1796 Brothers RevealedKnowledgeOfThePropheciesAndTimes Etc

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UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
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n•a:n· SiGN oa WARNING~

the .Jefit of all Nations.·
A r evea l ed knowled~e of t he
A.INING, WITH OTHEt
ProPhecies and times •• •
~II!§!~ND REMAI_(KdBLE THINGS,
to any other Perfon on Eutb. the :
TION OF THI HEBREWS.,
SALEM, BY THE YEAR 1798;
r~ealed Pri11ce fl1la Pro/hel,
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JAMES WHITE U BRARV, ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
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P R ~ F A . C E ..,
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\VHEN I was commanded to writ.e the Chro·
. . r.ology of the Wol"ld, I was imn-.ediately otfter
,.
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· infiruded by Revelation bow; without which I
--could not, nor could any other man,on the face
of the earth wh h certainty, howe..,er eminent
for \Vifdom and )raroinp.: he might. b.e :. Aftrr it
· \\'as done, the LORD GOD faiJ ~ t.u me in a viiiou
at nigbt.__:'fba~ is the true Age of .the \Vorld,
and the generally comp~te.d one is ~rrone<?us.
As tl}e Scripture is the oflly gr at fountain of
know ledge, or Booj{ of writttn "(ruth in. the
world; :1s it cont'lins the facted Records of thofe
things wl ich God l13s pt edetnminlJ {hall h~ here-
after} as well as thofe which have been already ;
at~d as it contains the billory of our own creationt ·
with that of every living t~ing uefide~, it alone,
in preference many man's opinion, ought to be
without the leafi dollbt, freelv beli~ved and coq-
6uentially depended on. "'
Altnough·l am enabled, from revealed Know•
ledge, to write confiderably more than what
tl1is Book contains, anti which, in Julllce to tbe
Divine Spirit of Truth from whem it fiows,
,., cught to be bdieved; yet God, who in!lruct.s me
. in all things, that I may fhew an example of
precifion to the Learned, and lie admired for
it by the Wife ; that I may give inftruttion to
the Poor, and demontlrote the cert~ilJty of what
~ d<? write to every 1\lan tbat has the Jea!t

knowledge of his Creator, command~ me to ad-
ditionally Seal i.ts Truth by that great TdHmo .. ·
ny of S~ript4ral Evidence which no Nation can
deny, an4 which no human Arguments can op• -~N obedience to the facred command of the ·
pofe. Lord God, whofe fervant and prophet J am,
Therefore, having Authority, I proceed thro• I p~1hlH'b this writing, that.itmay b~ ~ranfiated
. the Scripture, regularly uncovering, by reveal- into alllanp,uag_es, for the tnformauon and ben•
. ed knowledgeo, as l go, its facred Records e6t of all nations.
WHICH HAVE BEEN RESERVED FOR ME, The true Agt of the World.
holding eaeh one up for public View, beautiful Years old. Years. ,
and clear to tb~ open mind; that all Men may .AJam was 130 when Seth was born. Lived in all 930
behold and e:7eamine them, that all men .may per- Seth 105 : : 911.
ceive their Truth and admire, at this late Hour Enos 90 9°5
CJ.inan 70 9 10
'(lf the World, not only what \vas wrote by Dan• . Mahalaleel 6) 8~5
iel at Babylon, EXPLAINED IN LONDON, Jared ' 161. 9 :
but .likewife a fimilar Communication of RE· Enoch 6f 36 )
V ~A LED KNO\\' ~EDGE. M!!thufelal1187 969
Lamcch I 82. 777
Noah 500 : 95°
Shem was 100 at the Flood.
· 16;6 from the Creation to the Flood.

The genealogy is reckoned to and from Shem:
two years ;after the flood, Arplrc1xad was born
to him.
Shem 1. lived Ol.fter'the birth of his fon.
Arphuad 35
Sefah. 30
Eber 34
.. Peleg
Reu
30
p
Sentg 30
Nahor :2.9
Terah 70 lived in all
291. from the flood to the birth of Ab~aham. '

Ab b (when Ifaac was born.) 175
ra am was 100 { Lived in all )
llaac 6o : : 18o
Ja -ob (to his living in Egypt with)
c • ~J his children. ) 147
·. j.90

[ 6 ] 69 Week,, or 48 3 Ye:.rs from the command. of Cynu to
· rel.l:ore the Jews, to the birth ofChrift,,
430 years the childre.n ofifrnel.~h·ed in Egypt.
480\ cars from the chJldreo of Ilraelle=tdno-, £ ... ' the Meffiah and King.
gypt to the foundation ot the Temple~
:H 19 the age of the world when Chrift: was
ln the 4th year and -:2d • month of Soiomon's
born.
Teign, the foundation of the .Temple was la~d. 1 794 ' I
·Years. Years.
·o- (aft~r. the Temple hegan build-} 5913 the age of the world this prdent J
Sol omon rel 0neL1 36 ( 'ing : In , 11 ) 40
year of 1794·
Rchaboam in aU 17 began to reign at the -age of 41
Abijam 3
Ala 41 The lirfi: knowledO'e
0
of that law, which was
Jehpshnphat 2f 35 committed to writing by Mofes, was given to
Jehornm 8 31. , Abraham at the age of 99 ; of the world, 2047• J
Ahniah 1 2:.
Queen Athaliah 6
Jchoas h ;t.o 7 !he gofpel of falvation, was firA: preached by
.Amaziah. 29 2) Chrilt at the age of 30 ; of the world, 4149 •
.Az:uiah p. . . . 16
Jotharn 16 25 jerufa1em w.as bdieged and taken t~ree diff;·
Ahaz. 16 20
Hczckiah 29 ' : 2)
rent times hy Nehuchadnezzer. The nrft was m
Manafsali 55 12 the reign of Jrhoiakim, when fereral of the
Amon. :z. 22 princes and prief\s were carried away -to Baby-
Joliah
Jehonhaz
31 '
o 3 months
: .8
23
if:, ; among the former was Daniel, and among
Jehohkim u o 2) the latter was Ezekiel :-both prophets. The
Jehoiachin o 3 · . 18 fecond ·was in the reign of ]ehoiacl1in. when the
41f6 the beginning of the recordd cap 4
rrcordcd captivity began-and the third was jn
• tiYity in rht: eighth ycJ.r ot Ncbu 4
the reign of Zedekiah, when the Temple and

chadnezz.er's reign.
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Zedekiah II 2. Not included in the Chroriolo 0CT'f,
City was levelled with the ground.
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429 8 ~ trom the foundatlon of the Tem 4
. plc to its deltruttion.

Ncbuchadnez-( )after the recorded ca?tivity began:
z.cr reigned 3! In all over Babylon : · 45
Evil Meroduch II
l3clshazz.ar 22
?otbe Jewish cartivity at Babylon; that
the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the
proph~.:t might be fulfilled; which was
_..:_And. all nations shall fervc him, his
fon, ~11d his fan's fon. Chap. 27. 7•

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VVhile the 'VI ar contiuuts in the \\'orld:-Jerufa ..
ltm, the 'a pi tal of tht- h ing ol Peace is decr<-
ea ro lie defG}ate : tht rtfioraCiOll of the jeWS
•will commence with the: utfirulUon of war, to f:.l-
.TH'£ l'R0JLH£rr D ANIEL , \our tlie1r n;wrn J "1'd boild the dty , wJ1en all
{ nations will re-joice '\\ 11h thtm, ~:u.d once· more
CHp,J>. IX. VERSE :1.):.
rec ive ftom jerufalem the commands of the
KNO\V therefore .an~ underfiand, that from l!vmg God.
the going forth of the 'omm!lnd to reflore
(meaning the captiviry) and to build Jerufa]enl TilE PROPHET ISAIAH, Ch11p. vii.
Jo Mefihn the .Prince, fi1all be Ieven weeks, and
threefcore :lnd tWo weeks; the fireets fuall be J 4. Tl;eretore the Lord himfelf ~'··will give
~ui1t ag11in_, ind the wall, -ev-en in troublefom~ 'JOU a ilgn : pthold; a vir~in flwll conceive and
rimes. bear a fen> and thall. call h1s name Immanuel. "'
Seven \Yeeks and threefcore and t~o weeks, This ,-.as - the Lotcl Jeius Chritt, '\t·ho w.as
is meant for a time of four hundred and eighty· · born l:f the bldlt-c "'irgin, call(d Mary.
three yean;: which ·commenced in the firfl year ~ CHAP. IX.
gf Cyrus ov~r Bahylon, ''9hen he iifued the pro· 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon
damati.on to retlore the captivity, and con~1u .. is given l alld tl!e government fh:;.ll ·be on his
ded a~ the birrh of Cbrifi. fhuulder: <>nd his IJame fhall be called Wonder- ·
Two . years after the Jews returned from ful (ounftllor, · the Mighty G~H.I 1 the everlaHing
Bab}'lon to JetufaJem they laid the foundadon l'athEr, the Prince ofl'eece.
·ofthe fecond temple, but were fo much inter- 1 his \~.,as Lhe Lord Jefus Chtift, who W<ts the
rupted in lhe buHding, as not to b~t able ro Mtffiah -ar.d I<,i n'g of the Jews. , .
comptete it' until the expiration of eighty-two 7 Of the ir)creafe.ofiJis governrne._n_t and peace
year~. . there J'hall Lie no em!, ·upon the tHrone of Da-
26 And after threefcore and two weeks lid, and opon his kingdom, to order ir, and to
(~hi<:h is four hundred ~nd thirty-four years, rllablin1 . it with judg~ent and jufiice, from
JPeanmg from the time the temple wu finilhed 'hencefoJ th, e~en for: ever : the zeal of the Lord
to the death of Cbrill) lhall Meffiah be cut off, of tlo!\s will perfo~m this.
but not for bimfelf; and the people of the
pdnce that comes (meaning rhe Romans) wilt THE PROPHET ZECHAIUAH, Chap •.xii.
dHlroy' the city and the fJFJctuary ; it will be I
done, Jike the overflowing of a :flood ; aod lO ,

.13 And I will pour upon the houfe ~f Davi~,
anu ll} on the inhabitants (jf Jerufal~JI)) the fpl·
the end of war their dt:folatioo i~ de:tert¥intd. Az
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rit of grace and of fupplications : and they ihall
look to me that was pierced ; and fl1all mourn tZ And 3! hoft was giv,en him agafnfl: the
]ike him that moprns fot his only fon : and lhali daily facri fice, by reafon of tranfgreffion: and:
be in bitternefs, like him that is in bitterne1s for it caft dowo the truth to the ground 1 and it
his fir{l: born. praetifed an~ profpered. · ·
~'his verfe w.ill be fulfilted by the Jews after t 3 Then 1 heard one faint fpeaking , and ano-
the1r return ; 1t means the Lord Jelus Chirll ther faint faid to that certain faint which fpake, .
who was crucified at the age of thirty-thre; How long {hall be the vifion concerning thm _
years and four ~ontbs.-Told me by revelation. daily facrifice, and the tranfgreffion of defn la-
tion, to give both the fanttuary and the hofi to
THE DEPARTURE OF THE HEBREWS
J'ROM ALL NATIONS, AND THEtR RE TURN IO
be troddeh under foot ?
One angel was afking another in the prefence
jE.RUSALf..M.
of Daniel; that' ne might hear and be informed.
from the three thoujtmd ftx hundred and flven-
to write down'wbat wai faid.
teenth yttJr of the world,. whic/J was the third The fanetuary means the fecond temple, tho'
J~tlr of Be/jJHJZzar KitJg ~ Balrylon, whetJ the not built when this vifion was.fuewn to Daniel ;
-;,·if on wa1 .(hewn to Dame I, of Jerrifalt.m' s Ju· the ~on, the multitude of the people, or th~
ture de_flat~on, the l'!fl di[perfion of the JewJ,
. and thetr bemg trod tmder }oct tn all nation I .to whole nation.
How long fhall he the Vifion, means, ho~v.
the time oj their return in the 'latter days is 'two long is ]t from this time or year of fh ewing the
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thottjtJndthree hundred yea,s. · ' Vifioo to Daniel .unti\ it is fulfilled by the refto·
TO wake the vifion of Daniel which was ration of the Jews in the latter days, of the
explainc:d to me by revelation fr~m the Lord world, when the curre for tranfgreffion, wbidl ~
God to be more eafily underfioud, read what made the c~y defolate, wilL be removed, and
follows: the ground of the faoftuary clea~d.
The prophet Daniel, after cefcribiog the fuc· 14 And he faid unto me, to two thoufand '
ctffion of Cyrus and Alexander, goes on to the and three hundred days ; then fuall the fanttu- '
time of,Cbri.ll, the deHr1.1Clion of Jerufalem, and
l10w long it is to lie defolate ; the difperfion of ary be cleaned.
Days are mentiontd by the angel in{\ud of
the , Jews, and bow long the}' ar• to .be trod uo· years, to conceal the meaning of the prophecy
der foot in all nations. until the proper time is fulfilled, ace\ the ap•
• C~ap. viii. I 1 \ ea, he.magnifieth himfelf;evt'n to
pointed perfon m•de known for it to be reveal·
th• Prince of the Ho!l ; by Plhn 1he eaily facrifice
d to : the rrefent ia the time that was then
was taken away, and·tl1e .place of bis liu~auary
was caft down.

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intended ; '-r am th~ apr> inted perfon m1de · 2 My docrr\ne fhzll drop as the rain ; my
kni>wn for it to be revealed to, and the prophet rpe~ch flu!lt dill11 as the dew, as tHe fma11 r1ain
command:od to 111.1ke. it known. upon the tender herd, and as the 1howers upon
a6 1-7-1 he yfar of the wor)d w!Jen the vifion the graf~. ·
to D1niel, of ferufalem's future 1 de .. 3 Bec~ufe I will publia:t tr.e name of the
. olttion, aod how long. 1
• · Lord : afcril\e \'e P.:reatnefs to our God.
2 300-Frorn the year of fuewiug the viqon, to 4 He js th~ "ro~k, l;is work }s perfeCt ; for
the refioration of the Jews, when it a11 his ways are judgment : a God of truth, and
' will be fulfilled. without iniquity ; jufr and right is he.
S9I 7-The ye;lr of the w~dd. when the, T.ews Compare this part to the preaching of Cbrifi,
• wlll be rcfiored to Jet·ulalem, . ,;hicli in the beginning of the fifth chapter of the Gofpd
anfw~rs to the y;ar of Cbri!l J 798. by St. iattbe-w, and fee how nearJy they agree.
21 .They have moved me tojcaloufy with
THE RETURN OF TI·lE JE\VS
tbat which is nN Goc~ ; they have provoked
TO THEI!I. OW~ T L \~D I~ THE LAT"fER TIME OF
T!JE \'{O ftLU, RECO~WE0 BY MOSES AND TH
me til anger with their vanities ; and I will
OTHER PROPHETS. move fl~em to jealoufy with tbofe which are
not a people ; I will provoke them to anger
'THIS So.ng of Mores, in the thirty fecoud •ith aJoolifh nation. ·
, chapter of Deuteronomy, is the wrirten refli ..
22 For a fire i~ ldn~Jed in mine a•Jger, and ·
mony givea then,, between G'-'d as Chrifl and
lball burn to the lowefr hell ; anCJ Jhall ,confume
his people, until their return to Jerufale~. in
the eanh with her increafe, and fet on fire the
the larrer days of the world. It b?g!ns with foundations of the mountains.
d~fcribing Chrill preaching the gofJJel of the
23 I will heap mifchiefs upon tbem ; I will
kingdom of hea.vcn ; afterwards tl1p great de. fpeod my arrows upon them. .
. firuction of the Jews, which was ful:illeu b'y the .
24 They lhalJ be burn~ with hunger, and
, Roma_.n>, and their di:pedion over the wnrJd ~
devourtd with burning heat, and with bitter
: the la~ter part means rhejr refloration, which b~
' ~ellruCbion : I will;lfo fend rhe teeth of -beafls
vites all l'l'atio .s to rej >ice wi~h them for the~:.
upon them, wirh the poifoo offerpentsoftbe du(l. ·
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I bundant mercy 'ofGod, and his gooduefs to tb'eir

·,land. c -q!ritiiit worCJ without, and terror, wifl1in,
1hajJ d ro} lioi:h the young tnan and the virgin ;
DE~:TRONOMY, Chap. xxxii.
I 1 • Give ear.• 0 re Heavells, and I,wHI f"eak;
and 11car, 0 earth, the words of wy mouth.
.' Ithe fuckliog alfo, with the man of gr.ey hairs.
2~ I faid, 1 would fcatter them.into cornei·s;
I \\' ''make the remembrance of them to Ceilfe
~otDitlloDg men. . . ,

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is a man' that is altudedto, compofedof6~lh ·~nd
blood, of the tribe of Judah, of the family 9t poor, ana reprove with equity for the m~ek of
a\'id, aud n6t fhc Lofd Jr/ttJ Chri{l, a/a'/1 r..u•G- tbe earth : and be fnall fin1te the earth with the
p((w Jtatzo1u /t<ppo;e, that ·is tu tiJitil tbis. 'v~ry ex- ,' rod of his mouth, and ·with the breath of his lips
alted charatl:er : going forth b_. COIDtlla Htl , ana he fuaU flay the wicked. . •
under the miCJhty pcwer ot God, aJ ho .Eijah, t4le s And righteoufnefs /hal~ he th.e &1rdl; of h1s
Jail: prop1Jetand uJttlenger, to W;J~n all nadons loins and faithfulnefs the g1rdle oflllS retgns.
-To turn the fathers to the clitlOren anCI the 6 'The wolf alfo fhall dweJI with the lamb,
child n.n to the fa tbers-t? prepqre them, 6y u?Ji• and the leopard lhall lie down with the kid; and
vcrjtl/ peace, to rrcrive a flc.o1:d time Chri/1 their the calf, and the young Uoo, and the fatling
God ul/d CI'C.1tor) lhal\ jn~lge among the I ations together · and a little thild Jball lead them.
nnd [hall rebuke many pe~ple ; and tB·ey tha!J 7 And' the cow and the bear fhall feed ; their.
btat their fwords into plo~ghfhears, ~na their young ones £hail lie down together : and the li·
, fpears into reaping hooks;_ narion fliall not lift Gil fhall eat [haw like the .ox.
up the fword againfi nation, neither fhall'they 8 And the fucking cHild JhaH play on the
lea~n war any more. : . . hole of the afp, and tbe weaned child ihall put
All the nations of Europe aclmowleClge. Chrdl • bia hand on the cockatrice den.
for the Prince of Peace, and that his (loClrine 9 They fl1all not dellroy nor hurt in all my ·
prohibits war ; }ft to the fuame of all nations, hly mountain ; for the earth fuall be full of tlw
they r.efuft! to obey his commauds. l''or which, ~fiWledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the fca.
as he befeeched before, and uo riatiou would O· • 10 And in that day there H1all be a root of
bey, he will foon ' co'mmano, when all nations Jeffe (meaning myfelf) which fuall fiand for a
n1ull obey, or be bu.rm:d wJtrl fire. '? , 1 ligo to the peop~e (meanin~ 1he Jews) to. it lball
Chap. xi). I ,And there fllall com~ (orth a rod the Gendles feek; and h1s relt (meamog
out ot Lhe fiem of },fie, and .a brancti (meaning government of Jerufalem) thall be g~o.rious. • .
n~} !elf) lhall gro\~ ,out ol his roots:· · When I was writing the firfl edmon of tbt$
d End lht: fpirit of the Lord lhall refl: upon book, for public information, I faid to God, a!·
him ; tl:e i'pirit of w irdom and ~underllandiiJg, the •off (imilar to what th( propnlt Samuel faid, when
fpirit of counicl and migt1~; the fpirit of know: M was 'Of!11JJIZ1Jded to anoint David to be Hng of
ltdge and of the fear of the Lord. l{r•rl, during the Jij, time_ of St1.ul, for' indeed I
3 And thaU make him of quick underUancling 'IJJtiJ Jearflel of heing ufed 1/1, I lhall be called a
iu the !czr.of the Lord. And he lhall not judge ftlfe prophet., and every body will fay, I am
after the fight of l1is e)es, neither reprove after arroga~ing to myfelf the place of Chrifl : for the
the heariog oflus ean ; · ina;l.ifh· and other Et1ropean cations, profeaing
4 l~ut with riglue.ouG1efs he wil1 judge the
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Chrillianity, have always fuppofed that the rod '
~ther together, the dift1e1fed of Judah.from the
out of the Oem of]'!ffe, alluded to in this chapter
meant the Lord Jefus Chrifi: : indeed it does not' f*r corners of th&'Carth. .
· but a man compofed of_jiefh and bla~d, like on:
The fir{\ captivity of the Jews was by Nebu-
ehednezzar, nud the fecond by the Romans ;
of. themfelves, who is to be the greatefl: under
their refideoce in .Egypt not being the confe-
heaven, and more power given to him from God
C}Utnce of cooqueU, i11 not accounted as a captivi-
than ever was, or ever will be to any other.
ty, becaufe they willingly entered into that coun-
Like king David, he wilt be empowered to
try to be relieved· of the dif\reHes of fJmine in
command, and like che prophet Elijah he will be
their own. The hard bond~ge they we;e op-
empowered to execute. •
The Lord God commands nie no\V to me1:1tion
prtfled with · proceeded from the Egyptiails
thefe things, to acknowledge the error (though
growing jealous of their qu1ck muldplication an(l
great numbers: but th .• tdid not take phce ur.•
permitted to rm-Jove my rmju.fl apprehe~tfiom for the
con.(equen~es) and with fhame my o\•n criminality
til the death ofJoCeph, and until fuch a conilJer-
able time after had elapfed, as to wear away all
for douhung, wl1en he told me and when I knew
remembrance of his name and gratitude for his
f~om his many records in the Scripture, and from
h1s many revealed p'rornifes to myfelf-that he kindnefs.
13 Tbe envy alfo of Ephraim f1.1all depart, and
":as bound by the facred trutt1 of his word, to
the adverfaries of hdah fhall be cut oft: Ephra-
fulfil his covenant, and protetl: me. ,.\
This writing I fign and date by comm:mJO~f
im. thall not envy )udah, and Judah fhaif not
the Lord God, to remove my feeble error, and vex Ephr-aim. . .
14 But they fi1al1 fly npon the {houldcrs of the
fubfl:itute without difguife (for the fa!ft opin;ons
Philinines toward~ the well- ; they {hall fpoil
oftJZm are t~ be .;hanKed) his a1l-jn0: 1 and power· thtm of the eai\: together : they thall lay tbeh·
ful truth. . RICHAl\D BROT'HEi~S. hand upon Moab and Edom ; and the children ,
London, Ioth of the month called Jnly, 17.94.
I I And it fuall come to p:1ls in that day that ofAmmou {hall <!bey them.
the Lord will let his hand again the fecond time • 15 And the Lord will utterly defiroy the
to recover the remnant of his i'eople, which ~re tongue of the F.gyptian fea: and with his migh· ·
left, from Affyri,a, \nid from Egypt, arrd from Pa· ty wind he willthake his hand over the:: river,
th~os, and fl'om Cufh, and from Elam, and from -"' f:nite it in the feven llream-s that men may go
Shmar, and fro~ Hamath, and from the iflands over dry-Otod.
of the fea. · 16 Am! there lball be a highway from Affyria
I z )\od he will fet up an enfign for tbe nati· for the remnant of h1s people which are left ;
ons and will affemble the outcaUs of Ifrael, and like as it was tu Ifrael in the day that he came up
from ~be land of Egypt.

z Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let tl1em
irctcb forth the curtains of thy habitation; fipare
[ !O ·1 aot, lengthen thy cords, and llrengthen thy !lakes.
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Chap •.rt~. r A~d m that day than ~alt
.a
For thou" 01alt break forth on the right h~nd,
fay) 0 tid on the left ; and thy feed fhall inherit the
Lord, I will pra1le thee; though thou was angry Gt.tiles · and make the defolate cities to be in•
with me, thy ang~r is turned away, and thou com· ubited.'
fortell me. • • 4 t'car not ; for thou lhalt not be alhamed ;
2 Behold, C:od JS my falvatlon i I will .trufr, nelther be ll)OU confounded: for rhou fllaJt not
:and not be afratd : for the Lord Jehovah tt my bt put to lhame ; for thou lhalt forget the lhame
llreng~h and my fong; n~ alfo has become my oftfiyymnb, and fbaltnot remember th~ reproach
falvatJor.. . • of thy widowhood any more.
Therefore With JO~ ye /hall dra\V water out J For thy Maker is thy hulhand ; tile Lord
of lhe~ells of falvauon. . • .r Hofis is his name : and rhy 1\edeemer the
And 10 that day ye 1hilJ fay, pra1fe the Lord, Holy One of Ifrael the God of the whole earth
call upon his name, declare Ns doings amon& lmU he be called. '
the people~ and rnake mention that hi~ name be 6 t'or the Lord has called thee as a woman
exalt~d . S!ng unto.t~e Lord, .for he has dooe for~kenandgrievedinfpirit,anaawifeofyouth,
ncellent tn1ngs; tbJs Hl .known to all t.he earth. when thou waft refnfecl. .
Cry o?t and lhour, tho~ irdla~itant of. Zion , for 7 For a fmall n10 ment I have forfaken thee,
grea t 1s the Holy One ot Ifraelm the n11dfr of thee. ht with great mercies I will gather th~e. .
Chap. !iv. r Si,ng, 0 barren thou that did(l not 8 In a little wrath ~ hid my f~<:e fr-?m thBe,
bear : break forth into fingiog, & cry aloud, thou lor a moment; but Wltb everla(hng kmdnrfs I
that didfi not travail whh child; for more are ,_iJl have rne.rcy on t~e, fays the Lc:·d thy tRe-
the chi ldren t'f the defolate 1 .than the children -'~er.
oFthe married wife, faith the ·Lord. 9 for this is as the waters of Noah to me:
The married wife means Jerofalem, at a for· t9f as I have fworn that the waters of Noah
mer time, when dch aQd full of inhabitants·; the ttoafd not go over the earth eny mo:e, fo have I
defolate wif~ means ]t-rof1lem at , ptelent: al· ~ that I would not be wroth wuh thee, nor
though (be is a hea'p of rubbith and levelled. with e thee, ,
the ground, the Jews will .return in fuch great o For the mountains ·~all depArt, and the "
mnltir udes, that when rebuilt, her extent and Wllrbe removed, but my !itndnefs fuall not de-
number,-~[ reople will be far greater than at any from thee ; neither 01all the covenant of
former pel'icd. peace be removed1 fays the Lord that has
This i5 the true meaning of the propljecu, and on thee. ·
not the Gentiles' deliverance, as is placed attbe
bead of the chapter in th~ .Bible.

4 Tboo lhalt no ·more be termed forfaken, [ 25 J
neither ·fhall thy land any more be termed defo·
late ; · bet thoa lhalt be c'alled Hephzihah, anti 23 They ihalJ not labor in vain, nor bring
thy )and Beulah. t•or the Lord dc:IJght& in thee, forth for nothing ; for they are th. feed which the
and thy land lhall lle married. Lord has bleffed, and their off:;pring with them.
8 The Lord has fworn by his right band, and 24 And it ihall come to pafs, that before they
by the arm ot his fireogth ; furdy I will no more talJ, I will anfwer; and while they are vet fpeak-
ing, I will hear. "
give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies, and
the fans of the finoger fhaB no more drink the 25 The wolf and the lamb lbaiJ feed together, '
y;ine for which thou haG labored. and the lion 1hall eat firaw like the bullock: ahd
9 But they that gather it lhall eat it, and dull lhall be the ferpent's meat. They lhall not
praife the Lord ; and they that bring it tegeth· dellroy, ngr hurt, in all my holy mountain, fays
the Lord.
f r, lhall drink it in the courts of tny hoHnels.
This la(l verfe is an allufion to the peace and
ro Go through, go through the gates ; pre·
great happinefs that will be in the land of Ifrael
pare ye the way of tht people ; call up,. call: up 1Vhen the Jews are refiored.
the highway ; garber oo~ the ftones ; ltft up a
ilandard for the people. Chap./xpi. 10 Rejolce ye with Jernfalem, and
1 r Cehold the Lord bas proclaimed to the be glad all ye that Jove her ; rejoice with joy
~nd o•ftheworld, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, all ye that have mourned for her.
Behold thy fa!vatinn comes : behoJd his tewar~ b I r That ye may fuck and be fatisfied from the
is with him, and his work before him. reafls of her confolations ; that ye may milk
12 And they £haJJ call them the boJy people, our, and be delighted with the abundance of her
the redeemtd of the Lord ; and thou flt~l~ be cal~ gl~ry. .
led, Sought out, -a city not forfaken. 12 For thua fays the Lord ; Behold I will ex.
t
tend peace to her like a river, and the glory of
Chap. lxv. r For, behold, I creat~ new }:: Gentiles like a flowing fire am ; then ye. fhall
heave~s aQd a nl.'w earth ; a£!d the forme,: ihaJl fhall be borne upon her fides, and dand-
not be remembered, nor come. into my mmrl. 1edk-ye
upon her knees.
1
r8 But LJe ye glad, and rejoice for,ever in that ) 3 As one whom his mother comforts fo will
eo t '
which I cl'leatc ; for, behold, l create Jerufalem rura~:~t you i and}e tball be comforted in Je·
tt rejoicing, nnrl her people a joy.
1
19 And I will rejoice in Jerofalem, and be j 0• 4 And when ye fee this, your heart lhall re· -
joyful io my people ; tlie voice of ~eepiog ~all an~e, and your bones lhall Bourifu like an herb ;
&e no more beard in ber, not tile vo1ce of crytn&· hia ~,he haod of the Lord lball be known tow~rd
lleiQ.ervants, but his indi&nation towards his e-
•e•.
B
[ 27 J
J 5 for, btbolc\ the Lord will come with .£re, lecl the Lord's praytr; which fays, 'Tht will be
and with his chario.ts iike a "'hidwiud , to ren· ~one on 1atth aJ it iJ in heaven. There is 00 war
der his anger with fl\rj', and his rebuke with a ln heaven, neither js there any fwearing; bow is
ilallle of fire. it then that the people of Europe, the mo(\: oume-
16 for by his fire; and by his hy~rd, will the rous pr~feffiug Chrifiianity, and certainly the
L 01 d pleld with all flefu ; aqd the flain of the tnofl: enlightened with knowledge of any in the
Lord will be many. : 'World, can ferioufly fay to God, Thy wHl be done
20
(\cc\ they {hall briog all your bretbre, for on earth, When they are inftrua:ed by their public
an offering to the Lord out of .all nations, upon laws and forms of worlliip to oppofe it ?
borfes, and in chariots ; upon mules, and opon Althou_gh na.tion~l ~aws are un~efignedly made
fwift beafisJ to my holy mountain, Jenafalem, to oppole Chnfl, It IS a duty incumbent on the
fays the Lmd ; as the chlldren of lfrael bring an people to take care that none of their prayers
offerino in a clean vdl:el into the houfe oftheLord. arc : bu~ that ~very fupplication, and all their
21 And I will aHo take of them for priefis and forms of worfb1p are, as they 01ould be in ftdtt
for Levites, rays the Lorrl. sbedience to hi" bJelfed Gofpel of Peace:
22 For as the new hea\·eos and the new en,rtb,
which I will " a.ke, {hall remain before tne, fays THE ·PROPHET JEREMIAH, Chap. xxiii.
the Lord, fo fhall your {(td and your name re•
main. 3 An'd I will .gather. the remnant of my flock
And it !hall come to pa ~, that frolll one t of al• countnes, wlllther 1 have driven them
ntw 2 3moon tu anotb.r, and from one fabbath to
. and I will bring them again to their folds · and
another, all people lhall come to worlhip befol' lhall be fruitful and increafe'. '
me, fays tl:e Lord. 4 And I will fet fhepherds over them which
24 And they fball go forth and look upon ~he fee~
lhall them: and. they fball fear n~ more,
arcafles of thi.! r_nen that hatre rran. rgreffi.ed agatonll be dJfmayed • netther 1hall they be lacking
t 11. s the Lord. '
me · for their worm 1haH not tile, ne1tber wa
tbeir fire be quenched, that they may be an ab· S Beh~ld th~e days ~r~ coming, fays the Lord,
.h t I ~Ill ra,fe to Dav1d a right~ous Branch-
I bgrrence to al 1 flef •
The new heavens and the. new eatth, mean 8 n a
a K. ang 18 11 reig;n a.nd profper, and fi1all ex-
entire regenerat ion of man througli the .•- . ... ,.... e Judgment and JU{hce in the earth
and knowledge from the !pirit God, At. .o~ 6 In his days Judah ft•all be faved, ~nd Ifrael
fent aH nations oppole the golpel of the kJPg l.all dtveH fafely-and this is , th• name where ..
dom: of heaven in the 'two mofr elfeotial com; ttb he thall be called, The Lord's Righteou(..
mands for them to obey, which are, War anf {Put mJt thl LQrrJ QUr Righteaufotfi.)
/ Swe~riog. ~emember that form of pr41yer, ca

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7 Therefore, hebo
ld the daya are coming,
lhall no more fay, t0 Behold, I' will •bring them from .tbe Nortl1
co nt~:r., and gather. them from th~coa(is of lhe
fays the Lord, whenb th•~t up the children of earth : tbe blind and 'the 1ame,l the woman
The Lord lives that rou~ t.
with child aud her that tra v;ils wi child to-
Ifrael out of the land l?:es g,~ho' brought up and gether : a 'great company thall return
"' luther.
'
8 But the Lord hll r. .... £ lfrael out of the 9 They fhall come w~~h. ·weeping, ~nd wh!t
d f m all countries w It ~r
I d h feed oft e lOU&e ... h' h
who e t e ruJfplications I . w~ll Jead them: I wdl ~auie
North Country, an ro d they {hall dwell ln them to walk by the rivers of \laters, 1.0 a
I have driven them; an
~r•ight way, where they lhall n.ot ~umble•: for J
their own land. ~ fays the Bq1 a father to lfraeJ, and Ephra1m,1s my firLl born.
. At the fame t.me, f 10 · Hear the word of the Lord, 0 ye nati !)S,
Chap xxx(. l G d fall the families o
" J.ord 1 will be the o o and declare it to the Hlands afar ofF; and fay,
Ifr)lel', and they lhaU ~e ~y ,f~~p ;~op\e which
1
he that fcatter~d Ifrael will gather him, ami
2 Thus fays the or • found grace, in the ke~p h.im as a tbepherd does his flock.
were left frqD1 the fwlord,h I went to caufe u For the' Lord has redeemed Jacob, and
wildernefs, even lfrae ' w c:n ranfomed him fr~m th hand that was Hronger
~him to rdl. ed to me of old, (ay· than he-.
3 The Lord has appear · h an everla(\:ing '2 Therefore they iliall come and fing in
ing, Yes I have lo~ed tlhe~ wukindnets 1 hav' t~ height: of Zion, and lhall flow together
leve ; therefore Wlth ovlng to the goodnefs of the Lord, for wheat, and
drawn t~ee. '11 b 'ld thee an~ thou fha.lt F.or wine, and for oil, and for the young of the
4 Agam I Wl Ul ~ l . 'thou lha1t agat!\ Bock, a9d of the herd ; and their fou~ llull be
be b~ilt, 0 Virgin of lbrae .ami {hall go forth as a watered garden, and they /hail not lorrow
'th thv ta rets,
be aJorne d wt · - t t make merry. any more at all.
in the dances, like them t Ia • on the moun· 13 Then thall the Virgin a·ejoice in tbe dance,
S Thou fhalt yet plant vmesrt..all plant, and fflitb young men aod old togerher : for I will
. f · . the planters m
tams o Samana ' , thing~. turn their mourning into joy, and will com tot t.
thou fllalt eat them as co~ll 00 hen the wstcb· tbem, and make them r joice from their forrow.
6 Jo~or their fuall be ~ ayfh \l cry Arife ye, 14 And 1 will iiuiate lhe foul · of the 'prielb;
anen, on moun~ Eph.rat~~ th~ Lord our God. tth fatnefs, and my people fhall be f1ti lied witl.J
and let us go up to ~tonLord. Sing with !!,ladf 1 goodnef$, fayg the Lord.
7 For thus fays t e • ng the chief o as Thus f.Ays the ' Lord: A ~oke was beard
nefs for Jacob~ and fhou~r:unoe and f.'ly, 0 '1\amah, lamentation and bitter wt.~ph:g : Ra·
• : pu blWhl ' pra1 e y ' of If:rae L.
\ remnant bel, weeping for her children, refufcd to be
the n'lttons
Lord, fave thy peop e, t le CO!bforted u~~aufe Lbey are upt.

