A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

This was typified of old by the sounding of the silver trumpets in Israel in the beginning of their jubilee: Lev. xxv.9. "Then shal• thou c•use the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." The glorious times which are approaching, are as it were the church's jubilee, which shall be introduced by the sounding of the silver trumpet of the gospel, as is foretold in Is xxvii.13. "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcast• of the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem." There shall be a glorious pouring out of the Spirit with this clear and powerful preaching of the gospel, to make it successful for reviving those holy doctrines of religion which are now chiefly ridiculed in the world, and turning many from heresy, and from Popery, and from other false religion; and also for turning many from their vice and profaneness, and for bringing vast multitudes savingly home to Christ.

That work of conversion shall go on in a wonderful manner, and spread more and more. Many shall flow together to the goodness ⟨p. 251⟩of the Lord, and shall come as it were in flocks, one flock and multitude after another continually flowing in, as in Is. lx.4.5. "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see and flow together." And so vers. 8. "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" It being represented in the forementioned place in the Revelation, that the gospel shall be preached to every tongue, and kindred, and nation, and people, before the fall of Antichrist; so we may suppose, that it will soon be gloriously successful to bring in multitudes from every nation; and it shall spread more and more with wonderful swiftness, and vast numbers shall suddenly be brought in as at once, as you may see, Is. lxvi.7 8.9.