Him that bringeth good tidings—that publisheth peace-that bringeth good tidings of good-that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!' Thy watchmen (i. e. priests) shall lift up the voice-with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when God shall bring again Zion.

The prophet again expressly foretels the nature of the Messiah. The incarnate God, whom men should behold with their bodily eyes"the Mighty God-the Everlasting Father— the Prince of Peace!" of the increase of whose Government there should be no end! &c.

Psalm lxxii.-Give the King Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the King's Son! He shall judge Thy people with righteousness and Thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills Thy righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people;

He shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear Thee as

long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations! He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass--as showers that water the earth! In His days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth! They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow down before Him, and His enemies shall lick the dust! His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end! The kings of Tharsis and of the Isles shall give presents. The kings of Arabia and Sava shall bring gifts: all kings shall fall down before Him! All nations shall do Him service! For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth, the needy also, and him that hath no helper. He shall be favourable to the simple and needy, and shall preserve the souls of the poor! (i. e. the humble minded.) He shall deliver their souls from falsehood and wrong, and dear shall their

blood be in His sight. He shall live (for ever is understood,) and unto Him shall be given of the gold of Arabia. Prayer shall be made ever unto Him, and daily shall He be praised. His name shall endure for ever: His name shall remain as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in Him! All nations shall call Him Blessed!' Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things; and blessed be his glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with His glory!' Amen! amen!

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The exact harmony subsisting between the prophets Isaiah and David, and the direct allusion to the promise made by God to the patriarchs, with which the latter concludes, in the foregoing psalm, must satisfy every attentive reader, that they are both treating of one and the same Person and events, and that each is foretelling His advent, in whom "all the nations of the earth should be blessed!" Both these prophets proclaim the Messiah as a King, a Judge, and as a Saviour. Both declare his human nature, by terming him a “child,” and a "son;" both designate him as the harbinger

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and author of "peace;" and both these prophets assert, in the plainest language, his divinity; for Isaiah calls the Messiah "Immanuel," and the "Mighty God," and David avers that the dominion of this " King's Son" shall be universal and eternal, and that he shall receive the tribute (which only God may claim) of everlasting “ prayer” and “ praise!" But this wonderful doctrine rests not on the declarations of David and Isaiah alone. It pervades the whole scheme of revelation, and will become more and more apparent the further we proceed. The divinity of the Messiah is so cemented with the entire system of God's declared will, that in removing this "corner stone," the sacred temple built by the prophets and apostles is not only defaced, but actually destroyed!

Nahum i. 15.-713 years B. C.-Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows; for the wicked shall no more pass through thee, he is utterly cut off!

Micah iv. 1, 2, 3.-But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be

established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow into it. And many nations shall come and say, 'Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in his paths; for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem! And He shall judge among the people, and rebuke strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more!— Chap. v. 4, and part of 5.-And He

shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord His God; and they shall abide, for now shall He be great unto the ends of the earth! And this man shall be the peace, &c.

Isaiah lx.--Arise, shine, for thy light