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I
t6 Ttins faith the Lord; Refrain thYt voice 33 But this lhall be the covenant that 1 will
from weeping, and thy eyes from tears : for make '·with the hou~e of Ifrael ; after thofe days,
thy works fhall be rewarded, fays the Lord ; fays the Lord. I wJll put my Jaw io their inward
and they 'lhall come again from the lanJ of the parts, and write it in tbeir hearts; and I will
enemy, · be their God, and they lhall be my people.
17 And there is hope in thy end, fays the 34 And they fhall teach no more everv man
Lord, that thy children JbaU come again to their hi~ neighbor, an,d every man his brother, raying,
own border. Know the Lord : for they aB fuall know me
2 '1 Set thee up way-m~rks, mnke thee high from the leafi: of the~ to the greate!l, fays the
heaps: fee thy heart toward the highway, even Lord : for I will forgtve their iniquity and therr
the way which thou went: turn again, 0 Vir· 1 fin I will remember uo more.
gin of lfrael, turn again to theie thy cities. ~5 Thus fays the Lord, who give!! the fun for
zz How long "tjlt thou go abour, 0 thou . a hght by day, and the ordina ~es of rhe moon
backaiding daughter : For the Lor <;I has crea- a~d of the ll:ars for a light by night : who di-
ted a new thing in the earth, A woman fhall VIdes the fea when the waves of it roar : the
c.ompafs a man. (It t!UaJJJ Chrifl being born of tht Lord of Hofls is his name:
bl~ffed Virgin.)
· 36 If thofe ordinances depart from befor~ me,
2 3 Thus fays the Lord of Ho(ls, the God of
fays the Lord, then the feed of lfrael fball alfo
lfrael : as yet they !hall ufe this fpeech in the ecafe from belng a nation bef£lre me for ever.
1and of Judah, a od in the cities thereof, when I 37 Thus fays th.e Lord ; If heaven above
bricg again their captivity : the Lord blefs thee, ran be mea fur ed, and the foundations of d1e
0 hahitation of JufHce,and mountain of Holinefs. earth fearched out beneath, I will alfo ca(\ oif
2+ And there !hall dwell in Judah itfelf, and the feed of Ifrael, for all that they have done,
in all the cities thereof together, hu!baodmeo, fays the Lord.
ar.o they that go forth with flocks. : .. 38 Behold the. days are coming, fays the
, 2) for I will refrelh. the weary foul, and I ,
Lord, when the cJty fball be bullt to the Lord
will comfort every forrowfol foul. · from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the
s·• Behold the days a~e co111ing, fays the ~oro, .corner. 39 And the meafuring line fhall yet go fotth
when I will make a new covenant with the houfe
.of lfrnel, and with the boufe of Judah. o•er againfi it on the hill Gareb, and Ll1all com-
32 Not accor<Hng to the covenant I made pars about to Goath.
with their fathers, iu the day that I took thenl 40 And the whole valJey of the dead bodies
hy d1e ·hand to bring them out of tile land of Jod of the albes, and all tbe fields to the brook
l•gypt : which covenant Lhey broke 1 although I of Kidron, t~ the corner of ,the horle gate to-
was a ulba nd to thefi!1 fays the Lord_. 1rard tQe eaU1 fhall be boly to the Lord ; it

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£hall not be plucked up, nor thrown down an1 win bring them to their own land, and l will feed
more; for ever. ~em on the mountains of Ifrael, by the rivers,
and make them inhabit the warte place.$ of the
· THE PROI'HiT EZEKIEL, Chap. xvi. country.
' . 22 Therefore I will Cave my flock, an~ they
s9 For thus fays the Lord God : .1 will even1 Oiall be no more a prey ; and 1 will judge between
deal w' th thee ai thou haft done, whtch has der· cattle and cattle.
pifed the oath, by breaking the covenant. 23 And I will fet up one fhepherd over them,
6o Neverthelels I will remember my cov~nant and he fhall feed them, even mv fervant David:
with thee in the days of thy youth, but I Will tf· be fhall feed them, and be fh;ll be their !hep·
tahlith to thee an everlafring covenant. herd.
61 Then thou fhalt remem!ler thy ways and 24 And J the Lord (meaning Chri!l) will be
he afhamed, when thou receive. thy .fiilers, th1 their God, and my fervant D?ov~d (meaning his
elder and rhy yonnger : and I w1ll gtve them ro defcendaot} a Prince among them: I the L:lnl
thee for daughters , ,but not by thy former cove· have fpoken it.
nant. .
62 And I will ef.l:ahlifh my covenant wuh thee, CHAP. XXXVI.
and thou ihalt know that I am the Lord. 6 Prophecy therefore concerning the land of
6g That thou n1ay rememoer aml ·be confound· lfrael, aud fay to the mountains, to the hili1, to
ed and never open thy mouth any more, be· the rivers, and to rhe vallies, Thus fays the Lord
ca~fe of thy lhame, when I am pacified toward God: Behold, I have fpoken in my jealou~v and
thee for all that thou haft done, fays tbe Lord fiary, becaufe ye have borne the fhame of the
God. heathen.
t!,. 7 Therefore, thll.s fays the Lord God: I have
CHAP. XXXIV. I lllted up my hand, furely the heathen that are
It For thus fays the Lord God : Behold, d about you lhall bear their own lhame.
even I, will both· fearch for my fileep, ~nd fio 8 "But ye, 0 mou.ntains of Irrael, lha\1 fhoot
tliem out. . d:ry your branches, and yield your fruit to my
12 As a fhepberd . gathers his flock In the of llrael: for they are at hand to come.
that hi theep are fcattered, fo will I f\!ek out my 2 Yea, I will caufe men to walk on you e.
fueep and w;Il deli~er them from nll places wher~ !I'Y people lfrael ; and they flull poflefs thee:
they i1ave been fcattc-~ed, before the cloudy an fhalt be their inheritance, and thou fhalt no
"dark day. h t~ henceforth bereave them.of men.
1 3 And I wlll bring .them out from ~ e ~nd Thus fays the Lord God : In the day that
ple, , and gathor them from the countnes, you from all your iniquities, ~ will alfo

r 34 J
eaufe }'ou to dw~ll in the c;ides, and the wat\e pta• .~; Neither fhall they defile themfelves any
'ei fhall be builr. more with their idols, npr with their dete!lablo
34 And the defolate land llia!l be tilled, wbkb .things, nor with any of their tranfgreffions ; but
lay defolate in the fight of all that paffed by : I will fave them out of all their dwelliflg place!,
35 And they {ball fay, This land that was de· •herein they have finned, and clean them : fo
folate is become like the garden ot Edef1; and ' Atallthey be my people, and I will be thtir God. 1
the waUt, and defolate, aod ruined cities are fefl• 24 And David my fervaot fhall be king over
ced and are full of inhabitants. .them; and they all {hall have one 1bepherd; they
a6 Then the heathen that are left round about lball alfo walk in my judgmeou, aod obferve my
you fhall know, that l the Lord boild the ruined llatutes to do them.
places, and plant that which was.defolate: I the 25 And the) fhalldwell in the land that I have
Lord have lpoken it, and will do tt. given to Jacob my fervant, in which your fathers
3 7 Thus fays the Lord God ; I will yet fo~ this -have dwelt: and they ihall dwell rherein, even
be enquired of by the boufe of lfr~tl, to do ~t for they and their children, aod their children's cbil·
them : 1 will increafe them wtth men hke a dreo for ever; and my f~vant David (meaning
flock. hi& vHible defcendant) lhall be their prince for
38 A~ the holy flock as the flock of Jerufale11l &\l.er.
in her foltmn feaf\s ; f~ lhall the wafle cities be The vifion of Ezekiel, relative to Jerufalem,
filltd w hh flocks of men: and they fuall know tba' alludes to tbe grandeur and extent of it when re•
I am the Lord. built by the Jew~ after their .return,in the year of
one thoufand feven hundred and ninety -eight: it
CHAP. XXXVII. t~Ul be the capital of tbe world, and from it will
20 And the l\icks which thou write on {hall b~ &o once n1ore, to all nations, the commands of ·
in \hy hand before their eyes. d. thl living God.
z I And l'ay to them, Thus fa}s the Lord Go .
behold 1 will take the children of lfrael from ad TH·E PROPHET HOSEA1 Chap. ii.
mong the heathen, whither rhey are .gone, a~n 18 And in that day I will mpke a cove~ant
· t beml
will ~ather them on every fide, an d brmg them with the beafis of the fiel<'• with the
to their own land. . • 1 d of heaven,· and with the cret ping things of
00 10 ~e~t~e
22 .And 1 will make them one natl nd : and I will break the ~ow, rhe fword,
upon the mountains of !frael, and there 11
~
one king to them all : they nu~n .b~ no ~ore
nations, neither {hall they be dlVlded mt9
::a battle out of the eanh ; ~ud they fualllie
in fafety.
19 And I will betroth thee to me for ever:
kingdom& any more at all. 1 I will betroth thee to me in righteouf·
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nefs, and in truth i in Joving kindnefs, and in 10 Heat yom· ploughfh ares into f,\• ord s, ar.d
mercies. 'your reaping hooks into f'pears ; let the we:.~k
20 I will even betroth thee to me with faith·
fay, I :~ m th ong.
fulnefs · and thou fhalt know the Lord, 11 Alfctubl e yoorfd ves and come, ap ye hea·
23 A~d I will fow her to me in the earth, and 1hl'n : g~t h er yon Jfd ves togeth er round about ;
thirher caufe tl1y mighty outs to com~ down) 0
1
I will have mercv on her that ha.d oot obtained
mercy (meaning' Jerufalem) and I will .ray to
LorJ.
them wbkh were not my people (meanmg .the . 12 T~et the heathen be waked, to come up to
Jews during their difperfion) Ye are my people; the valley of J~hofh:lph a t : for it ir.; th ere I will
and they fhall fay, thou art our God. fit to j udge ~ 11 the heath en round abollt.
14 MultittJdes, multitudes in ll:e vall ey of de.
CHAP. III. cifion; for the day of the Lord is near in t he
4 For the chi!dren of If~ael 1hall ?e many
valley of decifion.
After the rdlor:uion of the Jews, the barba-
days without a ktng, · ~nd Without a pnnce, and
·without a facrifice, and without an image, with· rous nations will fend great armies t c) invade
'out an ephod, and without a teraphim. their lands ; God will ptrmit them to advance,
5 Afterwards the children of lfrael fua 11 re- that he may ddlroy them wlth his fire from hea-
ven. ·
turn and feek the Lord their God, and David
their king; and they flnll fear the Lord, aad ts The fun and moon fh~ll be darkened, and
fuall koow his goodnefs in the latter days. 1be fiars !hall '"ithdraw their lhining.
16 The L(Jrd \\-ill roar out from Zion, a1 d
THE PROPHET JOEL, Chap. iii. otter his voice from Jerufaiem ; Lhe hea·vt"ns and ·
the earth filall {hake, bat the Lord will be the
t For behold. in thofe days, ~nd in that time, llope of his peopie, and the firengtli of the chil-
when I will brlng again ,the captivity of Judah dren oflfracl.
to Jerufale-m, 17 So ye fhall know that I am the Lord God ( di.
2 I will allb gather aU nations, and bring reEled to a.'J 11atiom) dw elling in Zion, my holy
them down to the valley of Jeholhaphat, to plead blounuin ; then (hall J.:rufalem he holy, and the re ·
with them there for my people, for lfrael my ltiall no fi:rangers pals rhron&h her any n ore.
heritage, whoth t~ e! .have fcattered among the 18 And it (hall comr to pa i~ in th:1t d:ly, that
• nations and f9r davadmg my hnd. tpe mountain s fiH\ lJ da·op dOWilll {' W wine, and t b~
9 Pr~claim ye this among tlie Gentiles : pre· hills fl1all flow with mill~ , and ~JI tit ,.; rivers of
pare war, wak~; up the mighty men, let all the Judah !hall flow with wLlters, and a fo nntain lha ll
men of war dr~w near, let them come up. .. 1 ~11'1~ forth from the houfe of the Lord , r;nd water
Ike vall~y of $hittilu . C

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F ypt fita11 be a cltfo~ati~n, and Edo~ a de..
. .
l rh~ trtounraio lliaJI ~rop fweet wine, and all the
' fola~ ~ildernefs, for thfir VHlle~ce ag~lt~k the hills lhall flow with milk.
children of Judah, a~d for ~eddmg thesr mno· t 4 t\nd l will bring again the captiviry of my
ctnt blood in the land. people of lCrael, they Jhall buHi the wafle cities,
zo But Judah fiiall dwell fot: ever, and Jerufa .. aocl inhabit them ; they lhall plant vineyards,
lem from generation to ger.eratton. and ddnk the wine of them : they lhall alfo make
• w'\l cleanfe their blood
.~1 F or 1 I •
not deacftd; for .t be Lord dwells JO wn.
z·
that I have
.
~araens, and eat the fruit of them. •
1 S And I will plant tl':;em upon their own land;
I
they !hall no more be pulled up out of their own
land, which I have given them, fays the Lord thy
THE PROPHET AMOS, G./Jap. ix. God.
S B-ehold tbe eyrs of the Lord God are opDn THE PROPHEf OBADlAH, C!np. i.
nte linful kingdom ; and I will ~~efl:~oy it from off 8 ShaH I not in that day, fays the Lord, even
the face of the earth ; but I wlll not utterly de· deHroy the wife men Qllt of Edam, and ullder ..
r. 1· 1 cob fa"s the Lord.
!\roy t h e hou,e oc: a ' Jd d I •'11 fift the fianding out of the moant of Efau.
o For, lo, 1 'i\!Jll coiDmaG ' an . \~I. t n · 9 And thy mighty men, 0 Ternan, fl1a1l be dif·
110U1e 'ir f Jf.rael from omung ::Ill natJons, like cor
o • - n • 11.. 11 no' lllaye<.l ; to the eod that every one of the n1ount
flfted in the !ieve, yet the lean gram IUa ofE\au may be cut off by Ilaughter.
fall upon the earth. 1 d' b he lo F@r thy violence againll: thy brother Jacob,
IO All 'he ftnncrs of mv people th a 1 •e y t
evillllalt not overtake nor ftiame fhall cover thee; and thou Chait be cut off '
· fav.. ' the
f wor d , .....,h:-ch for ever.
1 1revent us. • •• b 1 of 15 fi'or the day of the Lord is near upon all
II In that dav; I Wlll n•fe up the ta ern~c e f
the heathen : as thou hafi done, it lhall be done
Da\'hl that is GI~en, (meaning the reflorat~on ~n ' tu thee : thy reward fhall return on \hy owa ·
111s. d r. endant to the government of the chlldt. d head. · ,
e1c hesther~o• f·• au
r. 1) and clofe up the brea~ ..
Q fi ,rae · 1 • • the 16 For as ye bave drunk on my holy m'>un-
1 wiil r~il~ uri his rui.ns, and bl,ulu It as tn taio, (meaning the Turk,,) (o : all all the he a·
days c.f old. · · f E· then drink C•Hilinnally : yea) they fh?ll drink
,, t they may po!f~fs the• l r£ mnant
I 2 1 •la
o ca. .
l
r
n(l of all the be::a.then wluc I are not . 1 . •nd f,vallow down, and they flull be as thouo-b 0
uom, a l thlS• theY. had not been.
led b .my name, fays t 1 • Lore, "'10 0 oes ·d
]
t /Behuld the d:lys will come, fays the LOl ' 17 BuF upOfl mount Zion lhaJI be deliver:an~~.
that the plonghm2n fllall.overtake tbe reap~r;
and on i c 013 lll>e holinets : for the ' houle of JJ.•
~ab lhall poffef~ all their pofleffions.
and the tre:ntlcr of grapes lnm lhat rows the fee
18 And the ,houfe of Jacob, H11ll be a fira
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and the . honCe of Jofeph a flame, ~nd tl~e houfe a.nd thC" Lore. · wi I reign over them in mo' ~nt
of Efuu for llubble : .they fhaH ktndle ln the.m, Zion, from henccf~rth, even for ever.
I 4111 d d,vour them; there (hall no:: be any f{'Olalll·
ing of tbe houfe of Efan : for the Lord has fpo- THE PROPHET NAHUM, ChPp• •
ken it. ~- ·
19 And they of the fouth fhaU po!fcls the . I 5' Behold, upon rhe m.Jnntain~, the fee~ of
mount of Efau ; and they of the plains, the Phi- lum that brirgCJ good tiding~. that publilhes
liHines : they thall poffefs thi'ir fiel~s, ~nd E· p,eace ! 0 }lldah, keep thy iclemn feaf\s, and
phraim the fidds of Samaria, and Benpmm 1hall perform thy vows ; for the wicked ihall I!O
poOefs Gilead, • more pafs through tqee; they are entirely cut off.
20 And lhe captivity of the ho!l: of the ~lnl· The beginuing of this verle means Chri{t,
dren of Ifrael {hall pofrefs that of_r~e Canannttes, preaching !.he Gurpel of peac~ ; tbe latrer pan, •
even to Zerapath, :;~nd the capuvtt:y ~f Jontf~· when tnt: Jews are eUablilhed at }t:rufalem) af·
Jem, which is in Sepharad, fhall pofle.fs the ci- ter their next refroration. '
ties of the foutb. .
.. 2I Aad faviours fhall n "lle up on mount Z:ton, THE PROPHET ZEPHANIAH, chap. iii.
to judge the molln~ of Rfau ; and then the ktng·
dom 01all be the Lord's. · '3 The remnant of lfraelihall not commit in·
The 1 urks are defcend ed from Efau> t~e bro- iquity, r.or fj)eak Jies; neither iliall a deceittuJ
ther of Jacob· but their Emperor, and bts fam· lllngue be tound in theit' moutil ; fo1· they f11Jl1
ily art ce{etnrl~d {ro111 Jon<Athart, the. fin a[ Saul, feed and lhafl lie do\VD, and .none fhall mal{e
~; 11g of I} ael. Told me by revelat1on, them ,afraid.
14 Sing 0 daughter of Zion; lbout 0 Itrae] ;
THE PROPHET MICAH, Chap iv. .be glad. and rt-joice with all thy heart, 0 daugh·
ter of Jerufa1em. ''·
1 But iil tli~ lafi: days it fhall come to pafs , J 5 The Lord bas tnken away thy juclgments, •
that the mountain of the ho\.lfe of th- Lord fh a~l he has cafl: out thy ene~y ; the King of Htael,
he ef\:ablifi1td upon the top of the moun tams ; •t. even the Lord is in the midfl of thee ; thou fhalt
{hall b~ exalted ' hove the hills, ~nd people fi1_l ~l not (ce evil any more. · ' , ''~•
flow to it.' · tr 1ie 16 In that day it {haJJ be faid to Jeruf:ll~~·
, 6 In that day, fays the Lord, I w,ill aa~ m .l Fear thou not ; and to Zion, Let not thy hanas
1Jer thar has hJlted, antl I will gather l~er ,hat lie. flaCk. :· • "' •
was ilriv~n· out, and her that I have afill<:ced. d • 1 7 The Lord thy God in the tnid(\ of thee, is
1
7 And 1 will make the remnnn,t that l1a~tf' • 1

