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The Second Advent; Or, The Glorious Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Second Advent Or The Glorious Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ Author:John Fry Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I/ the Scripture may have to the concerns of the second advent, we shall wait the showing of the sacred writers themselves. To constitute a type, I am of opin... more »ion we should have scriptural authority, expressed or implied, that the event referred to is intended as a prophetical symbol of what shall be hereafter. SECTION I. The Song of Moses on the miraculous Passage of the' Red Sea. I Shall now call the reader's attention to the Song of Moses, composed on occasion of the miraculous passage of the Red Sea. This inspired song we shall find intermingles with the theme of thanksgiving for the late mercy received; an anticipation of glorious displays of power that terminate in the coming of the promised Redeemer, and the everlasting possession of Canaan. This divine poem, which I shall attempt to give from the original, like most others of these sacred hymns, is of the amcebaean or responsive kind; and it is of material consequence, to our proper understanding of the theme, to mark distinctly the different responses that are made. A first and second semichorus, with an occasional full chorus, seems to be the most natural distribution for us to follow; and the sense of the verses will, for the most part, point out where the divisions are to be made. Eiod. xv. i. First Semichorvt. 1. I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously;1 The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea: 2. My glory and my song is Jah, ' For he hath been my salvation. Second Semichorus. This is my God, and for him. I will prepare an habitation ;' The Elohim of my fathers, and him will I extol. 3. Jehovah is mighty in conflict, Jehovah is his name. First Semichorus. 4. He cast the chariots of Pharaoh and his host into the sea; He drowned his chosen captains i...« less