Christ Our Rest and King A Sermon

A SERMON, ISAIAH 32:1-2. "Behold a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." THIS promise is a prophecy of the reign of Hezekiah when truth and righteousness should once more bear rule in Jerusalem. The people had been oppressed by wicked kings, and worn out by the miseries which come in the train of unrighteous princes. The whole city was full of strife: the priesthood was debased: the tribunals of the law corrupt: "judgment was turned away backward, truth was fallen in the street, and equity could not enter."