Second advent library

''18 LICTUIIXI.representedb the fbur and twentyddcrsbeasts.andthe ourI shag now,II. Show what we may understand by the new song,Ind the occasion of it.Theprophet John had been led by the angelthe vision through of eseven different stages of the church, bymystery ofthe seven stars and seven golden candlesticks,under the name of the seven churches of Asia, whichoughtto be understood symbolically down to the timewhen the jud e stands at the door ready to enter in tothe supper of gre great God, when all wicked flesh will bedestroyed, and till the marriage supper of the Lambarrives, when all the righteous will be raised,Ienter intowith him on earth.natural that alter we had read thethe glorified state, and ive and reignThen it ishistory 'perfectly of e church through all her Uials, persecutions,and imperfections,we should be led to see her deliveranceon the other side of the banks of Jordan, or beyondthe power of death, and to hear a part, at least, of thatnewsong which no man can sing unless he is redeemedfrom the earth.In the second and third chapters of Revelation, wehave the history of the church, as I have endeavored toshow in my lectures on the churches. In the fourth andfifth chapters we have a view of the glorified state, andthe characters given of.those who will ermmy the privilegeof that state, the song which will employe golden harps,and the'Iplace where. The characters I have alreadyhegiven.song is as arepresentednew It is newecause it is in that state where lthingssunsonly aremade new. See Pet. iii. 13, " Nevertheless we, accordingto his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,wherein dwelleth righteousness." Rev. xxi. 5, " And hethat satlupon the throne said, Behold, I make all thingsnew." ow John saw, in Rev. iv. 2, the same throne,and him that sat upon it, and in the verse above quotedhe speaks as though he had mentioned before " him thatsat upon the throne." And as he has not mentioned himin this language in any other place, we may have strongreason to believe that the time and subject matter is thesame in'the 4th chapter of Revelation as in the 21st