&hty; he will fave, a.ud rejoice over tlieo
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whb joy ; he will refi. in his love, and rejoice O· take thee, 0 z~rubbahcl, my fervar. tJ the fon of
ver thee with finging. ' Sbealtid, ~od will mfl ke thee a fignet; for 1 have
1 will gather them that are forrowful for c:bofen thee, fays th e Lord of Hotts .
the ann aflemblies who ~re of thee, to whom The meaning of lhis verfe is~. that when the
'the repro~ch of thee \vas a burthen. former part of this pro phecy 1s fu lfilling, Zetuo-
19 Behold at that time I will undo all wbicb. babeJ wi!J be revi'vc:u in his dcl'cend :t ot, who will
afflicts thee ; ar.d I will fave her that is fioppecl, be, /rk: hh;~j'elf,. the.oz'ijible priuc-e a~u1 govtrJJor of
and ~ther her that was dtiven oilt ; and l will the JewJ ; the tune lS nearly come for this man
get them prai[c and ren')wn in every land where to be openly revealeC., and to have, in all other
they have been put to fhame. . refpech, this very gradous and very wonderful
zo At the time that l bring you agatn, even jlroruife from God fulfilled. .
the time that I gather you; for I will get you a
name, and make you l'? be praifed amOfli all the
lleople of the eanh, when l turn away your cap• T-HE PROPHET ZECHARI.-'111: Chap. viii.
tivity from before your eyes, fays the Lord.
7 Thus fays tbe Lord of Hofis, Behol~l, I \\'ill
THE PROPH~T HAGGAI," Cht1p. ii. fne my people from the ea!l country, and fro 1n
lbe .well c-ountry :
20 Ao4 again tbe worcl ofibe Lord came to • 8 And. I will bring them, and they Gull dwell
Haggai, in the four and twentieth day of the 1n the mtdtl of Jerul'alem : rhey {hall be my peo-
month, faying, r.Je, and I will be their God, io truth and jn
2 r Spe:>k to Zerubhabel, governor Qf Juc:lah, ng!neoufoefs. .
ar.d fay, I wnl 01ake the heavens and the ear!b; Chap. x. 6 Atld I will fireogthen the h01,1fe of
2 2 And l will overthrow the thrones of king~ J~dah, .an~ I will fave the houfe of Jofeph, and [
doms, and I will deftroy the firellgth o'f the. king· Jl'o~U br:ng them again to replace rhem; for I wtll
doms of the heathen: I will overthrow the1r cha - La,e me,rcy on them, and they fi1all be as if I ba,f
riots, and thofe hat ride in them; the'•r horfes ~t ca(\ them oft ; for I am the Lord their God
andj
rider!~ {hall come uown, every one by t l1e
j • -"
and I will ht-ar them. '
fword of the other: . . .. 7 And th!!Y, ~f ~ phraim fhall be like a mighty
The time allud~d to by the prophet, i~ that JP~n, aod their hearts fuall rC'j ~ice 3S through
which is immediately before the refioratioo of ,.,~e; yta, their children lhall fee it and rre glad11
the Jews, in the latter days of the world ;--~he r he~rts fhall rejoice in the Lord.
preient is it. ; . And 1 will hifs for them, anJ gather them ·.
~ 3 In that d~y 1 fays the L'ord of Hofts~ I wdJ I have redeemed them, and they £hall inc(eafe
tbty have increafed.
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9 And I will fow them among the people r.op ~ rountl about, on the r1ght band and on
and tbey (hall remcmher me ;li far cout•tries, tbe left: an{l J~rufalem flull be inhabited again,
aod they !h3ll Jive with their children, and turn den Jerufalem in her own place. .
again. · 1 The Lord alfi> \'ICIIl fa.ve the tents of J.l(hh
zo I will bring them again alfo out of the l firi\, to prefervc the dilHncti.m of the hou{e of
land of Egypt, and gather tbem out of .~flyria_ : David, tbat the inh 1bitanrs of jerufalem IDJY not
an~ 1 will uritig them into the land of Gilead~ e~:alt themfelves <Jgain(l Judah.
an<.. Lebanon, and place !hall not be found for •- 8 In Jhat day the Lord will defend lhe inh:ib·
them. ltant4J. of Jerul".llem; and U.e that is feeble among
• she1o an that day, 011II be as 0;1vid ; -:tnd the
Chap. xii. I The burthen of rhe word of the houfe of David fhalt be as G:>d ; as tbe an"'el 0
of
• Lord for flrael; fays the Lord, ·1Vho (!:retches tke Lord before them. ·
out the hea\'ens, '3nd lays the foundation!; of the .This propb~cy means t'he rame time, and the
earth, that forms the fpir1t of man within him:
rame .mvafion of 1udah by the heath"''l, as that
2 Behold, I wtll make Jer~tfal m a tup of trem·
lllenuoned by the prophet }1el, in the third chap-
bling to all the people rounc~ about. when they ter; which is expla~ned already.
1hall be in the fiege, both ag- in!t Judah and a·
gainft Jerufalem. Q. And lt ~aU come to pafs in that day, that
3 And in that d::.y I wiil make Jerufalem a bur- ,hull ddlroy the people of all the nalions whiclt
. theofome fione for all people; all that burthen are come agam . fl: rerufalem. '
1hcmfelves with it fhall be cut in pieces, though ro And l will pour upon the hotlfe of David
all the people of the earth be gathered together lDd upon the inhabitants of JerufaJem, the fpiri~ ·
againfr it. ' · of grace and of fupplications; and they fhfllllook
4 In lhat day 1 fays ·the Lord, I will fmitt ~ve· to me that was pierced, and flull mourn like him·
ry horfe with a01oni!hnlent, and. his rider with !"~~mourns for his only fon : and they thall be
madntfs : aml I ~vill open my eyes upon the. ~~ bitt!rt,efs, like him th<n is in bitteracfs for his
11oufe of Judah, ana r )ill (hike every horfe of firfl born.
1h~ peop~e wi1h hliudnefs. . • II In that day there £hall be great mourning
5 And the governors ()f fuel .n n1all f.1y in thetr In lem, like the 11\()llrning of Hadadrimoo
l17art, !he inhahirant.s 'of '}erufalem !h.,ll be our valley of Megid8on. '
itren{!th in the Lord of Holts, our Goo. l A'ld the land {ha')l mourn, every family a-
; the f;tmily of the boule of DaviJ npar.r
. 6 (n that day I will make the goverr101'S of
. Jud;~h like a l!eanh of fit•t; among wood, like a theit· wives apart; the f.unily of N.1 than a:
torch of fire io a fl~caf; the) fhaU devour all tbe t, and their wives apart.
J T~ fawily of the houfe of Leyi a1>art1 and
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their wivec apart ; the family of Shemei apart, tf the prophede· 1 b by the diretti on 01 nd com·
aOC tlJ.;.ir v.'lVe! 1Plrt. mand of the Lord God. . .
14 All the famiJies th:lt remain, every f~mi\y
apart, 3nd tl:eir wives ap1rt. . THF: jUDGMENTS Of' GOD. · '
'When the heathen · nn\es invade the land of 'THE very J~,ud and onufual kintl of ti1•1i der
Irrr..el, it will be with a r ef"lut1on to leize on ev· that was h~aro in the begir.ning of J.wuary', 170·r,
ery lt}over.ble tbtno 3nd ddtroy the people ; the Was the votce of the angel rilentioned in the 18th
Jews, then ackno~leclg1up; tl~e l\ldii..1h a<; God, chapter ~f the rcvehtion, prv.claiming tbe judg-
will be11e"..c, un~cr an e. cefs ot grid, that he was ?Ieot of God and the tall of Dttbvl· n lbe Great :
nucified. Seniiole of their perilous coudirion, It was the lqudefi thnt ever \~·as h"ard Hnce man
and kno ;ving tbar it is he only can rave them, Was created .• and £hook the whole eanh everv
tht'y wili, every m·111 and fatl}ily, implore him for time the a!lgel fpoke: it roared thro) tke nn~er;,
C()J11P.3llion and debverance. and made a 1\0ife over London like the falling of
Tl1e Hebrews will be delivered, and the hea· mount('.in~ of flones.
tl1en er.tirely deltro}cd. .t\lany buildings were damaged at the time of
thu. thunder, and m1ny pe:-fons were frightened
THE PI\OrBET MALACHI, Chap. iv. • by tt : the great thfl1es of lightning proceeded
alfo from the angd, and .were according to the
5 Bt'hold, I fend } ou Eli}th the prophet, be- firfi verfe, retle ..'led from the brightneis of his
fore the coming of the great and dreadful d;;.y of ~ory. . .
the LnrJ.
6 And he fuall turn the heart of the fathers to .REVELATiON TG ST. JOHN, Chap ...x"'J;i.
t l e children, and the heart of the children to r And after thefe things, I faw another angel,
thdr fathers : ldl I come and fmite the earth c:ome down from heaven, having great po\VeL·;
\'lith a curfe. lnd the earth \~<!S li~hte?ed \?i:h his glory. '
The great prophet i!lluded to in this ch;1 . ter, 2 A.'1d he cneCJ tntghttly With a !hong voice,
ic; the fllmc that ""ill be revealed to the Jews, to !meanwg.tl.~ thunder} ~1ying, B.il>ylon th.: Greac
(;rder th ir reJnrn ro Jerufalem bdore t/;t: expira· II fallen, l:i fallen, &c.
tir;;z '.Jf one tl•o•{a•.dfi:&~u hmzdrfd and 11t1Jt~J· eight: 3 r'crr all nations h ·te drunk of the wine ot
he will poficl& the fp1rit of Gnd, and the po r , tht wrath of her forni ation, and the kino-., of
. of fire, cqnal to £lij<th ; he will make known the the earth have committed fornic;.:tiot !Vtrh"'her,
j'Jdgmcnts of God, that all nltions may be bene· lod the m~rchants of the earth are waxed rich
ti•ted, and m<ly cn<le:1vor to furvive them, when trough he abundance of her delica~ies.
i: ev arc! omr11U1Hl~d _ uc fulfilled. And 1 hearu ~moth .r voi e from heaven
Tbe ak::r'"tions t hii ve made'in copying fome 8
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not pnrbkers of her fins .ana that ye rucive not -~~re they would imprifon and uftr me very ill
lt.
of her plagues.
5 For her fin~ have reacbcd up to heaven, and In addition to alJ that God had promifed and
God hath remembered h~r inh1uhie$. ftpcated by his a11gel to make me happy, be was
6 Reward her, tven as fi1e rC'warded you 1 and IIW pleafed tO' give me another proof of his un-
c:louble to her (\ouhle, according to her works ; 1 aite,ablo regard, and convince me by it, tbar, a/.
io the cup which fhe has filled, fi\l to ber double-. tbeufh he cpu/d not in jujlice to hh r"ord. d jtJdg. '
7 How much fhe hath glorified herfelf and liv· •ms (pare Londtm, yet for my fake he would
ed delicioofly. fo much torment and for row give iew mercy to fome : and take care, that by
her ; for fue tays in hear heart, 1 fit a queen; and ickaefs ~tnd other caufes, to renwve the perfons
am no widow, and fuall fee no forrow. I defired lh~u!u be faved, to a fu fficient dit\ance
8 Therefore fl1all her plagues come in one day, beyond the limits to be de{hoytd and funk. Af.
ueathnn4 mourning, and famine, and fhe {hall be ter thauking the Lord God, I mentiontd feveral,
utterly burnt with fire; for !\rung is Lhe Lord both men and women, and called the remern·
<1cd who ju~ ges her. brance ot his mere} to others whofc t'arnes I did
The Lord God was fo exceeding ~ngry at the 110t know, but poi ntt'd them out in my mind.
time of the loud thunder I have tntntionecl in Among thofe I mentioned, was William Pult·
the preceding part, that be dete-rmined to leave
]iis other judgments unfulfilled relative to Londor.,
1
1:
Dey, William Pitt, Gilbert Elliot Charles Grey
Earl of Buckingbamlhire, 'tbe Marquis of
nfedowo, the Eal'l of Chatham, Maitland, now
:and burn her immediattiy with fire from hel!vf'n :
foon afterwards I wu informed by revelation of ca eel Earl of Lauderdale ; . Henr-y Phipp, for 1
'What the rhunder meant, and was commanJed to :.-~berec'
" _his brother to have done rne an aB:
go from London beyond the diftance of eighteen G. friend1h1p ; John Dalrymple, John Griffin
miles. I baJ jifllilar to tht prophet Daniel at Baby· ri8io, Alderman Pickett, b~cauft that during fis
on an attending angel to explain alltbe vifioos, · j)f/Uli!J he oppoftd by 11 public (?dv ertifemtnt Me
and fupport me under the grief 1was loaded witb ,':_~'fl'"J of taki11g oaths : in doing fo he honored
for hs approaching fall. ~ •I! remembering God, who will in due time
ltiP'l-.b!il'lJI bonor him for it. Wil~rforce, Baf..
Tbe Lord God knowing tliat I loved him with
all my heart, and bad otten refifted the calls of ridan, Philip Stevens, (h · rJes F.ox;
bun~ct and dif\refa, rather than comply with cuf· Luke, a poor quaker ; Samutl Hood : the
toms that would offtnd him, pitiec me; for J bad aod his family, for they were to be gathered
bcfeeched him to let me inform the people of on: Ponfonby, for whom I coocei•ed
London of their danger, aml try by all poffible an frcm oblening io his countenance
n1eans to fave them; ~ut was rcfufcd pcrmiilloll, l!n~ ·honefiy; and poflHiing, as I thought,
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trent for him: until Jail: year I COtlld affign no ~ly ,Gho!l, and was the ve1·y ~ me that derccnd.
other reafon for meutioniog that n ~me than 'don thp ~ead of my blt'fled Saviour, when he
what 1 have given; but the true one is, that ,-.me up from being baptized in be river 1ordan; .
God had dttermirre-d not only to keep in Lon· be ~ept bet ween ane :md J:~t an,'' ho was then re-
uon the peop]c then in it, but likewiie to ul· \'~aled !hat I ·~ight witn(fS ic, and gl'eat powe;
low great ruultitudes .to be drawn to it from alP giVen him (0 Vlfit the earth.- rhe Lord God
parts of the country, he would be _found , among thfn fpoke to me from the middle of :J. white
the number to be de(lroyed; for winch, to prevent ibining cl~wcl.
ltis death io fuch a place, the Lord God infl tenceJ Afrer this I was in a vifion, having the angel of
to
me rt>gard hirn, that I might a~rerwards re· God near 1/Jt, and faw fa tan walking leifure)y in-
member fuch a perfon,and bt:: mindful ofUil fafecy. lo London : his face had a fi11iie, but under it his
, I am not in the JeaH: acquaintea witb the man ~oks were fly, crafty a11d de.ceitful. On the
. lh1ve mentioned, whom God was plellftll to dif· rtght fide of his forehead were feven dark fpots;
tjoguHh by fo great a tefl:imony of h13 regnrd, but k tv as drrfied in white and fear let robes.
although I am not, and our names are different, Again I was in a vifion, and faw London a
he iJ, aJ well as '"Jfdf, defcendec from David, king fceoe of confafion; it was <~ffeB:ed on a fudden i
of lfrael. Tbe Coantefs of Buckingbamfuire, !~.tbe people were armed, and appeared quire
. whom I am no more acquninted with ilran the ·~~~us: I ~as carried through the city, in the
Hranger I mentioned betore, is lilc.ewife deicen~· . ~It of Go.d, to fl!e all things that were defign·
ed from.David, kiog of Ifrael : the fllmily fhe ]S ea. fhould come to p.ifs, and be informed ho\V
married into are alfo of the I:Iebrews, and are cpjck they could be ~ccompHfhed.. .
defcended from Jofeph, the once prtfident of After this 1 was in a viiion, aud faw a large ri•
Egypt. 'trrun thr0 London colo~ red with human blooo.
Tbere are many families of the fame origin as b~ceedingly unharpy for all that I faw, and
thofe three I IJave named, made known to me bf. " 1'h l knew would foon be fulfilled ; J prayed
revehaion, but. I ~m fi rbid to mention any . ot &ad e~treated .the Lord God to give me one
them at prefent for public knowlalge. J llore Jnfiance ot his might.r rt>gardJ by [raring
After imrenting• for. tbe ~ perfons tJ 'J!ml;e.fet and the great?tmftit•tdc in it. J f~ud, Inc.
down, and pointing from my minJ to nuutbers ledge, 0 Lord my Gorl, that thP. people
befidcs whore names I did not knowtl was, to Y wrong, lut it 1a throug.1 cumpulfion,
' prepare for tit. dcfigulli'ln of God, canif'd up ' 0 r \'Vant of l<:oowi~Jg better. .
heaven in a "ifion, and faw on my right fid, at. a Lord God w~s [o highly <lifj}Jeafr.d, tlut
fmall di!lance, a beautiful filver w bite b 1\1 10 after all his fa.rHJe~ k1od~efs, firain, his
1hape of a Dove, but a little larger; it was Lh
8
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(h:srpnefs and nnger, fay, Th~y haoe mj b11fod libylon, he thrown down, and lh all be found no
G~lpd, and will not obey.it. Tt:e angel that w~s !llOre :n :11l.
appointed to give me tnflruchon forfook me m That ::H men of wifdom and clifcernment may
en inlbnt on he~ring this anfwer. · I trembled lllderOan<l, on reading the revela on, that there
for n'y life and feemed to be another man i for 1 Ire two cities mentioned in it [pirilu(J/lp, under
I was afraid of being de(lroyed with the city.- tl1e names of Bah) (on the Great, I will a{fifl: thenl
lt was three davs after this before the Lord Gild bytlea~ly m:uhingout tbe di!linCtion.
would be reco.nciled to hear my pr~>yers, a11d Rome, the fphitual Babylon, mentioned in
fpeak to me with his former kinduefs. the fevente enth chapter, is defcribed, in the third
In ten days after the three I was in a vifion, verfe, to 6e away iuo the wifa'~rnefs; meaning,
and being carried up to heaven, the Lord God by the words, into the wilderneis, tlrlr the city is
fpoke tu me from the middle of a large \Vhite fitllated i1dd1,d.
cloud, and faid in a t\rong clear voice-All, All. • ~ot London, the ,fpiritual Bab)lon. alfo.men-
I pardon London and all the people in it for your IIOned in the eighteenth chapter, is defcribed,
lake: there is no other man on earth that ~ould by St. John? as the greatefl fla·P'i' t fur ihlps, '
fiand before me to a.fk for fo great a thing. ieahh, and commerce, in tLe wotlJ.
For ever, 0 L~rd my God, I w:/1 praift anJ 11 And the n.erchants of the earth lball weep
thank you for rbis great inflance ofj(JUr bl(Jfed re· ,and mourn over ht:r ; for no man bu,·eth her mer-
gard ; a/J Natiorrs will hear it, and m.:1y 411 Na• chandize any nore. ~
tioni honor JOU hy thr:ir obedien,e 1 your great m~r· ~~ The merchan~ize of gold, and filver, and
cy i1 over thun all, and 6y its go(Jdn1J the WGr/J eetoos O:ones, and of pearls, and fine 1· nen, and
is 1/0W raJ~. ·
Had London been deC\royed in the y~ar o
f lfrple, and filk, and fcarlet, and all thvme wood
lid al manne1·. of veH~Is of ivory and ~f mofi pre~
1791 the plac.e where it Ho;ods would have Clous \-.ood, and ofbrafs, and iron, and marble.
form~d a great bay. or inlet of the channel: 13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments,
:lll the laml between \Vioclfa,· and the Dowllf frankinccn fe, and wine, and oil) and fine
would have been runk, includin~ a diil:ance 0 and wheat, and beafl.s, and OH~ep, and hr.r:
eighteen miles each fide, but confiderably n~ore and chariot., a1 d flavcs, and fouls ijf men.
towards the fea coal\ ; it would be funk to th~ 4 Aud ~he t'ruhs that thy foulluO:ed after, are
depth of r~venry fathom'sJ or four hundred an ttd f 0111 thee, and all things which were
~wenty feet, that no traces of the ciry ~1ight be ar,~ goodly are departed from thee, and.
, c:v.er found, or even fo muc.n as lpoked for. }'ke nnd them no more at all.
• 21 And a mighty angel took up a (lone,
1
• 1_ he nterch:mts of thefe things, who were
a great mill frone, aii • can it into the rea. ~ay tJch by her, £hall fiand a far on~ for the
ing, thus whll yiOleace tltlll that &reat city, her torment, weeping, and mourning.

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16 And faying, Alas! alas ! that great city, 11/o"!'i~g would haf)e hun the Condit1on of Eng.
that was cloathed in fin~ linen 1 and purple, and ti, '111h1eh lhe Lord God Jhewed me in th( mo11th
fear let 1 and de~ed with gold and prtcious Hones, 1111;·, J 791, haq h;J J11dg"'ent if Drfilatzw:
aucl earls l r in one hour, fueh great riches is .tlie ll~ru beenjuddmlyjrdfille t the: appoill·
c;ome to noug 1t, ~ Ti lit ;n 1 793·
17 And every fhip -mafter, and all the compa· > ~~at in a vifion, and was carried away by the
ny in (hips, and failors, ~nc.l as many as trade b7 Spilt of God to a field of young wheat, which
fea, llood afar off ; waa grown a bout four inches high from the
18 And cried, when they faw the fmoke ofhet ~d : an elderly Englifh woman Hood byrne;
burning, What c~ is like to this great city. Jfd,d 110 Cflv6ring rm her head, but over her arms
1g And they call duft on their heads and cried, ln old black filk cloak : it was worn thre•d-
weeping and walling; faying, Alas! alas! that ,and rent in many places. While I was ob-
great city ! wherein were made rieh all that had lug the drefs and poverty of the womaP) the
1hips in the fea, by reafon of her cofilinefs : for it._ t fprung up in an infiant, and fhot out to
in one hour fhe is made defolate. •ucftze of full ears, the large!l I ever faw in my
2o Rejoice over her thou·heaven, and ye I ol1 -: ~tlonithed at fucb a fight, ~nd wondedng
apo(Ues and prophets : for God .hath avenged It would mean, 1 fiooped to feel fome with
vou on her. :lland; when i ad, the woman loolled down to
~ Read attentively the eighteenth chapt~r: .and _,h a r;ountena1ice exprt./fi'ile of great diflrefl to
.Aou will perceive dcfcribed in it, the prodig1o11~ '' my pity atJd a.ffiflance, then turned her
of
wealth, grandeur, and commerce London ~.then away to the eafi, and afterwards 1ooked up
remember, that the very great thunder and bgl.1t· en, as if lhe wanted rain and a cool wind.
J1ing I have mentioned, was in-the depth of wtn· this ~ cafl my eyes over the turface or
ter, an u'•tifual time of year for the like; but they : it was fcorched ro a dark brown, and
were as St. John exaCily defcribes- them, i~ tfie to look at; I could fee no grafs in the '
firft and fecond verfes. Meditate o~ thefe thlllgsi and tLe bufue~ j n the hedges were all
w.eigh thl'm attentively in your ~n~nd, and all if n ; fo grea! an(i "'~~h.iy wa1 the heat :
have wrote befides ; ard the Spll'J t of God, d· fee n~ bea(b In the fields, and th~ fowls
you love \Vifdqm, will enlighten y_ou~ underfra\. . were all flown a\~ay.
ing to fee, and will alfo ftrike you Wlth a con VI JUdgment of defola!Jon bting f~.t£pended,
tion of their truth. • rcafon that this vifion of fa mint and Jjf• .
alfo; when it q1l~ei pl::ce, England, like
'nd her clo3k, ({&r Jbe w(a an a!!ufion
) wjll be veri poor~ worn out, anti
places. .f .

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.· The juo11d thrmder, that g3vc n()tice of God's
Afrer thii I wa~ in a vifion, and faw 3 large
fword unfheath~d in heaven : foon a rer I faw a
apProaching jud~menr, was oo \~cclnefJay tve • .,
large cup full of red wine. ancl much fr·uh on the nmg, ~he 7th of Augufi., 1793, a1 tiJ t.'!entioued in.
tkefivcntiJ flj the Re·ve/'.ltion, a11d was the vnice of
top, lifted up, and held out to all na.ic. ns.
the angd afcending from tbe eafr, hnvinO' 0
the feal
I
of the living God.
THE JUDG~ENT or DESOLATION ', 2 And I faw another angel n.cendin~ from the
ON ea~t ha~i g the fcal of rhe .living God; and lie
A L L N A T I 0 N S. qtecl WJtb a loud voice (the tLuTld.fr) to the four
angels, to hom it w.:.s gi\1cn ro hurt the canh
THE thunder that was heard in the evening and the fea; .
of the 3d of Augufl:, 1793, was the voice of rbe 8 Saying, hurt not the enrth, neirber the fea ·
· angel mention~d io the nineteenth chapter of toe not· the tree~. till we have fealed tlle lervants of
Rt:vd tion, Handing in tke fun. our God in their foreheads.
T?e fla£he~ of lightning, which itfue~ during
17 And I faw an angel fiandiog in the fun; the t1me of th1s thunder·, proceeded likewife from
ana be cried with a loud voice, (meaning the lbe glory of the angel, and rcffmbl d in colour
thunderJ) f3ying wall the fo ••,ls tlHt fly in tlJe .nne amber.
midLt of heaveu, Come, and gather yourlelves to·
gether to the fupper of the great God. "the n~xt and lafi rhonder, (ij t ~ jrJbmwt h~d
1111 h1w f4pc11ded for wy fo!..e) would be on th
18 That ye mu eat the flelh of kings, and the 2
'th of t\ugufl foliowi~g. a11d would have been
flefh of captnin'i. and the fiefh of mighty men, and ace
the fle01 of horrr-s, and of them tlJat fit on them; . or d"1ng to the ,llxte\.:ntb
r! .
chanter vf t1le 1. cvth·'
and the flefll of all men, both free and bond, both tthJon, the fourth angelpouriug out his vial on
e fun.
tin aU and grear. ,. •b8 And the fourth angd poured out his vial on
· Tlie dead will i crc:-tfe fo f;~(t, :tnd. be in fuch t ~hfun, a11d power wa:> given him to fcorch men
prodigious numhcrs when this judgment takes ."~u fire~ ·
place, that tne li ing vill not lle futilcieor to bu· ~ And men were fcorched with . nor;at he:tt
anq 1 ~-. h · ,
ry them, but will leave the bodits expofed to the er a,p emed the name of God, whu has po v-
fow $ of ht>aven for tneat. n' o.ve~ thefe plagues ; and tncy repented not ro
The, ildlJes of Jightoitig, wh!ch iRued during • blVC ham g\&>ry.
the thunder, P,rocteded t·rom the glory of tlrt:
angel procl<ljming the judgment of vod, and re- wb!e fi11hes ofli~htoing, during this thunder,
W~ul~ conunue maoy hour;), would lit~~·
ftmbled in colour the dear day light. .\

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• proceed fJrom
·w1fc: the glory of the angel, and
l'k be burn·
vep1rd, fufpcnded his judgment for a time-it
4 would be, in ll:rength and colour, . I e t hacgs however &ver all nations.
· fi me · Look at the age of tl1e world; read attentive-
lO~fh~s thunder would be accompat~ied b~ a VI• ly the chapters f havs mentioned, with what I
l ll: rm of large hail ftones, whtcb, wnh the ~ave wrote betides; and you wiJJ difcovet in
ol.•gehnttnw . og 1 would kill multitudes of o,
people, ·ar.d :our own brea!l: a light, to fee and bt:Jieve by.
he harvc~ in many countncs. That light, I rnea11, which is often called a cer-
des~~! ~fter J·;~
{\
this thunder, Jhe jhorJ lime if tain [ rmmf.ing, an intemol t!Jonitor, that applauds
h0 d ment of God ou the wor ~an for courr.ing wifdom, for betng jull, and do·
day; 01lly, .t e JUb gfulfillrd. The \\linds woold Jog goocf; but that naver falls to reproach him
would begtn t.o e tht
r fi ntled in we J'
for embracing foJJy, and doing evil = ic is indeed
~lm,o!l ~ear;,
firnlament, accotumg to .
fib:m~td,,prer, that breathing might
~the great body of heat,f thath would JmmedJare y
Do oth~r than the ~pirit of rhe living God.
AU the prophecies given in vifions from God, '
lhe earth1 Ire concealed from the knowledge of man by
f be poured down rom eaven on ' /d
a te~d u" .. fo fitrc lf aud p?we'rju! aJ r!love the wor ,
to t~yllerious alJufions, until Jhe proper time, and the
. b t nd bea 11 ex·
and R.i/1.. every livitJg fhmg,. oto man a
. wofl&, 'J'' !tJpointed perfon for them to be revealed to.
pojed unde;~· it iJJ the cpell tJtr; ~ in the Por it is not in the cunning of any one man, even
The trees bullies in the hedges, gra s b '1 aftiited by the wifdorn of aJI the rell: on earth, to
.t ·•s a~d what corn was left frqm the aid' ilrch out tiJe deep ffcrets of God, or with truth
mea~10\'"t ' {\ db ho great an
would be rut off and dcnroy.e y tl~\edeflrov· II DnfoJd the meaning of his vifion.s: thry are wo11 ..
· h heat Mofi ofthe 11ups wou . d ~[ul; they cannot ,Jw.e difcovered until God him•
~d\t'} .~,, •• , all the fifh~··r the r~~f·f: ~;1 ~,:1 ·~H' pleafes to remove rhe coveriol' of fecrecy;
Million!) of the hum~n race would dac the many ~~~through an appointed perfon~ bl fles the
tions frilm this l.>urnlrg heat~ an 'Or~ with ;~ kn.owledge of their rrue meaning.
la ues it woultl ·produce. . 1 Sittb,. 1\e fulfil!ing of the judgments of God, ho..,e ..
P .fhe Nlneteenth, Seventh, S•xte<:~';he fa!lll defiruetively they m:1y prove to the govern.
Egbth, and .r'our~etmh,bapters, ':ee cbapcertl· and nations wbich ther are dire&td a..
time, th~ fame thmgs; and are as o . ar.: OO[ allowed to afFect my perfonal
fulfil the joclgments of God. be time ap· nor operate in rhe lea!l: to my prejudice :
The , 5th of Auguf~ • 79 3, ~~~~ ~he par'ts or certaiory of any elevati on. to the gre-arell
;~~-~ Pr4' 1tJry that ever will be, i:: the world, can-
1
pointed by the Lord God r~ u anJ unilb th'

he llevelntion l have rnenuon'-d, . p mer- prevented by the rife or fall of any bu.
world Wi. th de{i, I;ttlon
t . ., l>nt from lns ·lleemed .~~ ~
b great on earth ; becaufe it i-s the repeat~d
cy and regard for me, thati m~y ''~h~n 1 ~Ill W God to. my fore-fathers, and his fit·
bis country~ and by all other,, now by Revelation to myfelf:
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\
The obf\:urity of David was no ohjeClion with I r 61 'J
a difcerniog God, to make him the monarch of is James:b xiii chan•:· SS ver. 0 f St. Matthew·.
Jfrael, and afterwards promife the fuccdlion to Told
me Y revelation. ·
his family f Jr ever: neither is mitte now to hi§ The governme r f b ] '·' "'
tu !filling th:Jt promife, and holding me up to the iler the Lord Godn o t e .e.willi nation will, un-
world, as thz vHible governo.r of the Jews. For everl a· , be commJttea to me that the
anmg covenaut f h' '
all the works of God are wonderful, ar~d very maoifelled in the vHibro~ .Jm to.I?avid, may be
far exceed the capacity of nun to know where
thty begin 1 bow they are direCted, on whom, or
which way they will end :.-1 that have more
t'1e Jews.
.. ·"
' ~
e rmce ~~d Governor of ·.
knowledge of them, and of futurity, revealed to .

SECOND.: °F S,\.M UEt ' Ch,ar•
lh . ..
:;u. r
me than any other under the whole heaven. ob·
ferve the operation of every new one with more
16
eflal)lillied for eve:
1\nd thy ho fc (f h •
bee~an t . y k.m,gdom lball be
be e{bbliihed for . • ore thee; thy tbror.e .lliaU
amazement than the former. J •
evtr.
Therefore my p•·efeot poverty is no ohfl:acle • '7 Accordina to all thefe ~ d
t() my f1tture elevation, neither is it of mucb con· IDg to a!I this viiion 1fo did Nath:r ( s, kaod acco;d-
• ~ n pea to Davad.
cen: to myfelf; for the time of my being reveal·
ed, \Yith po Ner from heaven, is nigh; whl!n God JEREMIAH, Chap: x:~xiii.
to manife(\ his regard, will give me favor with
many, and influence all the people of London to I 7 For thus fays the Lord • D 'd fh 11
"lht a fi • avi a never
help me. . lfrael. man to tt on tlie throne of the Haufe of
· 1 am the prophet, that wiH be revea1ed to the
·Jews, to order their d~p·tnure from all nations, oiL tg ~nd tl4e W01·d of the·
Lord c J .'
-u, faymg, ame to eremt•
to go to the la1:d of lfruel, theh· own country . in
a fnnilar manner to Mofes in Egypt, hut with ad· 2o Thus fays the Lord • If
~tenant of the da • ye can bre:~k my
- ~&br,_ tber~fu~~1d ~~t (,"v.jnant of_!hc
1
dhional power.
I was an officer in th; Britifh · navy, and oe· aod that
tbelr feafon, e ay and mght
ccff.1rily fo ::dthongh I did not know it, that rhe
juclgrnent of Gocl- on Dlvid, king of Ifr:H~I, might ~~d ~e~ may r.lfo my covenant be broke witb
t>e ft~lfilled, which W:tll, that the fword {hould tore; n y erva~t, that he lhould not have a fon
never depart from hi'l houfe. tl.'- ~ nupon his throne; and with the L •
~:r~ellS, my minitters~ evltes•
It is fifte-:n lmnJrcd years fince my fami1y wa9
feparated frorn the J!w~, ,and loft all knowledge Geith .s the horl ot heaven cannot be numb d
er the r d f h . ere
.ofits _origin ; ~he ldlt on record iu :l~e Scdpture, IIIQI!iply the ;e~d :r tn: f~a mea~ured ; fo wHJ I
Ltluca that m1n1 . ·a Vld my Jervant, and tha
er to 111e, D
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z 3 Moreover, the won\ of the Lord came to

Jeremiah, raying. '
z4 Confid rel~ thou not wh.a~ this people have
fpoken, faying, The two fan11hes wh1ch the Loru
has cbofen, he has even can thetn off. Thus
they have defpi[i a my people, that they lliould
be no more a nasion btfore them.
z 5 1 hus f.ay the Lord, I n y covenant be not
whh day and night) and if l h ve not ppointed
the ordinances u heaven and' earth, ·
l6 Then l will cafl: away the ~ t:J .of J cob,
and David my fervant ; fo t at I wi I not take
auy of his feed to ()e rulers over !lie feed of~
br"ham, Haac, and Jacob; for I wtll caufe the1r
captivity to return, an~ haM m lCJ on them •• . •
t\ kuo~ledge of the Scripture, the prophec tes
I l1ave mentioned
. , and all ~hat 1 bave wrote be·h
:fides, have been c.ommunicated to me throug
viftons a d revelations from th~ Lord God: the
prophet Daniel, ~wd St. John tbe 8pofl~e wue
inflruCted, in the fame man ner, to wnte what
they ha;re.
lt is by the faving of multitudes; by reve'll·
illcr not only a true interpre tation of the prophe·
ci:s but alfo a koo wledge of the times, and
thofe fecret plrtS of tbe Scripture which are not
made kuown to any other man uud e.r heaven,
that the Lord God begins wit\t annoul .cmg to the
world a knowledge of his mighty Judgment~,
th~ retut n of !:is fom.er mt'''Y to th.; HeiJrews, _rbeJr
ri eedy reltor:nion to Jerufaiem, and the nfe of
a favorite fa!nily. ERS
RICHARD BROTH •
LoNDO~, No. 57, ppd:/ingtu'l Str et, (
ad t;j lh, 7/IOtdh ' i J ].I'IUP.r)) J 79 4•s
r 6s ]
[ 64 J repleniih the earth, &c. repeadng the fame afce'r
an aa of f~perftition a'nd d~luG&n, 1s indeed a~ the flood, to Noah and his fons: he never ordt::r·
tonifhing. But it is a part ~f t~at great cha1n ed,, nor never intended, the cruel impofition of
of errors fiili continued, whtch the Roman go- cehbacy. o~ his immediate fervams, nor any oth-
vernmenr: at a farmer period, . moll: wicked!y er defcnpuon of men.
bound its ~ople in all ?ati.oo , ~ut clerg)i Hl 1t is alfo ~n abomination to him, hecaufe in-
particular with ; and whtch ss pl~m~y foreto}d confifient. ~Jth the ddign of his creation, that a-
by St. Pau , in the fourth chapter or In~ ~rfi ep~f:.. ny defcnptlo!'l. of women, under the vain pre·
tle to Timotby, vede L Now the S?1r1t (·whzch tcnce o.fwhat u falfely called religion and piety.
is the Holy 'Ghofl) fpe~ks expref. y,"th3t.in th~ l.at· of leadtng a more holy life, of ferving God bet•
ter times flme fhaU rue art fr t the fanh, gtvmg ter, fhould be 1hut up for ever in monafteries, in·
heed to ieducing {phits and uottrines of devils : fuunanly deprived of becoming wives and moth·
ers.
1
: 'Spealdng lies in hyp~!ifyt having their con· I am commanded to fay, it is grievous and for-
fdences feared with a hot n o : rowful to the Lord God to fee n.:.tions, which ac-
3 Forbidden to marry, &c. knowle~ge him, oncl which have the whole Scrip·
The papat authority does not allow !t~. cle.rgy ture. to mform them of his will payina a blind
to marry, from a beHef that a man, .by llvmg to a an Jdolatrous obedience to lm~an ordinances:
frate of feparation from a woman, IS better qua• fuppor~ed by bad oath?, and finful vows, in dire&
lifieu to fulfil the duties of a prieft, more accep• opp.ofit,'Otl to what he defignl', and whJt ih the
table to God than a man that is a bu!band and begwnwg the covenant of his blcffiog prefcribes.
father. ..: td~ doctrine is an evident proof to e-
very difcerrling p~rfcn, that there is a great.de- , CHAP. XVII. CONTINUED
parture, or falling away; from the. t!·ue fan~ ; 3 s.o he carried me away in the .Spirit into
to continue then in the praCl:ice, fter 1t 1s exphun. ;he WJldernefs, (mCa1Ii1Jg ir.to the country, as ijjal'
ed and made public by Divine conn.n:.md, is p~e. inlandJronJ the Jea) where I fa \V a woman ( mem1 •
f:riAg darknefs to 1ight, the doctrmes of devils ) ~~g Rome)fit upon a fcnrlt:t coloured bea(l (m<'tW·
to the good wor<is of God : it is giving a willing he ~opeJ. full of n:.tmes ofblafphemJ, (hiJ titi..·J)
flec:d to the {educing fpirit& that St. Paul alludes ~~10~. fe~en heads ( Plludi,Ig w thr: j::vtll /liliJ OIJ
~ .lc~ l!Je crty jlu;zds) and ren horn", {illtaJ:ina tl;e
to. Chn(l, the Saviour of the world, who left
• his gofpel of the kingdom of peace for the direc-
CardmaiJ.) o
tion of all men, never made any fach diftinetion i t i And tbc woman was arrayed in purple and
for fome of his apoH:les were married, and fome , carlet colour, and decked with gold and preci-
were not :and he, as God the Father, in the be- eus Roue~, and pearls, haviu.,. a rru!den cup
ginning of the creation, blcffed Adam and Eve, D z o b
faying t9 them, Be fruitful, and multiply1 and

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~n her hand full of abomiMtloos, and filthinef:J of his ble!fed Savior, the Supreme Head of the
her fornicati'on. Chu~ch: a; fuc!1 he pr~tends, for it is oRly pre~
5 A11d upon her forehe:~d was a name writtcr. tfnt1on ,o Gece1ve the tgnorant: to be inf~llible,
Myltery-Babylon. the Great, the mol her of h~r · and to pardon the commiffion of (ln in others·
• lots (meani11~ that 01e as a '.not her .n:uod expolf~l •gain, as if fanftifiecl by the Holv Ghofi aml
tot' corrupting with her evll dudnnes many. cl· carnman.dec\. imr•ediatdy. from G~cl to i~pnrt
ties to the condition of harlots) and abomn:a· freely Ius m1ghry hleffirg and his mighty f[)it i:
\ions of the earth. ·~whom n: ple .. r&l' he ordains as it is callecl,
' 6 And l faw the woman drunk "jth the hloocl ~1010p:, laymg ~l3ntls on them, and faying at the
t~fthe Saints, nnd with she blood of the Martyrs la~e t1mr, rece1ve th~ Holv Gbo[l; he hkewifc
vi Jefus; and when lfaw her, 1 wonder~J, great· clauns the. pre·~minence of l10linrf.'l in his perfon,
ly ~d~onil'hed. tnd obe~1ence to ChrHt julris nctio s, above all
This Babylon the Grcf\t, this mothtr of harlots , tbe rei\ nf mankind.
flle::ms Rome; but h fl'}titua\ly called ~y thofe 1 here i~ no ID'!In fpiritual that is not fanllifi-
namrs as an 3\lt~fion to her exccfs of r,tlllt as a fd hy the Holy Ghol~, and no man is fanftifi('d
.Bahylon and corrt,ption of dcchioe a~ a mothPr, tbar ~eaches by his doctrines-or recommends
St. ]oho mentions in the tim~ ver .e,
' • _l I be
r t1at hy h1s prayerC~ oppofition to Chrill: the Snviour
'\Vas c"arriec\ away into the W~ldernefs to fee .llld difobedience to .his G:>fptl of Pe(lce; for it j~
Rome : meaniog by the words tdfJ the W:ll:r· through a~1d by C~rifi the bl~ffi·d Spirir, is gi\•en
71 rji. that Rome the city. h~ gne.s to. look at ~ h~·
1 ~at lantbfies, wlllch every man tll~t belieYcs in
· 1
uate<l 1n an .d · t\1.1° dercn·~uon
, . 1' r ts on·en
o to mal...e llint, and ob.eys his command~, may have-may
a dlfHr.Hion bet~(loeO it ard London, the man- p-n:~ke o} lls l' ltfli ng and fweets ; fome more
time Babylon, full of fh]p!i ~ fearnen anfl com· • a,'1 thwgs,
btl e 1er·s, 10 · !l and for all occ~Ho ll s, 3S'
mtrcr Olt'Otiont d in the ei~h t eenth chapter. he Lord himfeif judges prnper; btJt it will be
Th~ fcarlct ccloured bc::lft, foil of names of n 10 £'vfor~· man in fuch flltllciencv as to rnak~
bl:lfplH·my. with le,•en \leads. ~nd len horn.s, abunclJnt in know ledge, and t~ac;hiog him
mcanc: tht Pope-in this cb·qH~r o':ly, and ~~ot l rl rly the \vays of Salvation. .
·:my other part of the H.eve-latiOn. J'i the Po, e ~1- ~ may give to man a title, but it is God
)ncled to under t~py n~me-~r under any .figo,fi - tn~c c:~n make man fpirirual ; it is he aml
. l I', .,,,.., •. '1s D n1ne bnt Jn {}f f"
~anon '"' l;lteve . nel ..... nv . ~I!: !hat Cal) give the Holy Gho(l, the Di-
part; . whi~h is the fixteenth chapter and tmd- ~pn·n of Truth ; all other gi\·ers arnong
,He of the nineteenth verfe, • f nd, ,:~10 fay, " by the irnpofition of our
The Poile, in adoition to lns many names 0 t tc:cetve the Holy Gl~oft. wbofe fins thou
1
)llafphem/. likewife ttfium~ the P 0 "~ers antf org1ve, ~hey are forg1ven, and whn{e fins
l , err~atives of GQJ~ qlliug him!elft Inftead o. dolt rct;un, they are 1_erained ;'' are ~ut as

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fo many falfe Chrifls-vain p:etenders-blafphe· • [ 69 l
mouily endeavored to imitate the true One.
ft i.s f?r b~afphemy, idolatry) deceit, teachin
For a mt~n to attempt to do what the true Chrifl: rebellton agamU ChrHl, and for being a tl. edde~
on\y can, 1s :'lttempting an impofition, and ju!Hy l bJoo~ by war, that the Pope is called in the
couftitotes a falfe Chritt. For a man to kneel evelatJOn from God a fcariet coloured b ft.
down to a m:m to receeive the Holy Gho(l, and ·~der that dreadful name, thovgh knelt to a:adi:
then going forth by the authority of this falfe tme, and ex:~;Hed t.o. the heiglit of Heaven by ti-
Chrifl:; teaching and preaching under the name ~es, he fin~r dtJ.'Wn lr.to perdi!io1z; he is a fallen
of the tr~1e Chrilt, but in oppofitioo to his com· llao, and IS adjuilged by that already telHmony
mands ; deluded by an opinion that he is fpirito· !f Sr. John, to fufft!r the puoifhment of everlaft•
al becaufe his butmn maker impofed on hirn to g fire.
believe fo, when in Icality he is not, cpnllitutes 7 And the~ ang~l faid to me; wherefore didfl:
a Fal[e Prophet. :u .marvel . I wtll tell the~ tbe myftery of the
Thofe are the l<ind of people that the Lord Je· ' iii man, and of the beall that carries her, (mean.
lis Cbrifl: alludes to i11 the 24th chapter of St. g that governs h:r) which has the feven heads
tod ten horns.
Matthew, and warns the world to beware of.
8 The bea!l that thou faw, was and is not
There are many that preach and write under ad lhall .a~cend out of the bottomlefs pit, and ~
the name of Cbriit, "ithout being influecced by nt~ perdmon : and they that dwell on the ear~h
his Spirit, or Cllmmandcd by his word: for which 1 won~e.r, whofe names were not written in
obferve all you that love him, that rea<l thh book, bookot hfe, from th~ foundation of tbe world
that he will not give his bl~:Ged Spirir, which i.6' en th~y behold the bea(l that was and is not'
in~eed the Holy Ghofi, to any man exalted In yet IS. ' I
r vride and living under names o~.b1afphem~, pra~· A.War, oaths, violence and bloodlhed, in oppo-
iog for the fuccels and aggran(J)zemen~ of part!· con. to the COm:J~ands of Chrill in his gofpel of
cult~r men in war, l t the expeoce of ru1n and de· • ktngdom of peace, t~e~ belong to Satan and
!l:rutlion to orhers.-And yet, the Pope, to im· governruent of dark • ·•
prefs the mu\rirurle rol.lnd him w~rh revere~.:e
and awe is entitle{! Holinefs, tbe Vtcar of Chnfr,
Succefio; to St. Peter, ami is accounted infalli· 8 A • h d, • .
ble ; ·all fuch names are an evident demooftr~tion • • gam t e evtl takes him up :o an exceed-
of pride and fallhood; and a'> titch, he has ne!th:r. hJgh mountain, and fhews him all tbe king-
holinefs from Chri(\: in l.Ji& perfon, oo1· obcdten~o~ of the world, and the g'ory of rbem :
to the Gofpd of Truth in his aaioos. ~nd fays .to him, all thefe things I will give
Jf thou wilt fall down and worfhip me.
Thea fays jefus to him, get thee hc.>.nce1
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Satan: l'or it is written, thou fhall worthip the alluded to in this verfe as II , I
Lord thy, ~od, and him only fhall thou ferve. tary one: allndfd to in the eiw:lh as, the. fir~ mi.Ji.
lo IJtrdaion. . ·g verfe, go~s Jn·
The Popes having rofe to what they are, and J I f
eftabliilied their po'!Ver by' the fword, is the tenl~i And th~ ten horns wbich itl]ou faw are
reafon that God mentions 'in this part of there- 1 l , . bogs, whJ.ch have received ,;o kingdo;
velation to St. John, the beafr : or papal autho- 1et, ut recetve k' · n as .
the beaU. power as ·mgs one hour with .
rity, to a[cend from the bottomlef5 pit : in the
begir.uing they were great military princes, and , 13 Tbefe have one mind and fir •I . . h . ;
governed with large armies : out latterly thrir power and ttrength to the 'oeafi. a. gtv~ Cl r
power bec2me weak, b' their confequence fmall: areTJu:fe
co twod ve r.[Ies mean the cardmals,
•
who
yet notwithfianrliug, the va:n titles, pageantry er . b u.par~ . to klllgs • b . pow-
ln name j at not Jn
and military paradt', are (\:il\ preferved an~ dofe· lla;e ~ ty are great but nor i.ndependent ; they
1y embrac~d by the pre(ent. a great name bot . d d
~igmy . tliey at '11 ~o In epen ent fovu.
ors .b e ca ed, hke the German eleB:
CHAP. XVII. CONTINUED.
fevemh cha
bee r
t;
to t e F.mpe •
ror,. as IS mentioned in the
r r of Dame!, the horns of the beafr.
•
9 And here is the mi11d which has wifdom. au,e they affifi h p . ,
tod authority. t e ope wnh their counfel
The feven heads are feveo n~oumains on which
the woman fits. lbe14 1 hefe £hall make war with th L b b
The woman ineans Rome : and the feven ' La b fh 11 e am ' ut
mountaios or hills on which the city is built are oflordsm tlld ~· overco~e them; for he is Lord
,.ith l.' mg of kmgs ; and they that are
meant by St. John as the feven heads of the Pope. Thell.mp, are deal led, and cbofc:n, and faithful
to And there are feven kings : fi\•e are fallen,
pratt' our'"• ..an ca rd'lOa Js, by their teaching •
and one i~, and the otb,.r'is not yet con1e : and . and g?vernment, are in a llate of o ,
when·he comes he moft c1;ntinue a fuort fpace. pofi/u,
Jou to hrall '. t1 tat •u, t 1ley praCiiH: and c:nP·
ourag fl
The{e feven kings ,e~n f~veu power ul miH:
tary Popes : they are nommated king!. becaulc s,...e.,rl:~gtont~fP~~ tl~tir form of.g~vernment:
they were "Warlilte en, and in pther refp.;:tb trhlth Cbritt b r ' tile two prmcJpal things
governed with tht fword like them.
r . ' a 0\'&: all other~, probinitsfi •iu tlle
po llJvc term . It is for thi
11 And the bea!l, that was, and ii not, even he omuJands in the G0 {i I I s oppo llJoo to
is the eight, is the fame as the fevcv, and goes littd · as k. pe ' t lat they are re·
ar m.a 10g \\' ar againfi him ·
into perditiun.
This means the Iaft military Pope of Rome :
~ teHnJLted, through the pJtitll,t~
o ~dh, to ~o 1o, until he can Lear
for as the Popedom bas rofe by the fword, lly ' r WJI lhdr rebellron . when to fi I
the fword all'o it will .fall : and the phecy an d 1l!S •
· decreed jlldgment, u•
they
[
[ 72 ) Tbe GOSPF:L of St. MATTHEW, Chap. ~
I
wlll be enti~ely. cut off. Chrifl, as fupreme bead 9 Blelfed are the peace-makers, for they fi1~ll
of the ct\urch, acknowledges no religion bu~ ~h~t be called the children of God.
he has taught by his Cofpel, which is Chrdhant·
ty ; for there is no kind of chur~b ,but one, and ~kap. rJi: 7 Bot when ye pray,-ufe not 'fain re·
that is vifible man : it conlil\s of one perfon, as tmons, as the bellthen ~o: for they thinK tbat
well as ; whole congregation ; of one juft man they lhall be heard for their mucli fpeaking :
in a rQom as well as a million any where e\fe : 8 Be not ye th rtfore Jike to them ; for your
he came i~to" tne. ~vorfd to fave finners, andre· Father knows what thin gil ye have need of before
deem them from the chaios of eternal death : the je a& him.
blt fled Gofpel is tpe great bond of hjs pto~1ife'S, 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: "Oar
now put into tile hands of all men t:lat w1ll re· Father, who art in hea,·en ; hallowed be t~y
ceive it for tbdr infrriJttion ; for whJth, all that itme;
read or hear it, qug,ht to remember :heir folem.n to- " Thy kingdom come; thy will be dooe·
covenant in baP,tifm 1 and take care that. on t~etr 011 earth as it is in heaven," &c. . ·
part, the terms othis falvation are comp~1ed WJt~
To do which, man mull, to fulfil th! deugn of h1s The kingdom of God, which is afktd for every
creation, endeavor to live long, and live happy ; e this form of prayer is faid, is ro live in
to do that he mufr abolifi1 War, and live in con· ce and rigbtroufncfs: the governmtnt of God
fiant peac'e; be muft like ~ife abolilh [wearing of beaven 1 is peace: and hi• will i.a, that man Of\
every kind, becaule i~ leads to falfebood anj hfbould bave the fame. It it-prayed tor ev- ~
perjury : and make the mnocent words of Yes an 'Sunday throughout Europe; and yet to the
No, the folemn bond of his public truth. • • aibiog lhame of man, in a minute after he for- · '
The men that are called preachers ofChn(h• 1 it, forfakes th~ kingdom of peace, and fer·
anity, infi.ead of aifuming vain ~itle~ and lofty ntly prays te the fzmc compaffionatc God to go
political na1nes ; infiead of affi(l ng m any way ith H:cta and armies.
at councils of fiate they, ought to ltand between
vrinces aod war, between men and firife, be.. PApL to the GALATIANS, Chap. i.
tween nations and bloodfhed ; they fuould be
true teachers of the Golpel, and like the itnme· Grace be to you, and peace fro111 God tht.
diate difciples pf their bleffed Saviour, always and from Ollr. Lord jefus ChrHt.
1 the Minifrers of Peact.
tho we, or an aogtl from he~lVeo 1 pruc:a
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[ 7) ]
any otl1er gorpel to JOU than that' which we have
preached to you, let him be accurfed. 37 But let' your commuo' •
To prevent the de!l:ruB:ion of man, by war ant! and Nay, nay; for what~o~alion. be Yea, yea;
tlnfe. come3 of evil. ver JS ,more than
' faHhood, Chrill, who fl1ed his blood for the re.
demption of man, prohibits, in tbe mofl plain, • a8 ;Y e bate heard th:~r it h •
clear ana pofitive words, aJl k:nds of Urife, that 'ing under the law by Mofeb)as ht:en f.ncJ, (mean·
aud a tooth for a t OOt h : an eye for ~n eye '
it lliould not increafe to war; and alll~iods of
fweariog, that it fhould not multiply into falf· 39 But I fay to you that fi '
hood: Thefe two evils, enforced by Jaw, and
but whofoever Dlall (' • ' t bee ye 1re Ifi• not
h
evil •
'
mue 0
encouragecl'by religion, under the time of Ch rif· turn to him the other alfo. n t le ng t cheek,
tianity, ·and in contraditHon to the bletfed Gof· 43 Ye have heHd that it h b •
'pel of truth, are the two principal fountains tbat fhalt Jove thy neighb(n· and h as :en fatd, Thou'
lilf14 B tt I fa to . o ' ate t Y. enemy ;
eeluge the world with fin> and deprive heav.en them that cur~e yo~ ~love ~our enemies; blefs
I
!
ofmany. I
' , you, and pra for '•h o goo . to them that hare
]qp, and .P~rf:cute you~m whtch d.efilitefully ufe
St. l\1ATTHE\V, Clap. u.
45 T.hat )'e may b 1 clJ'ld · ·
TQ \Vhofoever therefore lhall break one of thefe
Which is in heaven. e t le 1 ren of your Father
leaf\: commandments, and fl1all teach tnen fo, he
fuall be call~d the leal\ in the kingdom of heaven
-but 'whofoevcr £hall .do and teach them, the
ST. J~MES THE .APJSTLE'
fame f4all be called great in the kingdom of he.l· CHAP, v.
ven. .
2 But above all thin ! m li '
~3 Again, ye have heard that it bas been faid IJot; neither b 1 g ' ~ rethrcn, Swear
by thern of old time (meaning the teachers form· •ither by an y I leavt'n, neuber by tlie earch
erly un<1e:- the Ia w) Thou lbal t not forfwear thy· lb; and you y ~t ler oai:h; but Jet your :Yea b;
felf, but Otall perfq;m to the Lord thine oath. detnnation. r ay, nay ; left you talJ·jnt'o c'on·
34 .But l faw to ypu fwear not at all; neither
by heaven, for it is God's throne;
35 Nor by the earth, for it is his footClool; ~HE GOSPEL o~ sr. JOHN,
neither by Jerufal m, for it is the city of tb, CHAP, XU. .
·Grent King. . ·
36 Neither muA: tllou fwear by thy h!a~, be• He that rejech rne and •
caufe thou canno~ inake one hair of it wlute or ' as one that .ud r : • • recen·~s not OIY
fltoken (whirhJ . g:!i Ghun: thf' word that I
black. ' '": o'P'I)
.. udav.
.lm in' ·the laU t f'
'h.. .tIe ame JllalJ

[ ;6 J [ 77 ]
·
PAUL's SECO ~'· , TO :tHE .,
. ND r:pJSTLE ~ng jullice for injury, by r~prifal and viol~nee,'
ST. THF~St\LONIANS, We all admire tbe Lord ~fus Chrifr for his hu~
mility and :;dfeltiou, the goodnei$ a.nd wif;lom
CHAP. I. {l •b• that: ureathes t hronghout his Gofpe~, and the fa·
to who are trouble~, re us;
'enAt~~ Ec;rljefus !hall be revealed from hea·
''0\J Wit
c:rifice of himfdf for our falvation; yet the gene .. ,
rality of the wmld, as if w1mindful oft his won ..
wh · · h ngels ·
veo with his mlg tY. a k' , engeance on th~m . derful iofiaoce of Divine love, not .only refufe
8 ln flalT!ingGfidr~. ':d t;h~t vobey not the Gor· what tryey promifed in, baptifm to obey, but lik:-
that know not . CJ ' .a . • \VJfe f!'t"k, by oppofirion and war, to dellroy his
J>el of o.l1r Lor.d Jdils c:.l•:flJ.ewos was the feal ~f falvation and happy government of peace, What
As cucumc1fion to ~ ~~ ·re of ohed1- does a mari require from his wife in marriage,,
· h Goo auu .promttl
their covenant wll. b. . '·r. 'lth ChriUians tb~ but to love and be faithful to him only ? . Would
• '-' 1 foJS apthm\V ·r f
tnce to u1s aw,
feal of their covenant Wit " r ' .
. h rhm and nromue
r
Q he.D?t be jealous, and very angl'y, iflbe obeyed
lll} comm?nds ·in oppofitiou to his, and honored
QbetHence to his com~a~d~. Chr i!lianity' fia ve another with the endearing name of bufband !
When teacher~, pro e I ng . ·,n the world, By the fame rule; all that are baptize-d, ~r,, by ,
• • and e tvatton covenant, comparatively married to Chrlfi; for
thetr mamtenance \' . 1 warlike govern·
d n g .. eat po attcn • the name of Cbrifiian implies a belief in bim, and
depen ent o . d fr \nterefted mouves
ment, ar.d w~\l:t to o~l . . ~~libit~, to add plaufi· ~n obedience to l,is words. Is it wife or ju{~
what the bltfied GofjJ P~ · -the legal and lhtn, to ol>ey a doctrine contrary to the COII}mands ,. •
bility to thdr dduftve ~ta ons, a'l m I 110 back. of thy bleH~d Lortl and ,ackno~ledg~d Saviour?·
f f ·eantlg oaths ; t tey c. 'f
r~hglOuS caJe o w[es f ·r ~ reredcntt to JU!t y
• • • r .Aad is it uot unkind in thee, 0 .man, to honor
to the .13 w ,of Mo ... {l The law was for tby equal with his facred tJame ! .
;heir apofrocy and c~nd~~· Jointed adrnin)f· A., a man calltnot, in jofiice, be ·cimfidered as a
the jews alot·e, !lndcrc t sle l Ill I s ·,.., their own fervsnr, atty longer than while he obeys the com.
rration of l I •~ I .evl. tts . at>l· t 'er , " n acknow· . !Rands of hia maHer, (o neither can a man, in truth
co~ntry; llt•tl·thde~,, when.tha?ge theiw ere bt regarcled as a Chri{Han any longer than while
ledged GoJ, ami fubnmtcd t~ ~~ rlt~~'. but' \\ht'n 1ae obe) 6 1 he com m1mds of Ch rill:.
tt!fo aJlowec.l t!tc f. 'ce(!om ~f lttsfo;n~le ;edemption Hear therefore-, all nationst . . what the Lord
Chrilt ·came mto the wm ' '· '. l was tempt>" Cod con1mands me to write, and be warned byJt;
• fmal', he aholillied the bw, \\G·~·ll~ 11: wltich is that, as a maUer is compelled to withdraw his
(TJ'VC the
ran: <.tlUl,:n •u~:: plac ,:a. .., 1 1' form o~;I!
,CH,PC aUowaflce of food, anc! difcharge from his 1ll0ufc:
, . 'fl ... he remoHl t te .
~·verlafhng; , l::\t I . , : . ,. •. the form of c~ ..
'
~tervant
11
chat will not obey him, fo wiJl be with.
woa Jhippit:g, (,otl by fac~.ti .. ~ ' l ' hat ot ubt;un· fl• his ioving kindnefs of peace, and in anger
iuo-
0
at tile ll'U\h by f.v.!ann~' Jm · ~ve from the face of tile earth, that man or
[ ,s ] [ 19 ] r
fan1i\y, city or nation, that will only ackno\v • • tbe people' will be chan ~a a d
ledge Chrill in word, but in FraB:ice refute to o• •ill be given to tl g 'r. ln anoth~r fpidt
f 1em; to 1U fil h • d
bey hi.s commands. · !0 God, according to tbis prOf\h
ecy.t e JU gment
R E V ~ L 'A T I , 0 N XVII.
.t..~~ "Bas not permitt~d to joln this dd"t"
CO~TINUED.
,.ua ook, when firfi . . • . .a l lOD to
this it was palfed prmtea, Which Js the reafon
1\nd bp fnys to me, the waters wbkh thoo faw~ ' · ed by tbe Lord . o~er: bot no~ I am command-
where t\te Whore fits, are people, and multitudes, the former part~~er:~~et~ and join it t~
s::nt
and na tion~ , and tongues.
16 And the ten bores (meaning tbe cariH'nals) LOHDttN, toth of tlrucHARDBRO
1e mont h l
HE
T R.S.
which· thou faw upon the beall, (meaning the
Pope;) thefe 01alll1ate the whore.~ (meaning Cilled. SEPrr:.ltBER, r 79.4• S . . .
Rome,) and fuall o1ake her defolate and naked, .,
and lhall eat her fiefh, and burn her with fire.
rfbe cardinals will difagree 'and quarrel ;-
then Rome wlll be convul1ed by parties: and
rlundered alteruately ~y each: {wbkh mean~
eating ber fltfu :) in doing this they will fet1 the
city on fire, ~nd almoft defuoy it. In due tim!!
aftt'r this, the latter part of the niueteenth verfe,-
in the ftxteenth chapur, will be fulfilled on Rome,
fpirirua11y Babylon, the capild of Italy : when,
by a mighty earthquake. the city, with the ground
it fhnds on, wi1l be lifted up, fhoo violently to
1
pieres, and utterly overthrown.

1 7 Jtor :God has put in their hearts to fulfil
bis will, and to agree, ·and give their k1ng,dom to
the beaO:, until the word$ of God fuall be fulfill·
ea.
The cardinals \Viti con;;nue in fubjecUon to 1he
Pope, anti agt·ee ih ~eir meafures ot governJUent, .
~Ring him 'a1fo with .their advice and p~wer
tmti'l the time alrudy determined is ~pned,
a
which is rrearl] fo now : that lime the nun as of

• A.
R:EVEAL·ED KNOVVLEDGE,
OF THE , PROPHECIES A~D TIMES,
PAR·J'ItULARL'{ OF 'flit::
PRES~N'f; TfylE, .THE PRr:SENT. ~AR.'
Containinrr, (with othe,. gieat and remarla .'e ThinD'J,

nrn· revenied to nny Mhet~ Pt1{tm on Bart( , thcfudden
ar1d per-petua~ Fall of tbe :furkifh, Gcmian and 'Ruf-
}iall EmpireJ. •
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WROTE U~DER THE DIRECTIO~ OF
T .H E L 0 R D G Q, D,
I f
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AND PUBLISHED 'BY HIS SACRED COMMA,"D:
It b(ing ajeco1Jd Sign or War11ing for the •Bmefit of

afl ."''ations. \ I •
By the Man that will be rev~aled t~ the Hebrews a~

. ·PROP liE'!•
THEIR PRINCE . .A.lYD
"

PRE F 4. C E. 'lleCtifary to adopt the r:1me l&nguage ~s t.he Sc ip-
~ I. NGTH of time, change of countries and tart does, regul~rly imitating itJn the words
govhdmentc, c:orruptwn of knguuge, and harly -ve, thee, and tlwu: b·1t God fpoke to me in a
t:r.pics i.n writing, before the more exact method tNien of the .night, and faid.!...Writc in the fame
of printing became .genenlly ufed, has bun the~ llllnner as 1 always fpeak to you: write as other ,.
means of not only introducing, without defign, IDeo do: write accot ding to t:le curlom of the
jnro the Htbrew Bible. an infertion of fome new :mntry you live io; you will then be b!'tter ~t-
words. bu: likewife a~ expuhion of fome of ttie &.erfded ru, and what roll write will be more ea·
old, which produces a cff~greement in lome fe\V 1onderflood.
parts, and makes it differ now from what it ori· 4 m~n that has been ,an officer in rhe navy, ~
gioally was in the times of David Solomon, and :bore Jmmediate anceaors hare been feparated
nc the commencen:ent oft~be Babylonian .e:1pdvi· em the Jews fuch a con!iderable length of time
ty : fom~ parts of the Englilh tranflatton ~re, •tto makt: them forget they ever belonged tn the
confequem1y, ~rro11eous: hut they are fa imma· ;ae,-\uch a man declaring himfelf openly to
1
tcrial, as not to affdl, in the leafl, the trn.th of World a prophet of God, the revealed Prince
inOruCiion. r:
its facrtd Records, or the tendency of its divine !Dotted to order the fi1drlen rcrturn oft he Hebrews
all ?~~ion~, ana gove_r~ them in the 1 nd of
The few parts of.the Eagli(h tranflatiol", whidl \._ ), Wtlt, With rome reatOil, r. allow excite
n 'fh - and doubt: but from the ' mul-
I sm infiruCted to alter in my writing.,, the pro· IIQth, auom ment
Jiriety will be allowed by every perfon that has 'Utd recorded tefiimonies I product", which no
clif~ernment to perc~ive, orconvittion to believe: tt er on ea ·h c~o, it ought not to prevail with
btyond the limits of my authority, for it is pre· ltperfo~ as a JUfl objection again(l believing
fcribed, l am not fuffered to proceed in any word 1 wnte. ' ·
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or in any way whatever. ~ t'or obfene~ fome hoaile profdiion ..was necef.
Tl.e following are the words which the Lord 1 for me robe eng3ged in, to fultil rhe recor·
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GoJ fpoke to me in a vifiont foor. after I was ud~ment on he fa t.lily I an1 dt:!ig1ied t!J re-
commanded ro write and make known his judg· Ill the feat of govrrnmtnt: therefore,
menis, (or the gocd of London and general bene• the certain proof~ I have aucl wHl con-
fit of all nations:-There is no other man under. bring forw~rd, with all the jufi reafons f
the whole heaven th :lt I difco;er the ur ,;s of 1 th_~ furpnze and douht, evt('rtaincd at
. tbe BiLle 10, and reveal a knowledge how to cor· g, ought to vanifh in as little time
n a: hem, fo that they may be rdlored as theY be requifite to read again the book whicl~
were in the beginning. but vourfelf. • tlie l!CC(>Unt.
Moreover, when ltJcga?·to writ.e1 1 believe 1' remembeor likewife, from the reco~ds of
'!hat Mofes was taken away in his in·
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~ancy.• and remained feparated from his brethren ted to order it, was the C'i'eator of the world m
ior eJg~uy years ; the ilrfl: fcrty .of which he was the dluiion of blood ~nd deUruttion of man.
reared m. th~ palace of the l<ing of Egypr, and e- . .
d_ucated 10 ~t~lt language!" cufloms of the country, FIRST OF· CHRONICLE5, Chap. xxii.
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1tl{e one ot 1ts O\Vn nauve princes : yet he was 7 And David faid to Sol{)mon, My fon, ~s for
reveal~d to the l!r'aelire~ as the prophet of God,
me, it ~vas in ,my mind to build a houfe to the
to order their halty Jt-p3rture from Pharaoh's Dame of the ·L ord my God. · ,
bondage, and afterwards to condua them to the 8 But the word of the Lord came to me fay-
Prom!iecl La1~d • I
tng, thou hart !hed much blood, and· haft mllde
'
. St uL, the ~on .of Kith, af1er being anointed

a.
1rcat wars: thou fllalt not build houfe to my (
name: becaufe thou hail flied much b\ootl on the
kmg 1 pr:ophtclc:d 10 compnny wilh 'othtr men, to qarth in my fight. ·
the great. ai~onilhmcnt ofall.that faw 111m. 9, Eeholo a fon fhall be born to thee, who {hall
I ' . ..be a .man of. rett, and I \Vill give h1m re(\: (ron~
DAvm. king of lfracl, the . greatefi favorite , all h1s enennes ronnd about : fot' his name lhall
that ner Goo had on earth, whofe wars. tho' l?e Solumon, and I ~~ill give peace and quietnefs
~a~y, 9riginated at hat time ,frvm netdlity and to lfrael in his ' dl) s.
• JU!\Ice _never ~ndertook, bt;t to preve~r the in- 10 He fiu1l build a houre for my name ; and h.,
n odu~bon of 1dnlatry, and prefcrve in tbe Iaod ftiall be my fan, and I will be his Father : aoil I
of lfrael a true unint~ttU!)tec.l worlliip of God, tvi11 eftabiifh his kingdom over Ifrael fqr ~ver ..
was a prophet ; and for whofe fake,. in remem· ,S.h MU E.L was not only a priell; but likewife
brancc~ ot his name, b,eficging armies were dcf·
principal judge ?f Ifrael, yet be wa~ a great pro·
troycd, and Jeruf;~]l!m fafdy dclive'n :d. Yet the ~bet. , ·.
great tnonarch, ,tl!is m.1eqnall~d favorit~, this pat· lsAtA i~ was a prince of 'the famiJv of David.
tern of mel·cy
.
to alll{111gs, and '\vho alone I of all I
and likewifc a p{Opl;et. . · "
m~~ un r heaven, p.ofiefled the efbu]ilbed n.ro·
EzEKIEL was one of the principal priefts.
nnlc of everlalling i1atifm<1l government, c3uU
jEREMIAH one of' the poorer; yet both were
not . (but the c.bjttlion did not proceed froin any
al1ke grea..t pcophets. •,
. charge of injuHke or fin,) for, being a man of
AMos was a poor herdfm~n of .Tekoa, in the
war, and ha\ ing fltcJ much blood on the earth,
nlthoug.b uoneLy the rxprcfs concurrt:nce· of the
lar.d of !frael : 1
~.~NIEL, a cap,tive prince i .Bab1,lan~ in.Affy·

