TsrK, mo #5o*f Duke University Libraries The kingdom of Conf Pam 12mo #504 DTiiDib33iii T H & KINGDOM OF ISR/EL:, Trom its inception undoi Joshua, its first President, in the Yea: of the Workl 2353, to the second advent of Christ ed first; as typical under its three fii UTD TUB UNITED STATES SHOWN TO EL Till TUIKb AND LAST OF THOSE HEAD ftitsidered: Second, as Antitypicaf, and the Conl itc States shown to be the Grand Antitype in its first appearance, to ultimate in the i hi »uc oi the Prince of the House oi D: Dedicated to the Rev. S. D. BALDWIN ▲UTIIOtt OF " AKMAGEDDON,' \ND TO UlS MEMORY IF DEAD. Q-i7 5, JP. PIIILPOT'X -•♦*> LAiUFIELD, TEXAS: \ y . 3 1' ft E F A C E We come before the public for the first time, never having written even a short newspaper article in life ; and in doing so, it may not be amiss for us to state that we were induced to do so from a thorough conviction that there was much written in the Bible of a strictly political character, applicable to the past, present and future of our country, that has never been noticed or understood as such. We were impressed with a sense of duty to God, ourselves as a nation, and to mankind in general, to take up the subject of Bible Teachings Politically , and discuss it in a few short notes— noticing a few of the many Prophecies that speak and teach nationally, that apply strictly to modern times, or "latter days" — embracing the rise, progress and fall of the United States of America, and of the rise of three nationalities out of the fallen United States, to ultimate in one; the Confederate States foretold in Prophecy as being the chief of the three, and to absorb the other two, as above intimated : and how and when this Union upon the Confederacy was to be effected, and the present war have an end, &c. We make no apology for what we have written — claiming the right accorded to all — of free speech. That right, with others, we are now battling for; and as we claim it, we would withhold it from none ; and shall expect that others, in the exercise of that right, may take ground against us upon some points in these notes. If they do not, it will be strange indeed; for we occupy positions in opposition to " names renowned;"' in opposition to' tenets "hoar with centuries."' We are well aware that we have not handled the subject as it deserves to be ; nor are our notes more than an introduction to the vast subject. Volumes might and should at once be written upon it, by hands and heads competent to do io full justice. The timos have brought us out. Recent scriptural revealinout by fulfillment of Prophecy elicited our attention, and a close investigation followed, and these hasty notes are the result. They are very defective as to arrangement and diction: of this, however, the reader need not be told— the fact is patent. The want, in digest, could not well be avoided, for we have jotted down our thoughts, running ever a period of twelve months or more, and much of them have been written in camp and on the march, with very little privacy, and sometimes without a Bible for reference, and some of our quotations are given from memory, and may in some instances not be literal, but always retaining the sense. And again, we have not even had time to copy our notes, and with the exception of a few sheets, they now go to press just as we penciled them by the way. As to the diction, it is our own, and just like us — "rough as a rasp." If these notes shall prove the means, under God, of calling attention to, and inducing a closer and more thorough searching of the scriptures of truth, by those who may read them, I shall bo well paid for my # toil ; not to say that I am not al- ready a thousand times repaid for my investigation by the satisfaction arising from the sacred truths made plain to my mind. m Faikfielu, Texas. May, 1864. CHAPTER FIRST I NT 3 13OTD0M. Bf about the I or national affairs of earth " Arc Governmt . i id, or provided for, by God in His plana 1 srnment ol earth? Does God set up Nations and poll down Nations! fs man, by nature, I creature, or ' for common safety and sorruption by the fall, forced him to ag Or, as the Kingdom of Babel, the first kingdom noted in Scripture, was one growing oul of ter or disperse ; ami as a stop or check , by the confounding of their language, and thus they i to argue that God designed man i hould not Lave organic governments, but to live widespread over the earth, •er approach : : governments than the patriarchal system ! be a political creature, and ne- .!. does the lose the facts? and has (;. m earth ? and if so, what ones '.' In short : Is the Bible political i These arc all questions that naturally sug- elvea to in i : minds. And in -answer to the above, we hesi- o say the Bible is not only political, but just as much so as it is spirit- And as to the amount or quantum written in it, the political has 1; •: not that it is as important as the spiritual, but that something ad suited to all time should be recorded ; each record to be known in its time by fuUfilment and spiritual revealment : while the spiritnal is never chang- ing—but ever the same in all ages. What was gospel light and life for the early church is the same now, and will be forever. Jlence it was not needful that a ide in every age to provide for the salvation of the soul. ; and him erucified" was effectual on the Day of Pentecost ; and as " there remaineth no more sacrifice for Bin," it is still, and ever will be so. It was not b upon that subject : what was enough. God's wisdom and mercy d I gave it to the early church. We have it : and God 13 no respecter of p 1 ut every one that feareth God and worketh righteous- pied of him. In further answer to the interrogatories : We say God ted and designed man to be a political creature, and necessitated aggrega- tes instituted a government and governments on earth, [e claims and calls his own. These facts the Bible fully discloses, as we . We state the government and governments thus : The Kingdom of Isrrcl, aim as the first head, made up of the thirteen political Tribes. S . leaving Levi out, who had no national existence as a Tribe; as This kingdom stood about . fter secession r . under Judah as the second he. i 1, embracing, as did the first, " all Israel." This kingdom— or rather thin and fell to pieces ; ten tribes in blood, but eleven in or- lom of Ephralm, with Samaria as the capital. bnt a fraction. The other two tribes, under Judah, remained as they were — but a fraction— and these two fractions after went into total captivity, Judah's fracnon outliving the other about 150 years, The kingdom of Isral under Manaqseh, as the ord and last under the, typical dispensation, made up of thirteen Tribes or States, in >ft repeated promises, ayncars in 1770. This kingdom stood 84 years and has fallen to pieces by seces.hM. and the first head of the kingdom of Israel, under the new or realizing in under Judah. has appeared; and as sho is to be realizkg, he two remaining heads, Ephraim and e found in the non-seoeding States, They are to reorgan- making the fifth and sixth heads, and then to be given to Judah, when they will become "One nation upon the mountains or governments of Israel forever." All up to this poiut has only been in part realizing. The of the word of the Lord .to Israel," All this strictly of nations: and, as suon must be largely political or governmental. Jeremiah 1 ch : 5 v., says that the Lord said unto him, that before he was formed or born, He (the Lord) had sanc- tified and ordained him a prophet unto the nations ; and 10 v. he is set over the nations and kingdoms "to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant." In verse lSih he is made "a defenced city and an iron pillar, and a brazen wall against the whole land, againsr the kings of Judah, against the priuces, priests and people." Thus we might multiply passages to prove that the Prophets were largely Political Teachers ; and, as such, we are bound to receive aud consider their writings, and to take heed thereto, as unto "lights shining in a dark place." For in the Prophets doubtless are to be found the histories in outline, and sometimes in minute detail, of all nations and king- doms, from their day until the curse is removed, and the time comes wherein our Saviour says, "Behold I make all tilings new." If such be the fact, it behooves us to remember aud obey this injunction of our Saviour : "Search the scriptures;" for certainly therein is to be found our political as well as spiritual life. Pot- while we hold, with all Christians, that the sacred scriptures disclose that full and ample provisions are made by God for our spiritual wellborn g, we claim also that the Prophets teach, and fully too, that the same beneficent Parent has made just the same provision for our social and political prosperity, being as much the author of our social, and hence oxr political nature, as he is of our spiritual nature ; and we affirm that the same agencies, in the main, are brought to bear in both departments of his government to effect the object desired. We are aware that this is controverted ground, and that most, if not all, biblical scholars down to Mr. Baldwin, (whom we except.) claim that all those prophecies touching Christ and his offices are purely spiritual. We dissent from this, and give what we believe to be the reason why those scriptures are misunderstood and an exclu- sively spiritual meaning given them. First, we are averse to truth and receive it reluctantly, and any doctrine readily and willingly received by us may well be suspected of error ; for the scriptures pronounce us all liars, and justly asserts the "truth is not in us." But perhaps the greater reason is this : Christ i brought to our view as a spiritual deliverer, which is always a personal matter with each individual, and is in fact traoscendantly the greater deliverance, and will of necessity preoccupy and absorb the mind to the exclusion of the lesser. When brought to see and feel the need of a spiritual Saviour, being exceedingly selfish, we care less for the national salvation, and hence give it little or no thought, and therefore will not see it. And again : spiritualities are intangible, not visible, not palpable ; they are wrapped in mystery ; we grope in darkness seeking light, and hence we feel the necessity of a spiritual guide. We cannot, single handed and alone, grapple with the mighty issues shut up in eternity, and are compelled to have a spiritual deliverer. Not altogether so in our social capac- ity. True, we are just as /helpless in the one case as the ether, but not being a personal matter we never can bs made to see and feel it so sensibly ; for we will not, cannot, and should not feel the same interest in political as in spiritual con- cerns. In social or national affairs we have our eyes about us, and things are not so enveloped in darkness and mystery. We have our cars to hear, our hands to help ourselves; our companions, friends, relative?, whole communities and States. These, we are disposed to think, are enough. Our earthly affairs we can manage ourselves. Thus it is we do not see aud feel the need of a political Saviour, aud are not willing "to have the man Christ Jesus to reign over us." The Jews, at the coming of our Saviour, were quite differently circumstanced, and we find them acting otherwise. They having the Ceremonial Law, with its outward works, — pri«ste, sacrifices for sin, &c. &c.,in splendid working order .—(as we may sup- pose) instituted by God himself, through their great law-giver, (to which they cling to this day,) did not see and feel the need of a spiritual deliverer, being fully satisfied with what God had already giveathem, hence we find them unpre- pared aud totally unwilling to receive Christ as their High Priest, and vilely .. spiritual deliverer, yet as a king or temporal ruler the ma unlike us, were not only willing I . to receive h:u tor here they felt in need. Their kingdom boin^ overthrown by. and themselves nnder the rule of the ' titrated for a political redeemer; and on one iur Saviour had to flee the multitude ti m from taking him by force and making him ;i ki i np the long oh ctation of a political ruler, and asked him if he would no that tim< igdom to Israel. Trq irisa under the E wonld remove them from position, made it the ground that **he makelh himself a king," and hence "speaketh against Pilate d them if he should crucify their king, and they repli I •• I have no king bat Caesar," showing clearly that they understood I ' r to Puate's question ''Art thou a king pfied , it I am a king. To this end was 1 born, and for this came I into the world." This, we think, is sufficient to settle his kingship. But some will doubtless say his kingdom al ; and. in support oi that . will repeat his reply to Pilate, "My I he bo ning evidently to world, over f he above,, he disclaims, and rally satisfies Pilate that he is guiltless of I We are assured by the most learned biblical scholars that the word world hi the Hebrew has upward oi twenty sig i f which mean the earth 1 which we live, and th I en used as Christ bore uses it in refer- ence to ver.no scholar will deny. Why then did rnment and rul • d sliv- om Roman bondage? He does, not ( ; while it is very evi- dent that the mo mt part of his mission claii ' viz. : the spiritual redemption of the world : and if he had then thou 'to ret np a political reign, ir would not have been over the little Jew! litish tribes, but over the whole earth j fur, if a king in any se is King of Kings and Lord of Lords/' But, . the more important part of his mission claimed his first atten- tion, to fulfill which he must he offered up as a to re- deem the world, and must • tly defer the Betting up fully of the < tment of his government until some future time in his wisdom set. I will atill cli reseived a rines, and con- tend that his kii t of this world, the whole ehris- I there is m world; and thereby prove too much for their own cause. The tan not arraigned before Pilate for spiritual heresies, but solely for political offei - shown by every question the governor I £j The first , . th6u the king of tfleJews?" to which, in every case, he answers affin it at * of Pilate, wl i Is Caesar ' we find Id tl trial he ii '. of claiming to be a king within its jurisdictioi .as on a po '. before a political court, that had no jurisdiction in spiritual ni deny the charge, yet he is fau l i guilt! lenasked of political ial ones, upon which he was not questioned. Bis questions were politics must of nee : this world" was nol one ofrel I ■ or this can at was the I All lempl world, sets abou 1 ii in wisdom, and first bri ttioii us the most important and oJbsi to eflfcet political salvation 8 without the first wc could never attain unto the second. We affirm then, on good authority, that Christ is a "Prophet, Priest and King." First, a prophet means in one of its nearest and most legitimate senses, a teacher, as well as a foreteller ; and we say he does teach in the two several departments of his government. All are ready to admit, as Prophet, he has ever taught, and largely too, in the spirit- ual department of his government. First, by himself, while on earth; secondly, by his spirit; thirdly, by the written word, called the sword of the spirit; fourthly, by a called and accredited living ministry ; fifthly, by providences in almost endless variety j "line upon line, and precept upon precept ; here a little and there a little." In inaugurating and setting up-fully his priestly department, it was necessary that he should become himself a sacrifice for sin, which he did on Mount Calvary, crying, in his last moment, "It is finished !" by which we un- derstand, the spiritual redemption of the world ; was finished, so far as the great High Priest's offering was concerned, "For thero remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." This kingdom being set up, and the above enumerated agencies brought to bear on the hearts and consciences of. the people, we read that on the day of Pentecost three thousand rushed into the kingdom : and they still continue to come, to the present day. ,, Here we have no force or martial array brought to view : all is invitation, persuasion, wooing and entreating ; "Come, for all things are now ready," by which is meant all has been done that will be done without our agency. We must now act; no force is to be used; this kingdom deals with free agents ; and, mark you, with individuals. "Ho ! every one that thirsteth, come," and i( IHrr. that will let him come."" He mu?t reign here in the hearts and affections of his subjects individually. Now, to become a subject of this kingdom, the cardinal and absolute requirements are belief in Christ as its head; and, believing, to heartily repent of and turn away from sin, and receive him as aSaviour. When we come to take a view of his political kingdom, wc find it very different. True, there is much persuasion, much leading, much enlargement ; here, also; much teaching in his prophetic capacity; much by his holy spirit's influence on the great political heart; and much, very much, in his written word; and by the human agencies that he has called and qualified, from Adam to Noah, to Abraham, to Mo3es and Joshua, to David, and from him until the present time of an invitiug and persuasive character — thus evincing the great and compas- sionate regard that our God has for his intelligent, yet dependent creatures— showing that he would ever lead and never force, if we would but be led. But we, refusing to be guided and influenced by the aforesaid appliances, by "Harden- ing our hearts and stiffening our necks," are in danger of being "suddenly de- stroyed, and that without remedy ;" for at this point a great dc^of kingly force is brought to view, (never visible in his priestly department,) ^neh marks his kingly office so distinctly, and separates it so widely from his priestly office, that it does seem the most casual observer need not doubt as to the identity of the two departments of his government on this sin cursed earth of ours. We know and admit there is much in the prophets, touching the prosperity of Christ's kingdom that will in truth apply to both departments, and so intended by inspiration, for the two are so closely allied, (not joined) that the one cannot truthfully be said to bo very prosperous while the other is the reverse. One may be appropriately styled the handmaid of the other. We suppoGO that no one in this enlightened age will deny that, as tho Church has soared or sunk, so has the State. That we must be pure individually, before we can be collectively, is as self- nt a fact as that it requires salt springs to make, when collected, a salt river or lake. Hence, it becomes every individual, who would be a true patriot under God, to ' . tgdom of heaven ;" that is, 3eck to be spiritually inducted into tho first department ot his government, to firat become a Christian, or follower of Christ, the great H • and the promise is ''That all these things shall be added unto you ; ""that is, all needed temporal blessings. Again : there are prophi piritual, that they can hardly be said to ra altogether political, and very man;. I at will be in their time, as many are now, that „u; noi for] lerly, their time nui having come. ! y important it ). thai the miud'i t, in order to read, under the l'ropheta ; and we Include all that u prophetic liow GeaMui to . lion. CHAPTER THIRD. AS vi ' • litisl} Kingdoms were of God, it will be expected ofus to show the facts fullj ■ :,<■ bo, we i "j;its themselves further back than the and pa triat chs to whom they were promised. We will even venture to k to God hi l and source of all true $ ts ; and il dim, or"G lecdiul ofthegoverum t determine the o do which we will go to H ird of Himself, i find it i I • in His intellectual and physical creati God is said to be one, and at the same time to be three, thus making/our; and mber of perfection seven. How is this to be . to be understood? It is to be understood thus : (Jod in essens< 'mated and eternal. In attribute*, viz.: Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, : •; but these three attributes being further made known, er in lown to tliQ bettor comprehension of nil man, by repeat and Holy Spirit This double form of threes God who ; nth and last form of the Godhead. this be could uo . be God ; more them this is an impossibility. 