Here is a plain proof that God's grace is free, and man born free (like Cain) to choose good or evil; if not, how can man be justly punished for ever, if he commits no crime?. All men voluntarily commit crimes to acquire property, and apply it to indulge all the desires of the flesh, in direct opposition to their consciences (the spirit of God) till their hearts are dead to his call.

"Darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people." Christendom looks for deliverance from their respective princes, priests, or legislative bodies, or from vain, weak, popular unions, often shedding torrents of blood, in mad revolutions, rather than look above for deliverance from the hand of God.

The whole world is gone out of "the way" to heaven, and suffers purgatory upon earth. Earthquakes, famines, pestilence, &c. fail in turning our hearts to ask for Christ's mercy.

At this moment, Europeans look to legislative bodies as the highest courts, expecting deliverance by the supreme laws men pretend to make, whose interests remain the same to oppress the poor and divide the spoil.

The legislative bodies of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, far from yielding Christian relief to the poor, do little or nothing more than vote what they did last year, viz. 50,000,000l. to be levied as usual, and whether from profits or principals, it must be collected.

The death of Lord Lyttleton, who seduced the three Miss Amphlets, and died at his mansion called, apropos, Pitt Place, near Epsom, 27 Nov. 1779, and the disappearance of a certain Londoner, in a fiery Italian mountain (if men may credit a captain and crew upon oath in a court of justice) are too memorable and too positive events to be scorned, except by people who forget God.

"If men believe not Moses and the prophets, neither will men believe though Christ rose from the dead." The appearance of Christ to John Engelbrecht at Bruns

wick, in 1634, is regarded as impossible by all Christian professors!!!

Nearly 200 years have passed, during which the man, and the God, have been disbelieved. Oh remember " all things are possible with God," all unbelievers fall dead before his face. I have extracted John's Vision of "The Three States," and let scoffers beware how they reject the hour of mercy, because the hour of justice is come; sudden deaths happen daily to make sinners take warning, but they continue gluttons, drunkards, &c.

I belong to no party, no society, no class whatever, civil, political, nor ecclesiastical, but I was educated by high cathedral church ministers, whom I still respect.

I acknowledge all the Bible, now by many called a new light, in scorn and contempt, who say there is a great unknown God, careless of such a little world as man's.

"A prophet has no honour in his own country." I know what to expect. If men offer opinions, like Mr. Owen, people ask credentials; if one offers the Bible, it is declared to be any thing but the work of God, and that any man can write a better book!!! Mr. Owen's doctrine is one of the strange signs of the times. His utopian schemes have failed both in Scotland and America, as I publicly reminded him at the City of London Tavern, on 12 April, 1830.

If a man declare visions, dreams, &c. he is laughed at. If, like me, he offers the humble fruit of many years' search, acquired in a natural manner, it is also disregarded.

Nothing, be it natural or supernatural, pleases the world, at present, they seem quite happy and contented in the mad career or broad road to destruction!!! Read profane history, or travel in India to see widows burnt; look at Turks, Tartars, Hottentots, cannibals, slaves, &c. yet even all these wretched tribes appear happier than Christendom, for they are born in tradition and idolatry (while Europe rejects the Gospel), and consequently they have not to answer for rejecting Christ's salvation. How

can they hear without preachers? How can they believe what they have not heard or seen?

I was nearly killed on 17 July, 1829, at Paris, near the Tuilleries, under a carriage; I was between the horses, but Providence snatched me from the jaws of death, as if expressly to finish this book.

"Now go write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: that this is a rebellious people that will not hear the law of the Lord: who say to the seers, See not, and to the prophets, Prophecy not right things but smooth things; prophecy deceits." Isaiah xxx. All laughed at Noah and his ark as they laugh now at God's threat to send a deluge of Blood to wash away sinners. Christ declares not one word of his shall fail. Listen while the door is open to escape the divine "wrath to come." The door will soon be closed for ever.

