Thereon; it shall not be found There; but the Redeemed shall walk There; and the Ransomed of The LORD shall return, and come to Zion with Songs, and Everlasting Joy upon their heads; they shall obtain Joy and Gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away-Isa. xxxv. 2 to 10.- -The advice of Solomon is, to ponder the path of thy fect, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right-hand, nor to the left! remove thy feet from evil; for the way of the Wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. But the path of the Just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day-Prov. iv. 26, 27, 19, 18.- -St. Paul exhorts, If a Man be overtaken in a fault, that they, who are Spiritual, should restore such an One in the spirit of meekness, considering themselves, lest they, under the varied trials of temptation, might fall away-Gal. vi. 1; and thus a Brother or Sister might be snatched as a brand from the burning, and healed of the infirmity, which would, if persevered in, peril the Soul's peace; that Peace, which, as It is universally prevalent in Heaven, should be fondly and perseveringly cherished on Earth; being an introductory quality for Heavenly Communion. David in his admonitory melody, encourages this Spirit; Seek peace, and pursue it!--Psl. xxxiv. 14; and David's LORD is Himself The PRINCE of Peace. And the peace, which is manifested by His faithful Subjects and Servants, is ever accompanied with holiness. A holy life will insure a peaceful death; and then how transcendant will be the Joy of the Resurrection! In all things should we strive, by the supplicated Aid of The HOLY SPIRIT, to be Followers of GOD, as dear Children, walking in love, as CHRIST hath Loved us, and Given Himself for us, A PeaceOffering and An Atoning Sacrifice to GOD; keeping ourselves from all impurity of act and thought; remembering, that 'Blessed are the Pure in heart; for (we have The SON of GOD's Assurance,) they shall see GOD-Matt. v. 8; and see Him with eyes of rejoicing.St. Peter, addressing himself to All, that have obtain ed the like precious faith with himself through the Righteousness of GOD and our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, says, 'Grace and Peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of GOD, and of JESUS, our LORD! According as His DIVINE Power hath Given unto us All Things That Pertain unto Life and Godliness, through the knowledge of Him, That hath Called us to Glory and Virtue: Whereby are Given unto us Exceeding Great and Precious Promises; that by These we might be Partakers of The DIVINE Nature; having escaped the corruption, that is in the World through lust-2 Pet. i. 1 to 4. Let us give diligence to make our Calling and Election sure; for if we do these things, we shall never fall-10. May we therefore hold faithfully to the Covenant, into which we have entered with The LORD, our GOD, that He may Establish us amongst His Chosen, for His Dear SON's Sake, as our INTERCESSOR; and may we never suffer our hearts to turn away from The LORD, our GOD; lest there arise within our Souls a root, that beareth gall and wormwood; and The LORD shall Blot out our names from under Heaven-Deut. xxix. 9, 12, 13, 18, 20. May we flee every hurtful propensity, that warreth against the Soul! for we should have ever present to our thought, and regulate our actions thereby, that our body is the Temple of The HOLY GHOST;' and that we should sedulously strive to glorify GOD in our body, as in our Spirit, which are His,' by the Purchase of His SON-1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.

VERSES 18 to 24.-For ye are not come unto the Mount, that might be touched, and that burned with fire; nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a Trumpet, and the Voice of Words, Which Voice they, that heard, entreated, that the Word should not be Spoken to them any more; (for they could not endure That, Which was Commanded; and if so much as a beast touch the Mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: and so terrible was the Sight, that Moses said, 'I exceedingly fear and quake!') But ye are

come unto Mount Sion, and unto the City of The Living GOD, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable Company of Angels; to the General Assembly and Church of The FIRSTBORN, which are Written in Heaven; and to GOD, The JUDGE of All; and to the Spirits of just Men, Made perfect; and to JESUS, The MEDIATOR of the New Covenant; and to the Blood of Sprinkling, That Speaketh Better Things, than that of Abel.

