God's holy prophets, from the beginning," Acts iii. 21.-And "the refurrection of the just," or the "firft refurrection "at "the regeneration," when the Son of Man fhall fit on the throne of his glory, and his Apoftles on twelve thrones, "judging the twelve tribes of the Ifrael [of God]:"And the commencement of that long and glorious period of 1000 prophetical years, during which the Kingdom of God is to prevail "on Earth, as it does in Heaven.” -And then " at the end of time "—to be tranflated into eternity." When the SON OF GOD fhall deliver up his fiduciary and preparatory kingdom or government to GOD THE FATHER; after he fhall have. abolished all principality and all authority and power, adverse to holiness then fhall THE SON also himself be subjected to HIM, who fubjected unto Him the universe, that the DEITY might be THE ALL IN ALL;"-when all rational beings are rendered capable, by a train of progreffive improvement, from ftrength to strength, from glory to glory, of becoming the imF mediate

mediate fubjects of THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT, and of approximating, throughout all eternity, towards the inexhauftible fource of all GOOD-the unattainable standard of all PERFECTION!!!

Such are the awful views of futurity; fuch the ftupendous outline of the Divine difpenfations, revealed in the Providential Hiftory of Mankind the highest of all claffics, the nobleft, the most authentic, and the moft inftructive of all hiftories, but the most difficult, fully to comprehend, THE BIBLE.

Whofoever therefore denies the delegated fovereignty of JESUS CHRIST, as "a fharer with THE SUPREME in the government of the Universe," like Belfham, --as THE SON OF GOD, and "Affociate of his kingdom," like Buonaparte," hath made Gop himself" (in the energetic language of Holy Writ) a liar; difbelieving the testimony which THE DEITY hath testified concerning "His Son."— "Who is the liar? except he who denieth that Jesus is THE CHRIST.-This is

the Antichrift, denying THE FATHER and THE SON!!!" Compare, in the originals, Luke xiv. 14, Matt. xxiv. 31, 1 Cor. xv. 23, Rev. xx. 5, Matt. xix. 28, I John ii. 22, and v. 10.

Liften, ye apoftates, to the folemn declaration of the Son of God, at his fecond palover, to the unbelieving and perfecuting Jews, who fought to kill him, " be"cause he called THE DEITY, dior walspa —“ HIS PECULIAR FATHER." John v. 18-29.

"Verily, verily, I fay unto you, THE Son cannot do any thing of himself, except what He obferveth THE FATHER doing; for whatsoever THAT doeth, there alfo THE SON likewife doeth. For THE FATHER loveth THE SON, and fheweth unto him all things whatsoever Himself doeth; and will fhew him greater works. than these, that ye [unbelievers] might wonder:

"For as THE FATHER raiseth and quickeneth the dead, even so THE SON quickeneth whom he willeth. Neither

doth THE FATHER judge any, but hath given the whole judgment to THE SON; that ALL SHOULD HONOUR THE SON, ACCORDING AS THEY HONOUR THE FATHER whofoever HONOURETH NOT THE SON, HONOURETH NOT THE FATHER, WHO SENT HIM."

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Verily, verily, I fay unto you, that whofoever heareth my difcourfe, and believeth on HIM who fent me, hath life eternal, and is not to come into judgment, but hath migrated (h) (μelabelwner) from death to life." “Verily,

(b) The following analogies from Ancient Philofophy cannot be unacceptable to the Claffical reader, and Chriftian philofopher.

1. "Neque enim affentior iis qui hæc nuper differere cœperunt, (Lucretius, &c.) Cum corporibus animos fimul interire et omnia morte deliri.'"-CICERO, de Amicitia,

"PHILOSOPHIA yero, omnium mater artium, quid ut aliud, nifi ut Plato ait- donum'—ut ego— Inventum DEORUM'-Ergo animus, ut ego dico, divinus eft; ut Euripides audet dicere, Deus"→→→ M. "Video te alta fpectare, et velle in cœlum migrare

A. "Spero

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Verily, verily, I fay unto you, that the hour is coming, and is now at hand, (k) when the [righteous] dead fhall hear the voice of the Son of GOD; and they that

A. "Spero fore ut contingat id nobis."-CICERO. Tufculan, 1. 25.

2. Αφ' εαυς μεταβαίνει, ὡς είκων προς αρχείυπον, τέλος έχων της πορείας.

"From himself be migrates, as an image to its archetype, arriving at the end of the paffage.' Plotinus. Enniad.

And this Platonic philofopher, by a still bolder imagery, defcribes this migration of the fouls of "godlike men”ΦΥΓΗ ΜΟΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΣ ΜΟΝΟΝ, “A FLIGHT OF SINGLE TO SINGLE."

(k) Equally defirous to infpect and detect the methodifms of the Orthodox, as well as of the Heterodox; and this not being a feafon of ceremony, I cannot let pafs a methodism of confiderable magnitude, though patronized by a respectable biblical scholar, Archbishop Newcome; who, contrary to the whole tenor of Scripture, in my humble apprehenfion, limits (with Hammond) the figns of our Lord's wapsoia, or "prefence," in that most important but most abftrufe chapter, Matt. xxiv. 3. " to the deftruction of the Jewish Polity; difagreeing alfo from that very fuperior writer," Taylor (the author of Ben Mordecai's Letters),