3 of a God without the thro: first named, nor have we the re of more than is embraced in tl \s repeated. They do ility. So then God in essence ■ • - ■• Dtially three in quality, as bef teutn. The I . Lent of the son and 2 tor is the Son apart » spirit separate lrom rather and Sen. 1S0 it . L> not av is a union of the form in the Godhead, which indeed . different from them in their individual - % y each have. Thus : The Father I d a union o!' them all is one, which is of the attributes : Omnipo- I a union of them personal trinity made. ■ . and not a 1 add up eight, God's in:... . Again -. fiz : good- gentleness, ►at they make up the God. '.-. the mediums he 8 of his Holy Spirit for of ourselves • i human compre- W'e can sooner com i the abstract idea . . jss, mercy, love. Ac., . ■;.; they flow ; we begin : of the goodness must ■d khi.s (juali id these two till further necessitate 10 Omniscience ; and once again those three qualities joined or united, necessitate a God; aad so od through the whole round of traits of character, we are necessi- tated up to the grand idea of the self-existent Eternal. The various lineaments are not God, but make Him known to us. They are mediums through Which w:e are taught by the Spirit to apprehend him. We have remarked that God's number of perfection is seven; that is, in assmdimg up to God we fill up the number seven. Thus : The Holy Spirit is one, the Sou is one, the Father is one, Omnipresence is one, Omniscience is one, Omnipotence is one. aud all taken together is one, and only one, yet in number, seven. Now, the foregoing being considered, might we not, nay ! are we no 1a forced to the conclusion that the visible creations of this three one God, twice^ "told, should partake of this three ono form, twice told. That 'dike begets like" is ;t, truism, a LToie taught fact not to be doubted, and hence we are warranted in expecting the child or creature to resemble the parent or creator, in visible outlines at least, if not in every lineament or feature. First then, of the visible creation — though not first in order of time — we will take up the creature man ; and we are at once informed that "in the image,'- and again "in the likeness'' of God was he created. How? we would ask; in what sense is man '-in the image of God J*' Is he Omnipotent, &c ? No! he is not, or he would be God. Seme will, doubtless, say reference is here had to God's holiness or purity, as the "image." We eay not ; for if he was as pure, holy, or perfect, as God was and is, be never would have fallen by temptation, as he certainly did, for "God can- not be tempted." In what sense, then, is man "like God ?" We answer, he is like God iu that he conforms to the Triune God : first, in his personal body, soul and spirit. The Bible says he is so formed or possessed of the three, and we are not disposed to dissent from such high authority, or to further argue the point, as this will settle it at once. And secondly, as we found God was repeated in His trinity, we also tind man repeated in his trinity. In physical man there are three essential fountains oflife, aud only three, neither of which could exist inde- pendent of the other two, viz : the brain, or nervous system ; the heart, or cir- culating system ' iiu d the lungs, or breathing system. Here you will see again the three as before noted, of body, soul, and spirit, but the last three constitute but one, and the very same man that was expressed by the first trinity of body, soul and spirit The body is one, the soul is one, the spirit is one, the brain is one, the heart is one, the lung is one, aud all taken together are one, and only one, yet in number sevem- These are all essentials of life. You may dismember and mutilate man as you Mill, so as the-- brain, blood aud breathing systems are not cut off, and he continues to live, and is, to all intents and purposes, a man. Many are born imperfect as to both bodily and mental structure, yet are "living souls," and hence are men. If any doubt the correctness of our conclusions as to the "image" of God iu which man was created, we need givwut one scripture, or "thus saith the Lord" to settle the point, as we think. Genesis 1 ch: 26 v God said "Let us make man iu our image, after our likeness." Here it is une- quivocally asserted that the God who spoke above was & plural God. Let us make "in our'* — "after our." Thus the plural Godhead iu its lull plurality of Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Father, Son and Holy Spirit sits in the council of Heaven and determines and says "let us make," and then did make inan in the "image of God." Less than the whole council could not have said "let us make," and then have made man in the image agreed upon. No person or attribute could by possibility be left out. All spake and all acted ; six Gods pat in couucil and spake, and the very same six responsive acted, and a corres- ponding creature is the natural result • so man must of necessity be like all of them in some sense, and as he cannot be by possibility like them in attributes of Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence ; nor yet like them in the persons of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, it follows inevitably' that he is like them in num- bers. He can aud does have their number seven, the identical "image"* intend- ed by inspiration. It is not possible that God could be "imaged"' in nian iu any other mode than that of numbers. Spiritual existence cannot, be imaged, cannot be portrayed iu tangible form ; no delineation* is possible to oui powers of 11 apprehension. The only delineated [mage of God is found in hia numbers, nnd his image of numbers is that in which man was created. And numb3rs them- selves, in the ab ia tangible as a *= j > i il t . bat thej have their i sentativee in visible figures, which visible | forth the invisible. The and not of Should it be said animal ci forma .. : brain, heart and ! i '-. h tlaim in support ol our posi gin a greater or less degree be ''< at the "universes What fart] Bible of this triune man? tempted, he tell so corrupt that God repeal th:tt he had m i d by a flood swept him from th leaving only four males. Noah, who repr sseata God both ia person and power, dh i . into three bloodheads, or a trinity of bloo I itedbyhis sons Shem, Ham and J and being the heir of the w a trinity of i r, I - each bloodhead his inheritanc . •■ have atrini Jons yet only one in their father representing a. trinity of blood, who ia Noah wa blood, and also a trinity of territory, making but one earth. This is a trinity of trinities. Following one of the 1 by Shem. the . to whom national rul prom ; to sway the national sceptre — we soon Bad in i< a trinity ion il fathers in Abraham. Isaac and Jacob ; and in Ja (the trinity of national fath sra is repeated and represented by Ephraim, Jadafa and liauassen. Thus, as iii repeating of the triune God, we found re do here of tho nl fathers, viz. : Manaea h waa one, Judah was one, Ephraim was one. Ja- cob was one, Isaac was one, Abraham was one, and ail taken together is but the one p to Shem. who is the seventh, beiog the first in promise and is to be the last in realization. We always trace upward to the head: re- turn to the'] ing. The trinity oil- 1 d; it is not necessary to d • ress fulluess or completion T | was fully ■ by the first trinity of the attributes ; uo more \, d in coud Trinity than was found in the first. The result in both V.;t as we Bay it was iu mercy repeated, for the better comprehension of man, fo any trinity within itself is complete, and the result in all a fourth ia number, and not either one of the trinity numbers. J >, 3 am was ad all takeu together con- iah as one blood. whi( yet three in his sons. The Bible is .... on the p ie organic governments on ■ '■ \M . rtriarcbal system seems to have been the nearest ch to it. ^But lines upon a reorganization in ral, in which al or national comes ii rjns at tbeb< i was to sway the nati be succeeded by his brother Japheth, who will it until "he < The patriarchal system pi r the flood time, but even it makes an advance ad early as the days of at of Shem, with whom God makesacovenanl -.to his son it i.l ud heir, Jacob, saying a "nation and a company m. The three national fathers above, not realizing this repeated promise in tii J b, the last one of tlie three, tran Ephraim, Judnb and Manasseh. II markablel Here \ trinity of pron is but one. . all three — a nationality to be made up Of nationali- sm, then ;n to Jacob. The promise ain nationality, and to Isaac an I two other natipnalitj f the same one. As the first, or rather,, did not rea < ; \ ir% failing to realize it, il is transferred to Jacob, who in turn transfi ra it to his sons iuity, each of which was to I irns and pa 12 wo have two trinities ol promises, or rather the same promise made to Iavo trini ties, again making the number six. Neither one of the niimbors running up to ,-,i.\ was the very thing promised, but a fall realization is to be found in a union of both the trinities, making the seventh number and last form, Or head of, the aa tionality promised. The three first fathers never did receive the semblance of a kingdom, except Jacob may be said to have done so in his twelve sons and their families, who shadowed forth visibly the coming nation, made up of a ''company ol nations/' They were one family, made up of a number of families. This would indicate that the three (irst heads of tiie promised nation would be typicaU or non-realizing, and that the third head, or last of the three, whom Jacob rep™ resents, waa to be more realizing than the two preceding ones. We will have occasion to notice this point again, when we come to speak of realization else- where. We will now turn to the promises referred to, and trace up the nation- ality, under its several heads, of the first or non -realizing trinity ; remarking, however, upon trinities that nothing exists without Us trinity, not even inanimate substances. 'Tis impossible to conceive of anything or give expression of it, without making use of a trinity in some mode. For instance, take a book, block of wood, stone, or even the most attenuated web of the spider, or .sheet of paper, or anything, no matter how irregular in form, and it must and does have length, breadth and thickness. Not because the books say so, but the books say so, be- cause they are positively inherent qualities of all substances. You may say tho body is round or square, and it will give no idea of its size or dimensions ; for though it may be round or square, or of any other form, it must of necessity have length, breadth and thickness expressed before you can conceive of or estimate it. CHAPTER FOURTH. THE KINGDOM OF ISUJEL UNDER EPHRAIM, OR ITS FIRST HEAD. • IN Genesis 12 ch: 2 v. God says to Abraham "I will tttake of thee a great nation. " (Jen. 17 ch: I v. '-Thou shaft be a father of many nations.' 7 Gen. L 8 ch: i$ r V. ■" Abraham shall surely become a great am '■ oatibm" Here, at the very outset, we have a nation in its oneness and i Hfdlty or plural form, of which we shall have occasion to speak more largely hereafter ; so please bear in mind this : "E pluribus unuin." Again, Gen. 22 ch: 17 v. it was promised to Abraham that his seed ''should be as the stars of heaven And as the sand on the sea shore, and that they should possess the gates of theiWhemies." Here in aggressiveness, and must be national, not individuals. 'And in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed." These promises are renewed Gan 1G ch: 3 and 1 v. to Isaac, hi Gen. 25 ch: 23 v. it is said to Rebecca '"two nations are in thy womb/' which were Jacob and Esau, her then unborn son;;, typifying or rep- resenting two groat nationalities that were to arise from them, which promise had its fulfillment in the kingdoms of Israel and Edom. This, we suppose, no oue will question. Isaac blessing Jacob says, (-fen. 27 ch: 2d v., ''Let people. serve thee, and nations bow down to thee," as much as to say people shall servo thee, and nations shall bow down to thee, for it was spoken prophetically, ami therefore must, find fulfillment, or the truth of scripture must fail. And as na- tions are made to bow down, it must be to a nation or nations that they bow, for to Jacob as an individual they did not bow down ; he was only the representa- tive of the "nation or nations" to whom obedience is commanded. Again it is said to Jacob, "A nation and a company of uations shall be of thee, and king;! shall come out of thy loins'- the same promise precisely that was made to his grandfather Abraham and renewed to Isaac, as quoted above: showing the one of many and the many in om , so often seen emblazoned on oar old national stand- ard, coin, Ac. Once more of Ephraini it is said, Gen. 48 ch: 19 v., *'His seed eh all become a multitude of nations." And Bal ise of 13 Jacob says In N i a 2f ch: God hina forth out ol Egypt , he bath : Lb of on nnicoi n eat np the nations bi i en< and Bhall '• bones, and pierce them through with i i avoirs." All this . and then learlj political, and proves to a demo : i 1 God doe* concern birai elf in the political affairs • well as the spiritual, *.vn«l that he "pulleth down one nation and settetfa np another as Beemeth good to him." h farther proves that he not only takes cognizance of l ho national or political affairs ol earth, but that show,) had "a nation and a company of nations 1 ' thai, he in a C ill I M own. from Abraham, in whom the J Were in embryo, until too consummation of all things earthly. We might go on multiply i s as above, but our limits forbid, ami the readers patience might tiro ; ob the foregoing sufficient, for. as said to one of obi, "They have ami the prophets: if they will not bear them, they would not believe though one should arise from We will now set out ill search of the "nation and company of nations' 1 prorai.-ed; and in ibis we shall be bpionttr, for .so far as we know no one has- uu ki d to tre, el the path we now propose to travel. The nation as one we need discuss, as all will readily admit that the descendants of Abraham (called lLebp from the bondage of Egypt by the Lord, through his ser is and Aaron, and finally by Joshua brought to. ami put in possession of, the land of Canaan in an organized, national form, is the identical nation abovotiamcd as ore'. Now, that same nation in its plural beads of three, we seel for, and sb : . in vain. We shall notice what issaidjia the promises con cerni »r whatever is promised must, be realized or fulfilled ; and what a, is equivalent to a promise. The " company of nations; " above in one of its forms, for it has seven, begins to take form and appear I i i l i:t ch. of Gen., where Jacob blesses his sons, takes Ephraim and Man:' teh the two sons of Joseph, from their father and adopts thorn as hi- own sons, say ing "as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." He then proceeds to pronounce a national I or promise, npon these two sons, placing bis right hand upon the head of Ephraim, and b ; of Manassch, savin.--, in the 16th ned me from all evil, bless the lad-; and let my >" (Israel, which e au\) "be named on them, and the name of Abraham a mgrow into a, multitude in the midst of the earth;" and in the 19 both shonld become a people, and :' hut that Ephraim should be greater than his ie a multitude Of nation-;.'' In the 20Lll verse the IsralituA n . God made thee as Ephraim and •h: amrnc fore Man asseh." Ami herein consisted bis loss, ascon I nasseh. He was simply to have :h to be precisely the same thing '•a, gr " but Eph h. Bfanasseh was as certain to follow i m' a blessing conferred national ih's, for their blessing was ie will doubtless ques- tion whether th ' d with it national headship, we will give some >li h the fact beyond a doubt, 1st Chronicles, 5 ch: 1 v. says that £ as taken from him and "was given unto KB of^jToseph thi T, why is Joseph here called, as also in other scriptures, "the son of fsra 1. ' the prevailei with God and man. if it did not trenT with the exception of Judah, who in the 2nd vej >ov< bi brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the bi The fact is, Joseph being the son hyp,. raiting father Israel, he became the head and inherited the right to ru 11. This being made still strong- er, if possible, by saying his was the birthright, which always gave and carried with it the dominion A moo ef the household and a double inheritance, except u in the case of Beubcn ami Esau, it was ^pecilically disposed of. This 14 would seem to be sufficient, but as we travel an untrodden road, (to us at least.) we will add further marks from the same unquestioned authority to fortify the position wo have taken, and will cite Jacob's blessing of Joseph, (which always descends by heirship to the sons.) Gen. 49 ch: 22 v., Joseph is called "a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over a wall." What wall is here spoken of iii the past tense, yet evidently in the future, but his national wall or boundary that he was to break over? showing at once the aggressive character of the na- tion he represented. 25th verse he was to be sustained nationally by the God of heaven, "with the blessings of heaven above, Jdessings of the deep, blessings of the breast, and of the womb.'