.Molt b1gh, he pr:rntitttd to build ~t Jtrofalent a
: ~nd yet ~.oth were gr~at prot~hets. .
t~RJpli! of wor01ip for him: The great honor w<~S
D, vdrhout being accouutable to anyma n
~tno t_o Solomo•~, a king of peace, his fon a~d what he does, will fanfii(y, with his bldfcd
tmliledlate fuccefior ; fo ave 1 fe though neceffa·
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Spirit, whom he pleafes, however allonifitiog it
may appear, and however incredible to the Jelf·
righteous, that any perfon in preference to him·
I NLordobedience to the facred command of the
God, \,·hofe Servant and ,Prophet I am,
felf, lhould receive and· be co:nmanded to make I publifh this writing,that it 1113y be tranflated
koown a communication of ret.•eal!>d knowledge ;• into all languaget, for the information and bene-
fit of all nations.
but witb God there is no difl:inction o.f high or
low·,. rich or poor ; in his prefeoce both are re· This is the lafl fign and lafi: warning, I am
garded alike, when jufr ; and the Scriprurq a· cornmandtd to fay, that will be given i!J writing
bonnda with.many examples recorded on purpofe before I am t·eveal;d to the JewJ, when the com-
for after ages to imitate. mands delivered to me will be-to order th~m to
In the fc1me manner that a knowledge of the depat:t in gre'at ha{le from all nations, and go to
• GQ~1el and how to preach ir, ·was , reveal1d to the land of Ifrael: to repronounce the judgments
St. Paul, ~knowledge offutul'ity, and thofe parts ef Gocl, which baYe been fufpended hitherto for
of the Scripture I have conftautly mentioned, tny fake, and declare them ir~vokable.
were revealed to me. ' ·
,
.c. St. Pt:,·t! cwas tll•;:bt t1 lmor:.:Jledge of the Gojpel jJ Of tl:e Prorhecy wh;ch relates /I) tht pnflnl Time if
ttvtlatioli, and ii~/iru~'ied liia·:w~/e how to preach it, be- tht World, th~pr.11{ent :\Var, atJd th1 approaciJ.'
fore be coz.:ld le trl apOJ?Ie, 6nd j~ine4 to the minijlry of it:g ilhefs of 11/i Nations.
Chrifl. '
GALATIANS, Chap. i.
1 I But I certify to you, hrethrm, tbat tbe Gqfpei which THE PROPHET DANIEL, Chap~ vii.
was prea~ed of me is n1t after rnan; •
.u For I neitlm: receivr:d it of man, neither was I t In the firll year of Bellbnzu, kiog of Ba-
laughtit, but by the rt;:velati"' of Jefus Chrifl. bylon, Daniel had a drean', and vifio?s in ·thc
EPHESIA1VS, Chap. iii. J
ni!!,ht on his bed ; then he .wrote the Vlfiocs, to ,
z If Jf have heard of the dijpenfation of the grtW! of ibew the rubfiance of wh:tr they contair:erl..
God, cwhich is given me towat'd')'Otl: ... 2 Daniel fpake and faid; 1 fa\V in my vifiorr~
3 How tJJat by revelation he made luzown to me tht 15y night, and be.bo!d the four winds of the !lea.
' MJ.flery, ar I wrute bifore iu fiw words. yen !trove on the grt'at fea. •
4 Wherehy r:when ye read, yt may 1/tztkrjJand my kno"t.u·
kdge in the mJ:flery of Chrifl. 3 And jour great beafh came from the fee,
5 if'hich in other a.rsn was net made knattun to th~ different one from another. ~ ,. . ··
f•ns of mnt, as it H now rtveaieli tQ his JJofJ apojli1s ilnd 4- The firff was like a lion, and had e;~gle's
projhetJ by tht Spirit. • · . \\'ir.gs :· I beheld till the... w,ings were .plucked,
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fiancl on the feet as ~ mau ; and a 1nan's heart
to fubdue, than it might with re~f<\n be expeCted
I • W3S give'n tO iro I
1hat the greatc!l numbtr . would foon o\·ercome
The! lion means George the Third, the prefent
the leafi) and that many (lrong nations would
king ~f F:ngland ; plucking the wings of the lion, .(,
foon conquer a wea:K one : 6ut it is many •men
means taking away the power nf the kbg; nJade
fighting a.gain!l the Spirit of God, and (hong na~
fiand on the feet as a man, with a man's heart, '
lions laboring in vain with their blood and trea·
, mra .. his reduttion to the condition of other
fore to o\'erthrow liis judgmtnt.
men-and pofi'etliug fimilar thoughts . The . Lord God pe1mits this oppofition for' .
It is mo,re than twenty months fi 1 ~e I firfl f\lree years and a half, to fulfil the determined
wrote to the king, queen ana minHter of ftate
·to inform them f many~ things that WOUIU COOl;
tart of this prophecy on all that oppofe it; that
done, his judgments will take place, to punifu
to pais ; that the time \Vas nearly accomplifl1ed
man and lay wafie kingdoms.
for fon..e of the jllclgments'of ' God to lie made ,
m3nifeH, and alto that · this prophecv was fulfill ~ St.John, the apo!lle, in the nineteenth chapter·
ing; 1 befeeched them, in the mofl earnell and 'tftbe Revelations, a\}udes to the prefeut time
refpectfullanguage, not to join in the war on any ~the world, an.d means tlie fame things, though
account whatever, or. even encourage it for the ~1fferen:!y defcnbed, as the .prophet Daniel does
dealh of Louis the Sixteent h would be i~poffible in the feventh chapter; for which I am command·
to prevenr1 it was record(d, rand could not be ,:d to ~nfert a part, that al~ princes and go~ern.
avoided; the revohition in fraoce, and its con· Jllent.s may be publicly warned, that they may
r~~uences proceed~d entirely from the judgment ltnow the confequences ·of this war, from the
ot God to fu \fil th1s prophecy of Daniel :' there·
Judgnlent of God, will be~death to millions
fore aH attempts to o~erthr~w ~h~ judgment, and and everla!liog difirefs to all nations. ,
preferve· the . monar~hy by force, w'as oppoiing
what was ~eterntined in the Scripture ofTruth . 1.~. A~d I 'fell ~t his feet !o wortbip him, and
fuould mofr certainly take place. · Jte laJd to me, fee thou do lt not ; I am thy fel.
The afpea ot the war was ddufive,' tbe encou• low fervant, and of thy brethren that ha\'e the
ragcmtnts of fucctfs that' it ht:lJ out to princes teftiQJony of Jefus ; worlhip God : for the tefii.
were deceitful : but thofe encouragements ofae- mooy of Jcfus is the fpirit of prophecy.
lufioo were pe:t mitttd, to bring many nations
II And I faw heave~· opened ; and bl1old a
under the judgment of God, and punilli them for
the heavy guilt ol oppofing his decree~. '' White horf~ ; and he tbat fat OD him WaS Called I
1f OHIO} 113<1 UO rnore to figHt again(l: than a Faithful and True : and in rigbtcoufnefs he doth
few men alQne, or nations but ouc divided nation Judge and make war.
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he~d ·were many crowns ; and be had a name war again!l: him' that fat on the horfe, and
\HJtten that no man knew but he himfelf.' n_{l'his army. . .
• 13 And he was clothed with a vdlure dipped And the beaft waa taken, and with him
JO blood : and his name wu called 1he \Vord
lfe prophet that wrought miracles before
of God: , • with which he deceived them that had re-
14 And the armie~ which JJ.ere in heaven fcil· ef the mark of the beafr, aud them that
in
low.~d him on white horfes, clothed fici~ linen~
lpped his image. Thefe bn th were call: '
tjnto a lake of fire burning with brimftone.
whlte' and clean. · · ·
And the remnant were Oain .with the (word
• 1;he armies. a~e an allufio~ ~o . the pt;>wtrful in that fat on the horfe, which f word pro-
J~dgments of Goa, under ·what-or how many
d out of hi9 mouth; and all the io'A'ls
different forms their vifitation of death is made filled with their flefu.
on tl.le world. · . '
Danie/1 chap. , v~;. Corzti~~~~d.
· I) ~n~ out of his mouth goes a tharp fwo;d, ,
th.at ~1th 1t be lbould fmite the nations: and 'be
And, behold, ~nother beall: ; a fecond like
r: and it raifed irfelf op on one flde, · with
wJll r~le thCJm with a·rQd of iron : and hcf treadll
the wtr.e-prefs .of the fir~enefs and wrath rof I\ I~ rib in its mouili between its teeth ; and
t~Jighty God. · · · • thus Lo 'is, A'r.iie, devour much fl~Ch.
16 t\nd ~e has ~n his v~nure and on his tl.igh
a name wntteo, Kmg of ktog~, and Lord of lords.
ii verfe means the prE:fent emprefc; ·of Ruf- ..
She is according to the judgment of God in
17 An~ I. fa~ an angel llaot:Iing .in the fun ;
and l1e c!Je~ wuh a.Ioud voic~, (me~ning thon•
pbety; (Jecreed to fuffer neath' : and by
~ a~ informed it will be done by the
der, wh1ch 1s explamed in the firfl: book of Re·
, veal.ed Know~rdge) faying ~to aU tbefowls that s of man.
ily tn the mtdft of heaven, , c·ome and gather
After this I beheld, and lo, another like a
yourielvcs together · to the fupper qfth~ great
~ which ha'd on its back four wings of a
God. ·
the bea{l bad alfo four heads, and do-
18 _'That ye maJ: eat the flefll 9fking~, and
the fh!h of captatns, and the flelh of mighty was given to it.
men, 'IHtd lhe fieth .t?f borfes, aoo of them tbat
ftt .on them, and rhe flc:lh of all men both free Leop rd, means Louis the Sixteenth
France ; tbe wings of a .fowl oo its bac~.. ·
aDd bond, both I'Qlall-and great. '
19 At'd I faw the bean 1 asd the tlings of the
the eagle's on the lion, an allufi.on to
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The fall of this monarch from a throne, and -~~· the ;ilion reprefents.the Geiman princes as
afterwards fuffering death, , to fulfil thr. judg· ,'horns of defen~e belonging to the emperor's
n'ter.t of God ily his prophet Daniel, · was impof· htAld, I
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fible for ell tl1e armits of Europe to preven.t l~··levoured, broke in pircesj anu !l~mped on
equ,ally fcl as the decreed death of Charles the ·srdidoc with its feet-means the entire de-
Firfi, ldng of E11gland , whkh is mentioned by ction of tlie German eled:ors ; and the pof·
.St. John io the thirteenth chapter and 1bird ·on of their territories by the emperor: he
\'erfe of tl1e Revelation ; the dr:adly ~u, und h:i.?g 'inlhlellroy them, and allo fpread his dominion
/Jed!Jd, in the fame ver.fe, mean~ the rec:()t/C1) of rer Italy ; threatning at the fame time all F.:u-
monar<:hy by lh~ r~j/oratiou of Charles the ~tc• t.'l'e, and defpifiog its kings with their feeble
on d. ·iforrs to oppofe hint. Rome will fall under his
pbwer, and to wili.Venice likewi[.!; the former
7 After thi! I f1w in the n!ght vifions a ~11 be retaken oy the frencli repuulic, hut the
fourth bea·n; and be hol d ~ it was <.lreadful, and ~tter V:,ill be plundered and ahnolt de~royed.
~rrihle and {lrong exceed~ngly ; and it had er tliis, to fulfil the prophecy and the judg·
grear iron teeth: it(lt":VC!Ured, broke in pieces, ;!'nt of G?d be will fu~er dealti from ~lbe hands
1
and fiamped on the rdiu.•eJ meaci ng 1e el ec• :M~nan. • _
tors) with its l'tet; .it w i~ dJff~rent lr m all the The orders. ofthe emperor, in the Netherlands,
_beans that were feen bt:fore, and it had ten 1 that if the 'AL dlri.an army"fltould be ,defeat- .
horns. aird it moj!Jur~ly will ; for J am comm:tnrled
tt, as an example and warning what the
This great beafl', fo difFerent from the others, t'] !remiah was commanded to fay to · the
-lneans the prefent emperor o~ Grrmany ; the 118!1Jell1f.!rrs of Zedekiah; king of Jucbh : ,
ten horns, mean the eb5'tors, or princes of the . x ~:xvii. 9 YL hus fays the .Lord ; Deceh•e
empire. yourfdve::, faying, The ChJldeans willlu~e
In one part of this charter the horns are de· depart from us: for they iliall not de par~.·
nominated kings ; the Je~fon is, they raife ar· 10 ~·or · th o ugh he h:u~ fmitten the whole army
n1irs, go to war, and govern wi th abfolute Ch : ddea n~ th~t fi~ht againfl:. )Otl, and there
power, like them ; bu m>twithllancHng, tht·y ned l:iur. wounded""'men, yet they Jboulcl rife
all acknowledge the emperor as their chief, and very mhn in his tt>nr, and bum thJs.city with
under that acknowledgment of ft~bj trion are fo· '
lemoly engaged to deleod his empire when cal·
Jed on. Fot wbic~t to conc;eal the meaning of
the prophecy, until the ful:nefs of time c:omts
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ph~y of D~niel, may take ~their courfe, :1nd be of an · evil fpirh ; bocaufe his inclinations are
fulfilled,) to acknowledge the f4,rench republi«, baa ; according o all that I informed the king
and make an immediate peace on t!te bell: terms and queen of, in May a Ad Jan~ r 792: as he did
that Can beobtair.ed, the intere!l of other natioals I Ah<ib, king of 1frae1, to accompli(h his fall, and
will not be rouch cooiulted : .time, the threats the entire dellruaion of tijs faQii.Jy. ·
/ of a vielorffios enemy, and the perilous condition FIRST OF KINGS, Chap. xxii.
of the German army, will not admit the leaft de-
Jay.
The Englilh win DJarply remoRllrate againfl
this condua ; for which t'leir army, however.
incredible it may appear, to the Go1ernniem now,.
· will be furrounded, difarmed, and commanded
· to depar.t : but their General will be 9etainell by
the Au!hian ; and by revelation from the Lord:
. God to me, he falls to the ground.
The emperor, being tlthau.fied of money by
' the war, but ' havillg a large army at his com- .
· m_and, determines, now he bas made ptace with,
the French, and quarrelled, with the Englith_, ro ..
f'Xecute· the plan he has for fome time conce1v~d:
the hopes of being one day able to aceomplWi-
bis father .and uncle, llrange as it ":lay appear,
'\'.et it ismoft c~rtainly true, for lam informed uy
revtluion, conceived the the . faoJe defign, a,d
believed the attempt eafily practicable: when the
opportunity offered, which is-the redullioJJ of
a// Germany, ra:dtr thefole gfJ,vtrnment 'j hinifdj.
He btigioa with feizing . on the clectou:e of
Hanover and plunderin!f, it quite, bare ; after
tb1s fuccefs, his ambition ·~ r more ·extenfive do-
_,il)ion will rift>; it will now lead hi n boldty for·
"-ard to fubje& and dcvou ~ them all. t'or God,
to fulfil bia judgments, and this pro'1,hecy of Da·
niel,in chapter vii. will defher hill\ over, t? be
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the Lord will deliver it into !he kin&'s hand. '
13 And the melfenger that was gon~ to call · The Emperor's council wil! be fill_ed with the
Micaiah, fpake to h!m, faying, Behold now, the fame delufire evil fprrit:, that th~y may concur
words of the prophets are as one mouth, d~clarp . with him, ana polf-:fs the f:1me violent inclina-
ing good to the khl'g: let thy \vord, I pray thee, tion fol' war aud human ddlruUion as himfelf.-
be like the word of one c:!f them, an'.! fpeak that At this time a frdh decree will be 'flued from
wbich
1
is good alfo. ~ . . Vienna, commanding aH Germany, and a1I the
1 4 And Micaiah faid, As the Lord lrves, what p'eople onder his govtrnJhtnt, 11s he conquers
the Lord fays to me; that wil\ I fpeak : ' them by fire a .d fword, to offer folemn prayers
17 And he faid, I faw all Ifrael fcattered on up to the Lord God, for the further foccefs of '
the bills 1 a~;J · lheep which bavo not a fllepberd: h.is imperial maje(i}'s arms, the entire defiruc·
and tile Lord faid,- Thefe have no mafi~r: let lion ot his enemies, ~nd the prelerva·don of him-
them return every man to hie; hou!'e in peace. fdf: fiylirtg hir1l, ill h!afphnJy agai"fl God, their
t8 And the king oflfrael faid to Jehofhaphat, moft.Gracious, Jufl and Merciful Sovereign Lora. . ~
Did I not tel\ thee, that he would prephecy no · . The orher na tions of Europe, afr.aid a d rrem-
good for me, but evil? .l!ltng, will s folemnly ' i!tl plore the fame Lord
19 And he faid Hear thou therefore the word God for peace and fafc:ty ,' ag:iinfi fuch a cruel en-
of rhe Lord: I fa~ the Lord fitting on his thron:, emy, forgetting, that it was but a little time be·
and all the hof\ of helven fi:anding by him, on hts fore, they were praying in the fame firaio of blaf·
~ITht hand and on hi~ left. ~h~my as himfelf- to dtjh·oy their wemie.r, andgi'U~ f
focceji t? tb~ir amu ; to that very grJcious a.. d ,

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lO And tlie ·Lord faid, )Vbo will perfuade P:·
l1ab, that he may go Ut> and fall at Ramoth Gil· compaaionate God, who feale'd the redemption of
ead? and one faid in this manner, and another 11lan with his own blood, and ftrietly command;
faiu in t!.~t m:tnner. ' •· . d ~all nations> as his children :1nd people, to live
z 1 And there came (orth a Spirit, and he ~ 00 '"peace and brotherly love. '
before the Lord, and faid, I will perfllaJe hun. Oppofition i~ in- vain ; ·he goes through tht
22 And the Lord l~id to him, In what ~~r:· principalitie4; like a flood; . and collects in h1s pro ..
tl'er! And he faid, l w\ll go forth! and I wt, ~ : grefs a mlgl tf army. The c6urfe of the pro•
n lying li)irit in tHe mouth of all lllS.l)rophets.• . phecy is, l'hat he {hall conquer and dorl:roy all
qnd he faid, Ihou Oult petfuacle huu. an<l pre j·1ifiore hirn :-therefore he cenainly will ; and
vail alG): Go forth, and do fo. . . d G d ba~ ~'e away the treafure of maoy We3ithy cities
,q N'ow, therefore, behold, the; Lor "~ thY !~:wire. . .
put a 1ving fpit·it in tlic mouths llf all f tb~le n· 4f .er this, to finilh oppreffion, and fulfil the
°
l'rrphe.ts, and the Lord baa fpoken ev\ co · jnrlg01ent of God, the French Republi
" .c1n1ng thee, ' raifed agai~{l him; his ar?:y wi,ll ~e .en·
overthrown m Italy.. aod h1mfetl · ill be
• E 98 J
I C!Ompelltd tO {eek fueJter among the V~ry peopJ~ he witl oppofe the.Emperor,:nn•l likewife follo\\f
whofe relations he deltroyed, whofe to'.vns he his example; by \t hich hiq dominio9s, tf) fultil
plundered and ~urnt but a little time bef<Jrc.- the prophecy, ~l be enlarged (comparatively
'fhis is Franris, the prefent reigning emperor ol for a moment onJy) by the addition of th;re e-
Germany, who is defcribed in chap. Yii. ver. 1· lectorates, when the Bear, ( meanirg Ruai1,}
of the prQP.hecy of Danid, as g:eat; (hong aml watching for the opportuuiry, •wiil rij:: and dt·
terrible; framping under his feet with conttm~t ~our Pruffia at one fide, while the E,npero ·de-
and' dellroyihg all the princes rr.i.lnd him. H1s ftroys him at the other. His armie .will he de·
ambition will fncreafe with his dominion, and · fca•ecl. aud his capiraJ fet on fire by the Bear;
his conque~ will be fo ;vonderful for a !hor,t ti~e, bis life will be taken away from the earth, and
as to make all Europe tremble: h's end is 1mie· bis monarohy, to fulfil rhe evertafliog decrees 0f
table ; and as he treated others withput hlercy, the Lord God, in the prophecy of !1aniel, will be
' 110 mercy will be ilrewn to him. · His death, by ddhoyed ; uever, never to ~e re ftored ar.y
the hands of man, is certain, becaufe decreed ; were-.
and .h!\ puniJhment everlafling, b~caufe rec.ord· . Ruffia will affi:l the Emperor in the begi11 · · ng,
ed. To be related to him now, wtll be conhd«· to prumote her favorite ddign of dellroying the
ed hereafter as a capital crime. TurlciUt empire ; fhe wjH alto qo~rrel with the
l>oles, ana devour gr.!at numbers of th, m ; \Var·
DatJicl, Chap vii. cotztinued. fa\v ~ill be fet on fit•r, aod the government en·
8 I conUdered the h~1s, and bebold there , l:irely'changed. t this time the I~ufihn army,
came up among th~m anorber Httle born, before (or Uear,) as if impatient for its food, tv r.f~ .-md
whom there \~ere three ot l h~ firfk horns plucked dwrm, umch jifb, will cnt<'r 'Iiurkey, a11d compa·
up by the Jroots; and behold, in this horn were rativ~y fUI) over the land ; treading down;
eyes llke the eyeS of a man, and a mouth fpeak· ~nd devouring with great fury, dl oppo!ition in
iog great things. · . Jts way. AL the capital it Uops ; here a:c hs
This little horn, that grows great, and become• clecreul bounds ; no farther it mu!l go. Here
fo ambitious as to pluck up three of the oth~r the RL.ilfian general divides 1he fpoils of many ci-
horn~, to extend his own. dominil>n. is ~he pr~fi ties with hi"s army, ~md the rich pt•ovinces of
, ent King of llruffia. ·(He ts one of the ~~pen:f Turkey bet ween hh officen. Here he ddi>ifcs
. electors, and to fulfil exattly what the vJhon~ the oath offtdt.dity, and throws away tbe flth,mif-
God dcfcribe him to be) he confidently calls l1111l· fiotJ of.1 l ful~eB:-procl.timlng bimfelf En~pcror
ftlf, in great words- The preponderating ~ero· fGre ~ce. •
ber ofrhe Germanic body. ht Aftf · this the ·Swede will enter RuffiJ, anc! Jc ..
The king Qf J!ruffia~ will acknowled~e . ~ . wlth great fury ; evtn the !hips of w~r and
French republic', and alfo make peace w1tb lt'
. . la.l will not ef~ape. :I~ he R~l!iaa empire ·
l ICO )
• 'E I OT J
!fm\\ter, the H?rJC ( m e•ning the king of Pruffia)
~ill l'e convulft d in many .parts hy its general; ; 'Would be the allotu:d man to accomplilh it: for
and goveruor.., ead~ r.ifiog np in his plate, anu th7 mean.ing bf the prophecy is, that he. 01all pre-
tlaiminn- an autlu 11ty to comma.vl the othtr: ·vall ngamlt r'rance for three years and a half,
they wlll finht
0
umil great JTlUiritudes are dcfiroy· v ·b~t net to conquer the whole : he would have
cd, and the country made defolate. :fhe imp~· 1 fa~thfully kept with his army in ~~ranee-, the pro..
rial family· will aH Le cut c1ff, and no fuccdlor · , mtf:s he made with his mouth on entering it ;
will fo.r ever after atifc ; the Government, at wh1ch were to ddiver over the towns for pJun" I
the fame time, will bl! broke to pi.:ces, and ut· de:, ~nd the people for death, if he was oppofed.
·rerly c1iHolved ; never, never to be rtl~ored any It 13 for this that he is defcribe~ by Daniel, to
more. have~ mcttth [peaking great thingJ and 6/ujph~mits.
The Spa'nilh Monarchy will ceafe by this war All thH; \Vould have be.en permitted, becaofe re-
:md the Stadtboluerfbip of Be•land wil\ be cut corded, to fullH the prophecy; to-haflen his O\VR
otf clore to the gror1nd ; according to the vifi~ns defhuCl:ion, and tbe general fall of European
of God to me, in 179'2, and which I comll!untca •. ftllrmarchy. '
tecfiar tbat time bv his iacred command 10 the The Dutch will acknowledge tbe French re'.
king ami queen of·E gl:u d. · public, and alfo make a hafiy peace with it; tke
The ki 1g of Sardinia will be c:letbroned, and_ 1
1 ortuguefe \lill do the fame.
the Popedo'll dtftroy~d fa rever ; according to
the rev.elation of God rome, and which 1 cummu7
• nicJtec1 to the Englilh prim minifter be re ~he .
war with France was enterecl into ; cr.ndu~ll1 0
what l wrote ~o him with tbcfc ;v'onls-lt is\~ · TO THE K!NG AND PARLIAMENt'
all the mtvy of England, nor the armies of~~~~-. 0 F
rope uniteJ 1 c:Jn r.revent th~ ldng of ~ardmta
irom being ilethroned. . . . G R E A T • B 1\ I T A l N.
The death oj thr1 French kwg, as one of the par•
ticular number, mentionetl in the \eventh ch~p· HEAR what the Lord God additionally ray!
1~r of Daniel, decreed to ~lie, took plan·, to h.1~· to tne uy revtlatioo, and commands me to write
fil the pre.Jetermioed jud~ment of_G~tl b~. tiJI! -France fr iog England left alone, deferted by
prophet; the monarchy ot ~·ranee ts Haw de. by •ll her allies, will recraire, as the conditions of
the f:11ne judgment, abolifl1eo for evtr, an_d tlte Peace, an acknowledgment of the republic, a re ..
pnfent form of government e(\:ablifhe'J. 1 hered Aoration of the colonies, and the fuips taken a
fore marvel no more that it cannot be cqnquere l •1 from Toulon. For a lhort time he will oer
by all the armies '"ithout, nor deflroyed by al F J, . •
tlie cttmutotions whhin ; if it co~.ld, b~ humaa
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rnit England, as he will Rrjfia anJ C r-manr, to :rrchy; anci fro m. the coofufioo it will m::~ke
fucceec\ in the acquifition of d ~lufi v e cor.queft, ., th.t oug~'our the. country, involve almofi: every fa:
but it is the better-the more efft-d ual, aud more w1Iy ot weahlllu beggary and death.
imperceptihle to human forefight, to accom.11i 01
hls jLJdgmeot on her, acconling to the prl)phecy Are yo11 , Wil Ham Pitt, to whom I wrott in
flf Daniel and Revtlatiun of St. J ohn ; after that M3y ~ nd J •ne I 79 2, informing you of the con-
1hort t!me is expired, which j:, nearly {a now, fequence~ Jf ~his war to your country, when the
new en _mies will rife up, fome warri ng :Jgainfr war was not JOf cnded, fo inff-di ble to . our own
her open)y, others pri\atdy : all will prevail, preft:rv ?tion and the be nefit of your b~other, as
un tilfhe that fits now as a queen among the nati{; n>, to ~ ont m ue any longer a war that will involve
is according, to tbe vifion of Gcd : in my fidt bl1ok, b o t~ ) oo 'and hi~n :ncer tain deafh ? What I ac-
. w iLhout a cow: ring on her head) worn threat1- •quatntu! yo.u wi!P in I 79 z, and often fince, was
bare, and rent in many pLaces. 111ade k.\o ~ n t o me by vift ons aJJd rcvelutio,, s front
the Lo. u ~orl . The de.2th rf L ouh XVI. and the
'Viii England contin ue this war any longer a. removal ot the Et~glilb crown from the kinO"'S
gainfr a peo ple tbat have the jLldgment of God in bead, to a leve l \vith th~ g~ouod, according ~ 0
their favor! Wiil lhe by a t.:ontinuance of the the fe venth cha p.t r of Dan rel ; the fall of tl1e
l)re!ent war again!~ Francr, eater in ..o. another, queen's pa ace, and the deftruction of the Tow-
for the fafery of Hanover, againl1 the Emp -ror ~,. • ,you r ow11 removal from admini!lntiun, and
. of GerCt~Py, who will be rendered iovinC' 7\e fur af~ envards de:ll h, was among the things \vhich
a tin1e, as a ,~:c,r~rgt!, to fu11ll the record ed j udg· ~ ..m:orm~d Y•J u of would certainly come to pafs,
lnCnts of God? \\,'i}! n~!.! ~onrinue lhis war ;l(ly l:, me e;:;l C~!:fequence of tb1s clelufive war. 1\lv
longer for her c.lt'hua.ion, that il!>! u1ay tnter i t~· nccount to ~: ou tht n, of f:!turity, conduded with
10 a fr 1h one wi th America to hal\ea it !' · . ~ th.: thcf~ wortls : - '• The vifions are el!ablilhed ami
kir g of England fo n gardlt!s of pis own life, and lhe things mentioned moft.;ertain and true.:'
the ertlervation of hi s fami ly, :ts to invoh·e ~henl .,
· \Vhe'n I infcr'med you that England would en-
witli lumfe!f in cet·tnin mifery and rleath, by a
ter int~ this ~var, ant] the conh:quences which
]on get' continuance of this war: Is tbe goverr. •
:Would , ll1 defpae of all your efforts flow from it
IIlC t, the parliament, tht cltrgy and pevpl•, fq
· infl nfible to tht bldiings of peace, • .d th e b.1ppi·
~CO'i d~Jpij(d me; for at that time rh~ war was no~
Jntended; and to tell of evils that would moO:
nels of fortune, as to pterer tbe ahfdu te ct r tai nty
certainly enfue from a thing, whe n the thing they
of lofing all they l'ofl'-fs, and bei ng drth oytd
Were to proceed from was not de(hucd were to
themfelvt:s, 1o fupport a wat· which, in 1ts confe· 6
queoccs, to fulfil the judgment of God; is il fign~
you tbe effec1s offolly and deceit. ' ·
•d .1lull throw down, f\Jt e~er1 the E:1 glifll n~on· ~ly knowledge of future thingc; is gjven me
r 10 .. ]
[ IG) ]
from God ; therefore wbat ·t wrot~ was true: A
little time looger, and England w1lt be fo m~ca ~owirg, and 'cquaint tlie oiemhtrs, for 1heir own
~ntttng,led as not to be able to g;o forward \"ft~h· p~rfounl fafety, and the general benefit of the
·out feeling the pains of that colomaJ eonqueft wl~telt 'COUntry- That the time of the orJd w~s come
., is to be the caafe of ber deaih ; nor to ret1re, to f~lfil the fevemi1 chapter of the pl'O}'hecy of
; without falling under that foreign blow, whicll .. Dante~, and fome of the judgments of God in
will break the emp\rea in ?ieee~, and throw he~· the Revelation ; rbat the denth of Loui~ XVI.
· {elf .!cwn on the ground ; ~rom whence {he ts
11ever to rife up any more.
he
and ~be rf volution in r'ran,·e, for I perpetual
!ddhuClion of irs monarcl:r, wa decreed in the
Scripture of tru.tb ; ann WOtlld' ~o:aio!l: all hn-
Neitl.Jer e~il C;tn bt prevented, ~nd both will man oppcfition, moft ·rurely take ~lace; To in-
take pl~c~, to fulfil the i 'tdgmer.t of Gsd, ac.cord· form them that the war, lju!l goir.~ to be co•n·
iog to t.he prophecy of D:-.nlet and revel:\tlOil of ~en ceo, by Prufiia ai,Jd . ~1Jfi!i.1. <:t~ai£ln France.
St. John; unlefl what I ·write is be i~ved to be tru.e, .W:JsJ the very war alluded tn hy ... St. john. in
-and the ad:~ice jlr:Biy fc!lo ·.vcd. Flv~ts ~r.d a~m· lhe Rt:velation, ch:Jp. xix. which God cailcJ
ies are great th-ings to talk of, bec~ofe ternble a W?r :1gainft himi~lf ;--bec;mfe)t · went to
to dellroy mankind ; but when oppofed by the opnnfe his decree~; and becaufe it would he
power of Heaven, they bec·OI~ weal~, ~h~y ~fe to
to Efron of l. . i11g., overthrow his unnltera-
their force and terror; for mofi of thole .o c.ll· ble judgm~nt. l w:n comnt:mdcd tl) advit:'!
rope Hedefrined for the rocks and flames: T?ey th~!!l, as l wu the /lin; and m:ujkr of flat!, not
ue permitted to conquer a liule for a fuort tlll'!e to join in the war; or cv.cil encouz c;,ge it on :lllv
now; but it is, like Ruffia and. Gcnmmy, to h~f· lt~ount wlntet·cr: To intiJrm th~rn oft!Je a·;.
ten that dreadful fall of human government wh1ch P;oac.hing fall ~>f mo1 at·chy in Earore, the gr;·~t
will foon rake place io the world ~ for tlley ~v· dsftrc:fs this war would be prodntliye of m •
er ha\•e been, in lhe h'and of God, the very 10· ttl n~ti.ons, liot parti~~llarl~ to thote rhat eng 1 -
firuments to effect what princes ddigned to pre· ~d rn u ; and hkewde to mform them of their
venr. •n fud<ten f: It in the jaws ofrhe cn'rth l)y a
•l't·dttermi~ed elrth<tu~Jn~, ac'totdiug tu ;t}l•.:
On the 1 zth of the month c;31led May, I79 1 , ~gment ot God, in cha(>. ~vi. ver. 16, 17, 1G,
I wrote to the king, miniller of fi:ate, and fpeal\· f 'of the Hevebtion :•and laltly, to intreat lhern
~,r of the commons, that no perfon fuoold be nckno\\·l~dge this gr:1cious commuoica~ioJl
able to fay hereafter my conduct: was irregu· God, for their tgh of life ar.d blefiiug, by
• f'orm. tl1elll
' leall difrefpetl:fol, to 10
tar or in lhe
tba't l was commanded, by the L~rd God, to ~~
1
to
ience bjs od advice.
ro tlle Parliament fiosf~ on the. ienntetotb f at the door, on the 17th, ·I infonnt'cl t
by a leH~r,. th;rt I waited, and W411
J.
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readY, ~o communic.ate ~u that I was comlna!'IU· weak iaeas or political ·motives. No·, my know-
ed. Jn a few minutes after a mdft!nger return~ 1d • ·
e ge n glveu from God ; 1 fee aJl thing~ now
ed, with my <lw11lttter, who treated me, in f.Jch as they truly are; and kno\v their confeqoences
a pttbli.; fl,ue partic,tfariy, whb uofeeli11g con· to change them to what they really will b 1 :
tempt and incivility. The ,Lord God fpoke to after. , e 1ere
me in{lantly~ on being &rde1·rd to go about n1y .
. 1 am .commanded to keep no company' and
bulinds, and faid-Get away, get away from hve rettred; that I may avoid the' te .
this place ; be nnder no concel'n, it was not yon or porttJca
. 1d'fcJ cu ffiIon, or an(. other :ugument
ruptatJOn
that
tbaL was tiefpifed n~d ordered away, but mt>, in Would create auimofity aria flrife. ~
your pedon, that fent you.
Soon arter my return hom~ I \V aS in a vifiol&
,.
---~-~ ~
and raw a large meafur iog rod mo\'e throu~h ~~---
the flreets in great haHe, and (hike m.1 ny of the
hoofd as ,it paffed, mark1ng them for lhtir ap· The ?"wo Parts of the ~evefati~n to b~ ft~~'i!led on
proachiog fall. After this 1 was made ~ o l oa~ London a11d t.Sr: Engl tfh Parliament . . _,.
1? th e Jud'KTtJenl o.;
..1-· , acccruL'lg
c;,d; bur are inwudialt!IJ
towards the Tteafiery, whih~ the Lord God prot·
nounced, at the Lmc time- AI!Jhatfid~ fhaltfa l. Jufpend::d fqr my Et.tre~ . .
lA nn inll:ant, the ~ hole place was covered with
thicl~ darknel~ ; it r~emed ro be everlafiing cl n k· .Cha~. xi. 3 AND I will give power to my two
nefs; darl{od s that lhould nevet· be ~emovecl ' : WJtnc:iles, and they lhall prophecv a thoufand
And, again, he pronounced, in quick words, a.s if two hundr~d and threefcore c.lay; clothed in
fackdotl~. '
difplealed -The w~ole ilia II fall.
The informatio!l, ~sw ill be plainly feen by th~ 4 Th~~e are th: two olive ·trees, and the two
chte, w3ich fg~ ve to the king and m~~ifler td jlat(, ,. candlcfbcKs, ~and! Jg before the God of the earth.
with what 1 was coom anded to offe r to the par~
Han1ent, \''as not only befor e the pre fcot wa r wilb The two witmffi.r, the f'UIO olive trcu, :tncl the I1.UO'
.~·ranee was e~nered into, bot alfo fame leng'h of ean~lcj!tch, m('an the fame two parts of the ever-
time before it was intendtd: therefore no per· ~jlwg Gofptl 'j Sl11vatirm, as they are Wrote by
fon can fay, with ju(\ice, that either my conduCt r. Matthew and Sr.J ohn; which are the tw~
in obeying th~ pofiti~•J c mands of &od, or mf »poll/a and proper witudles of Chrill.
end~avors to preferve pt c~-to pr(!ferve tb 1' 1 , d'lhis explanation alone .• whi:h has never been
country from the many evils it has now to en• I covered to. OilY be~ore, is fufficient to frrike '
counter with, 'according to the determined judg· man ~•thconv z&ion, lhadllldies the Scrip-
ment of unerring prophecy ; qrigiL'ated fro!U and beheyes in th: Spirit of God 1 that as,
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[ 108 ] I, And after three days and a half the fpirit

