as the broad street of the Great City, if we had not a better interpretation.

Going on next to the year 1689, I observe that the accession of William III. and Mary in England, the Act of Settlement, the Bill of Rights, and general war against Louis XIV., which distinguished that year, were, in their future results to the Church of God, much more important than the restoration of the Churches in the valleys of Piedmont, which have never, since then, acted any part in the great enterprises of the Church, for the evangelization of the world, and indeed have scarcely kept alive in themselves more than the almost expiring embers of genuine Protestantism.

In the third place, the victory of William III. at the Boyne, in the year 1690, which led to the pacification of Ireland in the next year, and the establishment of Protestant ascendancy, whereby were laid the foundations of the greatness of Protestant England during the five following reigns, with all its momentous consequences on the moral destinies of the world; that victory, we affirm, and its very first result, the flight of James II. from Ireland, were more important to the Church of God than the Edict of the Duke of Savoy for the re-establishment of the Waldensian Churches; indeed, this very re-establishment is to be attributed to, and was a direct consequence of, the Revolution in England, whose ally, the Duke of Savoy now was, against Louis XIV.*

*Whiston says, "The Duke himself, who had now left the French interest by his league, and an Edict, signed June 4, 1690, just 3 years after their total dissipation, recalled the rest of them, and re-established them."

It may therefore be affirmed, in accordance with the general principles of the scriptural and scientific chronology, that the great periods of Jubilean and Cyclical time, which, as we have already seen, distinguish the years 1685, 1689, and 1690, have relation, and point to, the primary and greater events of these years in England and France, and cannot be understood to give to other and secondary events, a character of primary importance, which does not intrinsically belong to them, excepting, as the Waldensian Churches, were amongst the smaller parts of the great body of the Protestants of Europe, against which the assaults of the enemy were directed.

I proceed next to show, by a recapitulation of the great Cyclical periods which connect the events in which I suppose the history of the Apocalyptic Witnesses to have been accomplished, that they are distinguished in the chronology by peculiar characters, which are not to be found in the events applied by Mr Faber to the same Apocalyptic narrative.

Now, if we carry on the Cyclical period of 3435 years, from the peace of Passau in 1552 to the year 1685, which is Mr Faber's date of the death of the Witnesses, by adding to that period 133 years, or 7

Metonic Cycles, it becomes a very imperfect Cycle of 3568 years, of which the error is more than 15 hours; and I have not found that the other two years, 1689 and 1690, in which Mr Faber places the resurrection and ascension of the Witnesses, are marked by any of the greater Cycles,-with the exception of the last, which is from the death of Joseph, B. c. 1784, the Cycle of 3473 years, the Moon being slow 5 H., 1 M., 49 s.

It appears, from the facts now set before the reader, that there is a marked but mysterious analogy, between the whole events of the life of Jacob, and those of the Reformation, and this analogy is signified by the great Cycles connecting the two periods. Jacob was to beget a nation, politically and spiritually sanctified, and set apart to God. The first-born of this nation was Reuben. In the Reformation also, a nation was to be formed unto God out of Babylon, politically and spiritually. It is this nation, namely, the whole body of the reformed churches, which, in Rev. vii. 4, has the appellation of ALL THE TRIBES of the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. The begetting of this nation is mystically signified by their receiving the name of PROTESTANTS, which event is connected with the birth of Reuben by the perfect Cycle of 3435 years. In like manner, as the nation of the natural Israel is mystically completed in the birth of Benjamin, so with this event is connected, by the same Cycle of 3435 years, the complete establishment of the Protestant Witnesses in the political heavens of Germany, by the Recess of the Diet of Augsburg, in the year 1555; and to mark that year, as a great era of the UNIVERSAL HISTORY, of the HUMAN SPECIES, it is connected with

the DELUGE by a great Cycle of 3217 years. The other steps of the analogy are not all equally evident, because the connexions which are marked by the great Cycles are frequently those of antithesis or contrast. But the deep analogy between the end of the famine in Egypt, and the publication of the Protestant Confession of Faith at Augsburg, must strike every reader.

If we follow out this Chronological connexion during the subsequent period of the Sacred History, we shall find some striking coincidences. Jacob died in B. c. 1838, and computing thence the Cycle of 3435 years, we are led to 1598, the date of the Edict of Nantz, in favour of the French Protestant Churches. From the death of Joseph, B. c. 1784, to 1652, the era of the Commonwealth of England and of the war between England and Holland, which was the first great Civil War, as it might fitly be called, between the Protestants of Europe; and from the birth of Moses, B. c. 1720, to the suppression of the first rebellion in England in favour of the exiled Stuarts, 1716; the intervals are, in like manner, in both cases, 3435 years. The present year, 1837, is from the entrance into Canaan, 3435 years.

On the whole of this Chronological argument, added to what is offered in my original Dissertation, I rest with perfect assurance the truth of my interpretation of the death, resurrection, and ascension of the Witnesses. Yet, in concluding the subject, I cannot help recalling the attention of the reader, once more, to the suddenness of the fall of Charles V. from his proud elevation as Lord paramount of Germany, with his feet on the neck of its prostrate Pro