- 26th v., "The blessings of thy father have pro- vailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the ever- lasting hills : they" (the foregoing blessing,) "shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown* of the head of him that was separate from his brethren." Once more : Dent. 33 ch: 13 v., "Blessed of the Lord his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the pre- cious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, and for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush : let the blessing" (above) "come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from hfs brethren. His glory the firstling of his bullock, and his horns the horns of unicorns : with thein" (the horns,) "he shall push the people together to the cuds of the earth : and they" (the horns,) " are the ten thousand of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." This is surely sufficient, for the present at least, and is national in its character through- out; and in no future sense does it apply to tha person Joseph, nor yet to his two sons, who heir all conferred on the father. Joseph's future was at no time more glorious or exalted than when the above was spoken of him, and hence cannot apply to him personally, but strictly of his future headship and rule over the Jsnolitish nation in its oneness, by one of his sous at a time in his tribal capacity; first, Ephraim, as it is said "he set Ephraim before Manasseh." It follows, then, if Ephraim leads, Menasseh must come after him in the same capacity of ruler; and it further follows that if they reign over the same nation, they must do so at different periods of time, it being impossible for both to reign at once over a united people, or over this one nation premised to each of the three fathers, as one. and this one nation under each head, was to be made up of "a company of nations." So they must rule at different times. Having said what we deem sufficient as to the promises of nationality to Abra- ham, who received it not, and as his successors Isaac, Jacob, Ju^ih, Ephraim and Manasseh did not live to see the end of the Egyptian bondage, we will now go beyond in the history of that interesting people, and hud a fulfillment of the promises; in which we shall certainly be. anticipated by all Bible readers, as to the first single form of the nation. We will start at the point of time that the Hebrews (about 3,000,000 in number, 600,000 of whom were able to draw the .-word, under the leadership of Moses,) left the land of bondage for the land of promise, and will follow them rapidly through their forty years wandering in the wilderness, into the land of promise, with Joshua, an Ephraimite, at their head as C.i plain General and leader of their hosts' in battle. We find that under this Ephraiinilish leader this wandering, migratory Hebrew people rapidly subdued, drov'e out and put to the sword the nations that were in possession of the land, and organized in their stead, the first theocratic, states-rights, confederate, republican government on earth, with Joshua as the first President, Judge, or Chief Execu- tive. Thus began to be fulfilled the oft-repeated promises to the patriarchal fath- ers of nationality; and this organic structure, under the Ephraimitish head in its oneness, and under the thirteen tribal heads in its severalty br plural form of sover- eign States, remained intact for about live centuries; but finally under Samuel, the last Judg<^ or President, the people, by the permission of God, added to their republic royalty, with Saul, a Benjaminite, chosen by God, and anointed by Sam- uel, as their first king. But this addition did not affect the theocratic, confeder- 15 ivernraeut ; (1 o i •>! head th ! Thia nationality under all of it- beads is always called in scripture **Isi ! capital under t!ie first head was Shiloh, in tbe tribe of Epbraiin, and the peoplo were also called R< d descended In a line from Shem, th eld at ol Noah's three sons; an rernraent. as before stated, was on< one, or perhaps il was a singular made up of plurals, and answers to the promise "a nation and a ;.. be iViSi-M to Ephraim; and so it was, as above noted. Here, for the present, we will drop I m or government of Ephraim, and go in search of "Judah'* Kingdom" for national headship wa promised him, as well aa Ephraim and Manasseii ; and aa Mi I later in history and prophetic fulfillment than Judah, we will take lip J idah first and Manasseh lasl ol the thtee, for be it known, once fur all. that we claim thai thi Bible th re wae to ariae three typical, E pluribns unum, governments in nationalities; one under Ephraim, one nnder Judah, and one under Manasseh, promised first to Abraham, loaae, and Jacob. CHAPTER FIFTH tit;: KINGDOM OF IS!: DAVID OR JUDAH. Ionr plan, we now take np the nationality of Judah, a- we find if in scripture promises, commonly c ill • ! ■ s. .' c •. in the lyili Hi: 1 v. of Gen., "called unto his son 1 said, G together, I nriy tell you that which shall befall you in the last days." or course he did d :,.ii waa i-i ii fall his twelv of which he . them "in th • least, q! time, and was consequently spoken of them in their de- ational sense. In the 8th verse Jacob says: ••.Judah. thou art !: shall praise: thy hand shall he in the neck of thine thy father's children shall bow Judah is a lion's son, thou art gone up : lie stooped down, lie co old lion ; who shall rouBe him up* I re shall not . c. This is all national, and in the far future; for his literal brethren '.'id how to him. nor have we any evidence that he ever had hi hind in his enemii any preeminence whafo vev was his : and in (act eed down, together with his other br : - their brother when down into Egypt. It is all prophetic of the future ol' Jacob's sons They were all (Levi I nationality, but to Judah and Joseph alone was promised national headship or dominion over the other tribes orstati . Isl Cbron., .". ch: - v. "For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler." This, with many other ] is spoken in tin- pa I ) Psalm 60th : 7 \\ ia said'-Gilead is mine. -his mi: . of mine, head; Judah i.- my lawgivi v." and if a lawgiver, he mil nally, for at this lah had be aerations. Inth lm, 67th verse : "Moreover he" (the Lord) "refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the i f Ephraim : hut chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he Loved. And he built his sanctuary like high p • the earth which he bath estab- lisbtd forever." Thi proves that Ephraim' s reign has an end, but Ju- dab's, under David, shall !»<> end] earth ; and thia proves that Judah aud inouut Ziou are ouo and the ^aiuo "Judah. the niouut Zion which he loved." in the 89th Psalm, 3 v., issaid, "I have made a eovena it witl v c iiosen > ; h%\ ■ sworn unto David my servant, thj seed will i esl iblilh throne to all generations." Now, all th of David applies to Judah, for he was Judah's head; and applies also to mount Zion, for ludah" the mount Zion which iio loved." Again, in the 19th verse, same Psalm of David, it is said, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 1 have found David my servant ; with my holy oil have I anointed him.' ; ' "I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him, and in my name shall his horn bo exalted. I will set his baud also in the sea, aud his right hand in the rivers. Tie shall cry unto mo" (saying) "Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy Will 1 keep for him for evermore, aud my covenant 'shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as tiro days of heaven. My covenant will 1 not break, nor alter the thin i at of my lips. - Once have I sworn by my holiness that i will not lie unto Davd. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before mo." We have here a lengthy quotation from the Psalms, penned or dug the reign oi David or his successors, and must have a future application, yet every "word of it is in refei ence to the Isnelitish, or in other words, David's kingdom, and is strictly politi- cal. Aud as the then existing kingdom of David passed away eighteen hundred years ago, the above promises of perpetuity cannot be applied to it, but to its antitype, which was to arise in the far distant future, called often -''latter day or days." Dut we are digressing somewhat from our present purpose, which is to show that nationality was promised to Judah, as well as to Ephraim and M.i sen ; still, we may claim the last quotations as collateral supports to the former, as they gojto prove the fact that there did 1 1 as "Judah" or David's; and hence the former quotations, and our conclusions, arc proven by the latter. We presume it will not be questioned that there wi such a kingdom as Judah's, including all Israel, as well as EphrainVs did, they were separate may, doubtless will, be is we have shown, or called attention to, the rise of the kingdom of Ephraim, and traced it in haste to its change into a royalty under Saul, its first king, we will now call vise of the kingdom of Judah over Israel, noting carefully its origin.* In '1 ch : 1 v. of 1st Samuel God says to Sa be prophet : '*I ha from reigning over Israel : fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will s'ond thee to Jesse the JSeth-lehemite : lor I have provid >ng his sons. . . Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (I st.of hisbr< ' and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David fr< . the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul." Here, in plain terms, Saul, thi king of Israel, is rejected by God who chose him tribe. elected, chosen, and anointed in his stead by the same crowned and formally inducted into his ofii.ee. Saul, to exercise the functions of king for a considerable period of time. In time, David grows popular with the people. Bai >usy of the ei appears : he bitterly persecutes, and uses every possible means t< slain, David flees from stronghold to stronghold with his faithful and increasing band, hard pressed by his inveterate enemy. Gaul, beco: Philistines, commandeth the woman of Endor to cause Samuel, who is now to arise for his council. Samuel comes, 2S ch: 1G v., and i refore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed , and is become thine enemy? .... for the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbor, even to David." Very soon after this is spoken, Saul falls in battle, on Mount Gilboa. David immediately enquires of the Lord whether he should go up into any of tho cities of Judah; and the Lord answers "Go up to Hebron." . . . . So David went up thither. .... And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah." Abner, ! General-in-chief, about this time took Saul's son, "and made him kii Israel," "and he reigned two years; 15 while Dayid reigned ■ .'. "Then came all r»l" (in their tribal • 'to David .Uebrr ■■ ;>avid king of Israsl." "David war tl ay year.-'.. la B id orerJuuah:- is months : aad in Jerusalem ! thirty and three yea™ over all Ierasl and Judab." Thus is given thf origin and rise of in of David, cor: • -.ional headship - all Isrrcl, for over Israel was ho i: by the L anointed king over Judah ; and her incipiency hisreign ov I years and six v: therca icceeded him, an torty years ov - but on th Solomon's son Relioboam ko the ten ol of Israel broke od", under the leadership of Je~ (as God had befoi in,) but one tribe vr. that tribe was l Judah'a headship, over all Isi * y-three years : and the kingdom of Israel, under I b ip of Jerol the Ephraimite, war* reestablished, with Samaria as the capital, the ' having been ah ShUoh. From this time forward we find the ki . jotemporary ; at time and again at peace ; now prospering under a good king, or toppling to ra partial captivities, until finally the t 'Israel, under JSphiaJ I to total national captivity, under Si * have not, nor over will return, under Hebrew rulers.' Yet tl red promise is that Isms! shall return. (See 16 ch. of Bzekiel.) Fc we shall seek at the proper time and place. We are not yet done with D: kingdom in its ... (for it was typical.) We follow it ^ fortunes, for about a century and a half, and find it, at the c the promised Messip.h, a Roman province, a subjugated peop!;. tog no national head, but retaining it] tribal distinction; for this had been promised by J • . r of Judab. Ec was to remain intact as a tribe '-'until - G ;" soon after whioh event Judah, liko Ephraim, passes into endle?s car. I as the Hebrew headship 13 concerned. Numerous 7 like as onto Ephraim, are dispersed through the Bible of a -latter day" return t showing, as in the ca3e of Ephraim, that his reign ha I ing, only in part. For this we shall alio seek at the proper time and place. Oui* ill be to search for the third typical head of the kingdom of Intel. which is to be fulfilled to Manasseh ; for the promises to him are as cl< are to his two predec- • I if the two foregoing were types, his m necessity, be so too, for they were brethren national • 16th oh. of . CHAPTER SIXTH. THll KINGDOM OF MANASSEH, OR Wless to eav wore, soripturally or otherwise, fo ^ed to Mauaseeh ; for if not pr Lim, n it to the two foregoing heads. Now n that the kin , Ic i exist, but claim tha I and {fa id that nothing is said of the kingdom expec 10 more pi identi ■ nee. This wesh ipes Ephraim, Judak and Manar 7 must ha" • i a common family I bat re • IS rrato, republican royalty, or of whatever form or complexion — so ware the others, From 4b is conclusion there is no escape. We do not pay that in all- their linea- ments and features brothers and sisters shall be alike, but the general resem- blance, or family marks; should be found. We hesitate not, to assert, as before, that the first organic form of the Hebrew nation was a theocratic, confederate, states right Republic, under Epbraira, to which royalty, in the end, was added; and under its second organic form royalty remained, leaving it still, however, a republic :for the people resisted successfully the decree of death by Saul, the first kiug, — claiming the right to reverse his judgment — and did so. Now, as Ephraim jind Manasseh were not, in the strict sense of the word, "brothers" of Jndah— for they were, in fact, his nephews — we may reasonably conclude there was a more strik- ing resemblance existing between them than between them and him; and iu like manner between their two governments more corresponding marks than between their governments and his. Such we find to be the case. Let us see. The first Israel was made up of twelve sovereign, independent states, one of whom (Ma- nasseh) was divided in settlement — thus making thirteen — leading out Levi, who bad no landed estate, no nationality. In short, his was the priesthood. Mr. Baldwin makes up the thirteen by including him. This was improper, as it is said he shall have no inheritance but the priesthood, hence no nationality. We are seeking after nations, and shall pass him by. Mr. Baldwin, in his incomparable work, " Armageddon,'? has done for us what we never could have hoped to have accomplished in tracing up the nation- ality of Manasseh. He. however, committed a great error in treating tn.» three heads of the Israel itish nation as one, and applying the various scriptures to the one. that sho*ld have been applied to the three, but mainly to Judah, which drove him to the irresistable conclusion that the United States was to be perpetual, and was the antitypical Israel of the Bible. The prophecies that give perpetuity to the final or last form of God's government on earth, are numerous; but they must uot be plased to the credit of Manasseh or Ephraim. but to Judah; for ail under the first head* pass away, and the three must reappear and ultimate in one, under Judah as head. In this'alone is to be realized all that is promised of true earthly greatness, nationally speaking. But I am forestalling my reader, and will return to Israel under Manasseh, and give some very distinctive marks of his Israel, not mentioned by Mr. Baldwin. In the division and settlement of the children of Israel, in the land of promise, we find the land very definitely and circumspectly laid o(f into thirteen States {geographically. After Manasseh's portioa was defined in 1.6 ch. Joshua, we find in 17 ch: 5 v. that "ten portions fell to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan," making just thirteen, (for the East side was divided into three lots.) five of which were female portions. See same ch. 3 and 4 v. So that the whole land, thus divided into thirteen lots, three of which were on the East side of Jordan, and tea on the West, is taken as the iW e °f or number- of Manasseh's kingdom. One ot the most distinctive marks was the five female lots, or states, to be found in it. Please turn to the original thirteen of 1776, and see if you will not find five of them to be female ; and if so, does not this settle the point of its identity at once, and remove all doubt? North Carolina. South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts. With the foregoing, together with what xMr. Baldwin has. said to the point, and it is very much indeed^ we will rest the matter, for the present at least ; holding our self ready at any future leisure (which we have not now,) to give much additional scripture, of the same nature, in proof of our position. Having, with the assistance of Mr. Baldwin, tracel up the three great typical nations of Ephraim, Judah and Manasseh— the two first to their end, as types — we may expect the third to end likewise ; and, from puesent indications, the time draweth near. For immediately after the first Israel added royalty to its govern- ment, it began to grow weak aud topple to its fall ; and, indeed, may be said to have fallen at the death of its first king;— for after that event there remained but the semblance of a government; — and, immediately thereafter, we find the •orsreigQ and independent Stat* of Judah sectdtd from the old confederacy, and 1$ i* uphoust keeping for herself, and successfully resisted . ., her inO*. pendence was acknowledged by the whole house of Israel, who ca»i! down lo Hebron and confederated with her ; and she then reigned over the whole of Judah mnl Israel seveuty-tbree years. Have we anything correspon ling with this ia our history , and in our day ? Need we call attention to wha* the election of. the AM king of the United States? (Which ia lianasseh's kingdom, or mod- ern Sodom.) We find the same leave I in rapid action; and "Judah's seven" secede from the new confederacy, and the building o'~ the uif Jerusalem commences under the gracious promise that "Jerusalem shall be in- habited as towns without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle therein, for I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire, round about; and will be the glory in th.i midst of her ; and the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in tb^ holy land, and shail choose Jerusalem again." We close for the present, for want of time; but if, through the wisdom and nu^rcy of the "Xing of Kings and Lord of Lords, ' we are spared until next spring, we shall resume; and hnre some.bing to Fay of the auti-types of the three typical kingdoms here mentioned; and na- p 'dally much to say of our beloved Confederate States of America, as found ia th» Bible. For the present , adieu ! October, 1S63. CHAPTER SEVENTH. WE r#3ume (April 1st, 1864.) our task, left off in October. 