so, we shall continue to hold by it. Not that we object to a spiritual application of these predictions: all we ask is, that such a spiritual application be founded upon a literal interpretation. We would spiritualize and apply prophecy just as we would history; that is, we would first interpret it. We would deal with the Book of Isaiah as we would do with the Book of Chronicles. We might admit that there was more of figure in the former than in the latter, though not so much more as many suppose;