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only necessary for the attaining of the latter. To suffer in our flesh he might have been of any other family; but to fulfil the covenant with David, he must sit upon David's throne, and to sit upon David's throne, he must be of David's house and lineage. You may if you will spiritualize the throne of David, but in that case you must spiritualize his body also; if the latter is literal, then the former must be literal also. Fifthly, again, this holding of David's throne by David's son is proved to be literal by its being identified in the covenant with the permanent glory of the Jewish people. I refer you to 2 Sam. vii. 10, 11: "There I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house." Now, this is evidently not yet fulfilled. God has never put his people Israel where they are afflicted no more. They are at this very time in a state of persecution; they are now outcast, they are under the displeasure of God, they are moving from one place to another; but here we are led to look forward to the peaceful kingdom of the literal Son of David over the literal people of Judah and of Israel.

Thus far we have confined ourselves chiefly to

words spoken by David or Solomon. We now proceed to trace this covenant to its accomplishment.

II. I observe, that though Solomon did not fulfil the covenant which God had given to his father, yet both were striking types and earnests of the great fulfilment that was to be accomplished in the Messiah. Saul was appointed king, answering to the kings of this world, to whom God has intrusted the dominion, but, like Saul, the kings of this world will reject the Lord and cast him off, and this dispensation will be wound up, as we believe, in their entire and complete opposition to the Lord and his Christ. We believe "That the kings of the earth will set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his anointed; saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." Saul having rejected the Lord, David was privately anointed king by Samuel, and afterwards publicly installed into the kingdom; just so our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom David is in this respect the type, has appeared as the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: there was the hiding of his power; and he has been gathering his Church together one by one ever since, waiting till he shall be manifested as the king in the day of his glory. David, again, as the type,

accomplished the subduing of his enemies, and was a man of war, (which God told him was the reason why he should not build the temple), so, our Lord at his second coming, will, as the great Antitype, take vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of his Son; when their blood shall be sprinkled on his garments, and he will stain all his raiment. But God would not allow that the fulness of the type should be comprised in David; and therefore Solomon here comes in to complete it, by typifying the love and glory which should result from the previous victory of Jesus. And in his millennial glory, when he is exalted on the throne of righteousness and peace, our Lord is the antitype of Solomon, the man of peace, who succeeds to the victories of David, and rules over his kingdom in peace and righteousness. Thus, in Saul, and David, and Solomon, we have a complete type and earnest of the position that our Lord will hold at his second coming, when the kings of the earth being subdued and cast out from their dominion, Christ having overcome all his enemies, shall rule in peace and righteousness for ever.

Again, we may look at David and Solomon in another light, as remarkable earnests and types of that which is to come. David prepared the materials for the building of the temple, but Solomon

erected that edifice; our Lord is at this time, and has been throughout this dispensation, in his Davidical character, collecting the materials of his spiritual temple, and hewing one stone after another through his Word and ministers, for the building of that house, which shall be made up of living stones built upon himself, the one great foundation. When he comes the second time he will present that Church to himself, in all its perfect beautyevery stone having been hewn and fashioned by the Spirit, and the whole prepared for an everlasting habitation and temple of God, that he may be eternally glorified. Again, we remark, that the reign of Solomon was one of extraordinary glory. In this respect, it is peculiarly the earnest and type of our Lord's coming kingdom. In 1 Kings x. 14, you find a description of all the wealth and glory of Solomon; the world seemed laid under contributions to that king; he had his gold, his silver, his ivory, his apes and peacocks; all that could add to his glory was poured into his treasures, so that the wealth of the world seemed laid at his feet. What was this, but the type and earnest of the time when all creation shall be again redeemed, and all that God has made shall be brought back to the rightful dominion, and become subservient to the glory of our exalted king.

Yea, the Spirit speaks in this way con

tinually. See what you find in Isaiah lx. about the gold, and silver, and camels, and all those things that are to be brought in that day, as an offering unto the king. St. Paul tells us, that all creation groans and travails in pain together until now, but that it shall be brought from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. And we believe that the day is coming when there shall be holiness unto the Lord on the bells of the horses, yea, every pot in Jerusalem shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts, and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. * There will be the fullest accomplishment of that of which Solomon's kingdom was the peculiar type. Solomon, indeed, reigned over the Jewish people in peace, and the glory of the world was given unto him, that he might have the hearts of a willing and obedient people, and the glory externally of a splendid kingdom; but to our Lord there shall be the new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, for the subjects of his kingdom shall be a holy people, corresponding in their inward purity and peace to the beautiful creation around them. Nor, my dear brethren, should we omit to remark, with respect to the fact of the queen of Sheba coming to * Zech. xiv. 20, 21.

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