of life from God entered ioto them, and they
this part is true~ the others I have, and fbal] con- ftood npon their feet, and great fear fell on a J!
nantly mrntion, are equally fo; and that a kno\T• t.hat fa w them. .
ledge of the whole comes directly to 1ne from The three days and. a half, mean three ye;~rs ·
the Divine Ceiug. 1 and a half; a'nd the pref~ nt is the time of the'
_ Ac. the ey£sof the blind cannot be openeel, nor Wor.ld alluded to by St.John~ for unti I the pr~>fent
,the Iick h~al~d, but by the immediate . power of War, of ttm~, times, and the dividing of ft71J~, which
'God ~ fo nehher can the prophecies be trul)' ex- -is three year~ and ~half, accorrling ro D<l niel,
pla1ned. bu~ hy regular iriUruB:ion from 'the fame 7rl. chapter, alfo is expia·ed, the two parts of the
.11/migh(v. B,itJg. hldfed Gofpel will lie dead io London, and over
Head diligcntfy ~ hat t llowc, and by the in· Europe like wife : after which, a prophet, ( myjelj)
formation corte plate on the mighty goodnefs will be revealed to the world, with figns and the
of God, for re"ealit1g a true l\nowlcJge nf his Dlighty ·power of fire fvQm God ; the two part~
propl1tcies in fufficient ti01e to implore for mer· Of the gcfpel· of falvation will then be revived.
cy and fatte a cit;· \'Vith tmdti1udeJ cfi people, re· (For my d~ftgnation if, and th~ comm·wdJ of Cot£
co~detl to be dtllroyed. · tom.: are, that I jha!l wjlk through the great tho·
raugh-fare·Jireet of the city, to r~ pronoun&~ fiJ judg-
7 And when they .fl1an have fi.nilhcd their tef·
W,ents, tmd ~eclare them irrevaca6/e. .lls a t ~Jjlimo•
timony, the beafi: tba' afcends out of the bottom•
.ny from God that th~y have bem fifllemf'!dfor tr..'l
lefs pit tv\11 make war ~gain{\ them, and will over·
fa~e, but are now commauded to be f;,~~·.led, b:cauf~
come them, and kill them. h:s oj[t:r: of mercy have been defpijed, and hi1 mcjJ.71~
8 And their dead boc!•es lhalllie in the (treet
gr:r treated as fa!fe. lam tFJ take the rod, 11.1hicb he
of the great city: which is lpiritually called Sod-
ordered tilt to cut irr I 79z1 and throw it 011 the ground,
om in ~gypr, where alfo our Lo:J. was crucified. ~»he1: it will b: changed mfo a fe pmt; to take it i11.
This great dty, mentioned here, means Len· my h:~ttd a_~ain, wh!tJ it will b1 re.. chmtged to a rod.
don; her l rect.\ are full c~f profiilutcs, and !ll.a- The~ eople of London will then tremble, and all
ny of her houfe$ are full of ct'i111e1. It i& for nations will be gre:atly af1 ~id, when they hear the
fuch exceeding gr~at wid~wnef5, that St. John dreadful c9nfcquenccs for neglecting tl.eiU fo
jpirifu,z!ly ca!l!i Lc'JJdon, in this chapter, by ~he long.
11ame of Sodom, ~nd infers, from the tolrrntiOn 12 And they heard "::1 great voice ftom heaven
of fo much evil, that t.he two witndl~s of Chri~ J {meaning thtto.:k.-) aying to them, Come up hi~
1h'nt the two apof\lts, Sr. 1\'Jatthew and St. ~ t~ J\mlthey afcendeJ up to htaven ia a cloud,
Jc~ hn, fpirirual!y HP.refented ~ ,the t\\ o. pHts ~ldt,heir enemies beheld the.m.
of the Go!iJel, which they wrote, tf1at their two G
bodies lie clc~d- thrown out in the fireet-
tnmpled unutl" lhe, foot of vice~
L IIO J [ HI ] ,
13 And the fame hour there \Vas a great earth· of the rife, pt·ogrtjs, and perpetual fall of lbe En ..
quake, ar.d the tenth part of the tity felJ, and in gljb g'~t:rm!JefJI.
the earthquake were fiain of men feven tboufnud,
and the r~mainder were affrighted 1 and gave glo· 13 And I faw three UQcle3n fpirtis like frogc;
ry (meanmg honour) to the God of heaven. come oat of the moutb of the dragon, and out of
The recordlfd j11dgmcd ofGCid, accorl.iing to this the mouth of the beaft, and out of the mouth of
lafl verfe, is that London, for indeed it is the ci· the falfe prophet.
ty meant, {ball be vHited by an earthquake, and r 4 For they are the fp,rits of devils, working
a tenth part of it deflroyed ; in that tenth part,. mi~;:cles, which go forth to tl1e kings of the earth,
about feven thoufand perfogs will be killed. and of the whole world, to gather them to the
When the people fee this~ ·they will be convinced battle of ~hat great day of God Almighty.
that it proceeds from the great anger of God, for The thtrtunth v~rfl means the proclap1ation if·
defpifing his offered mercy, and treating his rnef· foed out by the killg and council, to a!femble for
fenge1· ill ; then they will all be frighter.ed, and the laft time the•Eogliili Parliament; they are ro
will all believe : Then the city will honour him meet, but are never to feparate, that all things in
by infl:ant nfonnation, and ail the people wi!J int· this .prophecy relative to tl.... m may be fu!filled ;
plore bim for pity. :nd in the :.tllotted rime wiU, according to the
Lot was laughtd at, and the dar.ger def]Ji(ed judgment of God, be dt:Hroyed by an earth•
by hisfons-in Jaw when he {aid to them, " Up quake.
get you out of this ?lace, for the Lord will de· Reader, confider attentively what I write, and
Uroy this city." . Sod om was burat and they p.e-• remember that lin is alway~ committed by man
rifhed. through the temptation ofSatan, (fo1· there is no
The ki11g of Nhuvah, altho' a profeffed idol· man on rarth that does not do wrone: at tim~,
ater, and ·imrnerfed in wickednef~, believed the neither is there any that is not a finne~ ; look at
judgment of God by his prophtt whfn he hearrl the words of Solomon in bis prayer when the '
it, without th~: additional tcj}imony of fcriptural ~vi· T~mple \~as dedica~e~.) Thi ~ proclamat1on then ·
l.r!nce: he immediately humbled himfelf, refor· b lllg bhlphemoos, IS 111 the J'dme manner dirdl:ed
meJ, at,d entreated for mercy ; by doing fo, the by hii l'ecret :\nd powerfol influenct".
city was forgiven, .1nd all its people faved. 16 And he (meaning the kinrr) g~thereLI 'them
t I .
14 The ftcond woei! pall:.~ and behoi~I - the third
I
ogeper lnto a p•a' t)
ce, called iu the Hebrew
' • woe comes quickly. tuu;;ue Arrn1rieddon.
Tb,.m me anl'. the Par·liatmnt; ArmagddOfl their
CHAP. XVI. hoult! to all~n.l.le and Jie in. J
Thh part which {&lhws b hngs to th: tl:irtu l;th chap· '.A. ·m;Jged ,lon wac; a valley to bury the dead ~11,
, l-:1 J "'·;/is a ,or. ti:.uali'J1J of Jb~ 'mount h~gtwtb. rt .fnu ~If:~~ 1l .ce or great . mourning near jerufa·

. [ 112 ]
' [ 113 J
lem : The Parliament Hot~re in Londou being
the recorded proph~citJd burying place of its mem- don. The earth will be fuook fo violently at
bers, and multitudes befides, is, for its deCtgned this time as to make it fink in many places, and
fimilarity to the fornter, fpiritually called in the let the f~a fiow in where the land was : moun-
Hebrew tongue by the fame name. tains will fink to a le\lel with vallies, and many
. 17 And the (eve nth angel poured. out his vial Hlands will difappear fore~er in the fea. This
in tile air; and there came a great voice (mean- eartl\quake will fpread defolation throughout
' ing loud thunder) out of the Temple of heaven, all countries, and defiroy great multitudes of
from the Throne, faying-'' IT IS DONE." people.
This v·erfe means. that when the allotted tim~
is expired for the Eogt'Hh parliament to exHt;
the Lord God wUI pronounce from the Throoe The United States of America will declar~
of Heaven, in a voice of very lou<! thunder, the War lilgainfi England; but before they do, franc~
.
judgment of hs utter ddl:ru . 'lion on a fudden. \'Jill Jofe aU het· Wefi-India: Hlands; and after
18 And there were voices, and thunders, acd t!~ey do. Jamaica will be the Iaft in the pofftffion
Jighrniogl; and tl re was a great canhqoake, of t!le E 1glith.
fuch as was not fincc men were upon the earth, On the 25th of Ju_ne, 1792, I wrote to the
V> mighty an 69rthquake and fo great. French <:mbaflador then in London, by command
The judgment of God being • to detl:roy the , of the Lord Gocl, acquainting him with the fu·
E1ghfu Parliament, this mighty earthquake · wm ture lof!J of the ~·rench Illands, and Jikewife the
fw:1llow it 141p at the very time of its fitting; and fall of dse Englifu. Bat he treated it in the fame
likewife lo much of London, as to leave but three matmer as all the wrhings of the prophets of
divifions of itfianding. God ever have been 1 when they f.ent divine in-
19 And the great city was divided into three formation, when they fpoke the truth, when
pat·ts; and the cities of the nations fell ; and th~y did not Hatter with gleafit~g words to de-
great Babylon (meaning Rome in this chapter) ·fclve •
tame in reme-mbrance before God, to give to hel" • There will grcnt~ changes tal<e place in all na·
the c:up of the wine of the fiercenefs of his wratb. tsnns under heaven, to fulfil this prophecy of
'l0 And ev~ry ifland Red away, and the moun- D~niel by vHions in the feventh chapter: Nation
tains were not found. ~d) not only rife againft natioA, but they will be
The city l}leotiooed hera, under the name of l1kewife torn by civil wan in themfdYes; king- . .
the great city, ru~ans London ; rEis d~figned re· dom wlll rire againfi l·iogdom, and man againtl
C'1 rtfe.l earthqaake will be felt ir. all nation:~ ond~l· man ; until they fight a'nd fall-to rile no more.
heaven as \\'ell as in England, and its dreadtnl The fword will defiroy very great multitudes of
effcCl:s by molt cities in tl!c ~~rld as well as L9~li;. • people l>y this war, 1\nd otcaJion frightful defo·
lations over tbe earth.
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2.3 In that day, fays the Lord of Hofis, I will
Yht prm ifi of Cod by th: proph t Haggai, to Zeruo· take thee, 0 Zerubbabe1, my fervant, the fon of
ha6tl, &overnor of Judah, although tne11ti911ed in Sbealtiel, and wiU, make thee as a fig net; for l
the firfl book, I am commanded to repeat it h~r~, bave chofen thee~ fays the Lord of Hafts.
1neans the prejetlt time ef the ·world, and tht pre· I
ftnt war with itJ d(j/ru.Bivt conflqunceJ ;, arzd The promife of God to Zerobbabel, by the
mpfdfthe truzn, i11 wh{J1!1 tlis g' eat promift of WO"!· prophet Haggai, in this verfe, means that when
derjrd dijlmfii'vn a,Jd elevation iJ to be ju{filled. the time of the world. is come, and this prophecy
ChPp. ii. :o. And again the word of the Lord fulfilling . he will be revived in his c.lefcen?ant.
carne to Haggai in tbe four and twtntieth day of
tbe month fayiflg-
'Who wdl be not only like himfdf, the v1fible
prince and governor of the Je~st but alfo. re:
2 r Speak to Zerubbabel, .go\'ernor of Judah,
<:eiva the full performan« of this gr~at promtf~,
and fay, I will !hake the heavens a£1d tbe earth. which is to be regarded by all nation& as theu·
2z And I will overthrow the thrones of king. figr.et of peace and fafety. .(
corns, and J will ddlroy the ftrength of the king~ The covenant to ldog David, and the re~ewal
c1oms of the heathen: I will overthrow their of it to Solomon, with this recorded promJfe, to
chariots, and thofe 'hat ride in them ; their hor- Zercbbabel will be fulfilled in me: for ~h1ch
fes and riders fhall come down, every one by the the Lord God, throuah this writing, holds me
fword of the other. out now as tbe promifed fignet io his hand to all
The prefem time of the world, and this pre- nations that believe in bim,-and comma~ds me
fent war in its fpreading confequence11, h the time te fay That his recordei judgments, In t~e
(>ftrouble and ddhuction meant by th~ prophet: Script~re, ac<:orcling to all tha: I bave me~t;·
this is alfo the Grt.at War recorded by Da11ie/ oned, according to the prophecieS •of Dante '
aod Sr. John, that no man has a knowledge of its Haggai, and St. John in the Revelation, for t.hc
progrels and bow it will end rev~aled to him but faJJ of cities, the fall of thrones, the fall of. prillf
myf~lf; this is the war which will .fill up the c:es the deatiJ of millions, and the drf /<JttCI~ 0
meafure of trangreffion, ~nd carry tht guih of kin~qoms. 01all be fufp~nded again, if the ' ~attol~~
flu~dding innocent blood into all nations; the at war w1ll accept ofhfe, and return to h1s go
fword is drawn in heaven, and tlJe cup of fury
~rnment of peace.
held out to the E4llh,accordingto the propbecits But if they allow themfrlves to be led ~way by
in the fcripture, and the vifions of God fuewn ro delufive temptations, if they refu(e .to beheve tha~
,. me, which are recorded hy his facted command 1 am commanded to offer tbefe tlnnJI,s, .althou~£
in the fir{{ bJok ; therefore, fhe muft drink deep iupported by undeniable proofs of Scnpture, .
from the one, that fue mav feellefs the b1uernefs 1'tYtaled kno~ledge in tbu book as well a.s Hl
of death from the other1 ·until watled of her in· .&be firft, which are unknown to any ,«2the r' aud
)labitants.

] . [ 117 ]
which. were ne~er made known to any man be- world was fo great , and t,he pro ohecies of defo-
fore; tfthey wtll not accept of th is gracious of- Jarion were fulfilllng : for the king and princi•
fer of mercy for their length of life now and the pal mt:mh~rs of the Eng!fh gov ,;rJ~ m~nt, with near-.
good of their children hereafter all l h~ve men- lv all the foreign arnb:~ff.Jdo · s in Loodon,-fol"
tioned, all the prophecies of Da;iel Haggai and their refpeB:ive count ries, h~ve been iRformed :
St. John in the Revelation, which' •·elate t~ the and will all, bdides, recei\'e this additional true
pr.elent time of th~ wotld and the prefent war, but lafl: inf»rolation, in writi ng.
wlll be fu lfilled ;-:the rwo.rd muft go through,
and earthquakes wtll foon follow ; throneJ wi!l
b.e defiroye~, ct~ies levelled with the ground 1 mtl- T H E P R 0 P H E 0 Y 0 F D A N I E L,
ham of pr:op1e wlll he cut off, and A.ingdoms will be
matle dt folate fnr ever. IN THE
The Lt~rd God, the better to make alJ natio ns S E V E N T H C H A P T E R,
believe imn1tdi~tely 1 and the people 1 live among CONTINUED.
regard me as has prophet, for their benefit in fu-
tore, gave me the true aoe of rhe world by which 9 I BEHELD till the thrones were call down ·
he f~lfils ~is reco~ded judgments, and t:ught me, and the Ancient of Days d t~ fit ; whofe garmen~
by duefr mOrottlOn from himfdf how to write was white a~ foow, and the h:1 ir of his he.:t d Jif,e
it down ; th: time of ~ewing hi'~ mercy to the pure wool ; his tbrone wa<o like the fiery flame.
Jews, by th:1r rtfiorauon ; the true rneamng of and his wheeb as burnin1; fire. · '
t~e prophectcs, anc ti~e of fulfilling them, with This verfe alone, unaffi3:ed by any information
• hts commands to pubh1h the information to the from me, is fufficieot to explain the molt necefla-
world ; that '"'hen I am openly revealed to the ry parts of the chapter ro know : every perfort ·
Hebrews and. per.ple of London, (to the farther , tbJt reads it muft confefs that it alludes to the
• J~t~er ~ime of the \\!OrJd, and that the g"· neral
to order t 11e1r Jlltmecliate dt>parture from Eng·
la nd ; undrr my own dtrecHon · to the lattr:r to " ddloluuon of human grandeur, which it mpn ~
conviuce them, the ioud thund~r in Janu;ry J tious, is bur ·the e~peB:t' d nece-ffary preparation
I )
~ 79h was to proclaim the judgment of God and

for the coming of Chrifl, to judge the wmld.
1:) A fiery Hrt·am iffued, and came forth fron1
fall of London. ; but thr~t tht!)tdg111ent 'luris fifpen-
J.t:d, a11d the ctly pa,.doned for .,,;y mtreaty,) and before him ; thoufand thoufands mu1i!h·red to
order~d. to re-pron~unce, with the power of
him, an ten tbou\and times reo tnouCmd flood
fire, h1s urevocable judgments, no »atioo may before him : the jacl gment was fet, and tb! books
were opened.
be .,ble to fay, We are not inforrnrd of any of·
fer~ of mtrcy from God, or of thofe thing! Th~ bttcr part of lhis verfe corroboratei the
\Vluch wouid lead us ~o believe tbe age of the Gl

explanation that is given of tbe pr "«ling one. [ ~19 ]
11 I beheld then, becaufe of the voice of the
great words which the horn fpoke-i1 the ~ing of
The prophet Daniel, in Iris vifiot1s, ns well u
St. John the apofUe in the Revelation, had al-
Pru!fia-(here tbe prophet Danitl returns to the
ways an attending angel near, to explain ,the
former part of the vifion, and gives a further ac.
meaning of every thiog he faw that was necefla·
count oi what was lhewn him.) I beheld, e•en .. ry for hi rn to be informed of.
till the beafl waS' flain, and bis body ddl:royed, 17 Tbefe greal beafts, which are four, are four
11nd given to the burning flame. kings, which fluB zrife out of the earth.
The death of this bcajl, means I he death of the 1~ But tb(~ faints of the Mofr High fball take
emperor of Germany, it is certain ; and all the the kingdom, and poffels the kingdom for ever,
armies of Europe cannot fave him, nor prevent even for ever and ever.
the accomplilhment of it by the hands of man.- The time is ver, nearly come for the judg-
The judgment of God, :Jccording to this prophe- fflents of God to bt j./t i11 alltJationJ, and this part
cy, is alfo, that he fhaii fuffer the puniflu:uent of of the prophecy to be fulfilled in Europe : It is a
e.verlafiing fire.
"arning tJ> all princes and flares, to ho.nor God,
1 2 As concerning the refi of the beafts, they
and fear his judgments; to live in peace, and go·
ha" th ir dpminion t;~l<en away : yet the\1' lives vern with mel'cy.
were prolor:~ed for a fcafon and time.
19 Tl1en I afi,edhimthemeaningofthefoorth
13 1 faw in the night, tiiions, one like the '
bea(l:, which was different from all the others,.
Son of man ; and hthold, he came with the and exceeding dreadfol ! whofe teeth were ot
clouds of heaven, an<l came to the Andent of iron, and its naih of brafs ; which devouredt
Days, and flood near pefore him.
I 4 Aod there was g1ven him dominion, and
glory, and a kinO'dom; that all people, nations,
.
broke in piecei and !lamped on the refidue with
lls reer. ' '
20 And of the ten horns that were in its head,

and language,, fuocJd ferve hi:n : his cldminion and of the other which cnme up, before whom
is an everlalting dominion, which thall not pafs · thrre fell ; even of that horn which had eye .. ,
away ; and his kingdom that which lball not be tnd a month that fpake very great thing~, who{.!
dellroyed.
look was more !lout than his fellows.
1 5 I, Danjel, was grieved in my fj>irit in the
The beginning of tbis. verfe ~eans the Ger·
midU of my body, and the vifions I faw troubled lllan Princes; th~ re!l of It the Kwg of Pruffia;
me.
16 I came nenr to one of them that Hood by,
he threatens and executes more, prefLJming on
the unconquerable, power of his army! than a.ny
(an a1Jgel,) and a/ked him- the me~ning of alf
of his equals. His being reprefented m the Vlfi-
thefe tf->Jngs ; fo he told me} and made me under•
ctfls of God as a horn, wilh eyes, and a OJI'}utb
ilam~ Lhc interrr~tation of them. fpeaking very great thin~s, is an a1lufton t.o his
_.ltary flrength> quick d1fcernment, and vJolent
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inclination to quarrel ; always difputing for ter- which will fuon now begin to manifefr itfelf; in·
ritory-pufuing at or fighting againfi fame nation deed, the interval of time bt tween this and !hen
or other. is but !1 ort; for ~llthi n gs are ha!lening fall, and
21 I beheld, and the fame horn made war on concurring in thf'ir operalions to exteud the war,
the faints, and prevailed againfr them. and give the 1:ropb<:cy hs full 1ecorded courfe.
For my entreaty, the Lord God has been 25 And he will fpeak gre<tt words <~ga inlt the
plea fed to fufp-end this part of ~he prophecy. the Mo!1 High. and will wtar out the faints of the
latter part of rhe tweoty firfi verle, that of al· Moft High ; and yiJl think to change times and
lowing the king of Pruffia to prevail againfi: the laws: and ~hey will be given into his h<tnd , for
righteous, and govern them with grea[ oppref- a "..ime, and time , and the dividing of timf.'.
fion: under the power of his a; my, for three 1 h ~ beginni f r·bis ,·erfe means the king of
years aod a h:df. Pruffia, fp·;i eal·d m bl.{;>hemy againft Gad,th reat-
22 UntH tbe Ancient of Days come, when . ening in great .word•, a ~ if he poffdi~<l the wbole
judgm~nt was given for the faints of tbe Mofl: " power of bcavenJ to tonquer and deHroy, with
High , and the time came that the fi1ints lhould his army, all c:ties that do not opeu to !Jim and
poifefs -the kingdom. all men th at oppofe his deftgns. This \Vas exatl:-
23 Thus he faid ;-The fourth beaft wiH be ly fulfilled by the Horn, when he ente;ed France
the fourth kingdom on earth. (The Emperor in 1792. ; the proclamations which he iffit ecl~ at
"Will reduce, under his fubjecrion, all Germany. hat tirne are full of blajphemy agaio!1 God, pre·
the neighboring llates, aorl all Italy, to for'!l fumption for his great army, and violent threars
· thi~ grea.t kingdom,) v. hich will bed ifferent from to dellroy cities, and eut innocent men .in pieces.
2ll the other kingJoms; (meaning the othtr great Change times and laws : tbe meaning of
klngdoms or monarchies, fhewn in the "ifion; '\VJ1ich is, that what God clecree-s is h1s law, and
which are·, England, Ruffia, and France.) It t~i~:~ prl)phccy contains' it , an op p( fition by tbe
will try to devour the whole earth, tread it lrng of I'm.!fia to wh:• t Goi has decrees !hall
clown, and break it into pieces. con1e to paf's, is endtavoring by force of arms to
24 And the ten horns, out of his kingdom, Rop the courf~ of the prophecy, and change the
· (meaning the German eltetors, before they are decreed time for it to ~e fulfilled, The ldng of
defrroyed by the F.:mperor,) are ten kings which Pruffia, by tbreatning. with the gre~r frrength
will ·arife; and another will arife after thtm, of his army, to boild up, what Ggd, to fu lfill his
meaning the King of Pruffia , who is an cleB:or; prophecy, has thrown down; to reflote that
be will be, different from the firft, and will fub· IUonarcby in t.. rauce, which God, to fulfil his re.
due thrt.e kings. corded judgment in this prophecy, has removed
When the king ofPruffia oppofes the Emperor, for e~er ;-is the meanincr of-..t1nd ~~wilt th.ink
to cba1~t tiuus a1Jd /anu~
0
be will alto at the 'ame time follow his example,

[ 122 J [ I ~3 ]
~nd they will be given !n.ro. his h~nd, for a Bear becomes flrong ; until the proper tirrie ar-
rives for him likewife to fall. .
time and times, and the dtvldlng of ume. The
meaning of which is, that the kjngo~Pruffia, al.
26 But the judgRJent !hall fit, (it ought to be
though afring in oppofition t6 the w1ll of God • . But tht jud.~met;t Jhall take place,) and they fiuli
(for every man that reads t?e Scripture? ~nd be- ~ake away his dominion) to con fume and to dellroy
lieves it to be the book of truth, pofieffes from lt to the end, ·
that moment a knowledge of good and e•il, of
right and wrong, of what is merdful, and wl1~t 1 The kin~ of Pru!Iia will have his country de-
is cruel, of what i& p1eafiog to God, and. \~hat IS &royed by fire and[word: his .pow~r will be ra-
offenfive,) is permitted to wage war 9f tnjufike ken away, and aJio his fife: the governmer.t will
againfi the righteous for three TS and a l~alf; be changed) ~nt! the monarchy will be abol'-'led
for ever.
during \'fl1ich time, according to the pro~hecy,
he would conquer and ~eflroy vreat multitudes
of them. Bur my prayers pre~ailed with God, ' Tn the year t 792 I fcnt the commands of God,
even againfi his own recorded judgment b! Dan- as they were give.n to me by revE'lation at night,
iel foJ' I befeeched him to oppofe the UOJU!l: de· totbe king of England, for the king ofPruffia, be: '
fore he invaded france-, defiring him to return
fig'ns of the kjog of Pruffia, before he invaded
france; after he had, to fufpend the propl1ecy, bamc, and have nothing to do \\<itb the people of
and for my fal<e to tllrn him back. Tbe Lo!d ~at country; for tbe change ofgovernment tak-
God .fpoke to me it! a vifion, at '\1igbt, and fa1d, mg place among them was determined, that t~,e
unalterahle judgment of God, in the Scripture of
l'l'tith might be fulfiJled: re:~Itindiog him., at the
"He thall go out of France whh !hame and con·
fofion."
This promife was fulfilled in the year I 79Z; farne time, as a corroborali.,g tetlimony, that .
for foon after the Pruffian army entered France* ttbat I wrote was from God, of the moniter that
God led it into fuch difficult places ~s to. end a? ·
e~tered his breafr, and fo powerfully Hruggled
\ltth his inclination to keep hi£:1 back, from war
tb;Jt.when he poiltiveJy refolved on it, reproach~
ger its fafety ; he alfo fen the VJfitauon of a
wafting ficknefs, that forced it to go away, alba· td hun firongly with the ivjuiHce.
med and highly difappointed. Althou.gh the O•
ther parts of the prophecy muft necelfaflly be ful• 'that intelligent, internal moniter, was in truth
filled to accompliih the f utpofes of God, and .th~ ~6 Other than the compaffionate Spidt of the lilf-
deflruction of the Proffian monarchy, the kihg ~og God, ilr i viog, to the JaH moment, :o fa v.: a
cannot conquer as the judgment it1tended, but.bt ~llog:man fron1 the dreadful effects of his own
is permitted to oppofe, fometimes defeated ~t~l~ ..,:. ~~~e.n~ ~ bu.t t~e king of Proffia defpHed the
fhame, and fometimes encouraged by deceit 11 1 •led JnumatJon) ~nd refolved au a war; whicll
facccfs ; until his armie~ become weak, and the
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-
that if there was no -
art of
knowledge of God in the
humao
~ could finJ the
rea on
an
ptects and cotrfilme other kingdom , , but which
wor ld , no P · frf is to remain itfeJf forever.-lhe n:illne of this u-
) • {l colourable pretence to JU I Y• Di\'erfa1 kingdom i:s Peace ; it has the bleflcd
ea • fE rr Gofpel for its goverumenr, and the Lord Gou
. f writing to the ktng o 0 t1.
At tbe ttme o my " ,. p. rr.. . 1 informed for its king. ,
1 . o the ktog o• I Unll,
' land, n atwe t d d of the <:crtain fai\ure
· s l was co•nman e , 1·
• d.arm ies of Pruffil aod Aulrla. As I knew, in the beginniug of J 792; t}l.at the
vf th~acomhtne
btm,
king of England would enttr into th1s war. and
And the k1ngdom, and domHHon, · · a nd . the . by doing fo, fall under the fame judgment from
z1 . the powt>r of aU the kmg: God as the other monarchs lhewn in the vifiou,
greatnefs, (meant~~le heflven ,) will be given to unlefs I could, by a jufr explanation of the pro-
dams under the~- fthe Molt High: hisldng· phecies, purfuade him to remain at peace ; he
the people ancll cl.~~nts:ir1gdom and all dominions will; I trufr, with the qneeb and minifier of fl:ate,
dom is an ever a ~mg . J •
t:~. ferve and obey lnm. do me the juUice hereafte to acknowledge that
IDUI ,
tbe da.Jger was fully communicated ; and that I
. . 1 k' drm ofheaven, ofChrifil· ''did not ctafe in my endeavc)urs to prevent him
Th1s 1s that rea lnl? b.:,, God which
. . ~· e to belleve anu1 o ..... , ' r from joining in rhe confederacy "gainfi France,
an1lyt prac tc 'b Cl ·a tepre!ervetheloulo.
not only for '1 long time before he intended irt
was commanded y llrdl ' 0 f h'lmfelf. preached
d d know .. ge
nlan, an a ue d th;o,,gh them the fouodauon
' · bot alfo after he had, even till the defigns of gov-
b~. tble'adp.o{l]l~~n:~ions: tlwug,h determined fro~ eroplent were ready to l>e executed by open pre ..
parations for hoflilhy.
oiH al 111 a d d beg:m mor ..
the firtl tranfgreffion of A an~, an with ail che
h n feventeeu hundred yea.r., ago, 1 . r J in. If this war was like any \Vb;ch has prec~de(l it,
t a . d e a red, fron' the mu tip Je l prince might, as ufual, . fit down ·at his leifure,
matenals re:1 Ypr P h r.. ., · ncident t0
. f . d ot et· caurt:", 1 · aod calculale, from his fuccdlts, how long to
terrupW~Il o ~..: ar ~n tile fecond temple at J rru·
lwman \ongd·n~s, 'll~~e cr-1 his mighty {lruttt~re
flrry ir ;pn ; or by h!s defeats, ho\v foon he
falem-long to JUI IDe;,. • 1 t Hone cut ont inuft, l~ave it off: but the death of Louis XVI,
• fi'Oedvet ThiStSlta ' i· •lid the revolution in Fr<~:nce, having procet'ded
JS not Jill • •
without bands, meotton
• ed bv the \>ropher D:JO
. h d 35th verfcs, fr~tn tbe rtcorded judgment of God, the two
el. 1n bis feconcl chapter, ~ 4t ~a~ the gold ancl ~mgs which have occafioned it, and which huvr: rw-
,,.hich breaks the head and the ee ' l oflhe ~~red it fo ~nti1 dy d~/ftfrCtJI, that its corfiqumces are
the filver·, the br~fs. the iron, and .the c .ay:nc' thi1 IJttady deter111ifud, will be the fame to tbe mo•
.._ f1 nower to pleces . bs etlg::tgeu in it, as it happens to a man un ·
g rea r imn ge o lllm;ln. r •• b l f: lie l1rophet,
d , n•wned v t 1e at
. is that kwg om nf.e 'l' . ., ·:hich is to brea~ 1
·n ~&edly caught in a large trap, on forbi~den
in the 44th verfc o. O" 1 g) w llhd-the pains of death convince him of tran{:.
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g.reffion, before his eyes could warn him of the ave' b.ee.n fcnt away from London. Its .fall
danger. woul? foon after take place ; and then my re· '
1 know the jt1dgments of God ; by them I am '\elation, as the next great thing to warn the
(1ire8ed; by ' revelation and thtough his Holy wo~Id, .would immediately f~cceed ; bur, pre•
Spirit I write. To fulfil, then, the f.::venth chap- fernng Jh fafety to my own Immediate advan-
ter of Daniel, aod fuch parts of the Revelation tage, tt/ihougk injormtd a/ th:: time that the p~oflt!
as mr ns the prefent time and the fame things, wo.·.- /J 1iot b !uv~ ; that 1 Jhori/J be defpifld, and
the war now carrying on will involve all the na- vJada fi1ft.r ; I obtained its pardon at the
t1ons engaged in it in great dithers, and nearly rifk of my own life, and determ}ned to remain
aU the princes of Europe in death. Ao, 1 kne\v in it until my time to be revealed was entirely
all this a confiderable time before the war, I fet , completed ~
my heart and my mind to intercede with God,
although it was againfi his recorded judgments, I 6'Jd, yes, I feel hy dreadful experience, that
to fa ve the king, and Jpar~ 1/Je cow:try I l1v~ j, :all m;h are infenfible to the ccmfequences of
1 fucceeded with God, and obtained an offer cf tlwfe J.udgment~, recorded i11 the Scripture, and
mercy; but could not with man, to believe and , are. alto exceedllJgly hardened againfi believing
the1r true interpretation aod time to be fulfilled.
accept it.
That I have fuffered, by imprifonment and dif.
I wifh w4:U to the king and quee.n, and like- trefs,. more than is proper no\V to pu.hlifh, jor en·
wife their family; .to know all that 1 have re- , lreatmg, whm I Wtl! tflli that 1/l) entreatie 1 wtr~
)'ate3, and more than I am permitted to teH ; to c.ont~ary to the proph(cies, to fave the king and his
know the unavoidable death of him, and after- fanuly i London and its inhabitants, from re-
wards the c!rtain deftru&ion of an ·amiable ·cord.ed deilruftion; God, who is more generouc;
woman and her ehildren, would, I thought, be to gt\'e mercy, than man is grateful to believe
a crime to reproach for ever the feelings of my
· heart, if 1 did not implore, wben I knew the
great ldodnefs that God had for me, and endea-
1 :r
and ~cc.ept. it, .is by all this rl!vealed knowledge
lu~ prophecies my witne& now, and will, in
ue ttme, in a fi.1ort. time-, be additionally fo by
vor, by all the meaas in my power, to prevent terrible figns and mighty wonders. '
it.
; I have {aid, in the firfl: oook. that the fulfil- ,
But in doing this,! have fubje:led · myfelf to hngr. .of the jud~ments' of God, however de-
the power of human laws, when,. incleed 1 I had fl:rucuve they mtght prove to the nations or
the choice to make them fubjeC1 to me ; for ifi governments, whid1 they are directed againfi,
had not become an interceffor1 by prayer and :would not affect my perfonal fafety, nor operate
fupplication for the people I live among, I Lhould 1n the leatllo my 1 rejudice : my elevation is

