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recounting on this day;-then might we hope that the Jubilee which we have cele

brated, will become an æra of new blessings, and be long held in grateful remembrance by the nation.

III.

THE

True, or Heavenly Jubilee.

PREACHED

ON THE SUNDAY

AFTER THE DAY OF

THE BRITISH JUBILEE.

THE

Heavenly Jubilee.

REV. c. xix. v. 9.

"Blessed are they

"which are called to the marriage supper "of the Lamb."

"EYE hath not seen, nor ear heard, nei"ther have entered into the heart of man,

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THE THINGS which God hath prepared "for them that love him."* This passage, in the New Testament, descriptive of the heavenly felicity, is derived from the following sublime expressions of the prophet Isaiah; " For, since the beginning of the "world, men have not heard, nor per

1 Cor. ii. 9.

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