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day working energetically in the minds of men and of worldly statesmen, which impels them forward in executing schemes of education, careless through what instruments they work, if only the end may be attained, of communicating knowledge. If then this be effected, the Priest of Romish Idolatry, with his "Ave Maria Regina Angelorum," and his "Oratio ad Reginam omnium Creaturarum," is equally welcomed, and equally honoured, with the minister of Christ, teaching the doctrine of one God, and one Mediator between God and man. This abominable and profligate removing, of the land-marks between truth and error, shines on the fore-front of the whole schemes of the philosophical attempts to diffuse knowledge in our times, and marks them as proceeding directly from that fallen and lost spirit, who said to Eve, God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. It is manifest that this spirit is working with increasing energy; and as in Ireland, there is already a plan of education without the Bible, so we are threatened in England with a scheme of the same nature.

The only remaining circumstance which it is necessary to notice, as having occurred cotemporaneously with the drying up of the Euphrates, and the going forth of the three unclean spirits, is the warning voice of our Lord given at that very time, BEHOLD I COME AS A THIEF, blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and men

Hail Mary, Queen of Angels.

A Prayer to the Queen of all creatures.

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see his shame. Now, it is manifest that when our Lord thus speaks, it is not his intention to speak in vain. He means to be heard, for if his voice was not heard, He hath, in effect, spoken in vain. But that the Lord's warning was in reality heard, and that a voice did, at that very time, go forth in the Church, as to the nearness of the Advent, is undeniable. It may be safely affirmed, that from the year 1828 to 1833, namely, from the beginning of the last War between Russia and Turkey, to the cession of Palestine to Egypt, a greater number of tracts and works, on the subject of the Advent, and declaring its nearness, went forth to the public, and were advertised in the leading Religious Journals of the day, than had previously appeared in any whole century, in the whole period that had elapsed from the age of the Apostles. I shall place in a note the titles of some of these Tracts.*-It appears, however, that, since 1833, the voice has GRADUALLY WANED, and is now succeeded

* I shall give them according to their dates. The authors will pardon my not giving their names. In the Notes from which I copy the Titles, I have not inserted the names, nor can I, at the present moment, conveniently supply them :

In 1828, appeared "A Cry in the Desert, Behold the Bridegroom Cometh."

1829. 1. The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;-2. The Millennial Church, or Christ's Personal Reign upon Earth.

1830. 1. The doctrine of the Second Advent briefly stated;2. Ye know not when the Master of the House Cometh ; -3. The Escape of the Remnant of the Gentile Church from the rapidly approaching Judgments on Apostate Christendom.

by the SILENCE of midnight.

This also is in entire

consonance with the prophetic record, for our Lord's warning IS GIVEN ONCE, and is not repeated. The very words in which it is expressed, I COME AS A THIEF, contain in them a CERTAIN INDICATION, that after the voice is given, it is succeeded by a period of SILENCE, likened in the parable of Mat. xxv. 1—6. to MIDNIGHT. It is during this SILENCE in which we NOW ARE, that the VIRGINS FALL ASLEEP, AND THE BRIDEGROOM COMES.*

1831. 1. The Lord is at hand, or the Last Trump ;-2. Watch,

because the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh;-3. The present Crisis considered, in relation to the Blessed Hope of the Glorious appearing of the Great God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ;-4. Enoch's Prophecy, or Behold He Cometh with Ten Thousands of his Saints. 1832. 1. The Coming of Elijah the Prophet Before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord;-2. The Doctrine of the Second Advent briefly stated;-3. A Millenarian's Answer of the Hope that is in Him.

1833. The Kingdom of Heaven, or the Future Reign on Earth, of the Son of Man ;-Surely I Come Quickly: a Letter to Every Body.

My purpose, it will be understood, is not to give a complete list, but simply to produce evidence, that the voice of the Lord, 'Behold I come as a Thief,' was heard. I presume the foregoing is sufficient for this end.