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the_Pr~den~forefight of the wife p~ltticia11 to his C71J1t
recorded in the Scriptllre, and efl:abJiibed by r~zn, 1~ either the fore -ruone.r or fign of general
· j1romi£e to myfelf; be fides I am· not mortal to dllfo!uuon, or fome other gre~t and mighty thing.
human .power. llut although I am to be grear,
far above a1t) prirrce on eartf, and cannot be de·
fl:r6yed by man : although the fall of governments
and ruin of nations, wili not be alJowed to af- SQml oj the prtJphecir:s which mean ;nyfolf, and which
fect my r~J ronal f'afety' nC\r operate. in the leafi: I am commanded to iJJjert.
to my prejodic.e, wil1 not prov~k~ .any, bot e~ '('
aeavor, by a peaceable conduct, ttvtluy, and fau· TBE PROPHET lS.'\ItHl, Chap. ir~.
worJs, to make all men believe.
1 nd in that day, feven women {hall take
My eal'oefi: defire and pr~ye1· to G~d is, that hold of one man, faying, We will eat our own
as he has given me a pre emtnence of favor to all bread, and uw~ ar our own apparel: only· let U!
men that were ever upon earth before, I may he called by thy name, to take away our re-
be able, although I have b ~ en in prijon, infulted proach. · · ·
ar.d drjpifld; a/thougA my a~al is broke~ and my The m~n allw.:led to by the prophet is myfelf
inclination altered, to fave in this country one and the time of the world is jufltzow co 1m. Re-
perfon as well as another ; the kiRg, as well as member that the f~venth chapter of Daniel and
m; felf; the rich, as well as tbe poor ; II with· the fixth of the Revelation, are now folfillio'7 •
~ o~t cliflinB:ion. ~·or which 1 requefr all men to rchtemb~~, likewife,.the 2d cbap. and 24 th ve~f~
meditate an the prefent time~, and confult with of J:Iaggat ; by all a t which, tht·onc.s are to fall
1
themfelvcs by their kno wledge of the Scripture, Datton to be turne4 again fl nationj a'rmy againft
by comparing the leading featu res of what ru· army, and man agai·ull rnan, until the ear rh is
ined other great nations unexpeCtedly. to what 'Wafted of her peopk-By this great defirudion
are now as lbddenly opeoiog to ~mman view, 0 ~ the human race, n~ilHoos, millions of women
,. an what are as une:Jepeaedly comit1g to pafs in wtll go to the grave, widows, unmarried a~d
the world ; of the judgments and prophecie~ t.o barren. _
u.e folfilled, which every man that has the fpmt .r. The war is now, c'J mpan d to ~uhat it will be ill
of conviCtion to believe, a·nd an onderfi:anding J~~ture-as four or five houfei on fir<". is to a large
to difcern, rnufl: plainly perceive that the con: cay fet in iLunes by theni ; which all the a;ts _
vulfed fiate of Europe as it now prefents ittelt, and invemiu11s of the worht which all the force
is oFJe of their 'Vifible features: ~nd that h~ )f.~ower and political forefight cannot quench. '
fudden great war which oc~afioos ir, .Multz· t 11 from ~he great fcarcity of m:mkind, which
plying flzll aJ it letJgthem agaiuft all forcible e:J· J th.c: \Var wlll ocrafion, that the prophet re1>re-
d~:actJo, deceivir.g when let~.ft expe8&dt and tttmmz
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{ents ro many women as taking hold of one c:on~ took before thee, and confider the thin" that
f1 h:uous and rarticu!ar mn.o. . thou fedl-. b
< i> l ln that day the branch of the. Lordh w11l b~ , 87 And 1 h<heM, and lo, as it wtre a Roar·
beautiful and glorivun, and the fruit of tu~ urU1 i?g lion chafed out of the wood; and faw lhat i
wlll be excellent and comely for them whtch are lie fe~t out ~ man's voice to the eagle, and faid.
efcaped of lfrad. . . Thss roanng Lion, IJJ it were, .ch:tfed out ~of
3 And it fhall come to pafs, .tha~ heJ wl?~h ts the wood, means m} felf: who am now forced
left 1n Zion, an,\ he that rematns m ero a e~, out of concealment by divin~ commat,d to rebuke
.11... 11 be called Holy ·; e\•en every one that IS t~e ea.~le ~ not her only, but the other princes
~:;itten :.mong the living in Jerula l~m. l1kewtle, 1f they will not believe what I write,
Whf n the Lord has wafhed away the fillh and try to fav~ themfelve~ from the judgment of
of \he dao~hters of Zion, and has p~rged the God, by fpanng the e.flufion of human blood
blood of Je rufJlem from thre mid it; of It, ~y the · This mufl: n~c~!farily be done to _fulfil the pro:
fpirit of judgment and by the fpirit of burm~g. pl~ccy , (For 1t u a trttc one) which JS fuJJy accom-
Th1s verfe alludes to the Jews after tb~•r ~~· phlhed on my part by an explanati on of the fe-
{\:oration, and to jerufa1em in the latte: timP. of Venth chapter of Daniel, and declared aloud to
the world, when rebuilt and inhabited_; the Jews tl~ world by the publication of ir in this book.
will then acknowledge Chri!l: for thelr ~IdEa~, Peace bei ng requefled from God and a fufpen-
apd through the fancHfication of.his bkfii!d Spl· flon of bjs judgments ?.ffered thro~gh me, I ear-
tit they w111 be cleanfed from iin. nefily requt:ft all the prmces of Europe to forfake ~
5 And the Lord will create upon every clwel• wa_r, th 1 ~ they may enjo.y the fub{tantiaj l>ldfings
I' I ce of mount Zion and upon her atfem· of Jong l1fe, and e\·erlaHmg happioefs.
b aes, aacl ouc\ and fmoke
ml;g p by day, and the fuining
l h I 1 • 38 Hear thou, I will ta ik with thee, and the
of a flamit•g fire by night i for upon al t e go~ h1gheflfh;;ll fay to thee;
ry (meaning the people) fhall ll~ a defence. 39 Art thou not it that remainefl of the four
6 And there fuall be a tal>ernade for a fiHl• beaOs, ''hom I made to rtiO'n in my world lhat
the end oft ~eir times migbt come through them ?
0
dow in the day time from the heat, and ford
p~ ace of refuge and for a covert from (\orm an (lnfl~atl ot rJ!e. word them, it.flwuld Le, as it
' from rain. · Was in the onguJai;_Thec .)
Thi~t is a figurati ve reprefen t:~tion of the _peace 10 And the l!'ounh c~ mr, ar.u o.vercame all
3.nd fnfe ty of tlle J ~w . under th.c prc~t ed..Jon o the beufl 'l, tha t Were p~ fl ; ~ no ll l' d pOWt'r <>Vfr
God after rheir rd\orntton to J erblem 10 l ,- 98· I he ' world with gre~ t featfuln efs, and ovrr rhe
''hole com pnfs of the e.u-th with mot h "' icke<l
AP OCRYPH,'\ .- 11. ESDRAS, C!·~p: ix. oppnffion : ancl fo lon(T time dwel t he ur on tl.lt!-
'36 1 h( n I ·heMd J. voice whid1 f.11d to m t :u t·h \\ ith dec< it. .0
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4 t For th~ earth hafl: thou not judged with ..(Juak to another; jar it is in that m4.'tner all knO'lf1· ,
truth. ·lt.dge of what I wt ite is jit.ft rerual~d ta 1/Je.) " I
42 For tbon hafl affi:Cl:ed the meek, thtu haf\: · paHed by this part witQ Dani rl." It was men.
hurt the peaceable, thou halc loved liars, and tioned as a confirmed certainty to 1ur, that the
def1royerl the dwemngs of the~n hat brought prophecy of Efdras was given from a true viftoo.
forth fruit, and hall: ca(t down the W'llls of fuch 3 r Afld the lion, whom thou faw rifiog up
as did thee no hum. out of the wood ~ anti roal'ing, and fpeaking to
4 3 Therefore thy wrongful dealing io; come up the eag\~, and rebuking her for hes· unrighteouf·
to the Highe(l, and thy gride to the Mighty. nefs ; wllh all the \Vord s which thou haft heard :
"" 44 The Highe!l alfo has looked opon the 32 This i&the Anointed (meaning myfelf, a!
proud times, ~nd behold, they are ended, and pri nce of lfrael) which the highefi has kept for
the11· abominations are fulfilled. them, and for their wickednefs to the end : he
45 t\nd therefore appear no more, t\lou ea- fiu,ll reprove them, and fiull upbraid -them with•
ole : nor ~hy horrible \ving~, nor thy wicked their Lruelty.
· ~athers, nor thy malicious heads, nor tby hurt· 33 Fot' he {hall feL them before him alive in
ful claws, nor all thy vain body. .judgment, ancl lball rebuke them and correCt
46 That all the earth may be refre01ecl, and them.
may return, being delivered from thy violence;· .34 For the refiofmy people lhall he deliver
and \hat (hen' y hope for the jtH~gment aud mer~ wnh mercy, tl ofe which' have been preferved
cy of him tllat made her. upon n:y border~: and he {hall make them joy·
Chap. xii. 10 And he faid to me, This is the ful.unulthe commg of the c!ay of judgment. of
imerprication of the vifion. . \'i'h1ch l have fpoken to thee from the beginning.
1 I The eagl~ , whQm thou faw ~om: np fro~ Chap. ~iii. ~s This is the meaning of the vi.
the fea, jq the kingdom th{\t was icen HI the V1• fion ; whereas thou fa w a man coming up fron1
fion of thy brother O:wi el. the midfl of the fea. '
1 z But it was ex pounde(l ttl him, therefore 26 The fame is he "110111 the H1ghefr has kept
~ gre~t feafon, which, by his own felf, (mean·
1
now I declare it to thee.
mg lns· own perfon,) thall deJiver his people
I bave inferred th f f~ verre~ not only as a de- (meaning his people the Jews) and he Ihall order
mon(lration of th e1r truth , hnt likewil'e to 01eW ~bern that are left behind.
the lt) tim..1cy between the vifions of Efdr<tS aud .I am the man alJuded to in this chapter; ce·
t hem of 0 J uicl. mtng from the fea, io the twenty.fifth verfe , it
Morcoyer, wh.n God was ,.omm onicati ng by to figoify that I !hould, aJ tht perflm uua,JI, live
rev elation at ni!1'1t ~knowled ge of tl \~ proph~cyl on the oce•ut. I have; having been in th~ &g-
to me~ he f.l1d, w p.'aitz wor ds} as o,, c mcm w,u!. U

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li/h navy ; but am now riung from it, to fulfil fhall come to pars, and the figns fhall happen
this ~rophecy! that of lf~iah, Haggai, jeremiah, which I fhewed thee before, and' then fhall •.ny
Ezek1d, Dam ·I Malac1u, and pare of the Hev- fon be declared, whom thou·faw as a man afceod-
eladon to St. Juhn lil<ewife. t'or J was , necef. ing.
farily cngap;t>d with the r~vord, to fulfil the re· 33 And when all the people hear hi!J voice,
corded judgment on the monarch l all) to repre- every man fhall, in his own land, leave the bat•
fc:nt; a!!d profeflionally a feamao, to fulfil the tie they have one againfl: another. _
vifioos from God in this prophecy. 3 4 Ancl an innumerable multitude !hall be ga-
thered together, aa thou faw them, ,,illij)g·to
27 And whrreas thou faw, that out of his
come, and to overcoa,e him by fighting.
mouth there came, as a blaft of wind, and fi&e,
and fiorm: 35 But he fhall ftand upon the top of mqont
Sion.
And tha: l1e bad neither fword, nor any in- 36 An<l, Sion fuall tome, and fi1a1l be fiJe\~ea
firumeut of war, but lhat the rulliiug in of him to all men, being prepared and builded, like as'
ddlroyed the whole multitude that came to fub· thou faw the hill graven without ha~ds.
due him. This is the interpretation. , 37 And this my fon, fhall r~boke the wicker\
~Q Behold, the days come wt~n the Mofl High 1nventi()ns of thofe natio~s, which, for their
will begin to deliver them that are on the earrh. wicked life, are fallen into d1e tempe!\:.
30 .And he (this meanJ Chrifl, but the r.ext rurf~ 38 And lhalllay before them their evil thcoghta
"lJ[elj. jfJr I am now his prophet and tJu(fengcr : and.the torm~ots ~herewhh tliey (hall begin to
t?e branch of' hi1 family alluded to, ar.d t!Je deji'gned be tormented, which are t:ke to a flarue ; aod he
jig net of peace j or 'p_ll nations ; the pt V,ce ordained . fball deftroy them without labor, by the law
to glVern vijiU)' for him itJ his cifJ', and 011 his throne; vrhich is like to fire.
ther·eftJreJ !Je "dng God, Lord, and Kmg, jhews me I recommend it to every perfon that reads this
to Efdras, as he did to 51 ••/ohn,, {piritually repre- book, to take the Bible, and read from the be-
fintmg,. and j)iritually calld u·nder tbt tlfi we of ginning of the thirteenth chapter to the thir-
hu for, 6ecarife unive•fvl domi1Jion, as his empower· teenth \ erfe, as it means royfeif: and likewife of
td vi(ible nprtflntativf, immediatdy under lJimjeij, th~ fixtceuth chapter, from the eighte~ntb verfe
next to hhJ/'eiJ, will b~ given to mt) .(hall come, to to the thirty.fixrb, as it corroborates th 1.! pro·
th.e-.arlonifbment of them that dwell on tbe earth. phecy of ifaiah, Daniel and Haggai, relative ro
3 r And ooe fba1ltmdertake to fight againH; a- the imnlt'diate, and jull now approaching time of
nother, and on city again([ anothr ; one place 11 e worlo.
againfi another, one people againfi another, one
rtalm againfl another. OF THE REVELATION, Chap."'·
32 And the tjme 1hall be when thefc thivgs The book nleaUJ the prophecies intended to be
'
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roncealed until this time of the world, which is are' now declared ; the fpiritual feals ar~ opeq-
the time tbry rdate to; its feals, their fpiritual ed, the contents of the fpiricoal book, wluch tb~y
lock or fa.{lening. fbut. is known, and a revealed knowl~ge of 1t
Obferve, the Revelation was given to St. John publifhed iu this 'flifible hoflk, for the good of all
n long ttme after thcdeath ofChri!l:, nottocam- mankind .
mem(Jtate ·thofe things which were btfore, which -~-
\Vere f41Jfilled, .which were known before the
time of writiug it : but to record thofe things The Lord God commands me to acknowledge
wLicb :11 e to be in future, and which are to be the kindnefs of a poor '.Voman, that brought me
fulfiUed : ~ccf>rding to the words of God, decla. a three· penny loof ea~h w~ek, every Mond~y .
red fin the fouath chapter, and fi rfr \erfe which morr].ing, when 1 was· 1n prt[on : He; name IS
are1 " Come up hither, and I will/hew thee the Irabella \Vake. The prifon ti Newgate.
thil1gs which m\1ft be h.:reaftet·." .They were A man that died the day before, of a baa ~e
ihtwn lo him in heaven under fuch wonderful, ver, and from neglec ·~ for the want of prop~r
fvch incompnhen{ible fimilitudes, in vifions, as nuurHhment, as 1 was told, made. a va~~ucy m
to leal their n1eaning a perftct fecret, until the a room with fourteen poor men, httle au, and
tin1e of the worlr] a!lud~d to, came, when the much c~owdcd, for me to come int~ IJis place.
/ the ddigned fpirhoal perfon (for no man can be
a prophet of ChrifiJ now under Chriflianity, and The (mall, very fmall pennywoyth of bread,
fpeakzng through the Holy Ghofr, his fpirit, with- with water only, except one day 10 the week,
out bearing (owe fimilarity to li1mfeJf in meek- wht-n there are a few ounces of beef, for. twel!·
nefs and compaffion ;- ( witnefs the apoftles )- ty-four hours, is barely ~ufhc!ent to keep l.1fe ~~d
v,ou~ d be revealrd, to open the fpirituaJ feals, budy together. The pnfon ts very clofe. J tb..:.r~
aml make known the fecret prophecies under
is not room enough to promote health, uy th
tl1em in the book. necelfary exercife ·of ~alking ;_ th~te are no coa!s
allowed fur fireJ nor canrlles tor hght. There HJ
Chap. vi. The four firrl feals are opened, and
no bed to lie on, nor blanket to cover one: The
poor are entirtly ddlitute here. - • :
the ccvering of Jecrecy is removed ; the judg-
mer.ts which are to .punifh the world for tranf· \Vhen th: condicion of prifl,)ns, ~nd the treat·
grdJion, by ra ifi ng n~tion ~gai11flnation, & man ment of prifoners is required for publ!' infor~
jlgainfi -nan, are gone forth jpi,ilfla 1/y tmder the atioo, it is from the poor man, whole be~ltb. ts
fimililttdes ~xprcJJed itJ this c/lapttr, to the eighth verft injured ·by confinement,, who has to J.raw hts ht-
a:Jd are btgnn ro be fulfilled : the concealed tle air through a finall '"Oil·barred wtndowvwho
meaningtoftheprophecies, which have been care- has but a fmall pennywonh of bread a owed for
full~ pre{erved fo for rr.e untH the prefent time Hs ~

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the wl ole dav to Jive on, tnar a true account h MorMver, J wiil provide for you: and altho'
to be. receivtd i hut certainly not fr.om the ofH- 1 am now poor, without houfe or fervant, I LhaH
cers, keepers and contraetors, who live in :len- foor. have ab1)ndance, an1l be at the i1eud Ofthe
fY; who{e emoluments fwell in proportion a'i the greatelt n!'nion on elrrh: In my p,alace you fhall
l'rifons p.;ruw crowded. , • • 1 always have an npartt'!.l..e!lt, and •at my t'{)ule you
· Therefore be 1fo longer aftoniilied, that Lon• fbnl al va}'S bnve · 'lcat. • I
, don, in one part of the l'evelztion i~ called under I a'm C001!t'31l(je'l tfl 3('knowledge m~ewife the .,
the name oi the great city, Jor flu •s_th, g e&~tc{l act~ nf friendlhip I t·ecciv!!:d from Ca)nuin Ran-
c/(r in Europe. ttiJJ t'he richejf ·;u· :ne 'i.uor/d_; fn J. ch n, of Ahin 1 cn.flr er \\ hk h the Lord (1od
110 her part fhe is calle~ Sodo1n; and in a thitd, c.oniider a:~ Qtewn ditec'.ly to bimfelf; t)tetefore
llie is, as well as R ·me, fpiritcuJb)' clllf.:ll Ba!}} lon hi; hletliog is on yon ; nnd by bis promHc ih the
the Great. . • Gofpet, yom.· reward is grea!. Moreover, l :nn
• . r. man, who hac; any knowlcd~ of God: can commanoed to iutorm ) ou, as we11 lor the i entfit
jqflly lay, that L~Hj{lol.l is \vithout guilt, !lnrll~ r t)£ your chHdren ht' ·tafter> :..s y<.orlt<lf immedi-
11eo1t'e ai'e \\ tthoudin; when t}ei (heels arc tnll ately, that ;;\the) yo• r nanJe is lbnchetc, th re
o vice, atld her prifons a e f1:11l of .opprdlion. is jtJhn Pitt, Eat•! feharban•J, Sir Cilbert E!lior,
and Cllarl~s Grey; you a s',~~· ell a5 th .m, ~he ~ 1ob
as w.ell as myftlf, are of the • bre·.vs; Lrnnchcs
of my ()\'YI'l tatl•lly, and are d.. 1cenrled ft o;u D1-
3 7 Then !baH the righteom anfwcr hin~, ray- vidJ king ,of lfr;~~l.
ing, Lo:d, wl_ien faw we thee pn lum~re1~, nnd t All th~g has be n to:d me bv revelatior; from
fed 1hee? or 1hirfly, and g~ve rhee d1trfk r the Lord Go:i: in ~Hi~ns nf th "night.
38 \l 7 bcn f.1\v we thee a firanger, and took Tbere are n:aoy ot: my family, , which bve
thee in r or nal{ed. :tnd c1c thed thee r he:it\l of m ~# and wi li w tich th~ Spirit of Cod
39 Or when f:t\V we. thee fic.k, or in priJon, h;;s g:vcn me fuvor, that do rlOt w ot ei ~ her in-
ana came to thee. ? ~J '
clination or abilirv to d~:monfl:ra~e their ft kuJ-
·40 And the IGng will,arlfwtr1 3nd fay to them-, fhip; but they arJe dett:rred, frb:11 a' fear of uf·
Verily 1 fay to you, in as much as ye have done ftlld_i.Jg Government, ar.d frv:n a fear~fiucurring
it to one of the l~3n of~ hefe my brethren, y~ the ltnpltation of guilt, by being g'"n~rou:;.
bare done it .to me. · ,...1 he . prf'"·onlaioed and d;1igoed fignet of •
prare, lqr. all nations, cannot dv "LIY t:1inrr thJ.t
lSABELI~A \VM<~, this 1s tbe record~d teCH·
will ul timately teod co iojurc c.ny prince~~ov ..
moafv of !OVOUr cverla{Hng life, which I am co'll·
~tnme~t or ~odividual; if they view hi3 wurdii
manded t~ give in this book cow, and to re eat
1!1 a contrary lighr, it i.s l> caufe tlu:.r. calt1Ub~e
it at my rc-.·elation. ,f

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the future l)y the palt ; they kno\V the things St. John the BaptHl ~ he will potfefs the Spirh •
which were Ia(\ month, but have no know lodge of God equal to Elijah, and have the power of
ofthofe tbioill which are to be the next. Fo~ all hi. fire in ' the fame manner. He will turn the
he clues bv ~ritiog, is to pt·eferve the weak altve, beans of the fathers to the children, and lhe
'and fave ;he {lrong f.-om f~lling dow~. . l1eans of the children ro the fathers : ,that is, he
The weapons of his writing ar~ not weak willli.Jpprefs war and vioJence, which ft!' ts the old
' and carnal bttt 'mighty and fpiritual : when be e~gai'lfl the) oung, and the young again(l rhe old.
is ordered' to re-pronounce the judgments of · He will command peace, and by the great power
God, and withdraw his eye from pity, the great givfn hi!Jl from heaven, enforce an obedience
power of bis wortis will be fd~ to de(lroy, before wherever he come::. .
their effdh are fcen to admomfh. ;.· -then, fleeu, 1
The appointment of this prophet, bt>ing to in·
armies, princes, governments, and nations, vite fidl, and compel after, all nations to come
molt implore the God of heav-en for mercy. a~d into the ldngdom of peace, as a necdlar}' prepa-
receive it likewile; or they will, aB that rem~m J'ation to meet Chral when he comes to \'ifit and
from the fword, be cut off by the fu(Jden and Ir- judge the world: Saint John thr: Bapdf\:, for
rdiaible falling of fire. ?eing appoint~d to prepare for Chrill-preach·
1ng the fame kingdom of peace, and promi!ing,
THE PR.OeHE r MALt\ CHI, Chap. iv • . by baptifm, mercy to all that would believe,
5 Behold, 1 will f~nd you FJjjah the prophet i; the ·real and very reafon, that ChrHl, in the
before the coming of the great and dreadful day fe•enteemh chapter of St. Matthew, calls him
of d1e Lord. ' Elias.
6 And he fltall tut·n the.heart of the f~thers to
their children, and the heart of .,the ch1ld ren to
tht'ir fathers, left I come, and . fmite the earth A~ a former time, when I was entreat1ng God
with a curfe. to !pare London, I mentiofted no mao by his ri-
- The Elijah, mentioned ,in this chapter, and · le: but when I was writing an acco•Jnt of it for
the meH'eoger, mentioned i~ ~be firf\: verfe of the public iaformation, he faid to me, " unlcfs you
third chapter, mean two dt~ma perfo~s. The \-vrite their titles, they themfelve~ wont lmtJw
one was the imm~diate mdleoger ofClirt!l, when ' ~bo you mean. It wil4 appear ftrange, hecaufe
be came for the falvation of mankind ;-t?e. oth· . am not ;H:quainted with any ef the dHHnguiihed
er, his recorded prophet to pronounce h1s Judg- pe-rfuns alluded to; but I knew every one b.;· fome
ments, and warn the world, before he comes to flarticutar aa th~t caught my approbation, and
ddlroy it. , 1ade me remem~a· them then. It feemed as if
This is tbat great prophet alluded to Jn the
God had done this on purpofe, for he has ofleO
lall chailterJ u1~der the name of ~lijah 1 and not faid to me fince 1 iQ vifions and revelations at

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r1ight, you mufi: be a wall of deftnce and fafety · ment under him on earth, amount to a falfe
to many a great man ;-yes, even to fome that: oath?
defnire you now. At that time, after mention- Thefe r~afons with thefe obje&ions, and the let-
ing' the name V/illiatn Pitt, l paffed by that of ~er J r~cetved from th~ admiralty, fiating their
bis brother; immediately after the Lord God. Jnfuffictent power to d1fpenfe with I be ufual form
reminded me of it, and, in a voice of great foft• offwearing, I pub)ifued at that time in the newf-
nels and good nature, Clid, There is John JJitt, / })aper called the Public Adotrlijt:t. '
wont you mention him ? You dont know who
he is 1 fotgave,
Durin~ the 'rime of m~ writing officially to
In the year of t 790 the fpirit of God begun the f\ t'mtralty, I had occafion to wri:e aHo to the
firfi, ( althou~h 1 always had a prefentiment or P;dident, whom I knew to be a mell!ber of the
being fome time or other very great,) to en· council; with the bufinefs of Swea.ring 1 whiclt
lighten my underUanding, and ttach ~1e to dif· )~d me to make an application, I remarked to
tinguifh right from wrong. At that nme 1 was lnm, That as men, whether few in number or
an officer io the navy, and confidered that volun~ the .inctea~ d Ululti~ude of a fenate were nor j 0 • •
tary fwearing, which 1 was obHged to comply falhble, they n.cfl: confequently be fubject to et··
" ith every fix. months a!l a quali!ication to re· ror. T~ cor:obor~te mor~ forduly this afferti.
cci\·e my pay, was unneceffary, unjufr, and wic\c .. o_n, and hke.wJfe to tmprefs a cooviftion of its juf-
ed, I requef\ed to be indulged with permHiioo to uce, l ~:ntwned ~mopg ?'her things, a decifion
rective it without· fiating at the fame · time, of the privy council relatrve to a native of Glaf-
the concealrd and unheeded cruelty of the oatl1, ~ow, who had his lhip feized in the \V efi Jndies
with my own reafons for objecting to the form; ' ~ for an uodefignecl infringement of the nnigation
aCl:.
when 1 was told, In anfwer to my requdt, thac
there was an order of coo neil to take the oath, anu After~ leg"l ir,vdHgntion in that couo~ry, it
that it was not in the powet· of the ath~iralty to was clearly .proved, and openly acknowletlged
difpcnfe with it. th.at although tbe ,ap parent de feel in the reg·He;
Soon after this I m:1de another requett, {up"! mtght authorize the fcizure, it could not jultity a
porting roy · objeclions to voluntary fwearing,
with obferviog-·That if the order of council en· }
forced an oath in any manner or under any form
"•ha.tever, and that the m:an it was dir~Ctt>tl [O
operate on, fwore that he . was not forceJ, but
I condt!rnnatioo; becaufe the o ~mander, like an •
homf} marr, !hewed it at the Cufiom,-haufe, and
re.ceiVed the 3pprobation of' the principal officer.
An. a.ppea.] wa! lodged againfi: this :1cqnittal by
the fe1zmg officer in the \V til-Indies, and brought
tha the oath he took was a volun.tary aft-;the before the Privy Council in Englauu !-the fhip
r.fult of tis owtt fr~e wii/,-would it not in the was condemned.
ftgbt of God iu heaven, and eyery rna~ of ti:f(.ern.. To confiitute a High Court of Equity its

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~mbers, to pronounce their judgment agreea·

ble to that very name their exifience as a court members, tc prnnoonce their judgment agreeable
is derived from, mu!l: be governed more by the to that very name their etiftence as a court Is de-
itJt ~n tirm than the prefumptive proof. But to ctm• ' tived frurn, muft be governed moie.oy the lnt~n-
fii tu te a Court of Law. its jud gc~ nm{l be J i.-ea- tirm than the prefumptive proef. B Jt to confil-
ed by the cx prefs letter of the aCt of parliament .tute a Court of Law, 'its judges mutl be dirttled
under which t.hc:y officiate. by the exrreis 1etcer of tht aa·of parliament un-!
~r which they officiate.
17or examtJie, two men go into a forefl:; while
' Forexa.mple, two men go into a forefi '; while
the one h t'ccchiflg a hl w to cut down a tree,
the one is fetch:ng a blow to cut down a tree,·
the axe fltes from the handle 11 nd kil l:> the other: .
the axe flk.s from the handle ana kills the otl.ler :
Here is prefumptive proof of 0111td c r, and the - Here is . a prefumptive prnof of murder, and the
]a w very jullly brings the furvjvor to trial, But
law very juftly b1iogs tlie furvivor to tri~l. But
equity, viewing this. circumfi·ance in a proper e'luity. ~ie\ving thiscircumftaoceiot proper light•
Hght, ·declares the Innocence, and acqmts ac- dtc1ares £he innocent, alid acquits accordingly.
cordingly. Another, and mo!e revelant to the feizurtt.-
Another, and more relevant to the feizure.- , A man buy a fiamp, to legalize a bond for the
A man buys a iLunp, to leg'll :z':l a bond for lhe hetter fecuri :y of trading with his money, 01 in
betrer fecu1 ity of trading with his money, or in plainer larrgt~flge, lcn'di11g it o_a inu;.re~!f; to be
plainn·lan5:ta; c, lendiJJg it o'- i .tm:fl ; to be cer- • cen~in that this Hamp ~s warran tably jutl, ac1
rain that rbis lhmp is warrantably jnll, accord- ~or ding to the prek~H>ed forms of law ,.)e iliewi
ing to the prefcribed forms of h w, he fl1ews it at lt at the Stamp ~office, whet!.' it is acknowledged
tl1e ftamp-office, where it is acknowle.dged to be to be good and fafe : ~ after this, in confequence
good and fafe : after this, 1n con~ lJJe nee ?f ft>me · of fotne defed, it is declared to be illegal, and
defefr, it is declartd illeg;d, and the ho ll1er Cub- the hulder fubjdt to a penalty.
jetted to a penalty. . I believe eve y man on earth, that h2s tne
I believe every man on earth , that has the com- common facu1ty of diilinguithing white from
mon faculty of difl:inguifhing white from black, 'black'., will agrfe with ~e in fayio,g, thtt it would
will agree with me in laying, that it would be be repugnant to equity to fine the holder for a.
repugnant to eq uity to fi,,e tht' holder for :1 deh~l: defect that he had no .knowledge of as fucb, and
that be hau no k1:owle<ig~ of as fuch , and for wh at for fihat was authorifed ·by the very office of
was anthorif·. d by the very office of gu~ernment, government that always ·trufd the ftamps.
that always iffuecl the th mps. The law fuppofes rriminality from the ap•
The la\\' fu,.,pofes criminaliry f.·om the ap· Ptarance; but eqll.ity mt!afmt1 it trom the d~
pe-arance ; but' equity mcafurcs it from the de· ' i£u. The one i& ~ternal a.ll4 yifible, providN
'gn. The one is external and \ iUble, provided E

