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the church, and open in order that three- fold form which Kntan hath usEiimrd against the church in succession, and which all at once he it to let loofiG, for the muster of all his forces, to the war of the great day of God Almighty. You will understand, then, that the church of God was 6rst delivered over unto the oppreBsion of S^an at the time of the Cftplivily of Bubvlt^n, on the ev6 of which almost all the prophets uttered their; warning voice, to avert if it had been possible dfreful stroke. From the time of the call of Abim^ ham, when the mystery of tiie elect church bc| to be nianifefled, down to the time of that stal ofeai^tivity from which we are not yet redeemt iho mystery of God opened iteelf under an em- blem. Egypt u-as the emblem of the world, and the going up out of ^ypt was the emblem of the church a redemption from the world: the Lrvluca|^| institution, given immediately thereon, w&s ibe^^ II.] IHK THE££ tNCLCAN Cri&lTS. &49 emblem of Christ fi pfiraon and the Holy Spirit's office: the ))i^Tegriii3ilii)ii» in tlie witilettie»?t whh tbe emblem of the church's pil^im-hte; the com- in)^ into Caanan. and settlement there, the em- blem of the reet which remaineth for tho people of God; and the kingdom of David and Solomou the emblem of the kingdom of Chriat. for vrhich we are continually praying. The mystery of the elect church having thus been completed in the emblem, the pattern of the heavenly things having been given; and 1 muy say, the great orrery of tbaiovtaiblc or spiritual heavens having been com- pleted ; it was nece?(ftary to break it in pieces aiid grind it to powder^ preiierviii]^ only the book in which it was writteo^ and such vestiges and proofi of antiquity on would verify it to all pOGtertty. For already they were beginning to worship the visible device ; that is, the Lcvitical atid the national emblem which God had constituted for them; and therefore, in bin wrath» the Lord reftt)lved to break it in pjecw, as Moses did the tables of the Law and HMeki&h the brazen ^rpent Tbi» breaking in pieces of the church under tlie oppression of her ctiemies, constitutes the mystery of her humi- liation ; which began, as I said, to be the subject of o|»en and distinct prophecy in the days of Isaiah, and Hosea, and Amos, and other Prophets; — of open and distinct accomplishment, in the days of the prophets Jcremittb. HzekicI, and Daniel; and bath continued accomplishing ifsetf until this day, and shall continue until ilie coming of the Lord ; as D^nif-1 and all the Pr