22. And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited (found wanting). 23. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously."

xxv. 8. "He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall He take away from off all the earth, for the Lord hath spoken it. 10. And Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.”

xxvi. 10. "Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. 11. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. (The fire prepared, &c.) 14. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast Thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 19. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise : awake, and sing ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."

xxvii. 11. "When the boughs thereof are withered they shall be broken off: the woman come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding : therefore, He that made them will not have mercy on them, and He that formed them will shew them no favour."

xxix. 5. "Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 6. Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. 7. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8. It shall be even as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh ; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion. 20. For the ter ible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed; and all that watch for iniquity ar cut off."

xxx. 12. "Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, because ye despise this word and trust in oppression and perversion, and stay thereon: 13. Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14. And He shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces-He shall not spare; so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit."

xxxii. 15. "Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a beautiful field."

xxxiii. 10. "Now will I rise saith the Lord, now

will I be exalted, now will I lift up myself. 11. Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble : your breath as fire shall devour you. 12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire. 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who amongst us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"

xxxiv. 9." And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever."

The idea meant to be expressed here, is clearly, as long as there shall be a generation; and adverting to this text will much clear similar passages in the Apocalypse, which, be it remembered, was dictated by the same spirit: Alpha and Omega, the begining and the end.

xxxviii. 18. "For the grave cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19. The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

xl. 6. "The voice said, cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 7. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever. 24. And He shall also blow upon

them and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble."

xli. 11. "Behold, all they that were incensed against Thee shall be ashamed, and confounded; they shall be as nothing, and they that strive with Thee shall perish. 12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them; even them that contend with Thee they that war against Thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are God's yea, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."

xlv. 7. “I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil: I, the Lord, do all these things."

li. 6. "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished."

liii. 5. "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with his stripes we are healed.* 6. All we like sheep have gone

*“It must not, it cannot be admitted, that Christ did suffer all those torments that the damned suffer.

"I conclude, therefore, that the descent into hell is not the enduring the torments of hell; because, if strictly taken, it is not true,—if metaphorically, though true, it is not pertinent." (Pearson on the creed. Page 30.)

Here Bishop Pearson denies that Christ suffered the pains of the damned when he descended into hell, whilst he holds that

astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not his mouth: He is brought like a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not his mouth. 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? for He was cut off out of the land of living: for the transgressions of my people was He stricken. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. 12. Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out his soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors: and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Amos iii. 6. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?"

Malachi iv. 1. "For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. ' 2. But unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of

state to be the punishment due to our offences; thus striking at the root of the christian system, to maintain a doctrine which no one of its advocates dare say he wishes may be true.