joys of the faithful will be as remote from their termination, as they were at their earliest commencement. Their felicity, instead of suffering any diminution, will be daily increasing. The immense debt of gratitude, due to redeeming love, will perpetually accumulate. And the voice of praise, thanksgiving, and happiness, will never cease to resound through the mansions of the blessed. We, indeed, with our present limited faculties, cannot comprehend the full extent of that spiritual pleasure, which our souls will be made capable of enjoying. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.' But we may confidently trust, that the joys of heaven will be a more than sufficient recompence for all the labours undergone, and all the hardships suffered, in the cause of religion. The day is fast approaching, when hope will be swallowed up in certainty, and faith crowned with victory; when tears will be wiped away from every eye, and sorrow removed from every heart. The Christian soldier will then behold his vanquished enemies prostrate beneath the feet of the great Captain of his salvation; he will look back with pleasure upon his former labours; and he will enjoy for evermore that blessed communion with God, of which even the very best of men, during their abode in this world, cannot form any ade

1 Cor. ii. 9.

quate conception. Secure of the favour of the Almighty, and replete with unutterable felicity, he will join the vast assembly of the church triumphant in their song of ecstatic adoration; and he will look forward with joy to the prospect of a happiness which can never be forfeited, a happiness which is perpetually increasing, a happiness commensurate only with the boundless ages of eternity.

END OF VOL. II.

413. 18. For twofold read triple; and for succeeded read preceded.

145. 3. For after Jeremiah read;

233. 5. Insert, after Dog-star; and erase after Horus.

291. 15. Insert all after and.

366. 18. For Sedekna read Sedeknu.

24. Ditto.

Direction to the binder.

Place the Map to face p. 267, Vol. I.

A. J. Valpy, Printer, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane.