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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt:... THE GALLANT'S BURDEN. The burden of Dumah. He calk unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what teas in the night? Watchman, what was in tfo night? The watchman eaid, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ge will ask, inquire; return, and come.--Isaiah XXI. 11, 12. Quo brevior, eo obscurior, --The shorter this prophecy is, the more mystical. In holy writ, these two things ever concur, sententia brevis, res ampla, --a finite sentence, an infinite sense. As in a little map we see a world of countries; and what the foot cannot measure in many days, the eye peruseth in a moment: this is the little map of Idumea or Edom, wherein we may survey the state of that whole region; not much unlike the situation of it, standing in this chapter betwixt Chaldea and Arabia. The burdens against them both are heavy, and the plagues aggravated with more circumstances. 'The burden of Dumah, ' though short, shall weigh with them grain for grain. As you travel with me into this country, by the guidance of that enlightening Spirit, tie your considerations to two special things: --I. The map; II. The moral. In the map you shall find--1. An inscription; 2. A description. In the inscription: (1.) The name of the country; (2.) The nature of the prophecy. The description rests itself on three objects: (1.) A mountain; (2.) A watchman; (3.) An Edomite: where is shadowed, (1.) under the mountain, security; (2.) under the watchman, vigilance; (3.) under the Edomite, scorn. Now, if you ask, as did the prophet Ezekiel, what these things meant, the moral directs you, 1. by a question; 2. by an answer. The question would know what was in the night. The answer declares it, (1.) by a resolution; (2.) by an advice. The resolution, Venit mane et vespere, --' The morning comes, and also the night;' the