to thofe who are troubled by the wicked: And, he obferves, that this reft, these times of refreshing from the Lord, will take place when the Lord Jefus fhall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, the wicked hea hen, and on them who obey not the gospel (wicked chriftians) who shall be punished with an everlafting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, when he shall come in that day of tribulation, to be glorified in his faints, and admired in all them that believe.

This work of the mighty God, before the setting of his glorious Empire, as King of Salem, and Prince of peace, is thus further described by a Prophet. THE LORD JEHOVAH our Saviour] fhall go forth and fight against thofe [ungodly] nations: And his feet fhall fland in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerufalem, on the Eaft. Then shall be fulfilled the faying of the two angels, on the day of our Lord's afcenfion, This fame Jefus, who is taken up from you into hea ven, fhall fo come in like manner [in a visible, human and glorious form] as ye have Jeen him go into heaven. And, it is remarkable, that this prophecy was delivered on that very Mount of Olives, whence our Lord glorioufly afcended, and where, accord according to Zechariah, he will alight at his return from heaven: See A&ts i. 12, and Zech. xiv. 4.

The Prophe: continuing his description of thofe times of refreshing, confequent on the return of of our Melchifedeck, obferves, that many wonderful interpofitions, of a judicial and kind providence, will be displayed for the preservation of the righteous, and for the destruction or converfion of the wicked; and then fums up his prediction, by faying, In that day, there fhall be no more the Canaanite in the houfe of the Lord of hofts. Holinefs unto the Lord fhall be written upon the very bells of the horfes [and their drivers, who are now ftupid, and prophane to a proverb, will be among

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the faints of the most high.] In a word, the living waters, the ftreams of truth, righteoufnels, peace and blifs which gladden the city of God, the city of the great King, fhall go out from Ferufalem and gladden the whole world; for the Lord (that very Jehovah mentioned just before, whofe feet fhall ftand on the Mount of Olives) fhall be King over all the earth: In that day fhall there be one Lord, and his name one. Zech. xiv. 3,

8, 9, 20, 21.

Methinks, Rev. Sir, I hear you triumph and fay at these laft words of the Prophet, "We Uni"tarians fhall then win the day at laft, and the "worship af God in Trinity will be abolish"ed for ever."Not fo, Sir; Zechariah and the Holy Ghost who infpired him, do not contradic themselves. Read again the whole chapter and you will fee that Jehovah who will be King over all the earth is Jehovah, manifefted in the flesh whole feet fhall ftand upon the Mount of Olives: So that whoever is excluded from the dominion, it cannot be the Son, who is fo defcribed as to leave no doubt that he is to be King over all the earth. Thus your 'unfcriptural unity which rejects the Son's Divinity is completely overthrown by Ze chariah. The truth which he wants to inculcate is that when Chriftianity fhall have removed all Atheism and all Idolatry, the one Divine Effence will be known and worship'd every where. And if you please to call the Father Jehovah invifible to his creatures, the Son Jehovah vifible, and the Holy Ghoft Jehovah fenfible to his rational creatures, we will not contend with you. Grant us that in the fupreme Being there is an ineffable and adorable Trinity, and we will readily grant you that this Trinity is fuch as by no means breaks the ineffable Unity which we adore as well as you, though we do not with the Jewish Zealots, take up ftones to throw at the Son, under pretence

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of afferting the Father's glory; fuch a defence of the divine Unity appearing unto us as unnatural as it is unfcriptural.

Take a proof that Zechariah by no means wants to exclude our Lord from Divinity, tho' he ftands up for the divine Unity: A Prophet fays, The children of Ifrael (after their rejection of the Shiloh) fhall abide many days without a King, and without a Prince, and without a Sacrifice; afterwards they shall return and feek the Lord their God and David their King, and fhall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days; Hof. iii. 5. Now this

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David the King, who shall reign in the latter days over the converted Jews and Gentiles, is the fame King who is defcribed in the 2, 45, 46, and 110 Pfalms, &c. as the Lord God of David, and of the whole world, and that Zechariah calls him Lord, as he does the Father, I prove by this divine mife, I will fave the houfe of Jofeph, and they shall be as tho' I had not caft them off; for I am the Lord their God. I will gather them, for I have redeemed them-and I will ftrengthen them in the Lord, and they fhall walk up and down in his name, faith the Lord. Zech. x. 6, 12. From thefe words I conclude that Zechariah, far from overturning that Unity of God, which is confiftent with the Divinity of the Father and the Son, teaches us that thefe two divine Subfiftences jointly bear the name of Jehovah, in the one divine Effence. And if you afk who this Lord is that fays I will ftrengthen them in or by the Lord, that they may walk in his name, I answer that the consistent tenour of the Scriptures proves that it is the fame mighty God, who, when he appear'd as the Son given unto us, faid to the eleven apoftles, without me ye can do nothing, and who ftrengthened St. Paul by faying to him, my grace is fufficient for thee, and whom the Apoftle had in view when he wrote, Son Timothy, be firong in the grace, that is Chrift Jefus,

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Of all the gracious means, which the Lord will ufe to overcome those of his enemics, whom he' fhall not find completely obdurate, one will be attended with the greatest fuccefs, and as it is recorded both in the old and new Teftament, and affords us a ftrong proof of our Melchifedeck's divinity, fhall defcribe it here.

Speaking of the Lord who punishes faithless Ferufalem, and makes her triumph when the re Pents and returns, Zechariah fays, Thus faith the Lord, who firetcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the fpirit of man within him, In that day, I will make Jerufalem a burdenfome flone for all people, and Judah fhall be like a torch of fire in a fheaf, they fhall devour all the people round about, and Jerufalem fhall be rebuilt and inhabited again in her own place. And it shall come to pafs in that day, that I will deftroy all the nations that come against Jerufalem And I will pour upon the houfe of David and the inhabitants of Ferufalem the fpirit of grace and fupplication, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, [in the perion of Meffiah the Prince in whom dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily] and they shall mourn for him [the Prince of peace pierced] as one mourneth for his only Son, and fhall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his first born [pierced in his fight.] In that day of Shiloh's return, when he fhall overcome unbelieving Jews, and faithless Christians, in the fame manner in which he overcame the unbelief of Thomas] there fhall be a great mourning in Jerufalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon [from which the Ifraelites brought back to Jerufalem their good King Jofiah, wounded to death by the Egyptians.] Zech. xiii. 1, 11. Behold, fays St. John, confirming this prophecy, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall fee Him,

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and they alfo who pierced him and all kindreds of the earth fhall wail becaufe of him: Rev. i. 7. If you afk St. John of whom he speaks, he immediately mentions the mighty God of Ifaiah: As for Zechariah, he hath already told us, that he means Je hovah, who formeth the spirit of man within him, the creating Logos, by whom all things were made, and who, by affuming our nature, became Immanuel, that he might make an atonement and give himself a ransom for his finful brethren,

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