to in this sublime existence so near prediction, when this land of liberty is beginning to feel her distinguishing immunities compared with the est ablishments of tyranhy and cor ruption in the old continent, ot We may re- \ |