The Comparison is here drawn between the Climax of the Mosaic and the Christian Dispensation; between the Awfulness of DIVINE Justice, and the Ministration of DIVINE Mercy. How unspeakably encouraging is the contrast to us, who have been Blessed with the Full Light of Gospel Truth, and know, that in The DIVINE Councils, Mercy Rejoiceth against Judgment. The DIVINE Visitation on Mount Sinai is thus Recorded-In the third month, when the Children of Israel were gone forth out of the Land of Egypt, the same day came they into the Wilderness of Sinai: for they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the Wilderness; and there Israel camped before the Mount. And Moses went up unto GOD; and The LORD Called unto him out of the Mountain, Saying, 'Thus shalt thou say to the House of Jacob, and tell the Children of Israel.' 'Ye have seen What I Did unto the Egyptians; and How I Bare you on Eagles' wings, and Brought you unto Myself. Now therefore if ye will obey My Voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, then ye shall be a Peculiar Treasure unto Me above all People: for All the Earth is Mine; and ye shall be unto Me a Kingdom of Priests, and an Holy Nation.' These are the Words, Which thou shalt speak unto the Children of Israel. And Moses came, and called for the Elders of the People, and laid before their faces All These Words, Which The LORD Commanded him. And all the People answered together, and said, 'All, That The LORD hath Spoken, we will do.' And Moses returned the words of the People unto The LORD. And The LORD Said unto Moses, 'Lo, I Come unto thee in a Thick Cloud, that the People may hear when I Speak with thee; and believe thee for Ever.' And Moses told the words of the People unto The LORD. And The LORD Said unto Moses, 'Go unto the People, and Sanctify them to-day, and to-morrow; and let them wash their clothes; and be ready against the third day; for the third day The LORD will Come down in the sight of all the People upon Mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the People round about, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the Mount, or touch the border of it: Whosoever toucheth the Mount shall be surely put to death! There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or Man, it shall not live. When the Trumpet Soundeth long, they shall come up to the Mount!' And Moses went down from the Mount unto the People; and Sanctified the People; and they washed their clothes. And he said unto the People, Be ready against the third day! Come not at your Wives!' And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were Thunders and Lightnings, and a Thick Cloud upon the Mount; and the voice of the Trumpet exceeding loud: so that all the People, that were in the camp, trembled. And Moses brought forth the People out of the Camp to meet with GOD: and they stood at the nether part of the Mount: and Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because The LORD Descended upon it in Fire: and the smoke Thereof ascended, as the smoke of a furnace: and the whole Mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the Trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake: and GOD Answered him by A Voice. And The LORD Came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the Mount: and The LORD Called Moses up to the top of the Mount; and Moses went up. And The LORD Said unto Moses, 'Go down! charge the People through unto The LORD to gaze, and many of them perish!