"A grievous vision is declared unto me." Prepare !!

The Lord is so merciful that now, as then, he raises messengers, like Noah, to proclaim his threats, in order to give all good time for repentance; but now, as then, few, very few, embrace the final warnings.

I assume no extraordinary inspiration; the scripture is the inspired word of God, and if I follow the letter and the spirit, it is at their peril if priests, princes, and people reject or scorn "the truth," for "God is no respecter of persons."

If this book be not scriptural, it is easy to oppose it by scripture language; if scriptural, it is God's work, and all the world's opposition cannot arrest its course!!!

God has always chosen and condescended to speak through men to the world, and he still chooses the weak and foolish to confound the mighty and wise!!

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Why do the heathen so furiously rage together: why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the

Lord. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to Scorn." Psalm ii.

In our days a miracle has been accomplished by the publication of the gospel to all nations; but, alas! we do not see a single nation receive "the tidings of great joy" for their standard and government, consequently "transgressors are come to the full." The gospel is, certainly, a dead letter in all nations; and, therefore, is " a witness against all nations," till Christ's spirit comes, as conqueror, over all his enemies, confounded (as thieves in the night) in a moment, by his blaze of light. The world waxes old, 5,834 or 5,948 years; the eleventh hour is past, and not a moment to be idle; the clock must strike again soon; there will be "a midnight cry," a morning star-" a Sun of Righteousness" shall arise and shine for ever.

Let Christians watch and pray for its glorious advent. How many considered Napoleon's confederation or coalition of sovereigns was ordained to be the last "mystery of iniquity;" but Napoleon's league was dissolved, as the great globe itself shall be, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump!!!

A confederacy was next built at Vienna, on Napoleon's wreck, all in unity and concord with Rome, or "the destroyers of the Gentile church" in Christendom, which certainly never endured more general distress and perplexity, ecclesiastically, civilly, and politically, than in the present century. "The Holy Alliance," in the midst of perplexities, has reared a gigantic SPELL, which consists of "Ten kings who receive power, one hour, with the Beast, in the latter time of their kingdoms" (exactly according to Daniel's prophecy), and seven blasphemous heads (perhaps Sicily, Sardinia, Tuscany, Baden, Wurtemburg, Hungary, and Bavaria); but God knows well who and where they are. (See pages 62 and 117.)

"The glory of the latter house shall exceed the glory of the former." If Jerusalem be rebuilt with marble, bricks, stones, and mortar, "here we have no continuing city;" it

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is therefore wiser to look for that promised "glorious house, whose builder is God," rather than cities and citizens where all are perishable !!!

The great tree of sin stands far higher than Babel did.

The infallible signs of Christ's coming to hew down the accursed tree are visible in the universal confusion reigning and spreading, like lightning, from east to west, from pole to pole.

What parsons, doctors, legislators, or physicians exercise their talents gratis from love and compassion on sick, expiring brothers and sisters?

The Christian religion went well till the church became rich and covetous, and fell into temptation. Infidelity stalks over Christendom, and the people profess every religion, or rather none at all.

How like grasshoppers or shrimps* do men often leap at random, except led by Christ the comforter, whom I desire faith to follow, at all times and at all places, looking to him to relieve my oppressed heart and soul from my great ghostly and bodily enemies, seeking whom they may devour, frequently filling me with burthens heavier than I could

bear without divine aid.

Why art thou so vexed and heavy, O my soul; why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust more and more in God."

I covet nothing, boast nothing, but humbly invite all to search the scriptures. Surely I am a Voice, a feeble voice, which God can send and bless in all corners of the earth, for "the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our maker; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation .... Let us sing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvellous things."

I have been allotted (as if expressly to accord with Daniel's prophecy) to run to and fro, for four years, in quest of truth. My knowledge is increased, as I humbly trust,

* Written on the eve of crossing the British Channel, 12th Nov. 1829.