HAVE SET THEE SO: [shadowing with thy wings the mercy seat of God, spreading the shelter of thine arms over the faithful worshippers:] thou wast upon the holy mountain of God: thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God, and I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic: THEREFORE WILL I BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, IT SHALL DEVOUR THEE; and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. Know thou of a surety, O Britain, that these words are written of thee. Thou art the sealing up of the sum, the sealed nation; thy

* Ezek. xxviii. 11-19.

government is the stamp of the resemblance, the finished model, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty; thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, "the land shadowing with wings."

No. V.

MONOGRAM" DEFINED.

IN Chapter XXV. I have used the word monogram applied to Christ. In case any one of my readers should be ignorant of its import, it may be proper here to mention that it signifies properly one written character combining many letters. many letters. Monograms were common on ancient seals. Thus all the letters of the name Ptolemy might be wrought into one single character, which, viewed in different positions, may present the whole. Examples will be found in "Dr. Clarke's Travels," and elsewhere.

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