* My dates of the terminations of the prophetic periods of Daniel, were originally given to the public in a paper in the Christian Observer for November, 1807; and it was not till January, 1834, more than twenty-six years afterwards, that I saw the first clear ray of light, as to the scientific chronology, by the discovery of an exact period of 70 Jubilees, from the Exodus to the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet in 1792. If, after being informed of these circumstances, the intelligent reader will carefully ponder the

weight of evidence produced from p. 16 to 23 of this Supplement, confirmatory of the foregoing dates, he will, I think, admit that it amounts to the highest possible degree of demonstration of which such a subject is capable. But to this evidence is further to be added, that brought forward in pp. 5 and 6, as to the geometrical progressive series of time from the sounding of the 1st Trumpet in 376, to that of the 7th in 1792, and the great series of time measured by 27 squares of 12, from Abraham's probable arrival at Haran, B. c. 1073, to the holding of the four Winds in 1816, and also the series of geometrical progression, from the Deluge to the year 1792, which will be found in the Preface, pp. iv, v. If the whole of this evidence be considered and carefully weighed, it will, I think, be found impossible to question the accuracy of my dates.

This being the case, it follows that we are now little more than 29 years and two months from the end of Daniel's 1335 years, all who reach which are emphatically pronounced blessed, Dan. xii. 12. Let us next consider the stupendous events which may be expected to fill this span of time. The judgments of God are to go forth against all nations, including the terrific manifestations of wrath in Isa. xxxiv. Jerem. xxv. and many other prophecies. Babylon is to be destroyed; the body of the fourth Beast given to the burning flame, and the whole materials of Daniel's image are to be broken in pieces, and become as the chaff of the summer thrashing-floor, which the wind is to carry away. Israel is to be restored. Gog and the Beast, and kings of the earth are to come up against them, and are to be miraculously destroyed. Jerusalem is to be re-established in glory, and the wicked cut off from the earth. Such are the mighty, political, and earthly events for which little more than 29 years now remains, besides the other celestial events of the advent of our Lord, the rapture of his saints, and their subsequent descent on the great day of Armageddon.

Let it be further considered, that the difference between the 1260 and 1335 years being 75 years, divides itself into 5 prophetic half months of 15 years each. The first 15 lead us to 1807, when the power of Napoleon was at its highest elevation, with all Europe prostrate before him, and Great Britain at war with the collective strength of Europe and Russia. The second 15 ended in 1822, the termination of Daniel's 1290 years, when the great events in

the East began to develop themselves, and the third 15 in 1837, in which we still are by scriptural computation. This year, therefore, begins another great subdivision of the prophetic time, indicating the nearness of great events.

I observe, further, that it is an inexorable principle in the moral administration of God, that he who sheddeth blood, by man shall his blood be shed,* and that the land or the earth cannot be cleansed of the blood shed therein, but by the blood of him that sheddeth it. In violation of this awful declaration of the WORD OF GOD, the government of these kingdoms have, for some years past, been conniving at its subjects shedding blood, by engaging in the civil wars of the Spanish Peninsula, with which we had no just national concern, and that this might be done with perfect impunity, an Order of Council was issued on the 10th June, 1835, suspending for two years the foreign Enlistment Bill, whereby, through the wise foresight of a former administration, some check was put on the natural propensity to shed blood, which is the character of fallen man, and the subjects of these realms were hindered from engaging in the wars, either foreign or domestic, of nations with which we are at peace. Within little more than the two years, defined in the Order of Council, a spark is kindled in the western hemisphere, which, to say the least, threatens a flame, and it will be the prayer of every Christian reader, as it is of the writer, that it may not prove to be the beginning of condign judgments against these highly favoured but most ungrateful nations. Let the serious reader peruse the prophecy in Ezek. xxviii., and say whether a trembling apprehension does not seize the mind as to the country there described.

Gen. ix. 6.

Numb. xxxv. 33.

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