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the nature of the reign of which he spoke, knew per-

fectly that to which he alluded—" We have found
him (saith Philip to Nathaniel) of whom Mom in the
law, and the prophets, did write," (John I. 45.) and.
Nathaniel shows how he understood these words, in
the address he makes soon after to JEscs, (v. 49.)
.4 I; ;au art TiiF SON OF COD; thou art THE KING OF
LikAFL."—Among the Samaritans also the same hope
was entertained. ". I know," said the woman with
whom Rsts conversed at the well (John iv. 25.)
" ,:hat the MESSIAH (that is the anointed) co meth ; when
he is come he will teach us a!I things." Many others of
the people of Samaria also believed, when they had
heard him themselves, .and said unto the women (v.
42.) " This it indeed THE MESSIAH, THE SAVIOUR OF
TIE WORLD." They had no doubt .that this was the
promised K i,G OF KINGS, "the LORD OF HOSTS, who
shall reign in Mount Zion and. in Jerusalem, and be-
fore his ancients gloriously," (I saiah ::iv. 23.) when
" the Moon shall .be confounded, and the Sun
ashamed ;" that is, the host of Heaves—or the rulers
of the world—the oprosers of his reign.
• Some commentators have supposed that Vespasian,
or some other Roman Emperor, is alluded to, as the
• rider on the white horse. Their reason for adopting
such an opinion may be summed up in a few words.—
' " The Revelation contains things which must shortly
come to pass (Rev. i. l.}—things' still future at the:
time in which it was communicated to John—and,'
therefore, cannot relate, directly, to the setting. up of
Christ's Kingdom, an event that was already past."
It would be. a waste of tine to enter into a long ar-
gument to shew the absurdity of this opinion. •In
vain should we search the scald &oh to, an allusion to

Vespasian or any other of the Roman Emperors :,
their empire is indeed described in it as the terrible
power that was to devour the earli, tread it dawn
and break it in pieces—but their individual acts are
• never mentioned. But, not to insist on.this at pre-
' ser,t, had they looked forward in the first chapter
•• In our common version these words are rendered" preaching
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God'a translation which is far
prom conveying the sense of the original. The word Kiageforn is
iml"PerlY u4.-d, evert in the Lord's Piayer, for /vita, The French
translation IA more tOrrect, ton "re not-royarnre.,See
Campbell's 5s Disotet.

they night hale observed that Jan was commanded
(v. 19.) to write the thing: which he had seen, and the
thirty that then were, as well as the things that were to be,
hereafter.—The principal subject, on which he was to
write, related to what he had seen with his eye:, looked
upon, and handled of the word of lift (1 John i. 1.)—
even the Reign of the MUSLIN, which had then com—
menced ; and to his ultimate victory, in spite of all the
opposition he was to encounter, especially from the
ten Kings, which were yet to arise, and the little-great
King, to which they were to give their strength. In-
deed the words " he went forth conquering and to con-
quer", [vixun,,,sc! ivz vooprl] are so emphatic in the
original that with no propriety whatever can they be
applied to any other but to him whom all Kingdoms
shall serve and obey. He not only goes forth con-
quering in the beginning of his course, but ma, to that
end—the event, the issue, is victor" ! Among other
enemies to be subdued by him arc " Death," the rider
on the pale horse, and" Hades," his follower. These,
to crown his triumph, he casts alive into the lake of
fire (Rev. xx. 14). " For he must reign till he has Jut
all enemies under his feet. The last enemy—Death, shall
he destroyed" (1 Cor. xv. 25, 26)6
That the MERSIAII is the personage intended by this
crowned conqueror, is a fact that does not rest merely
on inferences, but on the direct testnnany of the pro-
phecy itself; for when the warfare is terminated
(Rev. xix. 11, 16.) John again brings to our view
44 the-white horse," and informs us in most sublime
language who was the rider. "He that sat on him
was called hITILFUL AND TRUE, and in righteoUsness
doth he judge and make war. His eyes were as a
flame of fire, on his head were many crowns ; and he
had a name written that no man knew but himself.—
He was clothed in a vesture dipt in blood, and his
name is called Tne WORD OF GOD e. The armies
which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen white and clean. And out of his
mouth goeth a sharp sword, with which he should smite
the nations : he shall rule them with a rod of
iron ; he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and
wrath of ALMIGHTY GOD ; and he hath on his
vesture and on his thigh a name written KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."

