Second advent library

LECTURE XI.nav. 1. 9, io.And they sung e new song,sayin'-E; Thou art worthyto take thebook, and to open the seals reof; for thou was! slain, andhast redeemed ns to God by thy blood out of every kindred,and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto DillGod kings and priests ; and we shall reignon the earth.Tuma: is such harmony, beauty, and knowledge inevery part of the word of God, that the Bible student,whose heart is interested in the same, has often, whilereading, been led to stop and admire the order, wisdom,and li ht which burst upon his enraptured vision, at theunfoldgng of the figures and truths which until that moment,perhaps, lay in darkness, doubt, and obscurity, andseemed to be wrapped up in s mysterious veil that nl-and come to the conclu-most makes the reader quail,sion that he is treading on forbidden ground ; but, perhaps,in anunexpected moment, the inspired penman, seeminglyhaving anticipated our ignorance orthrows out a spark of that live coal which haddarkneeitouchehis lips, and our darkness is dis`pel1ed,i5lnorance vanishesbefore the fixlness of knowle ge ofe word of God,and we stand reproved and admonished for our stupiditland ignorance in the figures and truths before explaineOur text is a brilliant spark of that fire which isthe altar between the cherubims, us a culponearrayandfgives of light to discover the allusion o the iigomzres con~tained in the fourth and tifthchapters ofthis k. It isby way of a chorus, like the s.nge}'|conveyed mit? 'us