of Jerufalem, the fpirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall look upon him whomi they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son, and fhall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first born. In that day fhall there be a great mourning in Jerufalem *.—In that day there fhall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerufalem, for fin and for uncleannefs'. "Then fhall the Lord go forth, and fight against thofe nations, as when he fought in the day of battle m" n According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt, will I fhow unto him marvellous things. The nations fhall fee, and be confounded at all their might, and fhall fear because of thee "." "And the Lord fhall be feen over them, and his arrow fhall forth as the lightning °." "Behold the days come, faith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the houfe of Judah. In those days, and at that time, I will cause the branch of righteoufnefs to grow up unto David, and he shall execute judgment and go Zech. xii. 6-II. 1 Zech. xiii. 1. juftice juftice in the land. In thofe days fhall, Judah be faved, and Jerufalem fhall dwell fafely; and this is the name wherewith he fhall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHAnd in that day there fhall TEOUSNESS. be a root of Jeffe, which shall stand for an enfign of the people; to it fhall the Gentiles feek, and his Reft shall be glorious P." "I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will eftablifh unto thee an everlafting covenant. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be afhamed when thou shalt receive thy fifters, thine elder and thy young fifters, and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant";" that is, not by the Mofaic Difpenfation, which is of a temporary and typical nature, and " fhall be done away, when that which is perfect is "And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou fhalt know that I am the Lord; that thou mayest remember and be P Jerem. xxxiii. 14, 15, 16. Ifaiah xi. 10. the Patriarchal and Chriftian Difpenfations. Ezek. xvi. 60, 61. SI Cor. xiii. 10. con 1 "Behold, confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy fhame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou haft done, faith the Lord God." the days come, faith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the houfe of Ifrael, and with the houfe of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt (which my covenant they brake, although I was as an husband to them, faith the Lord): but this fhall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Ifrael; After those days, faith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, Know the Lord: for they fhall all know me, from the leaft of them to the greateft of them, faith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their fin no more "." "Be filent, O all flesh, before the Lord: * Ezek. xvi. 62, 63. Jerem. xxxi. 31-34 for he is tion * " raifed up out of his holy habitaI will shake the heavens and the earth, and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the Heathen "." "Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, a continued whirlwind; it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord fhall not return until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days ye fhall confider it"." "At the fame time, faith the Lord, will I be God of all the families of Ifrael, and they shall be my people "." "Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and fhut thy doors about thee, hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth fhall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her flain. Thy dead men fhall live, together with my dead body Awake and fing, ye that for thy dew is as the dew Shall they arife. dwell in duft, of herbs, and the earth fhall caft out the dead b." Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Ifrael. And ye fhall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and fhall put my spirit in you, and ye fhall live, and I fhall place you in your own land, then fhall ye know, that I, the Lord, have Spoken it, and performed it." "And David, my fervant, fhall be King over them; and they shall all have one Shepherd, they fhall also walk in my judgments, and obfervę my ftatutes to do them. And they fhall dwell in the land that I have given to my fervant Jacob, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they fhall dwell therein, even they and their children, and their children's children for ever; and my Servant David fhall be their Prince for ever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, it fhall be an everlafting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will fet my fanctuary b Ifaiah xxvi. 19, 20, 21. C Ezekiel xxxvii. 12-14. in |