in their own country, and also that they will bitterly repent of their fin in murdering Chrift.

Zech. xii. 6. "In that day will I make "the governors of Judah like a hearth of "fire among the wood, and like a torch of “fire in a sheaf; and they fhall devour all "the people round about, on the right hand "and on the left: and Jerufalem fhall be “inhabited again, in her own place.--"And it shall come to pafs in that day, that "I will feek to deftroy all the nations that come against Jerufalem. And I will pour

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upon the house of David, and upon the

inhabitants of Jerufalem, the spirit of

grace and of fupplications, and they shall "look upon him* whom they have pierced, " and they shall mourn for him, as one that "mourneth for his only fon, and fhall be in

bitterness for him, as one that is in bit"ternefs for his firft-born."

Daniel alfo diftinctly foretells the fame event, and he feems to connect it with the

For the authority of this reading, fee Mr. Eyre's Obfervations on the Prophecies relating to the Refloration of the fews. deftruction

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deftruction of a power, which, from his defcription of its rife and progrefs, moft interpreters conclude muft mean the Turkish, which has fo long been in poffeffion of the Holy Land. Whenever, therefore, this fignal event shall take place (which is likewife, probably, denoted by the pouring out of the fixth vial in the book of the Revelation) we may be looking forward for fome other very great and glorious events, but which will be preceded by fome very calamitous ones, refpecting almoft all the known world, as the following prophecy, together with others in the Revelation, plainly intimates.

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Dan. xi. 40.

"And at the time of the end, fhall the king of the fouth (the Saracens) pufh at him (the Roman empire) and the king of the north (the

Turks) fhall come against him like a "whirlwind, with chariots, and with horfe“men, and with many fhips, and he shall

enter into the countries, and fhall over"flow and pafs over. He fhall enter alfo "into the glorious land, and many coun

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tries fhall be overthrown: but these fhall

escape out of his hand, even Edom, and "Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He fhall ftretch forth his hand "alfo upon the countries, and the land of Egypt fhall not efcape. But he fhall have

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power over the treasures of gold and of filver, and over all the precious things of

Egypt and the Libyans, and the Ethi

opians fhall be at his fteps. But tidings "out of the east, and out of the north shall "trouble him: therefore, he shall go forth "with great fury to deftroy, and utterly to "make away many. And he fhall plant "the tabernacles of his palace between the "feas, in the glorious holy mountain : yet "he fhall come to his end, and none "fhall help him. And at that time shall "Michael ftand up, the great prince who "ftandeth for the children of thy people, "and there fhall be a time of trouble, "fuch as never was fince there was a na"tion, even to that fame time: and at "that time thy people fhall be delivered,

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every one that fhall be found written in "the book."

That

That great calamitous events await the prefent governments of Europe, seems to be fufficiently evident without a spirit of prophecy. “The state of Europe," as Dr. Hartley obferves (fee his Obfervations on Man. vol. ii. p. 455.) is fo particularly "critical and alarming, that hardly any

thing less than univerfal confusion muft "be the confequence; and if famine and

peftilence fhould accompany civil com"motions, it will indeed be a time of "trouble, as Daniel fays, fuch as was never "known before."

The prefent kingdoms of Europe are unquestionably reprefented by the feet and toes of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar faw in his prophetical dream; and upon the feet of this image will fall the ftone, cut out of the mountain without hands, which represents the kingdom to be fet up by Christ, and which, after dashing in pieces the whole image, will itself become a great mountain, filling the whole earth. From Daniel's interpretation of this vifion

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it may be clearly inferred, that the forms of government, ecclefiaftical and civil, which now fubfift in Europe, must be diffolved; but that fomething very different from them, and greatly fuperior to them, more favourable to the virtue and happiness of mankind, will take place in their ftead. That this is the meaning of the prophecy can hardly be doubted by any person who fhall give the leaft attention to it. Dan. ii. 44. "And in "the days of these kings shall the God of "heaven fet up a kingdom which shall never "be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not "be left to other people, but it shall break "in pieces, and confume all these king"doms, and it shall stand for ever."

When the prophetical thousand years above-mentioned fhall be expired, we are informed, by the fame fpirit of prophecy, that there will be another prevalence of infidelity and wickednefs, which will bring on the last crisis and final diffolution of the world. The following is the prophetical description