1863, for want of leisure, and will try to redeem our promise, then made ; and will first call attention to the fact that God's chosen people made three distinct periods of conquest of the heathen nations whose land they were to possess, and three dis- tinct settlements of the same, at three distinct periods of time ; and that the two fl-i settlements consisted each of three tribes, and the last settlement of seven tribes. Now. we assume that the first settlement of three, type or represent that the nation 6hould have three national heads, under its first or typical dispensa- tion ; and, further, as the first set of threes was not in the promised la Canaan — but was on the East side of Jordan— that this fact indicates tha national heads they represent would not reach the promised land of national rest: that the stormy political Jordou was yet between them and that rest. Tl i< B tribe, in first set of threes, is Reuben and stands for the first kingdom of I - which we have shown was Ephraim ; the second tribe, in the first set of threes, !. and stands for the secoud confederate head, under Judah or David ; and the third tribe, in said set. was Manasseh, and represents the third confederate under Manasseh, which is the Uuited States of America. Iiaving gono through with the first set ot threes, wh will now examine the character given to th^m ; for whatever was their character, such was to be the character of th« confederate heads that they severally represent; and the head3 must appear chronologically, as the tribal settlers named. Reuben was not to excel, though be was the beginning of strength : he was as unstable as water: and was withal a leacherousson, and the tirst born. Was not that the character of the first born kingdom of Israel, under Ephraim 1 Though it '-was the might and the beginning ■ i.mal strength,' the excellency of dignity, and the excellency ofpow waa too unstable to excel; too leacherous to retain its purity, as Joshua left it. Need I add more of this head of the nation ? I think' not ; as all Bible i • well know how unstable and corrupt it became, very soon after Jothua's death, and ever remained unstable. Next in order is Gad. It is siiid of him tl troop Bho lid overcome him: but he should overcome at last." '-Blessed be be that enlargeth Gath : he dwellcth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown Of the head : he provided the first part for himself, b - iu a portion of the lawgiver was he seated: and he came with the heads of the people : he exe CBted the justice of tin Lord and his judgments with Israel." We ask :waa tfceefa v Judah or David '.' Emph* govtu;. rm : himself, and all the sembl 'bad about him, were dig for protection td the 1<- :.d of the heathen nation ot the Philistines. His government, to which he was anointed, was overcome by a troop too numerous for him ; but, finally,. he did overcome, and triumph most gloriously, for • years. He wa* said to dwell at a Li.or>, and teareth the arm of power that had stood in his way ; and with it, also, the crown of glory, from the head that had woi i placed it upon his own .royal head. And with Judah'a noted lion mark, he has, also, the law -giver feature, promised to Judah. Now, we have no scriptural evidence whatever that Gad ever accomplished what is here promised, or that y. troop overcame him. It does not lit Gad ; but it does the kingdom of David or Israel under Judah; and, as Gad in second named in the first settlement of ■'■ and has Judah'a distincive features or marks about him, then we conclude that Jjidah'a national head should appear second; and the fact that It did, proves our conclusion to a demonstration. The next settler, (being the third and last of the three,) was Manasseh, and represents, in order And character his own confed- erate head. And first : his order, or number, was third; and so must be his con- federate head. Was it so ? It certainly was. The United States of America ird in the order of kingdoms that have arisen in the history of it peculiar confederate type: and a. - s cannot be -or, 1 think. ■ ball say no more upon the ord< o time, but shall proceed, at once, to examine the character given to Manasseh, as it is to be the character of h tnent. In the settlement of the three above named tribes, on the ! of Jordan,* it is said, in Numbers thexxxiic s gave unto them the kingdom of the Amorite, and the kingdom of JJashan;" and 39 v. "the children of Machir on of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispi ie Amorite . was in it. ■ Here we in as his inheritance is allotted to fain and warlike prowess •w of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small tovi ■:. And Ncbah went and took Kenath. Again, in the xvii ch. of Joshua, 1 v., it is said "Gilead and Bashan wer< lir the son of Mi In the 14th v. the children of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh,) complain to Joshua because territory enough had not been given thei ; that they were a "great people;" and Joshua, in the 15th verse replied: "If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself There in the land of the P< [ants, if mount be too narrow for thee. And they in turn reply: •• The hill is not enough i' :>: : Joshua replies: "Thou art a great p The mountain shall be thine ; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down : and S of it shall be thine : for thou shall; drive oat the Canaanites, th they have iron chariots, and though they be stron ill add one more tare, of character to th done, for tl See Joshua, xxii ch: 7, 8 v., where he sends them away wi "Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with Bli- nd with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment : divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren." If this is not sufficient: "You would not believe, though one should arise from the dead." The applica- bility of all the foregoing, to the United States, is so easy, simple, and self-evident, that we might otfond common apprehension by making the application. We, howevejr, will recapitulate; Manasseh was th': third settler, of first settlement; and as the third settler typed the third kingdom of Israel, in order of time and Character, whatever kingdom, therefore, tha d that pecul and arose after ingdo el, under D ae in tended by prophecy, if the chai lich all mu I warlike, indomital p. gold, cattle, bn i ■ i . igdom of ; ■ : ■ as if I I I I ■ - CHAPTER EIGHTH. ■ ■ 52 b#en bit offby a master hand, Ho the very life." Again, in the 56th verse, it is laid to Jerusalem : "Thy sister Sodom was not mentioned ( re^uored implies that b given birth • and I. is Bhe not been in er since .-: iiith? but I i able to Bee, at present; h wril be the reMilt of her labor pang*, h." iu the 7th and 8th i erw 9, then, ai before Who. it,. ■;; is said to have br< forth ' ' nnmber- - she commenced travailing 1 Jt pon national travail • "Zinn" is a nation, and a nation in travail, and bringing forth, must be bi • •■■ •>vith tl . . for Behold. I - : like a rirer, and the glory i j use whom his mother con ed in Je rusalero; and the hand of the I pants, and his in 1 '. iroies. For. behold, the Lord will epme w ii fire, ai whirlwind, to render hi r wi h fm v. and his ' I the Lord pie id wuti . from beginning th, or . bo, to the ■ ruBalym." •■ cal raountain.th ii mountain" • n.) "without he ?oon '-becai .' after daahin uotato, before it werful to become such, that Which is only another name or ■ none. seven, above noticed; V| id -'cutout im to be the fen. The hands, we all know, be standard and undeviating b\m\ . the 8tonu out bands, it was Amply accompli e "juetaa the obildwa the*Cenfederate State of i. or cut h vr S< d< m, ;.: that dftj ol ' . - 1 . the result ; for I qn North . i i , uatil travail commenced v is announced "as soon," '. ' -' upon travail, children are born unto her. So, if Mr. Lincoln had let us rest quiet and unmolested after our peaceful, nnlaborious birth, be might have retained his fair daughters ; he, otherwise, quickly lost. While upon the subject of the birth of the "man child," we will notice the birth of a "man child" that took place some eighty-four years prior to the one above. See Revelations, xii ch : "A woman clothed with the he moon under her feet, and upon her head a crows -tars : and eing with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. .... And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations wiih a rod of iron." And if all nations, our nation is included, unless we can show that the . born in Ixvi ch. Isaiah, 7 v., called there a "man child," is ours and is ring and heir of the first man child. Mr. Baldwin has shown, to my •e satisfaction, that the nation born in the person of this first man ch other than the Unified States; or, as we may say, Manasseh's kingdom. Now, te United States has not done what is here said she was to do, and never will, :■ her present head of number three, or third kingdom of Israel, how is the We solve it thus : Whatever is promised in scripture to on, we must look for its fulfillment, first, in his person; and if hot fulfilled in his person, we next go down his line of descendants, personal, if the thing h mal; but if national, follow on after his nationality. Viz : if a promise is : recorded to Judah, (or a curse either,) first apply it to the individual man, Judah ; if not fulfilled to the man, or is not applicable to him,*then it is legiti- mate and proper next to apply it to the tribe of Judah ; if still no fulfillment it; or is inapplicable, next apply it to the kingdom of Judah, under its* first but it no fulfillment is yet found, follow up the kingdom in its next form, yon find fulfillment; for it must, and will, take place just at the time, and in the manner, that inspiration foretold. And whatever is | - . is to him as a king, aud is always political, and may be fulfilled to liirn in lom, oj,' his successor. Whatever was promised David, the kin and if not, it descended to his regal heirs : and as much was a not yet been fulfilled, we may look expectantly for i tnt under this, his kingdom under its secend head, and fourth "head of the . and 6rst head of the anti-typical three. Now, as the man i of the woman was to become the political ruler of all nations ; a United States is proven to be the nation intended by the man child ; ahi dissolved, and is rapidly passing away without receiving, in her met, it is legitimate to transfer the promise ta her regal descendant. The tion, then, is who is her national offsp horn has she given birth ? We rer unhesitatingly, as we have before done, tbeCpnfede ofAtneri- If she is not our mother, we have, none, and are in a sad predicament; i in orphanage; we are a bastard; and "shall not enter into the congre- the Lord until the tenth generation ;" which docs sot suit me at all. old lady. 1 admit, is treating us rather badly ; but, nevertheless, we must not deny cur parautfige, for thei lay hold'on the promises unfulfilled to ker, The genealogy must not be broken in upon. She gave us birth ; the r child; born without any effort or labor of hers, to be sure, but none the I. She is the "she" of verse 7, Isaiah lxvi; and is the mother of "Zion" of verse Stb, that was born in a day; which "Zion" immediately travails, and gs forth her children; and will continue to bring forth, until "all nations kindred and tongues," "all fowls of every wing" shall take shelter beneath goodly cedar of Lebanon. "This stone is to fill the whole earth." This ston« r the old dispensation was "Zion," the city of David: which city was a .stronghold, a fortified position on a mount of that name that commc . the city of Jerusalem ; and hence Jerusalem was so often called the "dau being the feminine, and more defenceless representative of th< eminent; and the two taken together are called the "double city.'' or '. i the two lions of God ; that is, the "lion aad lioness of God.*' • p . e, and looked upon tl time oi love : and 1 ppread my skirt over t"' • sware onto thee, and entered into a covenant wilh thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamtGt mine." 13th verse : "And tl Depec into a Thus the person add] .' and became "renowned" and pr< inder David and Solomon; ftnd retaining its renown in Mil finally, for its cox tion, God divorced himself from her. L chapter of Isaiah: '-Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of jronr i « " n»»nt, whom J have put away . "BeliC Hid yourselves, and for your transgrei ia your moth-'r | This is not hi.3 church, as is commonly sups bnt * tund of authority tor it. To satisfy yourself, read again the xvi ch of Ezekiel. Thfa kingdom here divorced, or put aw called ''barren and do. . irren and desolate, after a time, the bosom of God. her former husband; wa :ier, Isaiah liv ch: 5 v. : "Thj ; thine husband ; the Lord of hosts is hij name ; and thy Redeemr the Holy < >ne of Israel ; . . . for the Lord hath called the ! [or divorced] "and gi ;'irit. and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused:" wh i is now addressed, in the 1st verse, thu too that did [that is, during her divon 'orth nging. and cry • that didst not travail with child :" [dune lent,] "for mm- lildren of the desolate" [that was but now no Ion;" ! children ot the married wife, saith the Lord.'' 2d verse : "Enlarge the place of tby tent," [the country of thy dwel let them stretch forth the curtains of thine sn thy and strengthen thy stakes ; for" [now that the worn Lord said he would not el< Peak forth [in births] oi right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, aud the desolate citiei I i ed." This is ali said of 'Jerusalem;" ■ 2 the stone cut out of tl; so lxvi ch. kingdom which was n . of the Confedei of America, the real- b •;■• promise to ih planted by the Lor:' nality com ia the rich, of Isaiah ; there in turn, personates his own nationality. The spirit ol This government; the spirit of wisdom, of might, of understand edge, of judgment, eqnity, *c. The lamb ; the leopard into a* kid; the lion, the tailing. alike: the ferocious animals here personate political perso:. wore no longer to ex I -eek aud harmless as the domes- tic animals they are. I o be ranging i tag with. 9 th verse: atroy ia all my holy mountain : for the earth shall be lull - nothing more Lor le:, a holy or pure governmes , po often promi again, w earth. Ch* "he was the root and offspring"' [branch] "oi David, who was of .Ire---.' "His t glorious : and unto him shall the Gentiles seek.'' 11 ill cume to in that clay, that the Lord shall set bis hand aga time to reoov- inant of his geople, which shall be left" among the heat: -et up an ensign for the nation I ■ -able fee outcasts of , and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the lour corners of the 'I he !-i. pfaraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall toff: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not ;aim." Here we hi ' and must be political; for no man ever heard of a Mid then the political rulers of the Isrc bo large a space in the pic: forced to tee the politu i?6 further, confirmatory of the above, is the fact that iiumeduilely after Ibis prom- ised restoration, it is said that these nations, restored aud joined. ''shall h*y upon loulders of the Philistines toward the^west : they shall spoil them of the eas< together.: they (shall lay their baud'' [hand is power, and being singular, of the nation at this time,] '-upon Edom and Moab ; and the ion shall obey them." These are symbois of monarchy , that is ever? t I should be destroyed by God's ancient people, when restored to nationality. The fact, is again repeated in the 15ih verse : '-And the Lord i destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea 5 [another symbol ot monar- ghty wind shall he. shake his hand over the river," [mon- "and shall Bmite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. . . it was to Israel in the day that he came up out oi the land of Egypt." , .as a mighty river, made up of swen rivers, stands in the way of the universal triumph of God's government* just as the Red Sea stood in the way of iidren of Israel's escape from the monarchy of Egypt; and is here, as that was. to be wrought upon by a mighty wind ; and smitten also as it was ; and the is to be the same, so far. as effecting a fait; passage to his people : but in afcter case, the sea was 10 be utterly destroyed; and corresponds exactly with smiting of the great monarchy image ot Nebuchadnezzar by "the stone cut i Shout hands," utterly destroying it. and at once taking its . and "filling the whole earth." This frequent -'dashing" and '-smiting" of mbols of monarchy, in the scriptures, points significantly to the "battle of the great day" to be fought by God's ancient people, represented by their regal successors, on the mountains of Iarael, after their union or confederation with ;'. between whom there existed, for a time, a breach, or broken state, as 3d it now does. This battle is none other than "Armageddon," now soon to aght ; bat not until the North, as "Samaria and Sodsm." are given and joined to the new Jerusalem, or Confederate States, and we all become one mighty nation again ; more mighty by having beta broken for a time. Upoa the restoration and re-building of Judah or Jerusalem, Zechariah is very full and explicit : opening his book upon that very subject. la its first sense hie restoration has direct reference to the return of the Jews from their seventy years captivity, under Babylon; their re building of their city, temple, &c; all of which is typical. Haggai prophecied at the same time, to encourage the peo- ple in their work ; and in connection with Zechariah, we shall notice some things be says upon the subject. They both lived and wrote during the time of said return and re-building; and where they say anything upon that subject, in its first sense, it has reference to those events then transpiring ; but when not true of the nation under that restoration, (which much was not. that was spoken by the various prophets.) then the reference is to the "latter day," or grand and final restoration of God's people to nationality. What is here said of Zerubba- the Governor under whose administration this typical restoration took place, — as well as what is said of Joshua, the High Priest — must be considered as typi- ml, also. We believe there is no diversity of opinion, among our learned com- mentators, in saying that very much, and the more important part of what waa gaid and promised the Jews, on their return from the Babylonish captivity, wan not realized by them ; and hence we conclude that said restoration was only 9,typy eed one : land, names and all. So we shall make use of them as such. Haggai is directed by the Lord to say to Zerubbabel, the Governor; Joshua, the High Priest; and to the people : " Be strong, and work ; for I am with you, saith thd Lord." "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts." This was not true of the temple built at this time, and so must refer to another house, yet to be built. Again Haggai is directed to "speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength cf the kingdoms of the heathen ; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them. ... In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zer- ubbabel, my servant, and make tbee a3 a signet : for I have chosen thee, saith :i.c Lord oi hosts." These things were not done or accomplished under the rule •f Zcr ■: wu i u J • i lignet or seal, that bhey ihould be deos ; i >, which H livalent to an oath, ] away, without the thi • istihed in i i ttbbab i 1 will pass by ci though very full J do hope and trui > band, so as hu may read the j ropheciee we ri >r iv.: "And ... and said unto me. tiiou '.' Aad 1 said, I have Looked, ana bebold a candlestick ail of g bowl upon the tope ,. and aevei | 3 the .leupoti the top ; And two olive tiv<_* b> it, one npoa the ngnt 1 1 . 1 t te otber upon tue left aid 1 .So X ...d .