"A Stone, a Woman, and a Flag." -
Introduction.
'Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of
affliction." Jer. 15:11.
"Thine eyes shall behold the land that
is very far off." Isa. 33:17.
F.R.A. Glover: Behold we then the prophet to the Gentiles - so consecrated while an
unborn infant - accompanied by the relics, the Stone of Witness, the Standard
of Judah, the Law, and the Stem of the Old Kingdom as the Seed-Plant of the New
Empire, on the great waters, taking sail, to set up a kingdom and the knowledge
of God among Gentiles, under the providence of the God of Abraham, of Isaac,
and of Jacob, for "the ultimate bounds" of the West: for those
countries where trade had already established a well-tracked line of
communication: and where, beyond the reach of Egyptian influence, the Stone of
Israel might be set up for a little moment, until the tyranny, under which the
necessity for the transportation of this Remnant of Judah had originated, were
overpast.
Little idea had the faithful prophet, possibly,
of the long interval that was to pass before this Stone of Israel, now set up
in Ireland, as the Throne-Seat of the Resuscitated Dynasty, should be restored
to the Mount of the Lord, whence he had, in full faith in its return, brought
it; .. of the period to elapse between The Righteous Judge's appearance and
withdrawal for a season (John 16:18), and His return to the land of his love
and his longing, what time Ephraim should have learnt not to envy Judah, and
Judah to have ceased to wish to vex Ephraim. The time when the Ensign of which
Isaiah prophesied, should be lifted up by the Root of Jesse, for the Nations,
.. for the assembling of the outcasts of Israel, and the gathering together the
dispersed of Judah, not now from Babylon, but from the four corners of the
earth, the East, the West, the North, and the South.
Of one thing he was entirely satisfied:
viz., that, as sure as he set up the Pillar of Witness in the Name of his God;
and, in the same Holy Name blessed the Race incorporated with its destiny with
the promise of a continuance to abide until the appearance of The Righteous
Judge, with Whose name, office, and dignity, he, a prophet to the Gentiles,
made those Gentiles then acquainted; so surely would that blessing be fulfilled
(Isa. 33:17-22): and that, until, in God's own time, He would bring it to pass
(Psa. 37:5):
"David should never want a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel." (Jer. 33:17).
For he had himself been instructed to say,
"If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and
that there should not be day and night in their season, then may also my
covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to
reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the
host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so
will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister
unto me. Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, Considerest
thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The Two Families which the Lord
bath chosen, he bath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people,
that they should be no more a nation before them. Thus saith the Lord; If my
covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances
of heaven and earth; then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my
servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have
mercy on them." (Jer. 33:20-26).
Lo! then, the significancy of the fact,
that, Jeremiah the Prophet having had to do all these things which have been
here ascribed to him, all these things themselves point to him as their
conductor into the West, and establisher when there.
Lo! the reason of the preservation of a
simple Stone; that on which the monarchs of England are crowned. A Stone of no
intrinsic or inherent value; but of such, nevertheless, as Jacob's Pillar of
Witness, that all the armaments of the world shall not wrest it from the grip
of the Anglo-Saxon, so long as they are true to their God and
themselves. [JML: !]
Lo! again, also, the cause of the dignity
and preeminence of the Race enthroned on it; and of the fact of that Lion
Blazon of the British Empire being its highest merit (see Chapter XIII), and
pre-eminent election; for it is GOD'S MARK upon us, and constitutes the nation
that has it, by right, The Standard-Bearer of the God of Israel: that standard
being England's, not by assumption, but by inheritance and right; for it is the
Standard of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah; and the Blood of Judah, through the
Stem of Jesse, sits on the throne of England: so that the Monarch of England is
herein, now, the Living Representative of the REMNANT OF JUDAH of the Prophet
Jeremiah: even that Remnant of Judah to whom the Lord promised sanctuary and
recovery; for "The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily,I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in
the time of affliction" (Jer. 15:11). And "the remnant" that
escaped of the House of Judah, did take root downward, and has borne fruit
upward (II Kings 19:30-31), and will: for, already, "of one, has become a
thousand, - of a little one a great nation," (Isa. 40:22) the earnest of a
greater; and it is still "the Remnant of Judah;" .. the marks
whereof, these, "The Islands of the Sea," have, and can show them:
even a Stone, a Woman, and a Flag, as heretofore, with such evidence of the
Presence of a Prophet amongst us to notify the will and do the work of the Lord
(see Introduction), as the foregoing pages, in part, may suffice to declare.
Lo! then, the Remnant of Judah, and these,
the marks thereof:-
The mysterious Throne:-
The mysterious Race seated on it:-
and, The Ensign of The Lion of the Tribe of
Judah (Rev. 5:5).
And are all these things, these Three
Things, here in England? They are; and are England's, not only by Right of
Possession, but the Monarch of THE ISLANDS OF THE SEA has inherited them.
Are they here for nothing? or is all this
seeming Providence purposeless?
Are they SIGNs ? or are they not SIGNS?
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