that hear fhall live; [at the firft resurrection, or refurrection of the just.]-For as THE FATHER HATH LIFE IN HIMSELF, fo gave He also to THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF; and gave him auTHORITY also to exercise judgment, becaufe HE IS SON OF MAN."

"Wonder not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the fepulchres fhall hear his voice, [at the fecond,

in his Thoughts on the Grand Apoftacy, p. 50-56, 170-181.; and from his excellent commentator, King's Morfels of Criticism, fect. 6. p. 247-331. whose work was published in 1788, before his Grace's fecond edition of Observations on our Lord's Conduů, &c. 1795. Johnson, 8vo. p. 277, Note :-but which he does not appear to have seen.

The enquiry of our Lord's confidential difciples, Peter and James, John and Andrew, in private, plainly relates to his last public discourse in the Temple, just before, and is threefold. Matt. xxiv. 3.

I. "When fball these be?"-meaning the woes threatened to that wicked and apoftate generation, and the deflation of the Temple. Matt. xxiii. 36—38.

2." And what shall be the fign of thy prefence?"when "coming in the name of the Lord"-as their “BLESSED DELIVERER." Matt, xxiii. 39.

3.-"And

cond, or general refurrection of all mankind, Matt. xxiv. 36. and xxv. 31-46. I Cor. xv. 24-26. Rev. xx. 11-15.] they that have done good, unto refurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto refurrection of judgment."

Thus, not only are "the POWER and GODHEAD" of THE FATHER communicated to THE SON, but even what is foolishly ftyled the incommunicable attribute.

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3." And of the confummation of the age, or Christian difpenfation, at the end of the world, as plainly appears from the fame phrafe, Matt. xiii. 39. applied to the general refurrection, and xxviii. 20. compared with Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 24.

And our Lord, under the first head, circumftantially details the figns of his coming in judgment, during the "days of vengeance," I. on the apoftate Jews, and again, 2. on the apoftate Chriftian world; both of which were to precede his appearance as the Son of Man, in power and great glory, coming in the clouds of Heaven, to raise the righteous dead at the first refurrection, Matt. xxiv. 30.; when the answer to the fecond enquiry commences-(compare Mark xiii. 26. and Luke xxi. 27. and our Lord's own declaration to the Jewish Council, Matt. xxvi. 64.)-and feems to be continued throughout the remainder of the xxivth

of SELF-EXISTENCE TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF as more explicitly taught by the GLORIFIED JESUS alfo; in the following moft awful and awakening defcription: Rev. i.

"I John, your brother and copartner in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance of JESUS CHRIST, happened to be in the ifle called Patmos [an exile] for

THE

chapter, and the xxvth to verfe 31. when all nations ” fhall be gathered before Him to the general judgmentand the answer to the third enquiry commences, which ends with the chapter.

The fource of his Grace's miftake feems to be his confounding, 1. our Lord's "coming in his kingdom," Matt. xvi. 28. or "in power," to inflict vengeance on the apoftate Jewish nation, (as explained by the event of John's furviving the deftruction of Jerufalem, in the parallel paffage, John xxi. 23.)—with our Lord's prediction in the preceding verfe, Matth. xvi. 27. of his coming in his "FATHER's glory," and "bis own," at the refurrection of the juft; and, 2. his confounding, Luke xvii. 24-30, "his day or or "the day. when the Son of Man fball be revealed in glory," with the deftruction of Jerufalem in "the days of vengeance."

"That day and hour," which, our Lord declares,

was

THE ORACLE OF THE DEITY, for the witneffing of JESUS CHRIST.

"I became infpired (ev avevμal) on the Lord's day: And I heard behind me, a voice, great as a trumpet's, faying:

• What thou obferveft, write in a small book, and fend to the Seven Churches, at Ephefus, and at Smyrna, and at Pergamus, and at Thyatira, and at Sardis, and at Philadelphia, and at Laodicea.'

And I turned involuntarily, to ob

was known only to THE FATHER, Matt. xxiv. 36. plainly correfponds to " the times and feafons of reftoring again the kingdom to Ifrael," which THE FATHER referved in his own jurifdiction," Acts i. 6. But all these woes," denounced against the Jews, were to come to pass before the end of that generation.” Matt. xxiv. 34.

The blending of these two diftant events with each other, throughout that momentous chapter, has occafioned all the difficulty.

And, now that this blemish is removed, I will not fcruple, to recommend Archbishop Newcome's Obfervations on our Lord's Conduct, as a useful elementary work for biblical students, and one of "the good"that have iffued from the prefs of Johnson-to atone for many "bad and indifferent." 6

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ferve the voice which fpake with me: and when I had turned, I faw feven golden lamps, and amidst the seven lamps, like A SON OF MAN, enrobed down to the feet, and begirt about the paps with a, golden girdle:- His head and his locks were white like wool, white as fnow; and his eyes, as a flame of fire; and his feet like refined brafs, glowing as in a furnace; and his voice as a voice of many waters: And he was holding in his right hand, feven ftars; and out of his mouth, a fharp double-edged fword proceeding forth; and his visage, as the fun, fhining in his power. And when I faw Him, I fell at his feet as dead. But He laid his right hand upon me, faying unto me:

"Be not affrighted: I AM THE FIRST AND THE LAST, AND THE LIVING, and BECAME DEAD: AND LO! I AM LIVING

FOR EVERLASTING AGES; AND HOLD THE KEYS OF DEATH AND OF HADES: Write then, what thou feeft, and what things are, and what things are to come to pass hereafter."

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