-pake to the 1 my Lord .' . . . l ben he tue Lord unto Zerubb , biu bj know what they s L aska tue angel . leatiua by , Lprd a words of c'omuaissiou and Zerubbable, wiio he uad . build Jerusal 1 ; in short, to 1 the restoration of the Jewish m irther, for the encoara the builders, and . ,. tvD y opposing bhetacle; bui in the way of Go become a plain ; and he BUall bring i crying work, for it was not by his in , a ; u.^ b fcpuit of toe Lord. •.bk: have laid and ti you." .Po not toi but we Da\ 10th verse : • ■. e ^ay of sm/.dl things has din before noticed. 11 a : of email things, Let 1 . i "Ij'oi tbej ■wan thobe seven ; they [Zeruooabel and tne .- whicb .jie earth/ 3 Here ends the ang nation ot the c... asks no more about it. Lie next wi\ ,.v what the two olive treed Bigutiy, uud ia I -y are "The two ano .. 3d one », that .stand by the Lofd ot tne \siiule earth, ' being synonymous s\ . that were for three daya and a bail : wh eti w ia shown to be the dual Israel of God, Le in Unurch and state. No • i en-branch- ed caudleetick, • mgett I understand him to say, as plain d be, iuat thia 1 babel was set to : 1 and that no . ; : ^ oould ^top tat a^ ktia 1. • laid tuv, fuuud itiou, , ; j.i t te anti t j Zerubbaoe) of tli - i. .No mater what may be b*r of tyei or States, or yet brancbee to th.a geidea caadlestick, ahe first u r I er, by which sue is to be identified. We would like to % o through this Prophet, with the render, for our mutual benefit, but must deter it for the present, as our limits— made very limited, for want of printing facilities — forbid. It may be proper here to notice the fact that John the Revelator, mentions a similar Candlestick, as the one above; and that it is said to represent the seven churches' to which the address, iu the first of his book, is delivered. This is all just as it should bo. Thiire are two of those candlesticks mentioned. One of them represents the Israel of God in Church; and the other one represents the very same Israel in State, or nationally. There were ''two olive trees/" "two candlesticks," "two prophets or teachers/' "two witnesses, 7 ' 1 &c, which are nil synonymous terms, and mean one and the same things ; that is, the dual Israel of God ; — God*t people in (Jhuroh and State. CHAPTER NINTH. THE xxxvii of Ezekiel, from the 1st verse to the 14th inclusive, introduces us to the whole house of Israel as not only a disrupted, but as a dead and buried nation ; and spoken at the time, too, of the actual state above referred to. This is the familial "vision of the valley of dry bones;" which, in its sequel, verses 12, 13, and 14, brings them to national life again, united as one ; as the address was to the "whole house, 1 -" and called, as before, God's people. 4, Be- hold, my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come .up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, aud I shall place you in your own land : then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken and performed it, saith the Lord." The "house of Israel" was one, and the "house of Judah" was one; but the "whole house of Israel" was Jacob's twelve eons, their descendants or regal representatives. All of Israel were not Jews ; but one tribe only bore that name, and individuals of other tribes that affiliated ■with them; yet ail Jews were Israelites ; hence, we should be careful to distin- guish between the "two families"' of Israel. One was Joseph's house, and em- braced ail Israel as natural descendants of Jacob, who was called Israel "&•■■ he had power with God and man. and kad'prevailed;" and Joseph's was the birth- right, and as such ho inherited t) cue ; for it was to be kept up by some one, and that one of course v/a,; the birthright, sun. Judah's "house" was instituted and kept separate from, though within, the house of Joseph, for the specific benefit (or use, if you like it better,) of the promised Messiah or Shiloh ; for it was said of Judah Shiloh should come, and of Judah he did come ; and in and over Judah began, in initial, his reign asking, in the person of his regal father, David. We return, to consider the foregoing promise to the "whole house of Israel" of national restoration; and as no such restoration took place under the old dispensation- i r. Baldwin has shown satisfactorily, with some additional proofs by ourself, in another part of our pamphlet, that Israel has been restored under this latter day dispensation, we will claim at once that the above promise found its full realizationin the rise of the "whole house" of Israel or United States; and as there was uo promise of perpetuity annexed to this restoration, we take it for granted that permanency was not to bo expected, when not even implied ; in fact, that dissolution was arid is inevitable d has not said, in plain tenns, io the contrary; tor all of the } t iratioa are strongly marked aod fortified by "everlasting," i And what are the facts iu I >rd of the Lord came again unt . -ophecy, by the word com- ing "again" at anothe , or hour, or afterwards ; it matters not. And that word ? Veree ItJth e thee one stick; aud write noon it, For i id (or the children of Israel his companion* : then takt another ' ' > Ephrairn, and all the bouse of fsrael his companions ; and join them one to ick ; and they shall become one in thine hand." Now, \ does all this joining of her mean, if it ■■'. a^ Language oan 13th. and 141 rokeo or di et to the breach, to join the stick! ti ch. of . and learn how this Btick was 'cut apart." lie not. It was no part of his business to do bo. He was red to unit* them; which to explain to r erse : "Thus saith the 3 God; Behold, I will ; .ho-.e house,] from am the heathen, ... and will mall u the laud upon the mountains of Israel ; and g shall he king to thera all : and they shall be no mo: nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. ... I will nave them out of all their dwelling-places, Wherein fhey have tinned, and will ol« thall they be : and 1 will be their God. And David my servan ; they all shall have one shep- herd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in l [have given unto Jacob my sef- sajjt, wherein your fathers have dwelt ; and they shall dwell therein, even they. and their children, and theii i children for ever: aud my servant David shall be their prince forever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them : it shall be an [ : covenant with them > and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernac yea, I will be their God, and they shall bo my people. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall he in the midst of V* ire." This promise remains to be fulfilled; but the beginning of its fulfillment — the joiniii union of the North with the South — is close at hand. It cannot be claimed that this refers to a restoration in the Holy Land, or Palestine, because of the ex- pressions •■ liters dwelt, &c.; for if such expres- sions are not figures, neither is, '-David my servant" a figure, but real, which would necessitate the resurn ion to life of King David, who has been dead over two thousand years. Such conclusion would be ih-i heighth of absurdity. The old land, names, kings, &c., are taken to type or represent the new. The nation here restored is Israel, under Judah, and the names of her ancient fathers, and country are hers nce\ and who has any right to complain \ besides, God said to D ppoint another land, and plant them in it. Second Samuel, vii ch., God says to David, 10 v.: -Moreover I will ap- point a place lor my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may d. a place of their own. and move no move ; neither shall the children of wicked- ness afflict them any m If stronger proof of a new national I iul. and a new planting thereto we shall not be able to give it, and shall not attempt to do so; but while upon this head of planting, we will )me other | of national planting, and national plants. iahxxiii, 6 v. .-•, : "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, [nation] a [called David,] shall reign and prosDer, and shall judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall . >i shall dwell safely. " xxxiii ch. 15 v.. ''In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow np unto David. . . . David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel." Zeohariah lit ch . 8v.: ''For behold I will bring forth my ser- vant, the Branch; for behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua, upon one stone seven eyes." Here, as elsewhere, the "stone" appears as a nation or branch of David; and on this occasion it has seven eyes. Tho Confederacy being the Branch — immediately explained to be a stone, and said to have seven eyes, which are the seven States in its first organization — is the identical stone cut out of the mo untain without hands. Isaiah, lx ch.. beginning at the 5th ver life size picture • \ imaria and g 30 clo»es thus: "Thy p?©ple also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land forever, the braach of my plauting, the work of my hands, that I may be glori- fied. A l:ttle one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." Here you s. j e it is a nation again. In the xvii ch. of Ezekiel a parable, which is further called a riddle, was put to the house of Israel, saying: "A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came onto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar," and planted, &c; ex- plained in the 12th, 13th, aud 14th verses to be the taking of the king and peo- ple of Jerusalem captive, by the king of Babylon, who planted them in his own land ; and also planting a subject kingdom at Jerusalem. When done with this planting of the king of Babylon, God says, 22ud verse: "I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of mug twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and emi- n ■■•:; •■: in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it ; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell." Here God says be would do what the king of Babylon had done; and Isaiah, as ju^t quoted above, shows that God had done it. The "little plant was to become a thousand;" the small one a "strong nation." Now, when, and where did these two plantings take place ? The first "I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, aud will set it," occurred in 1776, and corresponds with the man child of Revelation, that was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; so its locality its know* 3 hereby, as well as -from the date. The second planting :i l will crop oif from [as the stone was cut out of the mountain,] the top of his young twigs a tender one. and will plant it." This second slip for planting was taken off from the Jlrst. and was young and tender. Young and tender imply feebleness; want- ing in physical powers; cut from the lender growing top, and not from near the root of power. It had no root attached at planting. This fits to a scribe; touch- es everywhere. The seven seceding States sat, over two thousand years ago, for this faithful likeness. Next the place of planting : "Upon a high mountain, and eminent in the mountain of the height of Israel, will I plant it." As the whole planting affair, from the king of Babylon on to this last and final one, was nation- al; and as a mountain is a very common symbol of a nation; and as a nation could not be planted upon an isolated pile of earth, it follows that this planting of a nation was "upon" a nation, or in a nation. Now, if the C. S. have not been planted in the United States, I am not able to give her geographical position : and if, after all our labor, we cannot locate her, our toiling has been in vain. It was only severed from the parent stock, and took root where it was, just as the stone was severed by incision from the mountain; the knife of secession simply passed between the parent stock and the tender one, leaving it, as to local posi- tion, untouched, and having and retaining its vitality in a genial clime and fa- vorable soil, it could not fail to take root, as it did in organization, at Montgom- ery, Ala.; and then to grow, and shall continue to do so. unfil "It shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell." "And all the trees of the field [all the nations of the earth] shall knosr that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, [U. S.] have exalted the low tree [C. S.] have dried up the green tree. [U. S.] and have made the dry tree [C. S.] to flour ish." . We might continue similar quotations and remarks ; but our time and space forbids. We will now call attention to what followed immediately upon thv* "joining of the sticks," the "flowing together" of those that had been apart; of the "mending of the breach," &c, by which joining, healing, flowing together, the divided nation became one, "never more to be di vided into two kingdoms," but to remain "one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel." What fol- lowed this re-union? Answer: The "destruction of the Egyptian sea," or mon- archy, called again a river of -'seven streams," Isaiah xi ch: 15th and 16th v. In the xxxvii ch. of Ezekiel, as we have quoted, this union of the nation took placp. It is immediately followed, in the xxxviii and xxxix ch.. with the total and final trertltrow of monarchy. by the hand* of the nation *o restored upon the moan- 51 t«im of larftd; and a* this il " ' . -• ", t%\\ attention to the taot that monarchy isi sby seven d - derated or banded together for our overthrow. See 2. 3, 5, and 6 \ 38 ch. Ezekiel. There "Gogia the chief priest ofMeahech and Tubal; and wit\ reatriverof mon is called Gog, and his seven str< ' ito him are fonnd In nations here named as j >i led with him in I e, on thei bnt most gloriously su m our part. U iah had said that this ri be "smitten in i tie did not particularize or tell us how: bat Eeek two chap as referred lo above; we h 1 1 . *e to copy-. We have, i n th that. Zechariah, in his xi i and Judah t<< b became two nations. It isi by all that this c . ; n)y tells us of the division of the I'raelitish p into two separate kingdoms; but when or how, the rr: nine. Bishop Newcoin says he could not explain the passage in reference to said division, without su he united nation to exist at the time th* Prophet wrot > this prophet d knew was not the fact: for it poken many ge . Joseph, or the ten trib broken off from the house of Ju I ipoken, in fact, w I was in the act of returning from her captivity. and was actually then re-building Jer: and the temple. The learned commentator Mr. Joseph Meal, says: "Methinks such a pro] lable for Zeehariah'fl time, when the city yet, for a great part, lay in her ruins, and the temple had not yet recovered wa<* it agreeable to the scope of Zechariah 's commission; who, together with his colleague, Haggai, was to enc rarage the people, lately relumed from captivity, to build their temple and to reorganize their commonwealth." So you will - most profoundly learned were left in the dark a-- to the proper understanding of this prophecy. Upon a similar prophecy, d . Dr. Clarks says, in substance : "This prophecy was spoken by ■<•-..',,<. who :'.■' ten tribes broke off from the house of Judah ; for it has reference U that event, and co Ud not b . i by the prophet in whose book it is here recorded, for he lived And wrote long after that event; and in compiling or ig up this latter prop] l f this prophecy of some unknown prophet, by mistake got into the wrong book." Is not this a atrange way of getting clear of a difficulty, not : j time not having cow.'' The fact is. this proph- ecy hasdii i the "latter day Israel." and could not have been understood until the present time; but its time , of r< vealment having re is now no difficulty in th unlearned We v, as it stands in the \i ch. of Zechariah, totally wanting in chronology, or order of time as to the things or events spoken of. This, however, i >ecurrence, lifficnlty. We will ivor to give it chronologically; give it in the order in which the events or ac- tions severally occur. Th • tion is treated as a " nock/' and a p them axe called "the flock appointed to death, the a by tfa who are ca "who slay them.'' This flock of slau i -poor of the flock;'* that is, the weak or more defen (humanly speaking.) of the whole flock or .. v understand to have refer- itb,as a whole, and to all. North and South, individually, who are with 1 in sen time n by, a l - such, lemselves to the wrath of the North. if slaughter claims our Grot attention. : "Tims saith the Lord my (rod: Fred [or sustain] the flock of the slaughter; who- -th] slav them, and fold themselves not guilty: and they [the North] that sell them sav, Bleesed be the Lord; for I am rich." How true, all k low that will reflect for but a moment. Tl .as indeed grown rich. ask; '' iterally Men her possesion ; fihe was literally slaying us, and had well nigh accompli wc wei-B aroused to a tense of oar danger: jrs^'Blessed be the . hereby, that under God's authority they havd*done this wickedn ; all know they do to this day, by their thanksgivings far any seeming success < "he poor flock being thus provided for, God says: ; 'l will no more pity tanta of the land, [that, is; the North)} but, lo, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king : [that is, into the hands of the South,] and they [the South,] shall smite the land out of their [the North's] hand and I will no*t deliver them, [the North.] And I will feed the flock cf slaughter, even you, O poor of the [original] flock;'' thus re-assuring us of his guardian care and pro- tection. Thus prefacing what he designed doing, he then, preparatory to the action, takes tw or sticks, one called Beauty, and the other called Bands. Beauty represented God's covenant with the whole house of Israel; and now. as he designed to break the brotherhood, it was very proper that he should lissolve the covenant between himself and them. So he says, verse 10 : I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my cove- nant, which I had made with all the people. And it was broken in that day : and so the poor of the flock [South] that waited upon me knew that it was the word [a>r will] of the Lord," that it should be so; and so we do consider and re- ceive it. Now that the covenant between God and the whole nation, or Israel as one, is broken or cut asunder. ly for cutting the band between the brotherhood, which follows at once, but could not have gone before. The broth- erhood could not have been disabled so long as God's covenant remained with the whole house. 