prehend, he humbly trusts in the parent's knowledge and love, throwing all his care on him who cannot err. Such, then, is Christian experience: of which if all mankind would make a just and impartial estimate, the jarrings and contentions respecting particular interests and opinions would be at an end. No one would dare to make use of sophistry and declamation with the professed intention to overturn this exalted system, by which man must invariably bring glory to God in the highest," as well as secure to himself soulenriching peace whilst in this state of being; and at the end of the race,-everlasting joy and felicity. PART THE SECOND. TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE, ARRANGED UNDER DIFFERENT HEADS, PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS CONCERNING THE COMING OF CHRIST: FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head. Gen. iii. 15. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. xii. 3. See also Gen. xviii. 18; xxii. 18; xxvi. 4; xxviii. 14. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor á lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be; binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine. xlix. 10.See also Zech. ix. 9. Matt. xxi. 5. John xii. 15. Christ is promised. Deut. xviii. 15. 18, 19. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. Job xix. 25. The kingdom of Christ promised: -the prophet foretells the opposition it will meet with :—an invitation to an acceptance of it. Ps. ii. A type of Christ's sufferings:-They pierced |
