cy. He is one who lives in the continual practice of prayer, mortification and self-denial. Such an one, or in other words, the real Christian, will not be in any danger of falling into the extravagancies of enthusiasm. The Divine virtues that characterize the real follower of Jesus Christ, furnish not only spiritual, but even natural cures to enthusiasm.*

Is it then generous, just, or right, to charge the pure spirit of the Gospel, with the follies and indiscretions, to say no worse of them, of its mere nominal professors, who contradict every essential principle of its doctrines, by the unrestrained sallies of a vain imagination, and the want of an experimental knowledge of its true spirit, and

*It is very remarkable how cautiously our Lord guards his followers from any such evil consequences. Instead of commanding them to league together and strive and fight to bring on this blessed and joyous event, to oppose the infidel and unbelieving nations of the earth, by force and violence, he most earnestly exhorts his servants to patience and long suffering. "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo! here is Christ, or there, believe it not; for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets; and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that if it were possible, they should deceive the very elect. Behold! I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold! he is in the desert, go not forth; behold! he is in the secret chamber, believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even to the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." And again, in the Revelation, "If any man have an ear let him hear-he who leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he who killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword: here is the patience and the faith of the saints." As much as if he had said, these awful consequences will come on a guilty world with certainty, therefore my people, who believe in my word, will be resigned.

† 24 Math. 23-27.

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life? Is all pure gold to be contemned and rejected, because the dishonest and unprincipled, have invented a thousand ways of debasing it ?-Do men act thus in human affairs? Will a host of dishonest men, tarnish the character of one of known integrity, and uprightness? It is by their fruits ye shall know them. "Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles."

THE TIME OF THE END,

OR, THE LATTER TIME OF THE LAST TIMES.

Rev. ch. 11, verses 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. " And the seventh Angel sounded, and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God, on their seats, fell upon their faces and worshipped God, saying, we give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art, and wast, and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned," &c. &c.

THESE verses have been quoted for the purpose of shewing to the Church of Christ, the great importance of the slaying and resurrection of the witnesses, with regard to enabling the wise among her children, to discern the signs of the times, and the blessed consequences of the apparent confusion and disorder of 1290 years. As the death and resurrection of Christ, from the dead, brought life and immortality to light; so will the death and resurrection of these his faithful witnesses, open up to the Church, the whole economy and plan of the Gospel, as it relates to her deliverance, from her depressed and suffering state, with the resurrection of the Prophets, Saints, and those who have feared God, both small and

great, and the introduction of the latter day glory, under the immediate and visible government of her King and Redeemer. It is on the sounding of the seventh Angel, which speedily follows the ending of the second woe, (and has already appeared to be finished at the resurrection of the witnesses) that "the kingdoms of this world, are to become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ," when it will become the duty of his servants, whatever their sufferings heretofore may have been "to lift up heads and to rejoice, knowing that their redemption draweth nigh."*

their

*Mr. Daubuz, in his comment on this chapter says, "the political resurrection of the witnesses (and they lived and reigned with Christ 1000 years) happens when Rome falls, and the beast is destroyed, and the nations are converted: then, that of the individual Saints must follow. Now lest we should mistake the resurrection by applying it, as it suits with a political collective body, the Holy Ghost uses terms, which only signify individuals. Upon the most serious application of mind, I cannot find that the terms used in this verse, can be understood of a political collective body or society of men, in a mortal state. The words are plain and literal, as to the Hebrew style. Souls slain, signify dead men-this is the subject of the proposition. A proper resurrection of their bodies must be implied-they are not individuals, or a collective body on earth, and in a mortal life; therefore a political resurrection cannot be applied to them. They are exactly distinguished in the whole prophecy, from living mortals, and from the church militant-their warfare is over, as to this life; they are victorious, and entering upon a triumphant state. The political resurrection of the church, does not belong to them, and cannot be predicated of their persons: and so when the Holy Ghost speaks of them, a different matter is applied to them. Let it be proved that the souls slain for the testimony of Jesus, or those who have opposed the beast and false prophet, who are here represented as slain and living again, do symbolically signify the whole church, or rather the collective body of the church, of the

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The figure here used, of the elders sitting before God, on his throne, is similar to that in Daniel, of the high priest in the Sanhedrim, with the twenty-four assessors or elders, sitting round him on each hand, in a semicircular form; and by the song of thanksgiving and praise, is shown the extreme joy of the Church of Christ, at this glorious consummation of all her sufferings and labour; and the bright display of the glory of her God, and the honour of her exalted Redeemer. Now has come the happy time, when the prophecies of both Daniel and John, though published at such great distance of time from each other, will be fully verified and understood.

Daniel, ch. 7, v. 9 and 10.

I beheld till the thrones were cast (or set) down, and the ancient of days did sit-the judges sat and the books were opened.

Verse 22. And judgment was given to the saints of the most

John, ch. 20, v. 4. I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judg ment was given unto them.

And I saw the souls of them who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and the word of God: and they lived and reigned with

Saints still in a mortal life; and not barely and plainly the Martyrs departed out of this life, distinct from the faithful still in this life, and then there will be some weight in the objection-but that I am sure never can be done. And if it were in this place made plausible, the verse following would still prove refractory-therefore this life and resurrection, can be only of such individuals as are described in the foregoing words, (the 18th verse, and the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them who fear thy name, small and great) who are persons slain and dead, before the time of the millenium.-Fol. 931.