FIFTY EXPOSITORY DISCOURSES, ON THE SERIES OF SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES, Which form the Subject of the celebrated ORATORIO OF HANDEL. PREACHED IN THE YEARS 1784 AND 1785, In the PARISH CHURCH of ST. MARY WOOLNOTH, Oh, that they were wife, that they underflood this! LONDON: DEUT. xxxii. 29. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR; AND SOLD BY J. BUCKLAND, PATER-NOSTER-ROW; AND J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. M DCC LXXXVI, MESSIAH. HIS EXALTATION, KINGDOM, AND SECOND ADVENT. VOL. II. CARMINA, TUM MELIUS, CUM VENERIT IPSE, CANE MUS. VIRG. To him that overcometh, will I grant to fit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am fet down with my Father in his throne. REV. iii. 21. CONTENT S. TO THE SECOND VOLUME. SERMON XXVI. THE ASCENSION OF MESSSIAH TO GLORY. PSALM Xxiv. 7—10. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory fhall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord ftrong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, Oye gates, even lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory fhall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of bofts; he is the King of glory. A 3 Page 1 SER |