Such is the description given in the Revelation, of
him who, in Daniel, is called " THE MOST limn"—
" ONE LIKE THE SON o MAN''.•-•••THE PRINCE OF TILE
HOST''—" THE PRINCE OF PRINCES''--.-" MESSIAH
THE PRINCE"—and it agrees with what had been pro-
phecied before by David (Psalm xlv. 1-leb. 1,8, 9.)
when speaking the thing: he had made touching this King—
Thou art fairer than the children of men : grace is poured
into thy lips : therefore GOD bath blessed thee for ever.—
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, 0 moss AUGHT'', with thy
glory and thy majesty. And iz thymajesty ride prosperously,
because of meekness and righteousness, and thy right hand
shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp
in the heart of the King': enemies : the people shall fall
under thee. Thy throne, 0 GOD, is for ever-and ever : the
sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou loved
righteousness and hatest wickedness ; therefore GOD, thy
GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows."—" Who is this King of Glory ? The LORD
strong and mighty, the Lona mighty in battle I
The LORD of Hosts he is the King of Glory !"( Psalm
xxiv. 8,10). Was that despised individual who was put
to death at Jerusalem nearly eighteen hundred years
ago as a blasphemer—was he the mighty personage
here mentioned ? GoD's righteous servant, who was
to be thus " exalted, extolled, and made very high"

(Isaiah lii. 13.) was to be the astonishment of many,—
" his visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men (v. 14)—" Des-
pised and rejected—a plan of sorrows and acquainted
with griefs," (liii. 3). Before he should " see of
the travail of his soul and be satisfied," (v. 11), be-
fore the time for 44 dividing him a portion with the
great and the spoil with the strong," he was to
" pour out his soul unto death and be numbered with
trangressors" (v. 12)—" He died with the wicked
and was buried in the sepulchre of the rich," (v. 9).
The opening of the first seal then brings to view.
this most important of all truths : That the MESSIAH
hath gone forth as a mighty King "conquering and to
conquer." The Jews expected that on his appearance
he should assume that character; and it is not sur-
prising that they should have done so., understanding
as they did from many parts of the Old Testament,
and particularly from Daniel, that to him was to be
given dominion and glory, and a kingdom, so ex-
tensive that all people, nations, and languages,
should serve him (Dan. vii. 14) ; and that the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven
was to be 'given to the saints of the Most High.
(v. 27.) Blinded, as Men are now, by their lust of
power, and considering theniselves as the saints of
the most high (though it had been plainly foretold in
the writings of. their prophets, that the Messiah
should call those his people, whb had not been 14
people, and that in him should all nations be blessed)
they expccted*an earthly deliVerer, who. should sub-
due their enemies and restore the kingdom of Israel;
ncr could they see, that, previous to the period in
which the saints shall Possess the kingdoin, the anoint-
ed Prince was to humble himstlf even to death, and
, be afterwards oppbsed by a war carried on against
him and his peculiar people by the ten horns [king-
doms], and especially by.,the hule horn mentioned in
Daniel, for so long a petla as 1260 days [years]
• John tells as elsewhere (John i. 1, 10.) that " in the beein-
ning Wall Tilt WORD, and rilds4Volin was yrilh Cron. and /HI
WORD was GOD and this WORD was made flesh, and dwilt
anion' us."

• .
They were ignorant of the stature of tie Ittesstah's
kingdom, the import of many of the events foretold
in Daniel, and the periodc appointed for their fulfil-
ment—for the book war sealed:,
Nor is It surprising that the Jews, as a nation,
should entertain very mistaken ideas respecting the
nature of CHRIST'S kingdom ; for we find that even his
own disciples, before his ascension, expected that the
kingdom of Goo should immediately appear (Luke.
xix. 11. Acts i. 6.) ; and that, like others who look
for earthly dominion, they even disputed with one
another who should be Prime Minister (Mark ix.
34.) It is far more wonderful, that after the sealed
book has been opened, men should be so blind anal
infatuated as to believe that the kingdom of the little
horn, the ecclesiastical kingdom, is the kingdom of
the Messiah; who confessed before Pilate, that though
he was a king, his kingdom was not of this world
[not a worldly kingdom, upheld by worldly power,
and governed by worldly maxims]—yet his kingdom
is hi the world, and though despised and hated, the
period will come in which the kingdoms of this world
shall become that of our Lord and of his Christ, and he
shall reign for ever and ever ( Rev. xi. 15.)

SALtS BY AUCHON.

By Order of the Cominissioners for the Disposal of
Danis% Prizes.

At the London Inn, Plymouth, on Friday, the I.lth instant, at
Fleets) o'Clotk in the Forenoon,
THE Good Brig ENEGHEDPN, (No. 8),
DIMENSIONS.
Length on Deck, - 58 Feet 6 Inches.
Breadth, - - - 19 lit
Admeatures, - - 90 68-94 Tuns.
Condemned as Prize to the Crown, ar.d now lying in Sutton tool.
For particulars apply at the Counting --House of
Mr. THOMAS LOCKYER, Merchant,
One of the Agents for Danish Prizes.
Plymouth, March 26, isoB.

By Order ut the Commissioners for the Disposal of Danish Prizes.
At the London Inn, Plymouth, on Friday the 15th instant, at
eleven o'clock at Noon,

THE GOOD SHIP FO R TUNA, No. 97,
Dimensions—Length 78 feet 5 inches; Breadth 25 feet 5i
inches; Admeasures 200 21-94 Tons; condemned as Prize to
the Crown, and now lying in Sutton Poole.
For Particulars apply at the Counting-house of Mr.THOMAS
LOCKYER, one of the Agents for Danish Prizes.
•
Plymouth, March 30, 1808.

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