daily fervice of the temple, published by me, and rejected by priests and people, the builders of felf-righteousness for themselves, and their deluded flocks. Jezebel, Babylon, the whore and falfe-prophet will foon be difcovered to every eye, by the Spirit of prophefy poured out on the Jews, which will fulfill the character of Elias in power, and of Elifha in light and love: not according to the foolish opinion of themselves, and of the Romish church, adopted by Dr. Gill and others on Rev. 11. refpecting the two witneffes: for they fee nothing but mount Sinai under the fire, the blood and cloud of mount Zion. Now as Jezebel was flain, and eat up by dogs on the dung-hill; as her death was violent and unexpected, in the midst of her triumph and power of forcery by her whoredoms: we must compare her fate to Babylon, which faith in her heart, I fit a queen and am no widow, and fhall fee no forrow: therefore her plagues fhall come in one day, death, mourning and famine. Rev. xviii. 6-9. Jehu who drives furiously, and whose name in the type is, he will remain the fame according to Hiller, and by others, he who exifts, or who will be what he will be: this Jehu will come, and drive the priests of Baal out of the house of Jehovah,

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With respect to Elias our Lord fays, he came in John, the baptift. If ye will receive it, this is 'Elias who was to come. Mat. xi. 14 As to any other to come, the expectation has no prophecy

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and flay them by the two-edged fword out of the mouth of the fpiritual Jehu, by that great rain, or pouring forth of the water and blood and fire from

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to fuppofe it. The opinion of two great men of temperate and chafte judgment in fpiritual things fhall be laid before my readers. Dr. Burnet in his theory of the earth, book 3. chap. 5. writes thus. "I am very willing to admit, that Elias will come, according to the fenfe of the prophet Malachi iv. 5,6. But he will not come with obfervation no more than he did, in the perfon of John the Baptift. He will not bear the name of Elias, nor tell us he is the man that went to heaven in a fiery chariot, and is now come down again to give us warning of the last fire. But fome divine perfon may appear before the fecond coming of our Saviour, as there did before his first coming; and by giving a new light and life to the christian doctrine, may diffipate the mists and errors, and abolish all thofe little controverfies among good men, and the divifions that fpring from them: enlarging their fpirits by greater discoveries, and uniting them all in bonds of unity and charity, and in the common study of truth and perfection. Such an Elias, the prophet feems to point out; and may he come to be the great peacemaker, and preparer of the ways of the Lord." Henry More, a great judge of the prophetical ftyle and typical characters in perfons and events, adopts the fame fentiment, fubjoining only a zeal and a fpirit of rebuke to false teachers or prophets in the fifth of his divine dialogues. Let me add, this fpirit will appear in the converted Jews, who from Sauls will become Pauls, and the most zealous and unwearied publishers of the great falvation mentioned by the apostle. Rom. xi. 32. This expectation is fupported by our Saviour among the figns of his fecond coming. This gospel of the kingdom fhall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations, and then fhall the END come. Matt. xxiv. 14. The fecond witnefs to the fame advent is his beloved difciple in Rev. xiv. 14. Who fees the angel fiying through the midst of heaven, hav- ·

the CLOUD of GLORY, in the latter day; which will be as fudden as unexpected according to our Lord's words. Luke xviii. 8. Matt. xxiv. 30. The Pfalm here fays, that the tongues of dogs fhall lick up the blood of the enemies, which is declaring that God will so open the eyes of men by the plentiful effufion of the holy Spirit on all flesh, that they shall hate and despise that life and themselves too; when they shall know the man of fin, and the woman of unclean blood to be their own house of the earthly Adam: when Chrift fhall anoint them with the eye-falve to fee their own nakedness and Shame now, and the covering of the white rayment; which he shall send down as he did on the first born at Pentecofte, when the confufion of tongues and diftinction of nations were taken away by the fiery baptifm to the 120 brethren, preaching as evangelifts in all tongues, the magnificent gifts of God. Hence, when dogs fhall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, the prophet Hofhea fays, the children of Judah and the children of Ifrael fhall be gathered together, and come up out of the land, for great

ing the EVERLASTING GOSPEL, to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, just before the fall of Babylon, the great city. This points out the feventh trumpet, where the mystery is finished, and the fabbath of the Lord begins, when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of the Lord, and his Chrift, and he shall reign for ages of ages. Rev. xi. 15.

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fhall be the day of Jezreel, of the feed of God. 2 Kings ix. 10, 36. Hof. i. 11. Hiller tranflates God fhall scatter, and Hulfius de Vall. prophet. 294. more properly understands Jezreel, the feed of God to be delivered from bondage by the deftruction of Jezebel; which is true, as the death of flesh delivers the fpirit of life into liberty and white rayment, as the lamps of Gideon fhone bright and terrible, when the pitchers were broken. Judg. vii. 20. Here then we must confider thefe dogs as the inftruments of divine vengeance against flesh, and the carnal will, the enmity or oppofition to God: and it is no more improper for thefe mean and despicable weapons of holy displeasure to be invited to feed on blood, than for the fowls in the midst of heaven, to be called by an angel to gather themselves unto the fupper of the great God, that they might eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of horfes and of them that fit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. Rev. xix. 18-21. In this fenfe, we may regard Caleb as the dog to Fofhua, as well as both are fervants to Mofes; because the deftruction of flesh, the fin, must precede the reftitution and redemption into fpirit. And the sword of Abraham went before Ifaac; the fword of Mofes ate up the flesh of the curfe in Canaan, Ham's evil blood, fervent of fervants the

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fword of David flew the carnal enmity in all the adverfaries, before Solomon, the fon and king of peace reigned over the nations, which are happily fubdued unto him, and bleffed by him as the illuftri ous type of the bleffer of nations from a better temple, throne, city, and kingdom, than the firft could fhew in a fhort and perifhing greatness. Now in fuch an evangelical fenfe, we may interpret Calebim, fuch Calebs, as the excellent Gell obferves p. 359of his effay toward the amendment of the tranflation of the bible. Thefe dogs are faithful, vigilant, and of good will, and are Calebs, according to the heart of God, as David was in his wars, chofen to exhibit the vengeance of the Lord against flesh, which is the fruit of the whore to be burnt in everlafting fire, as it was every day fhewn by the fin and trefpafs-offerings devoured into the lamb's fire, the Ariel, or lyon of God, greedy of his prey in a good fenfe, and watchful as a dog that never flept, but was ever ready for his master's fervice. 2dly, as there was a feparation ever shewn at the altar of Mofes, where the mixture of good and evil was divided and fet apart in all offerings for fins and trefpaffes, and in peace-offerings; one part was caft away, and the other received into the fire, blood and cloud of that figurative altar; we may confider thefe dogs in the nobleft properties, not in the worst of their kind: as the wisdom of the ferpent is good, if attended with the harmless nature of the