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Rh and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God," Isa. lxii. 1 to 3. "Thus saith Jehovah, I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, the holy mountain," Zech. viii. 3. Lastly, " I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God," Apoc. xxi. 3.

IT may be thought, that after so great a change as that produced in the spiritual world by the last judgment, the second advent of the Lord, and the commencement of the New Jerusalem, some extraordinary convulsion of nature, or some different order of civil society among mankind, was to take place, and, by an overwhelming evidence in favour of the new dispensation, leave no room for a doubt on the subject. But, on mature deliberation, there appears to be no just ground for such an expectation: and there is every reason to believe, that the external face of nature will continue the same as before; and likewise that the same order will prevail in civil concerns as before; that there will be empires, kingdoms, and states, as before; that there will be treaties of peace and alliance, and also wars, between nation and nation, as before; and other things, which relate to the