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And let the Priests also, which come near to The LORD, sanctify themselves, lest The LORD Break forth upon them!' And Moses said unto The LORD, "The People cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for Thou Chargest us, Saying, 'Set bounds about the Mount; and Sanctify it!' And The LORD Said unto him, 'Away! Get thee down! and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee. But let not the Priests and the People break through to come up unto The LORD; lest He Break forth upon them.' So Moses went down unto the People and spake unto them. And GOD Spake All These Words, Saying, 'I Am The LORD, thy GOD, Which have Brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me! Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing, that is in Heaven Above, or that is in the Earth beneath; or that is in the Water under the Earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them; nor serve them: for I, The LORD, thy GOD, am A Jealous GOD: Visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them, that hate Me and Shewing Mercy unto Thousands of them, that love Me, and keep My Commandments. Thou shalt not take the Name of The LORD thy GOD, in vain for The LORD will not Hold him guiltless, that taketh His Name in vain. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy! Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of The LORD, thy GOD; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy Son, nor thy Daughter; thy Man-Servant, nor thy Maid-Servant; nor thy cattle; nor thy Stranger, that is within thy gates: for in Six Days The LORD Made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and All, that in them is; and Rested the Seventh Day: Wherefore The LORD Blessed the Sabbath-Day, and Hallowed it. Honour thy Father and thy Mother; that thy days may be long upon the Land; which The LORD, thy GOD, Giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's Wife; nor his Man-Servant; nor his Maid-Servant; nor his ox; nor his ass; nor any thing, that is thy Neighbour's.' And all the People saw the Thunderings, and the Lightnings, and the noise of the Trumpet; and the Mountain smoking: and when the People saw it, they removed and stood afar off: and they said unto Moses, 'Speak thou with us! and we will hear; but let not GOD Speak with us, lest we die.' And Moses said unto the People, 'Fear not! For GOD is Come to Prove you; and that His Fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.' And the People stood afar off and Moses drew near unto the Thick Darkness, Where GOD was. And The LORD Said unto Moses, ‘Thus thou shalt say unto the Children of Israel, Ye have seen, that I have Talked with you from Heaven: ye shall not make with Me gods of silver; neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold! An altar of Earth thou shalt make unto Me; and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all Places, Where I Record My Name, I will Come unto thee; and I uill Bless thee'- Exod. xix. and xx. 1 to 24.- -But the Christian is Invited to Commune with his SAVIOUR-GOD, and to banish all fear in the Assurance of His Love, and in the consciousness of His Appearing in our Glorified Nature. For in His Revelations to His Beloved Apostle, after Exhorting us to hold That fast, Which we have through Him, that no Man, nor Satan, take our Promised Crown from us, He Adds, Him, that overcometh, will I Make a Pillar in the Temple of My GOD; and he shall go no more out: and I will Write upon him the Name of My GOD; and the Name of the City of My GOD, Which is New Jerusalem, Which cometh down out of Heaven from My GOD: and I will Write upon Him My New Name '-Rev. iii. 11, 12.- -The

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Royal Psalmist in allusion to This DIVINE Visitation on Mount Sinai said, 'The Chariots of GOD are Twenty Thousand; even Thousands of Angels; The LORD is among them, as in Sinai; in the Holy Place-Psl. lxviii. 17. In the Blessing wherewith Moses, the Man of GOD, blessed the Children of Israel before his death, he said, 'THE LORD Came from Sinai, and Rose up from Seir unto them: He Shined forth from Mount Paran; and He Came with Ten Thousands of Saints-Deut. xxxiii. 1, 2. In the Prayer of Habakkuk he said, 'GOD Came from Teman and The HOLY ONE from Mount Paran: His Glory Covered the Heavens; and the Earth was Full of His Praise: and His Brightness was as the Light: He had Horns coming out of His Hand; and there was the Hiding of His Power. Before Him went the Pestilence; and burning coals went forth at His Feet: He Stood and Measured the Earth: He Beheld and Drove Asunder the Nations; and the Everlasting Mountains were Scattered; the perpetual Hills did bow. His Ways are Everlasting. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the curtains of the Land of Midian did tremble. Was The LORD Displeased against the Rivers? Was Thine Anger against the Rivers? Was Thy Wrath against the Sea, that Thou didst Ride upon Thine Horses, and Thy Chariots of Salvation?-Habak. iii. 1, 3 to 8. How Glorious is the Christian's confidence, that Angels and Saints will be his Everlasting Companions in The KINGDOM of The MESSIAH, Where Knowledge and Wisdom will Increasingly Spread his Joyfulness amidst the Peace and Purity and Holiness of Heaven. In the Revelation Made to St. John, he says, 'I looked, and lo, A LAMB Stood on the Mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty and four Thousand; having His FATHER's Name Written in their foreheads: and I heard A Voice from Heaven, as the voice of many Waters, and as the voice of a great Thunder: and I heard the voice of Harpers, harping with their harps; and they sung as it were a new Song before the Throne, and before the Four Beasts and the Elders: and no Man could learn That Song; but the hundred and forty and four Thousand, which were Redeemed from the Earth. These are they, which were not defiled with Women; for they are Virgins. These are They, which follow The LAMB, Whithersoever He Goeth. These were Redeemed from among Men, being the First- Fruits unto GOD and to The LAMB: and in their mouth was found no guile; for they are without fault before the Throne of GODRev. xiv. 1 to 5. When The SAVIOUR Appointed His Seventy Missionaries from His Disciples, and Gave them Supernatural Powers; and on their returning to Him, and reporting to Him the effect of their Mission, saying, 'LORD, even the Devils are subject unto us through Thy Name.' HE Said unto them, 'I Beheld Satan, as lightning, fall from Heaven. Behold, I Give unto you Power to tread on serpents, and scorpions, and over all the power of the Enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in This rejoice not, that the Spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are Written in Heaven-Luke x. 17 to 20. St. Paul speaks of his Fellow-Labourers, whose names are in the Book of Life, who have indeed cause always to rejoice in The LORD-Phil. iv. 3, 4. Whereas we have the Sure Word of Prophecy, that All, whose names are not Recorded Therein, will be the Captives and Slaves of Satan, and Sharers of his endless woe-Rev. xiii. 1 to 8. In the Prophetic Representation of the Great Day of Universal Judgment, St. John says, 'I saw a Great White Throne, and HIM, That Sat on It; from Whose Face the Earth and the Heaven fled away, and there was found no Place for them: and I saw the Dead, small and great, stand before GOD: and the Books were Opened; and another Book was Opened, Which is The Book of Life; and the Dead were Judged out of those Things, which were

