WHEREFORE 1. God also hath highly exalted Him, 2. And given Him a name which is above every name: 3. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 4. Of things in heaven, 5. And things on earth, 6. And things under the earth; 7. And that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Amen. “Come, then, and, added to Thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature’s birth; And Thou hast made it Thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with Thy blood. Thy saints proclaim Thee king; and in their hearts Thy title is engraven with a pen Dipp’d in the fountain of eternal love. Thy saints proclaim Thee king; and Thy delay Gives courage to their foes, who, could they see The dawn of Thy last advent, long desired, Would creep into the bowels of the hills, And flee for safety to the falling rocks.” “Come, then, and, added to Thy many crowns, Receive yet one, as radiant as the rest, Due to Thy last and most effectual work, Thy Word fulfilled, the conquest of a world.” (_Cowper._) “FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS.” We have seen the great truths which are taught from the position, and forms, and names of the heavenly bodies. There are also truths to be learnt from their _motions_. When God created them and set them in the firmament of heaven, He said, in Gen. i. 14— “Let them be for signs and for seasons.” Here the word “signs” is _othoth_ (אֹתֹת, plural of אוֹת, _oth_, from the root אֳתֳת, _to come_). Hence, _a sign of something_ or _some One to come_. In Jer. x. 2 Jehovah says, “And be not dismayed _at the signs_ (וּמֵאתוֹת) of the heavens, for the heathen are dismayed at them.” The word “seasons” does not denote merely what we call the four seasons of the year, but _cycles_ of time. It is מוֹעֵד, _appointed time_ (from the verb יָעַד, _to point out_, _appoint_). It occurs three more times in Genesis, each time in connection with the promised Seed— Gen. xvii. 21, “_At_ this _set time_ in the next year”; Gen. xviii. 14, “_At the time appointed_ I will return”; and Gen. xxi. 2, “_At the set time_ of which God had spoken.” Gen. i. 14 is therefore, “They (the sun, moon, and stars) shall be for signs (things to come) and for cycles (appointed times).” Here, then, we have a distinct declaration from God, that the heavens contain not only a Revelation concerning _things to come_ in the “Signs,” but also concerning _appointed times_ in the wondrous movements of the sun, and moon, and stars.