14th verse: "Then I cut asunder mine other staff, Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel, [Joseph.] Thus; the North and South were separated; and in immediate connection with this breaking of the brotherhood, is announced the raising up of a foolish Shepherd or ruler in the land of the North, (that land that was before said should be smitten out of the hands of those that then held possession or rule,) which fool- ish Shepherd, it is said "Shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the y®ung one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still : but he [the Shepherd] shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear their claws in pieces" Abe Lincoln sat for this faithful likeness many generations ago. He did not visit or seek the young cedar of Lebanon that h*ad been cut off by the knife of secession, in a spirit calculated to bring them back and heal the breach in the brotherhood. So far was he from "healing that that was broken," that he did not so much as feed, strengthen, or encourage those that had as yet stood Still in the matter, to hope for better things at the shepherd's hands. "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick or faint;" they could stand still no longer; he forced the fatal knife to descend again and again, until Virginia, North Corolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas, are all found in motion. What is further saM of this foolish Shepherd ? why, that, instead of feeding and giving of strength and hope forfcthe cut off and the standing still. "He shall eat tlie flesh of tho fat and tear their claws [or means of defence] in pieces." What is promised him for this? "Woe to the idle Shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye : his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened." Woe, to old Abe ! Chronologi- cally, the three first verses cover the same actions as the cutting of the staff called Bands, which was the breaking of the brotherhood of Judah and Joseph. The nation is addressed as "Lebanon/' and ordered to throw open her doors, that the fire might enter, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. So if Lebanon represents the Nation, the cedars must represent the States. "Open thy doors, O Lei [U. S.] that the fire [political burning,] may devour thy cedars, [States.] Howl, fir tree; [less excellent nation's,] for the cedar [the most excellent tree or U. S.] is fallen ; because the mighty are spoiled : howl, O ye oaks of Bashan ; [less excel- lent nations.] for the forest of the vintage [U. S.] is come down. There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds ; [Governors of the Northern States,] 1 . glory [the Union,] is spoiled : a voice o'f the roaring* of young lion,s; [chief per be pride of Jordan [the Union,] is spoiled." The next thing that clai • as well a«t ord ■ £- . I red the Hock.'" thai ia ibe "flock of slaughter." or poor flock: which we Hn.y a r rganio form : before tins Urn .-. we spoke of them *.* Che bhorring ia i ! DODO other than I ijuently God cuts off spherda from his will not fend you : that that dieth let it di* ; and that >t it be cut otf; ;: no use in delaying the matter, as there ent Off "in one month." These three sa, belonging, at the time, to the Confeder- acy: ee, Kentucky, and Missouri. We have thus no- Licable strictly to the present state of things in prior time. It tells of eeceaalon and the Confed- w'o will cite one mo i to prove that Israel. day. won'. •. In the xiiich.ofl ■ cient and unrelenting foe of Gtod' 1 Israel, w I burden or CUrae pronounced against her, and her total promises to bis own people of deliverance from their or the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet v Israel, and set them in their own land : and the strangers [negro?.?] shall ined with them, and they [the negroes.] shall cleave I > of Jacob* And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place : [the place that Gcd said to David he would appoint and plant his people in it, and that they should no more r: move or.be afflicted as aforetime.] and the house of Israel shall 3 them in the land of the Lord for nrvanla naids : and they shall captivea, whose eaptives they were; and they fchall rule over tholr 3cendant§ of Ham are here had reference to, who had e -elites for so long a period, while in Egypt ; but now are to be turned, and the former mastera to become the Blavea, and the •'And it shall come to pass in 4he day that the Lord shall give thee reet from thjf nd from thy fear, and from t/io bard bondage wherein thou wast made to .serve, [in Babylon,] that thou ihalfc ■■able against the kinc: of Babylon, and say, How hath the opprea- golden city < • Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked.and ■e of the rulers/' This parable of rejoicing,on the part of Israel,ow len Babylon,i6kcpt up, to the 2't sluaive; butthe Prophet, In the 29th v. i not to rejoice, as a whole, because the rod of Babylon Si for there wa3 in store : \ ng evila "Rejoice not thou', whole Pa • rod of him that antote thee,is broken: • ':• root ■ U he a fury flying str- pent Babylon, that spawn of the devil. Monarchy, properly called a serpent after its sire, is not dead yet ; has vitality in her very roota* We rejoiced at our deliverance from her a little, just a little, too soon. The revolu- • us rest, and scorning security, for a time ; and we, naturally n joiced and took up a parable against monarchy in general, and taunt- m on every suitable occasion. But in the mean time her roots were ger- minating secretly, and out of tight, that serpent of eerpentg, that cock- atrice and bane of States-rights, confederate republic? — called "centruixnx," tend- ing directly to the one man potear principle, in opposition to God, who alone is onein power. "Centralism" doea not make an open and direct attack, but give* birth to a- dch, for want of a better name, we will call "Abo- litionUm." wn of Centralism came acrosa tho waters in the guiae of a messenger of Christ, and at once entered and desecrated the sacred desk; and thus, unsuspectingly, got at the people, and won upon them, as a wolf in afceep'a clothing would, naturally, upon the sheep. And th< headed by their •Shepherds, soon set up a bleating to Congrefu: but In their sail bleating*, they lot one word in oppo " nor ene word in favor of Cen- m. No I not they. Their calliog and mission was a higher oce. They did not wish or care to "daoWe" in politic! Let the nation take care of itself, and tfieyVould tsko care of the souls. But as soon aa they acquiru a little atrengtb, * in<\ organize, they become holder, and begin to clamor most ▼ooiferottsly, luit not against Slate Sovereignty ; that must be kept in the back ground until strength to strike boldly, and confident of certain success, is obtained. The se- quel I need Dot write ; it is already written on the broad face of our whole land, in tire and blood. The sequel, a« given by inspiration, we will copy, and make a few remarks thereon. Jn the 30 th verse the Prophet gives assurance that pros- perity should be to the rejoicing nation for a time : that "the firstborn of the poor pbftll feed, and the needy shall He down in safety;" but, after a time, "he shall kill thy root with famine, and slay thy remnant." This killing of the root may have reference to the killing of the two witnesses, before noticed, and tne slay- ing of the "remnant," to the "remnant" that was affrighted, and 1; reby was induced to "give glory to the God of heaven." Now, what follows this admoni- tion not to rejoigfe? this assurance of evil ? this assurance of good to some extent ' amidst the evil? It is this : the dissolution of the whole nation. "Howl, O gate; cry, city; [city of Sodom,] thou whole Palestina, art dissolved: for tbe^p shall come from the North a srhpke, and none shall be alone in his appointed tim None to escape the effects of this Northern smoke ; none free from itsdissol! nature. This "fiery flying serpent,''' like subtle smoke, enters into all departments 'of the nation, and the consequence is a disruption of Palestina, or the government •f the laud of Palestine. Thus, again, by inspiration, is shown, by different fig urea or symbols, the same things before noticed; and they might be multiplied from tho sam? source ; but we close for the present ; ready, however, to answer, as ab»v«. if called ou. CHAPTER TENTH npSE IiraeUtish nations, sg type and anti-type, correspond with the double JL triune form of the Godhead that produced them. Witness: The first plural form.of God in attributes, of Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence, was not so clear and tangible, not so real or realizing, to our human apprehensions as •was the second form, expressed by Father.. Son and Holy Spirit ; so the first, or typical form of these governments, has not been so realizing as is to be their rrtoad. And again, as a full realization of the Godhead, as taught us in tho Bible, is not possible, until we pass up to him by the six steps of ascent to the ffcventh. which alone of the whole is God, so we" need not expect full realization nationally, until w% arrive at or to the seventh and last head of God's ancient government on earth. This fact is farther proven by the six steps of ascent to. king Solomon's splendid throne, each one of which was guaided by a brace of lions; thus signifying that the nation in all its travail and labor, up to its final bead, was guarded by Christ the lion. This throne figured or typed the nation in all its steps and final " throne dominion," which was not a step, but a seat. The steps were laborious,but rising higher as step by step the kingdom advanced, nearjmg realization, or seventh, which was not a step, but a seat; which all will r.ee at once signified rest, no more steps of travail; "Dominion" has been obtained; the seat has been taken by David's regal sou, who will sit and rule forever. To this also agrees the six labor days of creation, ending in tne seventh one of rest ; for in six days were all things created, "and on the seventh God aided his work." Labor was an attitude or condition of unrest; standing and walking are common ones.. Six days entire had been occupied in the work: the seventh finds the la- borer in-his attitude of labor — standing for instance. A degree of labor therefore is requisite on the seventh, to effect a change from standing to sitting, or one of rest; hence it is said "he finished" on the seventh. Again, upon this head: The Israelites were required to till their lands six years, and the seventh it was to 'Tost We return, and note: That as the attributes of God are made up of various or lineaments; as tv? have elsewhere remarked, so, likewise, these govern - meets arc made up of the various State governments, which may bo muitipiiAl Like tbrir irrwit original, (God) they kliall become universal, ai promised ■•oft. A marked example or two of multiplication was given us. by God, in the dividing the tribe of Joseph Intd two. Ephraim and M b t df- nh into two. Thus was the add sraey taught, and the United Statcs^d not fail to profit by the ! ; i tbe resul [ years tMfeates grew in number from 13 to 33. [tin a that visible things I ITu- , we would understand and the invisible, (rOd. V St. Paul, speaking of heath birds, and creeping thi rs ttiey were given op of God ton I iess,b< • it was not an ignorance'of necessity that caused them to do e di t the it that which may be tenon • [ t1l(i unto them " How has he d : "jPot n isible things of God ever si worM [which is i isible,] "re ' seen, [not dimly,] fc ■ ■' &&- '"' are made plain bytfu idol wi nl excuse," notwithstanding they had oof word. "Prom" the date of creation all has been plain, if nun would have given I to the voice of creation, with the Spirits aid, whicn "enl every man that comctb into the world.'" Creation— physical, intellectual, an • bat the retkx of the mind of Cod. and must be like him. Creation pre-< in the mind of God. just as the finished painting reflects bat the pre-existing and colors of the artist's mind: he by action simply brings them cut and tra them to canvass. We hesitate not to and intellectaally, in families and innati ; •'in nations" in Abraham's house. All the fan - ;, !'-«.t' Noah, and they are but one family. All the •< earth belong, by promise, to the three nations of the fathers, and they are te be one nation, and to "fill the whole earth." All others are to "bee aft' of ammer threshing Moor;" ''driven away, and place for Ihem no more to be as that this globe, so far a- known, ig or ennuis of three distinct formations, termt .1 by the book-- Prin and Tertiary, or 1st, 2nd, and 3rd; and thai periods of time. So the ea iture \ and from this we conclude that a government springing ft i the same infinite ;<>rm and feature, should also bear the marl '• If • tbe old United States' Constitution, as w *ame triune feature kept up, even in their working u and $ are like the Athenians, who ignorant •■ rod, to them unknown, according to the inscription on an altar of theirs. \\ Rerving God, nationally, though imperfectly it enti- tled to □ ) credit. "To God be all the glory !" who, >• >f his Holy Spirit, directed and. guided the fathers of '76 in organizing a scriptural or God like government. The same feature ifl repeated in all Governments. imeats that do not. conform to this physical delineatic 'nave not God for their author, and arc Counterfeits or corrupt, and a pring of fallen man, and are. as he is. averse to God ; and so. necessarily, ' This rale is changeless. All governments I the centralizing ele- ment in them; that tend to consolidation; that in anyway favors the one man . places man as nr.c in'th^ place of God. who alone i= one in power; and ;•. • at war with the Paternal and his governments on earth, and would. If possible, dethroae the Deity in heaven. Nimrod (descended rrom that, branch of Noah's family doomed to servitude, and denied national rule, because • rrorelinLr. Bensual disposition,) was the author, as tar as we are informed. of this one man power principle in governments, and established ot ord sred the kinc/dom of Babel, which resi.-t-. . an i settle wid* • .', and was alone compelled in disperse by the conft r lan- tmcntSj from thai day to this, thai resist or in ^ 50 fter binders free and wide spread settlement or dispersion, has bad, and ev ivill. a tendency to centralization, and are of their mother, Babel, above name*!, nnd opposed to God; and as such, must and will fail. Babel is the mother of all Monarchy. Some governments that have, or do now exist, may ia som'3 instan- cies rejexn'ole the governments that we claim ar&^t*G>d, especially as to the h<*g- i*lative. Judicial and Executive features naraedWbove: and so we might expect; for when there in a spurious or counterfeit thing, it must be supposed to Is made in imitation of the pure, bat it is only an imitation, and m$y pass as genu- ine for a time; but, when put in the crucible of God, then their drossy baseness will appear, and be rejected, and once rejected, will pass no more as genuine. All powers, nationally speaking, are in the hands of the people, in their Indi nal capacity, aggregated, delegated to them by God ; and being God's delegates, they are amenable to him alone, and not to the.government they ^created, as his aetive agents. The accountability here referred to is political ©r national; for individual sins, in breaking any law of the land, does not involve politics, and for such sins he is most certainly answerable; the one to the whole, who is sup- posed to make all laws, if not in person, by representatives. The government being the creature of the people, in their aggregated capacity, cannon hold the people, in said capacity, to account; tiut, as the agent of the people, its duties are to carry out the will of the people : they alone hive the right to "a] change or abolish.''" And thus following out this self-evident and common se; view of organic governments, under one general or confederate head, we trace them in regular succession backward or up tireain. to the source of right to i From the one government confederate, up stream to the State governments, and from these again to large communities, inorganic,, and these to neighborhood, and neighborhoods to families, and families to individuals, the s ;.-,. make up this great governmental river, a common figure in scrip - meats. The springs above received their power to flow into from Heaven, and should, as the rivers to the ocean ceaseless stream of gratitude and praise. Or, if we at the springs, (man individually,) who receives their erigin and constant support, we trace the; creeks to larger ones, and these in turn to river- governments organic to a government confederal urium," or one made up of many. This is in sti nature, visibly manifested, which is but a visible Witness, the great otean, above referred to, in its • many, when individualized, resembles in a remarkable origin of all things, even God the eternal. Witness waters as one sending out itself in vapors to the visible h ■ as clouds, fall in teeming showers upon the thirsty . countless springs appear; (this but representing the ] ■' in*o branches, creeks, rivers, and rivers into a river, and i utc to the ocean again. So, like God, it is the "Alpha ning and the ending, the first and the last;" confirmia had mapped himself out in creation." Who ever hear- up stream, dividing and subdividing itself until it end springs? The reverse of this is nature's law or order. springs, but springs make rivers; continents do not i , grains of sand make continents. The whole is always mad* the parts of the whole, for that would be an impossi'. : houee is by parts; the pencilings of the artist, that ultimate in is so likewise. The work is progressive; and so the are progressive ; not to say the same of God himself, to whose existence we could form no idea, as before ftand or starting point, and w^th the assistance of the'sp so to speak, progtessivtly. /gain: the governments w ■ their lower ends, but upon the opposite ends and res . cr tejp restiDs or, the ground, These things being considered, how could any set- el Intelligent mjn come to the conclusion that the general government h\i ate governments, upon which It id built? U.at tla »in, that the g I Ues have df id not rosume at pleasure t Del- but lent; not a i gift or bestow i 1< gated to be ■. : *d ot inr- .rating, and i.e. 'legate, only so far iten d to hifl delegator. • tuse applicable only to a portion uf tut- eartb to, and over ha* I and dors not conform to the physical arrange of na ; does v • i m the least m that all governments that Tin to the physio*] delineation ul God, ai I and :.a sucli, ■ 1 CHAPTER ELEVENTH. AS- the lxvi ch. 8v. of Isaifth, s< Zion travai brought forth children;"- and as said prophecy has, we believe, almost i aire '. and not, j ■• we have trea^J i ■ consider ir sucli. and not at all spiritual; and further, usofb-tcs may have •thus baen giver. children iu spiritual Zion, we deem it pro] id, lor be it known once for ell that I aiu in the fair fabric of enr spiritual mot! hurch is a bo+rou ' . one of ess- iai -> .' the ye . . i hildren ol Israel, under the leadership ef Joshua. w l&G . of Canaan, soon drove out. killed, or subjugated its heathen iu. -. yt by careful notice it will be observed that certain j . they ii&nol subdue, for 500 years after they entered the laud. 1st Chx 5les, xi ch:4 v\>*"And David aDd all israe: to Jei '- J&iut] where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of tile •habitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not co»e hiiber. it tie [ot fort,] of ; ehisti ■: Jebusites first shall t>e chief and captain. a I first up, and was ohi< I And David dwelt in the led it the city ol rouei. Vth eh: Mb rent to Jerusalem unt • fctabit- '; i unto David, saying, Thou ahalt not come in hither: hither." (For they 1 igainst the whole »n strongly fortified- ) '*Nei I :yid ■ ■ . avid. And David bui rongly i irtifj ing i i called by kbo le we hear • Now say. ye tfa was it the church ? will Israel- tmreh: how came she ierve tor ourselves the right to do so, and shall, if any see fit to attack our position. We affirm again, most unhesitatingly, that Zion. who travailed in the 8ih v.. lxvi ch. of Isaiah, was and is the Confederate States of America. And before taking leave of national Zion it may be well to add something further, while the matter is in hand, and the reader's mind is upon that subject, to show that Zion, in its first or original sense, is national. Isaiah, Xth ch., the Lord calls Assyria the rod of his anger, and staff of his indignation, which he would send agaiu&t Jerusalem, a hypocritical uation; saying, in the*. Uth v,: ' Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jeru- salem and her idols? Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work [of destruction,] upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem" that he then would punish Assyria, the nation that he had used in punishing or destroying mount Zion. or the Jewish nation. This cannot, by any forced inter- pretation, mean the church, for Assyria never destroyed spiritual Zion, and that too as an instrument in the hands of the Lord. He never has forsaken his spirit- ual Zion, but he has his national Zion ; yet not utterly, for he encourages them, in the 24th verse, saying: "0 my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian:** nation ; truly, "he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee" as my agent to correct thee, but only for a little while, nnd in turn 1 will scourge him. "He shall shake his hand agaiust the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem." Jerusalem was the daughter or feminine pa«r4 of the nation, while Zion was the masculine or strong arm of the government. Isaiah xxix ch: 8v\, the Lord mentions the disappointment of dreamers, saying. "So shall the multitude of all tho nations be, that fight against mount Zion." Here a multitude of nations are represented as fighting aaainst mount Zion. "We have no evidence that any such multitude ever beseiged the church; and in fact, we know they, as nations, never did; but on the other hand, as nations, they have ever fought' against God's nationality, anciently and mod- eraly; and it is of said nation that he here speaks, calling it "Zion." Isaiah xxx ch, God addresses his nation as rebellious children, rehearsing their evil doings, and their impotency before the pursuing enemy, saying, 17th v.: ••Ono thou Z$ ^ of you "ball flee at ;h* rtbi.ke of one" of their enemies. Hm sits, however, tb*; Ue will wait, that he may b i unto them. Wtb v.: "For the people shall dwell in Zion at, Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no n< -er sn said or' th» church on oar;:.: a perpetual out and flgh tinge with- in are her heri • e body. Her release is at death, not before; death <•! her individo i tot in polity. Isaiah x.xxi ch: 9 v., the Lord iu Zion. and Lis furnaoe in • 1 bis cannot bo spiritual. Isaiah xxxiii ch: 20 v.: '"Look upon Zion, oar solemnities : thine ey%*» ■Bhall see Jerusalem a qoiel habitation', ataberna de thai shall aft be taken down." Zton and Jerusalem are visible realities; they i the Israelitish nation. Isaiah xxiv "And the ransomed Of the Lord abail return. and come to Zion with songs unci everlasting joy npon their heads ; they shall ob- tain joy and gladness This can uerer Zion, for she has no such promises as t h i .^ , while eho is on earth. It is Paid "they shall return." \\ here to '.' we would ask. Of course to the. placo they had gone out from. They ha i goneouMnto political bondage ; they are h nrning "to their former estate," as promise^ in the xvi ch. of Eaekiel. The church is not a visible but a spiritual existence, And cannot be in bon never be from home. The conscience return; but ;u all lands and climes this kingdom is within, or il is nol at all. Isaiah li ch: 2v. the nation is addressed thus : "Look unto Abraham your lather, and unto Sarah that bare you : tori called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. Hearken unto me, my people ; and giva . ito me, my nation. For the Lord shall eon .. ;it eomt'ort all her waste places ; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desari like the garden of the Lord." ': j ,,(••• t , the point, but to long to cop i. [ do not say that there arwaot spiritualities iu thes . but that in their first and most obvious sense they are na- tional; for the r< \ origin of the nation, clearly fast litical meaning asthe first one. Jeremiah li ch: 36 v.:-Tbe one to me and to my flesh, be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitants of Zion ly affair; that is. a curse or malediction by one a ■ !. and Israel Cowes Babylon, calling the sam< to fall upon Bab} lien upon them; and as Babylon wae clearly a nation, whin! > doubts, and must then suffer thess curses as a nation: and if so, the and if political in the ons case, they must of n< i io in the other, for they were the same. Lamentations i ch: 17 v.: -Zion sprcadetfa fori Is; and there is none to comfort ber : the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob [Zion,] that his adversaries Khali b* round about him; ' of couive to afflict them. Did God ever command the ene- • i. to circumvent and overthrow his p - - . forth her UarJds in luppli- ■ did and never will ; but of national Zion this in, true to the letter, and has been oft rep ated. -The Lord hath . . . thrown down nghol*of the daughter of Judah." which daughter i* igbold isZ'v Phe Lord hath, aceom - pliahe I he hath poured - sree^nger and hath kindled a Kre in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof." Not bis church certainly, but his nati -did thus visit with ■: Micah, iv ch.. speaking of the 'storation of his nation G. I . : v.: -And many nt- shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain [government] of the Lord, and to the house of tfas God of Jacob; and be will teach ua of his I walk la bis paths : for the law Khali go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." "In that daw saith the Lord, will f rami* • U. and ! will gather her that is driven on^ and her that I afflicb Lord shall reign overftem in mount Zion from henceforth •von forever." Here we have three personal pronouns aat balibeth, htr •n out., and her that was afflicted. They are gathered inn- c pH mount \ . . three are thf 40 identical three jn the xvi cb. of Ezekiel, called Jerusalem. Samaria and Sodom, and known to be the Israelitish nation in its divided State, but soe.n $o be joined to sever no snore; and joined, are called Zion. This can in no sense be applied to the Church, for she is ever one, and never divided into throe churches, more or- less. H v., "And thou, O tower of the flock, [and further called "the strong- hold of the daughter of Zion;'* Jerusalem was the daughter of Zion, and Zion was the sire ng!« old of the daughter,] "unto thee [Zion] shall it come, even the first dominion." The first dominion was Ephraim, for he wa3 call: d. the first born of God. Jeremiah xxxi T am a father to Israel, aid Ephraim is ray* firsi bom" nation, lie has the, first role or dominion; but in the "latter day?' the dominion passes into the hands of Zion, and as EphraiuPs dominion was strictly a political one, and passes »S such to Zion. it follows that Zion was political, by v/hich we mean national. "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall novr together." They had been apart, but now, having flown to- gether, they are to remain one upon mount Zion forever, whil^ David reigns as king forever over them. In 4he ii Psalm God says he had set his king upon the, holy hill of Zion; and that being set, he should break all nations with a 'rod o^ iron; should dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.' This m Christ, the king, and not Christ the great High Priest. A king sits upon a throne; a priest standi before the altar. The office of a king is to rule nations, and if need be,'" dash them to pieces. The office of a priest is quite different : to offer sacrifice for sins. So the person in this Psalm is Christ the king, sitting as such upon the political height of Zion, or upon the throne of Jerusalem, which is the throne of his kingly father David, and according to oft-repeated promises is never to end. Klviii Psalm, 2 v.: "Beautiful for situation, [has a locality: the church has not,] the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, [which is] the city' of the great King." (Not the great priest.) "God is known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. , They saw it. and eo fJoey marvelled ; they were troubled, and hasted away. Fe»r took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail." Why "all this fear, pain, travail, &.C.. upon the part of the assembled kings, who were political personages, on be- holding the "towers of strength" and the impregnable bulwarks of Zion 1 Why, we say, if she was simply a spiritual existence, such haste to get away from her? She would not harm them, but do them good. Nay, she was the ""city f of the great king," a mighty political fabric, before whose'power they quaked and "hast- ed away." Psalm lib", C v.: "Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion ! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, »nd Israel shall be glad." The personalities in this passage are all national, and so must be Zion. Psalm lxix, 35 v.: "God will Rave Zion, and will baild the cit- ies of Judah ; that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. The see^j also of his servants shall inherit it : and they that love his name sballf dwell there- n." Building*, cities, possessions, &c, are local and visible things; they belong ' to nations and not to the church. Psalm lxxviii ch: 67 v.: "Moreover he refus- ed the tabernacle ei" Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim •.'•"but chose the iribo of Judah. the mouni Zion which he loved.* He chose David a!*o his servant . . . to feed Jacob his people." This is most clearly and unmistakably nation- al; and Psalm lxxxvii is like it: 'jThe Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, 0,-eity of God. And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her : aud^the highest himself shall establish her." We forbear to add more, at present, as we shall have to give over, at some point, and as well here, as to add further; for our limits forbid us to say one fourth that might be said of national Zion. Of spiritual Zion it is not our pur- pose, in these notes, to speak; and besides, she has her untold thousands to sound her praise abroad, while political Zion has none, among all her sons, to tell U3 of her, so far as we know. Thus it will be seen that there are two Zions, one national and the other spiritual; two characters of Jews, one national and the ot tier spiritual : two Jerusalem^, one national and the other spiritual; two de- ;nts to God's government, one nation*! and the other spiritual; two na- ^ found iu bia creature wan. one 101 ial or national, and the othi He may be * national Jew or 1- -. .\\y, -^ ; s ttot a Jcti- who i* one outwardly: but he i Itually. "All are not Israel who aia re not spiritual U utward" and national, and the otbei . nward • outward i • ard or lutleiblt* ; fche make . There are two ] spiritual; ono visible, and the other ini ; earth are to be burned up ; the spiritual, n sed, ii strictl) national, and ch if those bui He who looks for a literal I urning up of he iven and sarth will look in vain, teaches no such thing. The burning is pel . ;0 . CHAPTER TWELFTH. W S wi11 ^ ow D0tice a prophecy that applies to the pn ,'' things in tin ites, and whai m soon tofo I" ,; ' (; *> l • jinning at the 3rd terse. Mr. B - han- dled this prophesy ably, but bas misapplied it to "Hungary." We shall : and copy h'v.a when I . and then make our .1. "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophecy a thousand two hundred ant three-score days, clothed in These are the two olive . landing bel And far- ther ca 'two* prophets/' and th or tne "two sons of oil.' The two witi prophets, two anointed ones or the i ■ the same things; ; dual Israel of God." The two olive trees mentioned b v. ch.,) and grees with the so Uriah mentions two candlesticks with seven br *»ches, a two olive trees as standing together, and ibly the two ano Laialy the double :. P itual and wfter of God's law, a nature, as a spiritual and p om the two . and the perpyt- onefthls doutt ! and its constant oc- alone to th )\ evidence that the two witnesses represent the doubla - oi the pei- L, and can „..«d'a agents, and not in their own rights, for "All power in heaven and earth is his." ^o to give glory ;o (Jod na ■ es not require that every individual in the government should be a Christian, though mon certainly thia would be better, and bring unmeasured fullness of glory to God; not only politically but spiritually also. So then to become a patriot in- ' requires that he should reign in the affections, which would always insure his reigning over the nation. We shall confidently look f States, in the West, fo secede, and organize a theocratic, confederate, rights (or iStat.es sovereigncy,) government, as early as the 1st ot December. 1866, if not earlier; and that the then remainiug States, called a "remnant,*' shall also re-organize, as the two preceding nations will have done : and tl thus dyne, the three governments, being thus alike, the two latter will confed- erate with the former, the C. S., and become "One nation upon the mountain* (States) oi Israel forever, and David BfaalJ be king over them for evermore." ;•:<•* zxxvii oh. Ezekiel, from the 16th verse to the end of chapter. This union upoa the ( 'onfedenite States, or the "new Jerusalem.'' we think v. ill take place about January, lSt>7 ; but if not so early, it positively will at no very distant day: and that very soon thereafter, the "battle ot the great day." or ••Armageddon." will be fought by Israel united, as above, against the combined representatives of monarchy : and Judah being victorious, monarchy falls to rise no more, and the mitten i republican royalty, with God in Christ tfs its acknowt- edged head and author, stands forth no Longer as a promise, hui avei aliztd fact. The ''Throne of David." over all Israel, thus re-appears, and all that was promised to the house and throne of David, that was not 'realized in the old dis- pensation, will — to every jot and tittle— be fulfilled under this, the new. dispen- sation. In the thousand years reign that follows the peace of "Armageddon, ,: Christ, nc the kingly son and heir of his father David's throne, will reign by rep- resentatvpes; but at the ending of the thousand years his second advent occurs, and then in his visible human person he reigns forever on earth as a King. Then, and not until then, may we cease to pray ••Thy kingdom come, on earth." H« comes the second time tritfund a sin ottering, lie came the dust time with a sin offering, and having offered it as 1 High Priest, he said "it is finish Ml priestly offering was complete. "There remaineth no move sacrifice for sin." He h-vd ng >n his second coming, as u king, to offer a sacrifice fur si an. CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. CHRIST THE KING, AND HIS KINGDOM. CT is off times called a king, and perhaps as off, called th? £on of David. / Why called a kin?, if he is no l sons, and were Bftidfto -{siUiipon* David's was David's, the king that sat upon if. was David's ■'■: bo might not have had one drop ot David's blood on father or house, in his veins. Because it has been said "a fountain ittess has been opened up in the house of king David,'' many I as a priest is the son of David, for the "fountain" evidently Ji— the shedding oi his blcod for the redemption of 11 that is meant by this is that the high priest, in his personal —having been promised that in his birth he should come by a virgin should be of the house and lineage of David, in the lifts he came out of the loins of his father David, as promif ed. to be the. son of David as a priest, for St. Paul A settles that p»int I : . according to khe law, no priest was to be of Judah. Ju- I ;d never hi id in no sense could be called a priest? and as such the father of Christ. Christ, as the son of God, was a priest : as the , he was a king. Ghrifet, as was Melcnizedek, was made a priest by :.ordlugto the law. His priestly office was held oulside*of the regular succession, under Aai tee he was not David's son in this sense, yet hew»s in ^>me one, and in the one we have befere named ; that is, officially as a king; ana' as David's throne was to stand forever — not Lis spiritual throne, for d none Buch — it follows that some one must sit upon it as his regal heir and representative, on this very earth of ours, and not in the spiritual abode of the tfal. Ail of the symbols and figures ©1 David's throne fasten it to earth, and to talk otherwise 1 would ba sheer nonsense. The throne in heaven is not David's, but God's, the Eternal. And furthermore, David's throne on this earth is also God's: and David and his successors reign but as God's representative? on earth. We will further notice the significant fact that David was anointed to the kingly office three different times; thus signifying that he should reign over three nations; or rather that he should have three distinct reigns ; but as he has had only two reigns; the first oyer the house of Judah for seven years and fix moaths, and the second over the whole house of Israel tor seventy-three years, it follows as a necessity that hi* regal son. somewhere in his line, should reign i.. dor his first anointing ; and as none of his kingly sons did reign under his first anointing, which was ordered by God at the hand of Samuel — for each of them reigned ur,: citing— it farther follews that Ms kingly son Christ must and will. This specific anointing by God cannot b« lost ; was not useless ; and will be effectual. Thus the "'first anointing becomes the t last,'" and the "last king becomes first, " in point of importance. This anointing sealed the Covenant with the house of David as a house of kings ; it has never been abi ted or annulled, as was a former one with the house of Saul. ' chosen and . . ,.a-rr io lc Ir&en. "1 bate foui d David my servant; with my holy oil have latedhim." But as lie did aoti under 1 fiuthcr meaning than to the p< rson D be "David r a greater ?on ;; I over (ho whole I two anointipgsby the hous who sits and reigns or rulra a^ I .