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A new song" is invoked, because "the Lord hath done marvellous things: " because "his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory:" because "he hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel," and because "all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." A new song is to be sung in the congregation of saints, and the children of Zion are invited to be joyful in their King.

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O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.” (Ps. xcviii.)

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Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that

made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds." (See Ps. cxlix.) When the Lamb has taken possession of the book, the saints are "joyful in glory, the heavens rejoice" and the earth makes" a joyful noise before the Lord, the King."

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To the Church of Christ on earth, the song of redemption through the blood of the Lamb, has been the dearest theme, for more than eighteen hundred years; but to Israel's ransomed, and returning tribes, how "new" will be the heaven-taught chant! And as a new song," it will be sung by Israel's tribes :-for the hundred forty and four thousand," who, in the vision of the beloved disciple, are beheld with the Lamb on the mount Sion, agree in number, and probably also in mark, with the hundred forty and four thousand out of all the tribes of the children of Israel who have been sealed in their foreheads as the servants of our God. (See Rev. vii. 2—8.)

Subsequently to the sealing of Israel's tribes, John “looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And he heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and he heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps : and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and

four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." (Rev. xiv. 1-4.)

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The new song that is sung before the Lamb may respond to the invocation contained in the forty second chapter of Isaiah's prophecy: for the events that follow the new song, harmonize with the prophecies that follow the invocation; and the new song extols him, with reference to whom, the word of the Lord saith:'Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

"Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to

bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord : that is my name and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. (See Rev. iv. 1.) Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies." (Isa. xlii. 1-13.)

ZION'S KING.

"REJOICE greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

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"As for thee also by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee; when I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

"And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land." (Zec. ix. 9-16.)

"AND I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the

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