Excerpt from The Pulpit and Platform: Being Discourses, Arguments and Orations When Jehovah selected a nation to be keepers of his oracles, and witnesses of his power, he sent unto them his servants, the Prophets, declaring that he would give them a Saviour, who would be descended from one of their tribes.. In. All their difliculties and afflictions, this assurance was aground of consolation and joy. When carried captive into a foreign land, and loaded with the chains of slavery, they looked forward; with hope to the time when they expected the Messiah to ascend the throne of his father David, and become the deliverer of Israel. The manner in which this kingdom of Christ was spoken of by the Prophets led the Jews to believe that his Government would be a temporal one - Isaiah, in his 9th chapter, when describing the character of the looked-for Messiah, uses the following expressions: 'unto us a Child is born; unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Father of the everlasting age, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth, even forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.