Written in the Books, according to their works. And the Sea gave up the Dead, which were in it; and Death and Hell delivered up the Dead, which were in them and they were Judged every Man according to their works. And Death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the Second Death. And Whosoever was not found Written in The Book of Life, was cast into the Lake of Fire. And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth; for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away; and there was no more Sea. And I, John, saw The Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming down from GOD out of Heaven, Prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband. And I heard A Great Voice out of Heaven, Saying, '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; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain: for the former Things are passed away!' And He, That Sat upon the Throne, Said, 'Behold, I Make All Things New.' And He Said unto me, Write, For These Words are True and Faithful.' And He Said unto me, 'It is Done; I Am ALPHA and OMEGA, The BEGINNING and The END. I will Give unto him, that is athirst, of the Fountain of the Water of Life freely. He, that overcometh, shall inherit all Things; and I will be his GOD, and he shall be My SON'-Rev. xx. 11 to 15; xxi. 1 to 7. And into The Holy City, The New Jerusalem, there shall in no wise enter any thing, that defileth; neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but They, which are Written in The LAMB's Book of Life-Rev. xxi. 27.—When Abraham, in his fond hope, amidst the prevailing iniquity of the Inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, that there might be some righteous, interceded for them as far as his conscience would allow him to do, he said, 'Shall not The JUDGE of All the Earth Do Right?'-Gen. xviii. 25.- -The Perfection of Saints is in their conformity to a Heavenly Image, even The Image of The SON of GOD— 1 Cor. xv. 49, 54; Rom. viii. 29. The Sacrifice of The Incarnate GOD in the Outpouring of His Life-Blood on the Cross, as drawn from Him by the nails and the spear, the Climax of His Sufferings in Atonement for the sins of all the World, does indeed Speak Better Things than the sacrificial offering, though the first on record to have been made, doubtless in Typical allusion to This MEDIATORIAL Offering of The LAMB of GOD. Abel's faith led him in righteousness to acknowledge this Source of his own hope of Salvation, and to prefigure it by his offering, upon the altar of his worship, a lamb of his flock, doubtless without blemish.- When Moses had told All the Words, Which The LORD had Declared to him, as The Law of His Covenant with the Children of Israel, and had shown the People Thereof, and of The LORD's Judgments: and all the People had answered with one voice, and said, 'All the Words, Which The LORD hath Said, will we do.' Moses rose up early in the morning, and builded an Altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve Tribes of Israel; and he sent young Men of the Children of Israel, which offered burntofferings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto The LORD: and Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the Altar: and he took the Book of The Covenant; and read in the audience of the People: and they said, 'All, That The LORD hath Said, will we do, and be obedient.' And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the People, and said, 'Behold the blood of The Covenant, Which The LORD hath Made with you concerning All These Words'-Exod. xxiv. 3 to 8.

VERSES 25 to 29.--See that ye refuse not Him, That Speaketh. For if they escaped not, who refused him, that spake on Earth; much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him, That Speaketh from Heaven: Whose Voice then Shook the Earth. But now He hath