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ophets, from Isaiah unto Malacbi, do with one consent declare. Not that the work of teaching by emblems hath not hetn proceeding all this while, seeing all providence is 8ffO IKK 7HRKK UMCt-^AX AFtttlTS. and [ MM '"4 preparation and an emblem of Chrii Tent and kip^dom : for ihe breaking of Babylon's povrcr, ftQct tlie delivcianoe of certain ones by Cyniftp was the cmblccn of the breaking the power^ of the spiritual Babylon wliirh oppresu^elb Genlilcif, and nit;di;liven&ii(.'e llR'nccuf asmatiy as will go up with our Great Prie&tand Tjriihatha«f] Also, the births and circumcision, and subjectioj of Christ; hia baptism, temptation, and minUtry, and deatb, and burial, and resurreclion, and pr&-j Kent scsAiou in ibc heavens, arc used by the Api ailet, not only as the fulfilment offormeremblei and prophecies, but al»o a» bcini* itself a great emblem and prophecy of the Christian life ani spiritual church in general, and of the cxpcncai of every aaintin particular: aad, to say it all in oi word. Christ was the great Prophet of lijm&elf; his first advent the unblown bud which wraps up the mystery and beauty of his second advent* ^ He sympathized with the hamility of the Jcwiah^f church, and the Gentile church Avrnpathizcd with^^ hia humility: and ao Jew and GenUle arc brought together into the same bands: and roiLsequently do and can appropriate the same language of pre-^ «!nt woefulncsv and future hopefulness. Now, to return to the beginning of the cburcbs opprcfision in the day« of the prophets Jeremiah*, l^^rkicl. and Daniel, 1 ob^rve that it is laid down by the last of thef^c prophets, under four succes- sions of bestial dominion, (by Zechariah under the name of the four carpenters), which four beasts have the f:ame origin, and are of the same brutal cliaracter; being of one spirit, the &pint of tyrwutical and oppressive government, pure op- preaaion, stem cioelty, unsc»phisticated powcTi 11:] TMk THtllCft UNCL£AM SPlHIIA. 8Sl and violence ; suob as you see the Jews subjected to imtil thU day. But under the last of the four, Daniel saw a power of quite another characKir— that tittle horn which had eyes hke a man to cir- cumvent withal, and a mouth speaking great tliing>; to deceive the itaints of the Mofit High, assumiDg thr god, und etuicting the god, fur above the bean: whereas, the others stamped with their feet, or tore with their mouth, or other- wise expressed the natural ferocity which is in them. Under tlie^e two diverse spirits ofoppres* ft'ion, Daniel saw the church wi& to suffer until the ti