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Pages wholly or pa ous knowledge as might, through the grace of God, have stemmed the tide of iniquity : but the good were corrupted by the wicked, and the whole world pre- sented a field of violence and blood. The dispensa- tion of the deluge became, therefore, necessary for the regeneration of mankind ; and was sent in mercy to pre9erye and advance virtue and religion on the earth. Second Division. What additions were added to Noah's religious knowledge 1 His character — a preacher of righteous- ness, acquainted with all knowledge, religious and civil, before the flood. Divine wisdom adopted simi- lar methods for the instruction of the new as the old world* Certain facts and events were attended with corresponding revelations to Noah, from which he reasoned as our first Parents bad done. The deluge manifested the supreme Sovereignty of God> as a judgment on the world, for its wickedness ; 2nd. The certainty and very time were revealed 120 years before the event; 3rd. It confirmed the faith of the righteous as to the malignant nature of sin ; 4th. It proved God's unchangeable displeasure with sin, and his watchfulness over it, and determination to punish it ; 5th. The preservation of one family an affecting lesson of divine pity and compassion ; — even the pre- servation of the lower animals displayed Ood 'S be- nignity and wisdom ; 6th. The covenant made with Noah ; 7th. The dispersion. Great additions made to the religious knowledge of Noah by the destruc- tion of the ancient world. The apostacy before the 8 e i i s flood was a proud rejection of the expected Redeemer. The apoatacy after the flood was such a gradual and spreading corruption of this expectation, that it seemed good in the sight of God to separate one family from among the nations, as a depositary of the fundamental truths of revelation. The Patriarch Abraham ; his call ; enters into a covenant with God ; implies three distinct promises ; 1st. The grant of the land of Canaan ; 2d. The whole world ; 3d. The king- dom of Heaven — ^justified by faith in offering Isaac ; revelation respecting the Me^aiah, Sodom and Go- morah ; Isaac, the child of promise, prefigured Christ ; deceived by Jacob, who obtained his benediction; Jacob chosen of God ; his vision at Bethel ; wrestled with God ; his blessings and prophesies at his deatfa, Joseph and his Brethren a striking illustration of the watchtul providence of God ; Moses called at Mount Horeb; his miracles; destruction of the Egyptian army ; promulgation of the law ; circumstances witii which it was attended ; the law, moral and ceremo- nial—the former eternal — ^tbe latter teiBfkorary ; sub- stance of the moral law ; Moses prophecied of Christ; his death — a type of the Redeemer. Third Division. Lextitbe 2nd— 'March I8th. State of Religion among the nation* at the giving of the law ; rapid decay of tradition after the dis- persion ; letters never mentioned before the law ; discovered to Moses by revelation ; often mentioned after his death ; additions to religious kuowledge m the time of Joshua; his interview M^th Jesus Christ, as Captain of the Lord's Hosts ; the passage of Jordan ; the seige of Jericho ; the standing still of the sun and moon ; the fulfilment of the promise made to Abraham in taking possession of the land of Ca- naan ; election of Jehovah by the congregation as their King ; the character of Joshua typical of Jesus Ci^rist ; fundamental law of the Mosaic institutions ; state of Religion during the time of the Judges ; the tabernacle at Gilgal, at Shiloh ; the prophetical hymn of Samuel's mother, Hannah ; the death of Eli, and capture of the Ark of God ' y the Philistines ; the restoration of the Ark ; the reformation of divine worship, and repentance of the people at Mizpeh ; Saul chosen king ; his reign, death, and character ; history of David ; his zeal for true religion ; his grievous sins and deep repentance ; his life presents the strength and prevalence of human corruption on the oi\e hand — the extent and efficacy of divine grace on the other ; death and character ; reign of Solomon ; building and dedication of the Temple ; reformation and improvements of the Jewish Church Juring the reigns of David and Solomon; the worship more spiritual. Lecture 3rd— March 25th. Progress of religious knowledge from the death of Solomon to the captivity ; revolt and wickedness of Jeroboam, and division of the nation into two king- doms ; idolatry prevalent in both ; extraordinary ministry of the Prophet Elijah ; of Elisha ; total ruin of the kingdom of Israel ; the destruction of the Temple and City of Jerusalem ; the Jews carried into captivity to Babylon ; tlio Prophets who flourish- ed during this period — Jonah, Amos, liosea, Isaiah, Joel, Micah, Nahum, Zophaniah, Jeremiah, Hab- bakkuk ; their gsneral design — threefold ; Ist. To re- prove the Jewish people for their wickedness, and threaten them, as well as Gentiles, with the severe judgments of God ; 2nd. To invite all nations to repentence, both Jew and Gentile ; 3rd. To en- courage the faithful with promises of divine support ; to assure them of the coming of Christ, and future enlargement and permanent glory of the Church. Lecture 4lh — April 1st. From the captivity to the birth of Christ ; return of the Jews ; re-building of the Temple ; the arrival of Ezra the Priest, and the reformation made by him ; Haman and Esther ; preservation of the Jews ; re- building the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah ; his reformation of the people ; the Prophets that flourish- ed during and after the captivity — Daniel, Obadiah, Ezekiel, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi; difference be- twixt the first and second Temples; the Synagogue; its worship and power ; Scriptures supposed to have been collected by Ezra ; canon of the Old Testament completed ; state of religion among the Jews at the Birth of Christ. Lecture 5th — April 8th. The Jewish Theocracy is the divine government seen in operation as to one particular nation ; similar results happen to all nations, in modern as well as ancient times, though unexplained, (or the secret things of God) in their progress ; this proved, from the light thrown by revelation on the neighbouring notions ; the Egyptians, Babylonians, Medes and PorBiana, Tyro and Sidon, &,c. idolatrous nations of old, pun- isiied by divine judgments ; so are christian nations now ; examples ; the first christian nations have dis- appeared ; the eioven Churches of Asia ; what quali- fications does religion demand on the part of Rulers 1 on the part of the people ? what principles give strength and stability to nations? how far the Jewish revelations enlightened the nations around them. Lecture 6th — April 15lh. Three great principles established by the Jewish dispensation — 1st. That an intimate alliance ought to subsist between Church and State ; 2nd. That an Ecclesiastical Establishment is necessary and essen- tial to the happiness and well-being of every people or nation ; 3rd. That it should be supported at the public expense, and the form of public worship such as the people are capable of understanding. The same principles enforced by the Christian dis- pensation ; the wickedness, infidelity and guilt, of professing Christians, who try to separate Church and State ; civil and religious institutions inseparably connected by the appointment of Heaven, and the constitution of human nature ; infidel nations can neither be durable nor prosperous ; and all nations infidel who do not recognize an established form of Christian Worship ; the piety, virtue, order and free- dom of nations, can only flow from the practice of Gospel principles.