in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again."-" And Jerufalem shall be called, A city of Truth; and the Mountain of the Lord of Hofts, the Holy Mountain. Thus faith the Lord of Hofts, there fhall yet be old men and old women dwell in the ftreets of Jerufalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus faith the Lord of Hofts, If [or though] it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in thefe days, fhould it also be marvellous in mine eyes? "It fhall yet come to pafs, that there fhall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, faying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to feek the Lord of Hofts: I will go alfo. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to feek the Lord of Hofts in Jerufalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus faith the Lord of Hofts; In those days it fhall come to pass, that ten men fhall take hold, out of all languages of the nations, even fhall take hold of the skirt of * Zech. ii. 1012. X 2 him him that is a Jew, faying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you f." "For Zion's fake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerufalem's fake I will not reft, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightnefs, and the falvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles fhall fee thy righteoufnefs, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord fhall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed forfaken, neither fhall thy land any more be termed defolate . From thefe fublime descriptions, and from innumerable other paffages in the Old and New Teftaments, I think it appears probable, that when the amazing progrefs of wickednefs fhall have nearly banished faith from the earth (excepting thofe nations which are to be faved," Rev, xxii.)-when the INFIDEL POWER has reached its utmost. pitch of daring, and the reft of the various followers of Antichrift, or Satan-Pagan, Mahometan, Papal, and Heretical-impelled by various Zech. viii. 3-6.20-235 Ifaiah lxii. I-4. motives, motives, fhall have filled the earth with tumult and mifery, and their principal force fhall be directed against the land of Judea, and the Religion of Chrift-when the Jews fhall repent of all their fins, and look to God alone for their deliverance-when the Church of Chrift, that is, the body of faithful worshippers of all denominations throughout the world, purified by tribulation, enlightened by Prophecy 1, and exalted by the hope of approaching redemption, fhall" lift up her head with joy," amidst surrounding terrors, looking for the glorious appearing of her Lord-Then shall appear the SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN in the heaven, and then fhall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they shall fee THE SON OF MAN coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he fhall fend his angels with a great found "The giving ear to the Prophets, is a fundamental character of the true Church." Sir Ifaac Newton. i Mr. Mede fuggefted the idea of Chrift's appearing to the Jews fomewhat in the fame manner as he appeared to St. Paul at his converfion, and was inclined to think this hinted at by St. Paul himself, in 1 Tim. i. 16. and by our Saviour, Matt. xxiv. 29, 30. which he supposed to refer to Zech, xii. 11. but confidering the "tribulation” which was to immediately precede "the coming of the Son of Man," as referring folely to the Jews, he found it difficult to reconcile these ideas together. of a trumpet, and they fhall gather together his elect from the uttermoft part of the earth, to the uttermoft part of heaven. Then two fhall be in the field; the one fhall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one fhall be taken, and the other left." For then shall "the righteous" be openly distinguished" from the wicked, and him that ferveth God, from him that ferveth him not ." The conjectures I have prefumed to offer refpecting the course of things yet future, have conducted us to this awful period, without the fuppofition of any apparently miraculous interpofition of Divine providence: but an entire new fcene, as I humbly conceive, now opens to our view; for I confider the appearance of the Meffiah at this period of the world, to be the founding of the seventh trumpet, which is to finish the mystery of God." " ""I imagine the feventh vial filled with wrath," will be poured out when this trumpet fhall begin to found;" and that the conclufion of Daniel's Prophecies accurately accord with this laft trumpet; "And at that time shall Michael ftand up, the great Prince, which Malachi iii. 18. ftandeth ftandeth for the children of thy people; and there fhall be a time of trouble, fuch as never was fince there was a nation, even to that fame time; and at that time thy people fhall be (finally) delivered, every one that fhall be found written in the book. And many of them that fleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, fome to everlasting life, and fome to fhame and everlasting contempt. And they that turn many to righteoufnefs, fhall fhine as the stars for ever and ever1." Behold, I come as a thief (or fuddenly), bleffed is he that watcheth."" And he gathereth them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon" [" the fpirits of devils" had gone forth" to the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty "."] And the feventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And there came a great voice out of the Temple of heaven from the throne, faying, It is done." "And the seventh angel founded; and there were great voices in heaven, faying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Chrift, and he fhall reign for ever 1 Dan. xii. I-3. Rev. xvi. 14. m Rev. xvi. 15, 16. X 4 and |