standing of the phrase "much more" is valid. And in that case we may truly exclaim with the Apostle: "But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry!'' For further remarks on the subject of Judgment, see other sections. SECTION VI. and And he will Isa. xxv. 6, 8. Jehovah will prepare on this mountain a feast for all people, a feast of costly meats and of wine; the fat of which shall be pure marrow, where casks of wine shall be empted. smite on this mountain the visage of the curse, that has been cursed for all people, and the offering that is offered for all nations, and Jehovah will wipe away all tears from all faces. This is the translation of MICHAELIS which I prefer to our English version. Of the common translation he remarks: "What expressions! The Lord will swallow up (see margin) the face of the covering, that is covered over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. What is a face of the covering ?-a covered face! some may reply. But how then can it be spread over all people? We cover a face, but we do not cover it over other heads! What an idea, to swallow up the vail! Luther had too nice a sense of the proprieties of the German language to have translated thus. He used other words, and thus softened the hardness of the expression, he discovered." Treaties on the use of Syriac language, by John David Michaelis p. 512.. Dr. Clarke understands the text to have a universal application, and to signify, "Salvation by Jesus Christ!” Dr. Barnes in his Notes on Isaiah, has the follow ing criticism: "In this mountain."-The following verses undoubtedly refer to the times of the Mesiah."Make a feast." This feast was to be prepared for the wants of the whole world!—“He will abolish death forever." This passage is quoted by St. Paul, Cor. xv. 54. His quoting it is proof that it refers to the resurrection!" These remarks are very satifactory, and they absolutely dash Partialism in pecies! The passage referred to in 1st Cor. xv. 53, 4, reads as follows: "For this corruptable must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptable shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality: THEN-i. e., at that time-shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory!" This saying is written in Isa. xxv. 8, and no where else in the book of God! This settles the question as to the period of time to which the text refers. The prophecy, I conceive, covers the period embraced from the Proclamation of the Gospel, to the final abolition of Death by a resurrection of the human family to immortality. Mountain, says Alex. Campbell, frequently signifies kingdom. Doubtless it does so in this instance: And hence, every thing specified in the prophecy shall take place in the reign of the Redeemer. This is consistent with 1st Cor. xv. 24, 28. Christ must reign until all things are subdued, Death abolished forever, and God all in all! The same beautiful idea is set forth in Rev. xxi. 1 5. 1. The new heavens and new earth, or the new Dispensation, are represented as being created: 2. The holy city the New Jerusalem, or the gospel kingdom, is represented as being established among men and 3, During its progress men become the people of God, tears are wiped from all faces, sorrow, crying, and pain cease, Death is abolished forever, and all things are made NEW! Glorious and grand termination of the Redeemer's efforts! In the beautiful language of Henry Brooke: "Then shall arise the grand and final consummation, when every will shall be subdued to the will of God. . . . The universe shall begin to sound with the songs of congratulation, and all voices shall break forth in an eternal hallelujah of praise trancending praise, and glory, trancending glory to God and the Lamb! There shall be no lapse thence forward, no falling away forever! But God in Christ, and Christ in a redeemed world, shall be a will, and a wisdom, and an action, and a mightiness, and a goodness, and a graciousness, and a glory rising on glory, and a blessing rising on blessedness, through an ever-beginning to a never-ending eternity!" Amen! Amen! From this beautiful picture we turn away to the more disagreeable work of foiling the darts and malice of the reviler. Mr. Hall objects to the Universalist view of the text as follows: 1. "It is true the Lord will wipe away tears from off all faces; but all whose faces? That's the point.The remainder of this verse will decide. "And the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall be taken away from off all the earth." Thus the all faces has refference to the people of God." ANS: If by the "people of God" all men are meant, the assertion is admitted; for prospectively all are the people of God in the mind of Him who "calleth the things which be not as though they were." Rom. iv. 17. If but a part are included in the phrase, the assertion is denied. The objector should have proved that all faces and his people are synonymous; but this he will not attempt, for subsequeutly he compassed his own destruction by quoting such passages as the following: "All faces shall gather blackness;" which would hardly do to apply to the "people of God.” The same phrase occurs in Rev. xxi. 3. "Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS PEOPLE, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes!" this is precisely parallel with the text. It is so; and therefore explodes to atoms his erroneous criticism ! See also Matt. i. 21, where his people are represented as being saved from sin; which is conclusive that a world of sinners are prospectively the people of God! 2. "Read the next verse: "And it shall be said in that day (i. e. in the day of the resurrection,) Lo this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Thus Universalists have to admit, in quoting this text, that none have the promise of salvation in the resurrection only those that have waited for the Lord." ANS: "In that day" means in the resurrection or the "operation of being raised!" Well, in that case, how can any one be saved? Did not Mr. Hall say in section second, that men could not be saved in the resurection, for that they will have no hand in !! Careful reasoner, is Mr. Hall-very! And suppose we quote scripture after his fasion, helter-skelter without any regard to its proper meaning. In that day, means in the resurrection : Let us see: I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, Ex. viii. 22. I will surely hide my face in that day! Deu. xxxi. 18. So, so, Mr. Hall; dont you see if we were base enough to play back your own game upon you, you would be perfectly handcuffed! Let others take warning. Mr. Hall's application of the text to the precise period of the resurrection of the dead is unwarranted.We have shown that it covers the period of the Redeemer's administration, and the term day, therefore, signifies the Gospel day or dispensation, as it frequently does elsewhere. In this view of the subject no inconsistency appears. SECTION VII. Isa. xlv. 22, 24. Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength. This is the positive oath of Jehovah, predicated in his own immutability, that all intelligent creatures shall pay unto him spiritual homage-that every individual being shall say, "In the Lord have I righteousness and strength." An examination of the whole chapter in which the text occurs, will confirm this proposition in the mind of the reader beyond the probability of a rational doubt. The first four verses contain a prophecy concerning Cyrus; the fifth, and sixth, declare the fact of one living and true God; the next five speak of his great power, and the remaining part of the chapter, says Dr. Clarke, refers "chiefly to the salvation by Mes |