The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applied: or, A discourse concerning the general…The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applyed: or, A discourse concerning the general…

3. We have another Hebrew word under the same vial, and that is, Hallelujah, a word used ^(†)four times in the Revelations, in opposition to the cry of Alas, Alas, three times used by the Kings and Merchants ^(y)lamenting the fall of Babylon; so that the heavens ring with Al•sses on the one side, and with Hallelujahs on the other, at the ruin of the great whore. This then is an Hebrew word, often used in the Psalms, ^(*)and the first time that it is there mentioned is, in Ps. 104. last. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more; Bless thou the Lord, O my soul; Hallelujah. i. e. Praise ye Jah, or, Praise ye the Lord. The words are a prayer, yet a prophecy is implied in them, viz. that sinners shall, at last, be consumed out of the earth, and that will be when their ringleader, the man of sin is consumed with the breath of Christ's mouth, ^(z)and, [Greek or Hebrew], that wicked, or lawless one, is destroyed with the brightness of his coming. And the first and last time that this word is used in the New Testament is, Rev. 19.1.3, 4, 6. Now we find the Churches of the Gentiles often praising God in the ^(a)Revelations. But we find not Hallelujah, ⟨image ?⟩till we come to the sixth vial, whereof the 19th. Chapter of the Revelations is the exposition. For now the Jews are called, and the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, not in the ordinary way of his Sovereignty, so as he did always, but now ^(b)he hath taken to himself his great power and reigneth; which great power he seemed before to have laid aside, now re-assuming it, and making it manifest by two most eminent evidences obvious to the eyes of all men, viz. the destruction of the great whore, and the conversion of his ancient people the Jews. For now is fulfilled what was prophesied,