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" Rejoice greatly, 0 daughter of Zion; shout. O dsughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy King comoth unto thcc; he is ju&t, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt tlie foal of an ass/' Thb verse is re* ferredbytbe Spirit to our Lords riding intoJeni^ salem, not many days before his crucifixion: and it presents the aspect in which he hath continued since that time to he presented unto us, as our huuibk-d King, bringing to us salvation; and in which he shall continue to be presented until he come ag^n in judgment. For the prophet saw things not according to the order of years and centuries, but, as it were, in a aucceasion of as- pects. That wan one aspect of the coming King ; and it «s a staJiding emblem of his continuance since that time; not a kit^ upon aihrone ruling aud governing, but a king riding u)x>q an ass, and OR TIIK TEH TRIBES^ ■Its I bfinpngBalTCttion,— Then comes the sccondwpcct of OUT Kip;. Vcr. 10: " And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and Ihr hor»e from Jeni- fuilum, and the battle bow sltall be cut off/' Now Kphratm mu&t have bis chariot, Htid Jeruaiatem hU horse of v/ar, And Jndah her battle bow, before they can be cut off. For, at the lime the prophet prophc!^icd. Epbraim \vas cast out and lost, and Judsh had noftoveretgn rule, nor miliUry streu^h : besides, it is posterior to the period of salvation, atid ]iiu!hl dei^ote a time when the chariot of war shall l>e the eniblctn of Ephraim upon the earth, and the imperial horse the emblem of Jerti&alem, and the battle-bow of bothi that is, when they shall hare the necks of all nations, and ride upon thebigh places of U^eearth, Ilavingaccotnphfth* ed h'xa piiqiose of juclgment, by the hands (rf Ephraim ; and goverriinetit, by the haTid?* of Jeru- salem: hedeclareth that he shall take away these emblems of warlike power from the hands of hi& people: " and he ehall t^pcak peace to the hcatheti/- After they have been made to bow under his pctf* ,plc, he shall proclaim peace to them. ** And his dominion shall be ftom sea even to sea, and from the rivers even to the enda of the earth." This is tlie mtllcmal peace and blessedness, between which and tlie period of bringing salvation, there ift a lime when Ephraim rideth the war-chafiot, and Judah the proud horse of triumph against the nations who have rebelled against the law of the humble King, and refused to receive his salvation. I wish our spiritual Millenarians, or I should rattier call them oar philo^ophif^ing Opiimititfi, would com^ider this aspect