--. the abip'of atate to and through the • - reijn, as the representative of Christ I and purpoaea, no matteMtohat maybe ' Smith" or "Billy Jones. Yet it is a* I worthy ol that tho first Chief Magistrate of the I bear a same bo very nearly David : Davit. . m4 you have it. Doubtless in their etem< I off from the first 1 er the reign of I established the first kingdom ol Judah or Jerusalem. Davia br. second kingdom of Israel under the reign of b^r flrai lorn of Jerusalem, la David left tho fii ad organized th ; • house o' . came down reigned over "all Isarel a same time niter Dun's left the second ccm8 down to the capital of Jeff. Davis, a fchd then he or his successor will reign over, or admin | Israel and Judah :" at which time, and fori r, the kingd ll Israel will be Judah'a or David's, who was of tho tribe of 'Jr.." • its will bs '•Israelites." This wiil >:• ith and last compact, or last, confederate head of tho nation, and haa'nofsnecessor, and mi .ar. ' We have passed throngh with the Israel of God in its six steps of asceafe up to the teat or throne, which is the seventh, and is nol i -were the ether six. The sixth and last step brought the m JaboP or travail to a point at which it might Bit down upon the seventh ele i one of rest and one of rule or "dominion." Steps always indicate a forward movement; and sent are upward ats, which is ever lal i standing ; and as long a:s sending and moving attitudes are maintained journey is not finished; the goal not. obtained ; the na or. until is its s "at— a position of reft— upon the Eeventh ai ch i3 not a step, but the throne to which the six steps lead. Tfc conformi- ty with what wo hav ! Baidof God, who is the author of this govern; uithor, it m • its father in some particular : and a* it is im- possible for it to be like God in any other particular than that, that man is as : noted, it must bo like him in numbers ; that is, the government is one, and only one, though we have seen that it has hud 'Jhrei h under t^e first or typical dispensation, and that it will have U -nder this, the realizing d finning ; but these .' .'-first make bat c,v : and the same thing— the seventh and last compact, jasl i ti inity of attributes and the trinity of persons made but one*and the same God, who is the seventh and last form of the Godhead. The kingdom of Israel under Epir? ftrst step in point of time and numoorj; the jdom under Judah is the second step in time and number ; the kingdom of Sodom, united - of America, or : in order and number typical dispensation. Now thej first settler j of the second Set of th: set was on the West side of Jordan, strictly within thelandofCai and represents himself nationally, and as he is found to be in the promised '. we have a right to expect the nation he represents to ulh.; \ (7? soon as iid Bettlerwaq the/our ©fae.ttl I time, he is ■ Bt side of Jordan, or : ^ are to follow him. he must of nc i step ol aseent, or first a3 \W) two remaining iottl< t iaTii io local position to the threne; for be it borne in niiud that "Sodom and Samaria" are to b« given unto Judah or Jerusalem for daughters. Tbe stick of Israel, ia tine hands of Ephraim,. is to be joined to the stick of Judah, and not the stick of Judah to Ephraim. The movement must be up to her: she must hold a higher position on, tin 1 as-ending steps than Ephraim at Mauassah. And as Ephraim was the second settler on the West side of Jordan, he must be the second head of the nation under the new or realizing dispensation, and as such occupy the fifth step chronologically, a* well as fifth as to number ; while Manasseb. still being left, behind, is tbe third and last settler on the West side of Jordan, of the second Bet of three?, and must come after Ephraim, and take the fourth step as to number, but the sixth as to time, lie theu comes to«pbraim. and .Ephraim, with his brother ManaSseh, comes to Judah and becomes one with Judah, and then as cue. they all take the final seat upon the throne, or form the seveuth or last compact of confederation. "The lion of the tribe of Judah" has guarded crery step of this government, from the first to the last. It is his own. 'Tia he that at ths end of the thousand years will sit upon the throne forever. We take Solomon's splendid throne, made of ivory and gold, that was to be reached by a flight of six steps, and each step guarded by a brace of lions, to type or figure forth, the kingdom of Israel in all of its steps of travel or journey- ing*, from its inception to final triumph or ''throne dominion" under OhrlitHhe great national redeemer of earth. And as Judan's national standard bare the sign of the lion, and thus became his distinctive national mark, and made him the lion or chief tribe of the Israelitish nation, and as Christ is called "the lion of the tribe of Juclah"— that is, as Judah was the lion tribe, Christ wa3 the lion of that tribe, tbe chief or head of it— it follows that he is the "chief ruler" that was promised should come of that tribe. If being the lion tribe made Judah the _ head tribe, certainly Christ, being the lion of that tribe, made him the head of it in the same tense that Judah as a tribe was the head of the nation ; aud as Judah was not the spiritual head of the nation — for Levi was that — but was the political head, it follows inevitably that "the lion of the tribe of Judah " was the political bend of that tribe ; and it the head of tbe head tribe, he certainly was of all of the tribes . And the fact that ''two lions'-' stood upon each step of the ascending nation under its various heads, guarding and watching it, with a jealous eye, to final or "throne dominion:" and the further fact that "two lions" stood as guards, one on either side of the very throne, proves that the "lion of the tribe of Judah" has ever beea with "the nation, as a 'guard, guide and protector, anft will so guard while be' sits upon his throne on earth forever. The future of this throne under "the Prince of the house of David." we leave for more gifted hands to portray. I trust some Ingram. Baldwin or Gumming will take the pleasing task in hand, and burn into living lines of flame the glowing course and goal of the "Chariot throne of Christ" "whose wheels roll in tire." 'Tis high time that we, as a christian nation, should look well to our profes- sions as such, and be careful that while we theoretically receive Christ as our spiritual head, we do not reject him as our national bead. We are commanded to "kiss the Son, lest he grow angry with us, and we perish from the way ere hi» auger be kindled but a little." (From memory.) We are only disposed to do half honors to Christ, and that half rather theoretically than otherwise. ^ We are professedly a christian nation, but practically we are largely deists. We in our thanksgiving orders , official reports of victories, leading state papers, &c, ac- knowledge, as deiats, a God, but as christians who should ever "give thanks unto God the father, through Jesus Christ his son," we fail— fall far short of duty in this respect. We are taught in the Eible that all *cur mercies and blessings flow from God the Father through the Son, by and with tbe agency and assistance of the Spirit ; and if all blessings, then, national as well as spiritual, for we are .-w dependent in the one as the other, and it becomes us as a dependent nation to honestly and humbly acknowledge ourselves as such, and call upon God through Christ, for all that we need as a nation. "Christ wag manifested to destroy tbe works of the devil;" and if na^onal sins and iniquities, and all their consequences zi ft eel tie work;-- of the Perff I would like pome of oar wis'? e&vtni to inform <7 ^ «s vrbo i« tbt anther *f them, A*u if there be, then, national boa m wh H not as ueedful that a ; tacriflce be made for ti; i ^dividual or f- jiri . ual ^i m ! i' r ■ Bin commil acts of 'he guilty _e its nature from sin ■ - : t . ; ■ • . •r than the offender n i d,andthes ier. and ; od, in the Aud this we say Chi ii two-fold nature of mat .f a willing BacriQce I tlfta fhri all, wi'.l ». ofereo ■ been prom born of Jfud 3," <;• liif : aud doubtles? they'w of in-;. w« hare Bhown in cha] I and executed as a political c spiritual teaching, it folio crime ailed^ed was t: . king in opp it, he then — must of necessity hav< ion. And* ae he i to political rificc lor the political iniq the shedding fpolitical'or spiritual offences; so hii was two-fold in hi ■ o-fold in ] - the national redemption ol earth : as a pries kion of the m the garden, "-ily soul is exceeding sor man, representing the king, peri, - I l for the national re- demption, a.- said redempl . ' man. in suffering, i red more largely into the ^uul'.s redemption, a- th le or spiritual. "The soul U Bin" such. God compels no man but ha* m id -:vae. :% But the time is :.■ .. u all will lie req is or folio ivcr^ ol ■ ill, -- king, -rule all nations with a rod of iron,' and if need be, I tad briug all under his kingly ra must be "dash<>d to pieces, a; a potter i I that happy d ty ! All of the ancient Israeli tish people were required to be genuine national I but, not required to be spiritual Israelites. "All are not Israel who are oi 1-: "and he is not a Jew who is one outwardly: but he*isajew who is one inwardly." -. a man may be a Jzw in a national or out a Jew iu a spiritual or inward sense. We uie compelled to be good citizens aecordii; i the law, but not compelled, yet invited. t'> tx - in a spiritual seu.-e. The absolute requirement* .»; the law have not been met by all citizens; but, ■■- fore Ffafpd, the time forok will be brought to bear in such cases, and 'dashing to pieces' will be resorted to, it milder means fail; for "all rule and authority " musl go by the board, save that of God inCLrist, and Christ in his representatives, until he comes, whose right alone it is to rule. To be a good citizen requires more than to be &< . 0. We must be ; tiveii/, actively so: cannot fold our arms in lis erence, and let matters go wrong: by default, for want of a proper d"ieiis< j or prosecution. That lalse and Feasr set of men had any right to tail or refuse to come up to assist in the execution of the law against the offender ; if they did, they also mast sutler tin same punishment due tho first and second offenders. There are to be no rie%trala ; yo ty ot inactivity tells unmistakably on which side you belong, and you will be held to account accordingly. If you are of Israel, you must act the full part of an Israelite. He that is not on our side, is | of the contrary part. "He that is not with me is against me;" "and he that "gtatnereth not wj sattereth abroad." We have said elsewhere that the Isfaelitlsh people made three distinct settlements, and at three distinct periods of time, in organizing their govern -none, and that the too first settlements consisted k trfbes each, and that the third and last settlement consisted of seven tribes. We have endeavored to show the tcy of these two first settlements, viz : that tke first settlement of three tribes on the East side of Jordan was typical cr non-realising, as they did not cross the Jordan and enter into the promised land of Canaan, and as said settlement consisted of three tribes 1 , we mast take each one of those tribes to represent a confederate head of the nation, and in the order in which they are named : Reuben, first; Gad, second; and Manasseh third; arid that fche character given te them was to bo the character of the confederate heads that they severally represented chronologically. The second settlement of three was oa the West side of Jordan, strictly within the land of Canaan, and thus indicates realization of the various promises of nationality; but as thsy were three in number, and only on* confederate nationality or "nation" made up of a "company of nations," waa promised, (though it was oft repeated.) it follows that they each represent a confederate nationality, as the first three did, and also chro- nologically, as named in settlement; — Judah first, Ephraim second, and Manasseh third. And as there was ultimately to be but one nation, these three nations, represented by the three tribes, must unite or ultimate in oae, and their blended character is to be the character of said nation. And as Judah was the fourth set* tier, and first on the West side of Jordan, or land of Canaan, we conclude that the fourth nation of that peculiar theocratic, states' right, confederate form, that should arise, would necessarily be Xh.a first in the realizing age. or on the West side of the great political Jordan; and as the C. S. is the fourth government of tiaat peculiar type that has arisen in the history of the world, we claim it to be the first, as Judah was the Srstin the land of promise^ and if so, it is Judah cr Jerusalem. It is the beginning of the realization of the promise to tho fathers and patriarchs ; it is the re-appearance of the throne of David, that was to uever end. Ephraim was the second settler on the Yf est side of Jordan, s© we may look for his confederate head to appear next. Manasseh is the third aad last, and must follow Ephraim, as Ephraim is to follow Judah ; and they both are to be joined to Judah, and thus form the seventh or last compact. We will hot, for the first time* consider the third and last settlement of the en of Israel, which Settlement consisted of seven tribe.-. This settlement fcfc 41 was iu the promised land of Canaan, and formed only a part of the three typical heals of the nation: and as the nation itself was typical, this settl iment was also, as was the six tribal settlements that bad gone before it. It oould not b • uu ,>- posed to be without typic \\ m • i li ug, slnca all g »: is; b ifore it are Bh >wn t > be so: and if so, its anti-type in i :; ,; .t-< type. An 1 is tii « tribes of Judah, Epiraim and l|au\sseh, Who formed ttleuimt on the ucfe of Jordan, ar nail to typj I • IimI; tut ./: ■ named— -one only of which has appeared as yet — the.i th/3 • ■■ oanthis 32ttlem ?nt of 1 1 in whit seme is it a type.' thai il •• p •-• w th ati emph i lis nit to be mist i ; < ! i. America; an 1 that it typ m it iu n im/tsrs. a id a) 1 , ia eh ira;; sr, foe th • of the C S. bis already been typ-' I ! >y b'l ; trib )Q? Ju li'i h well . • > i >!- ogy. A3 we we have seen th it, as ) 1 1 i!i w u t!i ■ I i i i iu the or 1 )V of" n itio l*, t%U •- fo ra or I ■ ,> •: (unci, as th ; 1 wt settlement of the nation was seVen Trib ;sor ©iateui id u'it-! • tio i, so in like m inner its fl.ial or n »liz'n ; hex 1 should .t^iJir i ru- ber of Tribes or States ; for bo it over i» ».a ; i i m i 1 : i i loiw'thslavii i healj-pf E ihraim aid Minisseh are yet toa*0!ii\ tb »y di : ■ redUinj u>ul:r ihisc heiis. but must be m jrged into, and form apart of, the uitio i ua I *r Judihs head, which alone Is the realizing head; fur, as b cd, the promise wai only cue "nation a id a con.) i ly of uatio i- "' 1 .: : sto i • th i cut oat of the muuntain without h in Is was to hi the while eirlh — was ro leave no room tor any <»: a • -,- nation. . ru- ber, then, u id ;r which si) » was to app i ir vv • si • ■ /. a ■ i ; and it matters not what number Bhe may now hive, orraiy i tin to, her type. could only give her birth uuraber, her coara •'•■ • l . - : i by the trjbe of Judah. Nov/, as all agree that the II ■! arch and Soato v to 'Mr in a'ar "comfort/' For -'\ll scripture i- given by i.i ; ( - '< nl.atrl i>* ible." (S •.. but how caa if pro* e \ to us, u dess we < iv • li I teachings np >a all subj »eta it treats upo i if So we u.-a'd do well t ) "se irch iho Bcriptures,"' which implies more th an a casual reading of them There is another significancy in this last - : "t I • a nt that we wUl a itice. [1 is this : The nation from il- begiuuiug. to linal throne »1 )tniaio.i, was to ]n-s through or oc- cupy seven positions, which we nave already noticed. Henu ■ we t ike <-ch tribe, fnthialisl settl jgi'io.i severally and ia the chronological imed in the settlement : the Qrst named to type the firs' step or posi- tion; the e d step; and so on to the seventh settler in this last settlement; audw Dun is the seventh and la9l settler, he will properly represent the seventh i apact of the nation both in character and chronologically. Does he do it? We answer that he doe-. .He was the seventh chronologically, and thus mirks the seventh head of the nation; and as this seventh head was onder Judah. tr,. ; of Judah Bhould be found in Dan, who typed him. Let n md see the character given to Dan, as it should correspond with Judah. Who b i rftpre • h: 16 v.: l, Dan _'• his people as one of the tribed ofIsrael. ,J Deuteronomy \\ \iii ch? __' v., "Dan is a lion's whelp;" and it a lion's whelp, he must be a lion in very deed. Here, as iu the <-.\<>' ol G i i. (wh > typ -d Jud ih u 'st head.) we Qnd the distinctive lion andla feature of Judah ia given to Dan, while we know at the *ame time that D ^ givelmo to ion. I know it will besaid thai - one of the judges of Israel, teas of ibe of D i > We admit it; but that does n< • [nVrement of the quo- . : "Dan thall judge his ]«e >pic as one of the trihed of Israel:'* not as a ^ i Individual judges arose out ofrarious tribes, but only three trihes as suck ever judged Israel, and they were Judab, Ephraim aud Manasseh; and all that is here said of l)au is said of him as a tribe, aud not as to individuals, else it might be said of perhaps every tribe, that he shall judge Israel. Dan stands here as the type of Judah's final head, aDd all that is said ot him is applicable to Judah, and to no, one else— it must be placed to his credit, and his only — to Judab the great lion, ]aw-giver and judge tribe, that gave birth to the '-Lion of the tribe of Judah," who is to "rule all nations with a rod of iron" So we see this whole national settlement by settlements, ami settlements by tribes, and the tribes by character and chronology, as well as by numbers, km been typicat. Much more might be said, in argument upon this hiad, but we suppose enough has been said to make out self understood, and call the attention of tai- eated investigators to the subject, who s-hill be able to do it full justice, either pro or con. We do not shun or feaf? investigation upon any of the po-utiois taken, or views advanced; — but rather court a thorough review and criticism, — if we have, in our ignorance, laidj ourself liable to such a handling. And on the other hand, if we are correct, let those who are competent to show the facts fully — who by their character and position will command that attention that will not be accorded the unknown and unlearned — take the matter in hand. We say, let learning, take thu facts, and clothe them with a name that will give them ac- cess to all, and take the errors and scatter them to the four winds of heaven. Note to Chapter Third Fear lest we may be understood as saying, in Chapter Third, that raau ia his creation did not receive a spiritual likeness of God. we will add that he cer- tainly did receive such a likeness, &nd lost it in the fall. But said likeness -'was not the very image" 1 of ho' 'mess, that his Maker possessed; 'twas only a resemblance in point of holiness, for God in all bis attributes is infinite, and man in all his is. finite; and there is, strictly speaking, no comparison between that that i< finite aud that that is infinite. Man. after his order, was created perfect, aud so far he iyas like God, or possessed his image of holiness, and no further. -*«+•»■ To Publishers. T?e purpose placing our Pamphlet upon the table of every Publisher that we- can have access to, through the mails. Will they reciprocate, by sending us their publications for a short time ? at least such numbers as may contain any notice that they, or any one else, may think proper to give us, pro or con. BR RATA*. Page 13> 21. lines from, bottom, for " made " read " make;' 1 page 7, 15 lines from bottom, for '.' add ho" read " aud he ;"' page 19, 5 lines from bottom, for •Gath" read t; Gad;" page 22, 5 lines from top, for -47()6" read "177(1;'' page 23, 3 linr s from top, for ** macn " read " much ;" page 32, 22 lines from top, for '•disabled" read "dissolved." Several minor typographical errors we will not refer to, as the reader can readily detect them. ■ ■,-■■■ . - ... 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