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 principles of charity, should flow love, mercy, compassion, justice, judgment, and every virtue.

Then shall "all the rivers of Judah flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim." The rivers of Judah which are then to "flow with waters," are the external or literal truths of the Word, which in all cases will be applied to the washing or purification of the external life and conduct. These truths are called "living waters;" they are in the house or church of the Lord, and in their saving operation upon the mind, in cleansing and illustrating the understanding, they are the fountain which comes forth to bless and enrich even the remotest or lowest desires and thoughts of man.

The spiritual fulfilment of this prophecy is desired by all the humble and sincere; and it is consoling to the Christian to know that each one may, in himself, begin now to realize these blessings. The Lord is indeed now known in Zion, as the one Lord God, the Saviour, gracious and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. True religion, undefiled before God and all the people, is seen to consist in the pure truths of revelation, as seen in all their beauty by enlightened reason. Love to God, as a celestial affection, is seen to be the highest principle of the soul, it is the mountain dropping with sweet wine; while universal love and charity to man, are the hills flowing with milk; and the spread of universal truth, to illustrate the most external or lowest thoughts of the mind, is the flowing forth of the rivers of Judah, and the fountain from the house of the Lord, to water the valley of Shittim.