[
~ ily yean Jiefore it may be 'W&nttd : the Oth t I
is int~rna1 and {pirittlal, ~\ways a}.ivc tn the to be i~mir~d and regarded; he fhould wear
heart of ev~ judge that poffelfes prudence, fuch a durable coronet as woula make him the'
learning, atfd penerratlon, . tnvy of princes; it fhould be a coronet that no
\Vhen I' was writing of the(e thing~. to the . human power woold ever be able to rt>m ve ,
Earl of Chatham, .on t'I!Y knees- 1 made a folemlt As 'the Admiralty would not give me ~hat
\low to the Almighty God. decliriog that if he reafonable indulg~~ce I requtfied as tht:y wo~ld
would be plea fed to enable me, l · would moft not filew me that Ktndnefs which as men lhrin'g
furely procure an indemnification to; the poor by tlie navy • they might have done "'ith afe ·
111an that loft his 1t ip. Since that time the Lord 2nd witho~t p~ejudice to tbeir di~nity; 1 want:
·Gad has told me, by r~vel~tion at r.ight, Tt,at ed for a b1t of bread to ·eat: I as . befldes 'treat-
be would moit truly enable me: for 1f lliked, I td fo ill, u to be dragged to a workhoufe vdth-
filould bt: Prefident of the Council, and Chancd- ()Qt any legal authority, again it every rem on- ·
'lor of the Exchequer: llllould haYk any thing ftrance I c,ould ma'ke, 'and againft every tbre3 t 1
that I)required. Immediately after this, 1 heard \:OU}d make ute ofto call tht:m toil ttritt account
another toic~ from hea~en, fay 1 the Lord have for the. inju1lice. The admiralty knew all this;
· n:ercy on themJ if they had not you tor their they m1ght have prevented it, by ordering what
friend and counfeilor; for England is. the Spi- Was due to me to be paid; but they would neirhe"'
ritual Egypt mentioned in the 1 tth chapter of llr~vent the evil, nor enable me to be lib 1ared;
the Revelation to St. John. · tbt!y wo.uld not or~erthe payment of what wu
After making the numerous rt-prefentation' , due, unttl open fai~hood was made ufe of to fay
1 have mentioned, the Earl of Chatham~ wi:tt 1 was out of -tny fenfes. It feemed as if they:
!reat ptopriety, acknowle<J11ed their jufiice (() were_ un<ier fome private tpptebenfion, ~thougk
far as to eraf~ the wotd Yoluntary frotn the pre· pleated with my diftrets, ot being charged one •
fc:ibed form of f'!tearing: bt.rt [ was then re· day o.r other in the eyes ot their country witll
1nmded of the words ot Chriil in the S\h chap- llnfeeltn·g ~ruelty. 2Jld w•nted fome ldnd of col..
ter, 34th vetfe of St. M•tthew, and 1lri8ly our2ble ev1dence to,juility the proceeding.
c?mmanded to obey the:n. Soon after this, I . ' h J:Iea~, therefore, •all :nations, and be warr.e
!eque~ed frotn the Ad'lt!r~lty, ~m~often repeated eft~, what ,the Lord God has told rue by rev-
n. a dtfpenfing o der that 1 might rective fny p~ t au?~' ~nL'. now. tommands me to \Vthe, that
widlo~t an nath; but they woul~ not grant it, h~e lnJur~es I. received becaufe done for obeying
If tne Earl of Cha 1am had ~ewn me the 11
word an the bleffed gofpel, the remembrance
(mall fuour I alked for, and cenainly it would ~t them fbould l"ever be hlctttd out trom thf!!
·have been but a very {mall ol)e ta him, he .' T~one of hta~tn. Moreover, ~f f-aid Jikewif:,
· ~ oultl be held up to the world, as my friend, f a at he wvul~ .{hake the Engliih arlmiralty u ·
, · ~an would vaoJently bread in a ba~et, u

fin tnd bltfphemy, fball. be fotgi~en to meff ;__ _
bur the blafphemy agaioft the Holy Ghoi\ {hall
be loored the fouhdation• of the earth and fhook mot be forgiven unto men.
the place in pieces. ' ·• · 31. And wbofoever fp.eaks a word agail'lft the
If. I am ·out of my fenfes in the opinion of tht) SOn of Man lt fhal\ be forghen him; but who·
~dm1ralty tor refufing firft to tak~t an idle oath. foever fveakt . gainft the Holy Ghoft, it'lhall riot
seco~dly. a falfe one, and thirdly: to take any: he forglven him, neither in this world, ntilher
Chntt the Saviour of tlie world, ancil him that ln the worlti to come. ., · ... ·
Ifaiah tke pronhet calls \Vond rful Counfellor
who prohibits' by his Gof~el in the ftrongeft ST. MAT.~HEW, C!t(lp. v.
terms all kinds of.fwearing, muft, by · the fame,
rule ot lmowledge, for giving fuch a command be
, vut of hi a: - ?
:u. But I fay to yoa, that whofoevit is ibgrt .
Wlth his brother without a taufe, fhall bt in dan-
.· As the Quakers never · fwear, and their ob; J:r 0! the judgment : ~nd whofoever fball fay tC)
)e~Uons to it tre fantlioned by ~ jufr indulg~nce lits brothe;, Raca, Oiall oe in dangt-r ofthe
o~ bw ; t~ev, the l,;n g _and pidament. for council: but whofoever (hall fay, Thou tool,
gtvtng the mdulgence, muft for the fa~ reafoB ljhall be in danger of hell tire. ·
as I am. be out ot theirf-. • To infult any per{op, wbethet. high or low;
Chrfft h~ving been abufed at Jerufalem, req~ ~tch or p<>or,, of wbate\·er rea or denomination.
pro~che~ wtth having a. devil, being mad, and that preadies or writes throug\l the Holy
out of ht& fenfe~, makes it the.lefs afconilhing for Ghoft, which is itldeed the true fpirit of G11dt
• me. that am hli fervant, to be re'I!Hed in the raroe . by faylng that he ls foolilb'• tnad, or pott~ffed
manner : For wlikh the Lord G!Xl commands · With a devil, conftitut~• the dugereus fin of blaf·
me to remind all men, from the tellimony ot his )hemy in men at thia day! a~ wel\ as it did form•
b~effed Gof~e!, that the fin is blafpnemy againft edy in the P barifees, when they revil~d <..:hrift.
h1a ~ lly Sptnt, and that t~ punUhment is ever.- As the gooa fpirit·may, by diligent attention•
la1lmg tire. be eafi\y known from tlie evil, and tht true \}ro·
Iris from vitio111 a~ rev~latlon1, and through tlhet trom the ft\fe, remember that no man.
the Holy. Ghoft, that I write this book for the !peaking or writina under the diteBtun of the
~ benefit ?f all men ! tberetore; to fw it is falft, SJ'irit of God, can revile another• encouraun
that 1 '\II\ mad, am ,an 1mpoftor, have a devil, aas ot lnjulUce,' or oifturb. fo·f;iety, by pre in~:
or am om of my fenfes. conftitutei tb~ da.ngeroua lng violence in any tnanner what(oev~•
in 9f bla.fphemy. . •From the Spirit of God flows 'all tl1e good
thtngs which are necetlarv to increaft' the lite
• ST. MATTJiEW, C1:4p. :tii~ f M~n, ana UnLte ll nations und~r the gofpel
. . ~
l W~t:~~fqrc l f~y to ~"h All i.

; I f rst l
ltond of Chrtftiauity and friendlbip ; ther co~
fift of love, peace, civility and kindnefs;-,-by a 2-i Abfhtn from all appearance of evi~.
ftrzc\: attention to obferve the good fpirit that l.J And the very God of Peace fanatfy ~~ll
~ncourages tht!fe things, may be eaii.ly ·di cersed wholly: and t pray God that your whole fpmt.
from the evil one that oppores them. artd ~ ul, and ~ody, may be prHerve~ ll1amcleft
to the coming of our Lo~d J~fus Chafu ·.
I ST. PAUL! To' THE EPHESIANS, \ • ,. ,1
' Chap. iv. ' ~ CORINTWIAN~, Chap. tl.

19 Let no corrupt eommllnication proceed.
eut of your mouth, but that which is good to u. Now we hue received. not the rpirit oi
• the ufe o~ edifying, tliat it may miniiler grace the world, but the Spirit which is of God:-···.
to the hearers. thi\t we might ,know the things wbich ..~re itee.,
3 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, ly gtveo to a; of qod. .
whereby ye are fealt!d to the·day of redemption. 13 Which things'alfo we fpetl<, not tn ~he
. F Let all mtternefs, tnd natb, and anger, words which man's wifdom teadu:s! but ~~tch ..
and clni10ur. and evil fpeaking, b~ put awai, .the Holy Ghoft U~Ach~s; .compa.nng fpmtu~l
from you, with .1ll malice, wings witb fpitit~l. • • ~
31. And be ye kind to one another, tender· 14 But the natural man receive& not t~e thtn&'
~f the Spirit of God, for they are toohfhnefi ro
he.med, forgiving one another, even as God, I •
for Chrifl'i fake, has forgiven ·you , · bim ; neither can he know them, becaufe ther.
The Lord J~fUJ ChrHt, the better to prevent •re fpiritual~y difcerned. . . .
the commiffion of fin, 1nd rh~ fall of man, for ·15 But he that is· fpiritual JUdge. aU tbtpgs r..
there is no Saviour but h'm, &gins with firictly yet he himfelt i> judged of no man, ,
prohibiting the le[er but poifonous ames of COLOSS1ANS, Chap. ii.
fiattery and falfehood, that they lhould not, by '
.a frequency of ~fe, corrupt the mind, and en-
any
8 Beware, left . . man fpoU you thr~~gl\
fhilofophv and vain deceit, aft~r the traditLon
creafe to the ~ore da~gerous onea of blafphemy of tnen, :Jfter tht rudiments pf the t;orld, and
and rebellion. . •
. ' not after Chrift. ••
No man ought to advance the wr1tmgs or
FIRST Ox-' 'THESSALONIANS, Chap. ~. •pinion of another to ~fi: his own,. when
what he fays is proved to be in oppoUtiOD to
19 Quench not the Spirit. the _words 9f Chrift; neither ought he to go
~o Defp1fe not prophecyingr back to the Law, which was for the Jews atom~,
1r P.rote all things; hold f&ft that whi~h if In their own country' to loolt for a prt:cfd~ntll
oud. ,lo tavopr his delufive method •f reafontn9~

L IS~ J, { 15) )
·hett the thing he wants to j~fiify is quite con. 9 As w.e faid hefor , fo fay I now ~gain, 7
trary to. the bl~ffed Gofpd of peace and falva• . any man preach any: other gofp.el to yo• t all
'ion. , that ye h1ye rec•.ived, let him be ar.curfed.,
1hejo!lowing are ih~ #'lfdJ 'Of St. Paul, in the
fourteenth chapter tfJ tha CorinLki(rn.s, whiciJ 1
.am c~mnianiled to ill{ert. as jufl~' applicrtble to . 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with ~od tor~
mat~ at"t!ril z.im~; 'PhetJ jome. p.;peffing 111! ' I!Ompence rribulation to them that trouble yo111.
'fpnitual ~nowlcrfge, as the_1 tlioug!Jt, exalted 1 And to you,' who are troubld1 ret wttn
tlum{clveJ_';J_ainft him, 1111d doubted lhf jfirit': ns; when the Lord Jefus fuall be ~e~ealed tram
u~l·ttut/1 OJ 1P~at !11 faid. . hea.ven, \\'ith his mighty ange1i.
8 Jn flaming tire, ttking veng~ance on them
'Perfe x:rxPii. If any man thinks himfelt to~~ that Kno\'\T not God, and that obey not the got:·
I pr~phet, or fpiritual, let hiin acknowledge ·hat ', ' pd of o.ur Lord feCus Chriil. .
the things 1 write to you are the commands of 9 \Vho fbaU be put:1Uhed with everlafting de-
the Lr,rd. ' .. • ' ftrqClion from the prefence of the Lord, and
38 But it any man be ignorant, ' let him he ftom t~e glory of his power.
gn.orant. That b, It any man is not frirltual It is time to awaken all nation; from their
to difcern rhe works of the Spirit ot God, ·let .fieep of dduii~e ftcurity, by in1orming them,
him conceal lm ignorance'; let him nut t1Jea thtt the time llluded to t f St. Paul, in hi.s Se..
againft rbem, becauft! he has not tht! ·fpirit to cond £pi1Ue to the Tbeilalonians, is come.; and,
difcem, faith to beaieve, or ~now ledge to c;oar that ther~ is a grtat alling away from an obe~
prehend·their truth. . • . dicnce to the .bletfe~i Gofpel. And likewifc to
ihform them that Satan has been revealed; the
GALATIANS. Cltap. i,. t • of
age the,gorld is great, and the time is come \
for it; he is now a\lmved raote power) becaufe
6 I marvel that ye ate fo foon removed from lin is increa ed, to influence ana d~<:e-iv,e mltl
lilm that called yea into the grace of Chr1ft to than at any tillle lJ er bef• re. I am the :Prqphet
anot~et gofpel ; ~. ~ to whom the minifter ot fin waa revea~e.a; he is
7 Which is not another; but there is fame • a fpltit, and no man can fee hil · he open
that trouble you, anti would,pervert th~-gofpel . .day·llgh~, unlcfa fanltified by the power ohhe
of Chrift. .- Holy Ghoft', and hi£ eye fight ftcen ~.hened .far
8 But thott~h we, or an angel from heaven. the purpo{e. ' · ·
preach any other gofpel to you than that wh1~b lt i• for this· u fon that I ~m the appointed
,.e have preached to you, Itt h1m be accurfcd• Wi\nef& for iod, and k!s laft Lt:co~~ed prophet
. "'
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I . . .. • d •.
'1mder a. large tree:; foon aft~r 1 ~eheld a man,.
Cl
to e ptintecl, and· e~:t:n fotl_le ot tt . one, tne·~
that lay conceal~;d ar:nong the , branches, drop prj me. was ad\'ifed not to do r.. ~~cordt.ng t(; _my
d~~~ fottly, ~nd · wnh a *harp $ieee ofiron." t'onn; f•)r, if he d\d, proft:cuuon, trrlrrlton-
Wtuch ht:: bela tn his hand, ftab tht: Bear ; pro- rnen, and rerhapl hanging, wo~11d lje the con~
~ouncing, ~she did fo, I have watched a long fequence to hiro. For which the. ~.ord ~.od ..
tune for you, bUt now 1 have caught you at lafi. comm:wd!i me to ke-ep back he aodH onal tn-
I know by r~velation from · the Lorn G0cl tormatiol~ that otherways wonld be gtven, and
.that this vifion mean~ the prefent emprefs uf terminilte the book:
R~fifa ; for which, bemg permittrd I give h.:r 1 h;\ve faid already trJat the fixth chapter ...of
1h1s warning. 1 the Re\·datiun w~\s now tulnlling: tht: jaw Pi'fl
Let the death. of 'the kings of Sweden and je.JJ" a e vpcned, and the c~veling, ~\'hich k pt
France, whk~ IS bur a little time paft; 'th~ the me~:ning of the piOfhectes a protound fecrt:t
~ath of the km g of Spain and another • whi ell until the prefept ti!J1e, is temuve~: the rt:.Cofde~
~111 (oon tak~ place, f~ they ar~ purftled; c~n decrees are held up, 01 ,d Gvd hirnfelt c rr~rmndSa
' Vnice the prmc~s afld th~ people of Europe, knqwled~e of heir contents t•.' b~ publllhed for
( 0 , h l
th~ good of aH nations. But 1f I cannot ~vet 1e
•
that th_e feven.tli dl2pter of Daniel and the fe·
cond ot Hagg1a are now fulfiHing. · cMntnands of God, and a knowledge of his judg..
At a former time, wheJl the Lord God wa1 mellts, printed -ex.l\:ly as l write) how is this ex-
infirulti·fi·g me !n ~ knowledge of the la w,s and . ten Go~ nf mercy to be known over E~rope, and
"<>t~er .trungs; relative to the nation I am ap- .tht people of ~ondon inf?rq:td of any danger
·l'?tnted to ,govern, he ftid, in a vifion of the ' thab is f'aff, ur any dangertnatls to ~ome? A)lthe
~tght, .When l · bri~g princes and people from prophecies in theScriprure were gtvtn throug!t
all nattons to bow down to you; when 1 begin ' men : the Nineviu:s '<\:ere warned thiOllgh one. ,
to exalt you above the kings ofthe ·eanh·-·Be ' is
Haw the kin.,. to fa~e him!~lf from that re.-
fober' be modefi, be Jea{onable. And immedi-
I
corded ·}c:tcrmir.ed, and unavoidable death,---
~tel~ after h~ added, You ·mar intorm the king ' whicl~, all the power& ot almi~s r_cannot xre..:
()f England that I cal1 ybu m~nepllew. vem? How u ondon a11d the parltam~Ht .to be .
_Oh the 3q of March, 1794, I was in a vifion faved, w he11, thty are ~t;!cvrded ~n the Scrtp~~re
2?d faw _the fun in ;ts full ftrength, dear and , of truth to b~ deAroyed? Hew IS England, Eu-
n ~e, and molt parts of the wor1d tu .be f~ved ,.'
1
· btgh up m rhe firmament : foon after I faw ano- 1
, ther fun rife on a Judden, equally large as the when tht:y are recorded to be fil1ed ,nth blood
former, .acd fi~Hd clofe by it; both fhone with . by, war~ and to he m.tde defolate .fot ever by
t:q~d bnghtnets, and tbe Iaft, as well as the fir11,' earthquakes, if ti:te perfon 1 emr.l~y ts deter~e~, ·
enl1ghteued the world: . . b}' the fears of ,profecution and ~\·tl,. from pnn ..•
i\.tter.the firft divifion of ~h,is copy was feut ·ng the fu1 copy, euctly as l g~ve at? ,
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The kfng of Egypt and bit eop!e "ere 4e·
flroyed be~aufe tney wc!Jld not believ~ ' Mo- ing it contains is through me, yet it I$ ~ot mtne11
Ii ~; but the king of 1 in~vah nd. his people llut God's ·
were favcd, becaufe they Clid nelieve 1 nab, and I I RIGHA 0 BROTHERS.;
l'efonn. .. · . LMilon, o. 57, Paddington ~ reet, t
The ktng of J;:ngland, the 'hanceilor of the ' 1 nh of theu.ondl called .dpril, 1794· 5
E ·chcqu~r, fecretanes o · ftate, other member '
§ §§§§§' §S-§§§§§ •
of ad'Hlinifira ion, and as many mem ers of
both houfe · of p~rliau1ents as my ability ~ill
allu;v ; rhe hlthops; judg~~. and all the foreign
ambiilfadori in London ; 'Yill have a boo f::nt
., SOME OF THE I!R'oPHECIES ,( ~
to each. " · ll'fJic. me~o myfelj, arid ~·h1c.~ .l am commanded

Gn ac~ount of my ~ing infulted, beca fe the :a it;fort_, t!.·e tJj;j'~iu!ed tltfle bewg now fulfilled.
· vs_q_o no belle"'e in the f1rit book, by a pub..
. lie acknowltdgement of it6 the Lord God com· DE u T E~ R 0 N 0 ~1 Y,
rna11ti nie to remind an men of what is -wrote chap. :x·;.·iiT. ·
in that book, and to fay, ~hat as the Jew~ do
not b:liev\: in Chrin, it c1nnot be expetted that
they will in 1.e; mith.er JJ:'e tfey, .un~ill am r,e-
vealed in a fimllar manner to Motes tn Egvp~, '
but wtth the ~ddltional potvet of fire , ash~ flgn,
to mak!rthe0'4
The r.iuht before I had 'nlfited this bool~ :t)r
tne prei;, ~he Lor Gpo 'mewed it to , me in ~a
l'Hi~n ready primed, holding it up at' the fame .
tlme by one le f~ and tl aklng all .the oth~r
open, wHle he~ pronounced llrong clear
wor-dss anu commanded iJe to \ Ytte th~m down
-e~n81y ··: b~~fpol~e., for univerfa\ information :
· Thtre is noth1ng iJl thi~> ' boo htt the Eng-
lilh law ca ak.e hold of :---So fays Him that
f
lfAjah the·prophet cal!G \Vonderful Couofdlor. .

I teqQe!l evety body, in all natiots, fo read
this book with attention, nd receive. it avo.ur·
• bly; to although the information and w rn- .
f;
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1 a fimPar chantter, accord~ng to ·his · ov.r , 2. Thefame was in· the beginning with God.
words, l;ke m;to me. , • 3' All tbiogs ,were madeby him; and witH..
. FoJ Chrj!t is ~h.e e.a~·?f all prophecy ; fro~ out him was not any thing made th~t was made.
I 'hltn fl,owsthe ~ lVJDE) ~ plrlt Ot tmth j he jg ~Or 4 ln hlm wa' lite r and the J:fe was the lignt
and CTod; he 1s'all that l~aia.h fays of him---the of men. And the light fbone in darknefs ; and
':\fonde~tul Cuun ..£:llor, the Mighty God, ttie ' the dar .mefs comprehended it not. There wa.l
EvulaO:mg Father., the P ince ot Peace. a man fent frum .~od, whofe natile w~•1?hn.. . _
· Mofes was but a man, ~nd to a man like hirn-- 7 The tame came for a wttnef•, to b~ar Vlit·
felf he anudes; as the Lord. himfelf like wife de- ner~- of the lighr, that all men through hitn
clares in the three following v~rfes. night believe. H~ was not that light~ but was
1.7 And the ~ord iaid to me, They h~we well fenr to bear witne~ ot that light. That was the
fporen that wh1ch they have fpoken; true light,. which Ugliteth every man that cornea
18 I will r.aife them ·up a prophet frbm a- into the wor-ld. ·
mong ·heir ~rethren, Uke unto thee·' and I will Io He was in the.world. and ·the world :was
• put my w ort.t'> in !1is 1r.0nth, aild -~; th411 fpeak made by him, and ~he world knew him n?t· . •
to them all that I tommand him · I I He came to his own, and his own recei·
~ . 19 And·1t fb come to pa~, .tha~ .whofoever
an I ved him not; but as many as rec~ved him, to
w1U nor heark~n to my wotdi, which he fuall them gave he power to oecome the fons of God&
!pea~ in my name, 1 wi!l require it f:)f him. . · W ·ith. were horn. not of blood, nor of the
I I will ofthe fielh, nor of the will of man, but of
' 1/ze Teftimony givet; ~}'St••lltitthtJ~ the A}olfle · God, ,
oj who Chrijt·was, Ckap. i. · 14 And the word was made flefh, and dwelt
, among us, &c. , ·'
11 Now a]l this was done, that it migAt he .
fulfilled, w~ich was {poken of the Lord, bY, the The TejlimonyJiven kv St. Paul 1. Timsthy•
.prophet faymg. .. •. chap_, izi.
:n Behold, 2 virgin fhall . with child ani
fhall br~n-g fort~ a ion, and they fuall c;ll b~J t6 And without controyerfy, great is the
na~ Emmanuel;·,w id], being interpreted_. ia myfiery of godlinefs j Gl'd ' wu maniteft in the ·
-fi{oa with us. • . • rt Befil, ju1lified in the Spirit, feen of angeli~>
preache~ .to the Gentiles, believed on in the
.
world. and Ieceived up into glory. .
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Ti1e f!Ztaning of tllis Chapter haJ:iug teen a!Jr.. i'.l ldofe& ?' Who ~id the angel fpeak to in .mount
tJ;urmderjiool b;• e;pout.icrs ofthe ScrijiiL re, Sinai from a flame of fire in a bufh t St. Stephen
1 a1n cormnom/ea to i111ert a11d i:rplain it jfJr meant no other here than Mofes.
tnt be:~fir, of all men. , ,. 40 Saying to Aaron, mike us Gods to g be-
fore us; for, u for this Motes, which brought
ACTS, Chap. ,;;. ~~ o~t of the land of Egypt; we know not what
1sbe ome ofhim.
19 Then fled ~ofes1\t this faying, and Wt.t Expounders of the ·sc ptures have .always
a !hanger in the land of Midlan, wh~re · he be· !uppofed that St. Stephen, by repeating in thit _
cat tWO fons. ' chapter the ver!es I have inferted from D uter-
30 And when forty year~ were expired, there •nomy '· meant Chrift to be the prophet tllude4
1
appeared to him in the wildernefs.of mount Sinai, to by Mltfes, which is, li~e llitfl.elf.' to Collett
an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bulb. and iead home the Jews; but he dues not; he
31, 31. S~ying,l am the 'God otthy fathen, repeat• it as an hiftorical accuunt, to remind the
&c. . . council, before, which he ftood for jud~ment,
· 37 'Fhis 1s ·that Mofis. which f~id 'to the ' ~hat as their fathers had before rejeCted M..,fea '
thildren of lf1~-ael, a prophet fuall the Lord an the wilflerneft. fo did they their children re..
your God raifc up unto you, ot yilur brethren, jed: Chrift at jerufalem. But in no une part
like'unto me. does he, or St. Peter in the 3d chapter, mean
Thi~ is hi (f!1eaning ilJoju ftill, and not tne ' that Chrift is the prophet allud~d to by Morel
pro1 ~~~t f1ila~t~ to in thep[U&dillg ~er{e; 1rhowas · . In the eighteenth chapter of Oeureronomy ,··-as
8
'!ot. Curt . nettuer, 11.1 ha_J ai•N{l'S hten erroneouj• tlze jQrtietn verjc ePen jiJffici~nt{y te1ifies.
~· juppo(ul) that was in the church (mflning
the tabern1cle) in the wildernef~ U'lt!J tile r;ng1l REVELATION 0 ST.. JOHN, Cnap. xii.
which fpoke to him in mount Sinai, '
39 To whom our fathers would not obey--• St. John the Apo!tle in this chap er defcrioea
(meaning Mofes) hut tbutfl wim from them, a woman as cloatf1ed with the fun, the moon •
(me~ning ~lGfes! often did he fail; and pray a _ • ~nder her feet (me dzing darhlefs, or the Turk-
. that God might not deftroy the generatioa) - IJh empire in Jji'a) and a crown of t elve
ana in their lieans turr.ed b•ck •again into flars on her head. The fun aliJded to is not
Egyot. the furi in the firmament, neither i& that fua the
Who was the cbnfpicuou; perfon th!t the an.. ~ord JeCu!i Ghrift, a& hat been alwayf. errone:.O
gel ·confiantly accompanied, manife ed himfelf oufiy fuppof~d. · The woman is not the' church,
to. and t•lked with during forty }ears. in the llor yet th Blt'[e8 Virgin, the motht:r of Chritl., ~
wildernefe, accordin~ to, the 38th ve1 e, ~ut aa b~s always been lik~wife enaneouily uppo~ .
I

fed; but thaf ~n means an entire ~an coin.
pofed of flefh and blood like any otlier; and pttfh~~ 1nd the appointed perfon n;tade known
that wcm<u. the Princefs of lfrael.. The ptince to publifh them to the 'fVorld.
1s reprt!ft!nted ~ a fun, becaufe that through' hhn The . prophet E.zekiel io the viflons of God tq
God v. ill ~nhghten th~ world with mole know• him, defcttb';!S the gteat extent, an~ gra~deur ?f
ledge than e~er it had yet, and give a frefil Jetufalem at a tu ure !m~; . and hkewlfe uflts
manifefiatinn of his mercy to v~olorg its dura being go'ferned by a hum!\n prmce.
tion. Tht voman a~ his confort, hreprefe ted This is the verv man, Lhe '!lpppinted ol Goll
~ es clotbed ·with him, and alfo as wearing a that ia now abu1ed ar1d ~ 1 : dy reprcached it\
crown of twt!lve (tars; beCdu ·e. he asher huf· tondon-the: Ctlpital oj dle/ mtu I 1 g.'1)1, tl~ is
bllnd, is prince nf tl1e twelve tlibes. ' m1ntioncd h ~t. Johtr hz tli:: I Ith chupser, Wltll
The- child. who uillem'el1i ull ntJtioJJJ immeili- ietng a hypocritt't al.'ld a tanatic impofior.,
ate(v 1111~er end 1M2t to God, being c ughr up to Rememh€1' thofe things, 0 mv God; and a,g
God a.na to nis throne, mt:ans no mort than the thy ~bunder on 'the 7th of this. mo.mh-Auguft
child . going up to J~rufalem, where die throne ···was to (bew thy full deterrnmanon to th:ow
of God will be o.n earth, 1 h~ wo~an's going down citi~,, and t.o Clafhiu pieces.tne ~ounct~ Qf
into the tldt!rllefs, means going \ip to jeru(a- e\·tl men if thev committed anv \'lolence agamft
·}em alfo ~ the words into the will\erneis ~re me, fo; ot.1trwayJ i sbvulil be lying in th~ .
mentioned becaure the city i& .fituated far inlaizil commo;J prtj(m-· So, 0 my God. t'X~cute; f-1
frem the fta. The Dragon m ans a. European tbey l1ave·no faith tO believe thy jufi· Judgtpcnts,
prince now alive, who will pour out proclamt- nor charity to be civil ~o thy meifengtr that
'fions and mani~fio~ after me, as a flood would «dares thy great offer6 of mer,ty. ,
Hfue from the month of a dragon ~ for Satatl ,
wi/J be IJl him. . • · Firft pubmhed .Auguft the ·IQth, 1794•
At the time G ·d was explaining this chapter
to. rne, he fatd, when l gtve you power to de.
ftroy that man from t~ face of the earth, you
-
THE ;eafon why thefe parts 'of ·Scripture)
will melt into pity and fpare h's H(e., for wbi~h apd the i\ther things . whi61 tol ow, were not
~u my · re pie lhall univerfalty blame you, be- infertea when the fuft edition ot tnis book was
• ciufe he is their ~nemy ~nd oppreffor. 1 hofe. printed is tbe time was not ac,orn.Pllft,ed, 'and
) ftrange D·atnes are given, and tbofe aifficu1t al• . the L~rd 'roy God would not permit tb~m to be
Iufions to be uoderftuod, are made by St. John publHhed until it was. I •
on purpofe to fcal the true meaning ot the pro• : I am now commanded to make them puMtdJ
P,hecie;; and revelati"n an entire fec1et. according known for the information and beaefi.t of aU -
"to tile st!z.,chapt~r; antil the full time is accom~ men : in obedien~e tg whicb ai hia fec~ar..t. uA
tr liet,_ 4~ ·
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SICOND OF SAMUEL, &nllp,

. xziJ. fo Therefore I will give thank! to· the,.
'L ord , omob~6 the
' 8Jathcn, and 1 w1ll fiug pratfes
I
44 Th a: alfo haft delivered me from the to thy name. .

llriviu,&s of my people, (rnean1ng the then chil· Here D'avld. who was not himfclf among
dren of -lfrael, over whom Dav1d was l:;ing.) the Hea;hen, w~s praifin g ~od f~,r his defcend~nt
rfhou haft kept me to be head of the Heathen : that fuould have thi•, promtfe fulfilled to htm,
'a people which I know not Lhall fer~e·me. and who 1hould be among the Heathen.
. This promife to king David th , meant that !I He (meahin~ the Lord) is a Tower of . .
it lh uld be fu filled to him in hia defcend nt at Salvation for his ktog: (meanmg t~e defcendant ·
a fu;ure time; a rna~, a hu~an bdng, like -any of David as king, ruling over al.l nations. under
ther that is compofed of flefu and blood; but the covenant and conftant direli1on of Gog,) and
11 t the Lord )efus Cbrifr, who is God; who thewerh mercy · to his Anoint~d, under David,
~}way• was, ?nd ~ilway'5 will be, tbe head of the 1nd to his feeii for evermore.1
.Heithen, an~ all nations. .The promiff wu That Chrift, the Saviour of the world, lbould
m~de from God w David, to be fully accom- be born of a :Virgii:l; and that he fkould be cal..
~lifhed in ' t:Aat ntan•s deiC'~:ndant ; which de- l~d the Wonderful Counfellor, the M~ghty Go~.,
fctndant, is myfelf; I fh~ll, under God, rule aH the Everlafiing Father, an~ the P:tnc~ of Peace,
nations under the government of the Gofpel to lfaiab th~ prophet filfficrentfy tefirfies : tbat
· fulfil that cuyenant to David, and the promif~ of Chrift was to born, S(. :briatt~ew the Apofiie •
ft by revelation to myfelf. witnefies ir. the firft chapter ot that part of the-
45 Strangers lball fubmit themfe1ves. to me: Gofpel wrota> oy him. · And ~liritl himfelf fa~t
•• foon as they hear, they fball be obedient to lh the 11.d chapter, when fpeakm_g to the Phan..
me.---(1 .e,ming to be /tdji'l~d in hi.r aej&lndatit, fees,···" What think ye of Chnil ~ \Vhofe f~n
1 •; •1
foon they hear of his 1ev1/ation) is he ? They fay to him, Th~ C n ot Dav1d.
~e fays to them, H~w then does David_ in Spirit
46 Strangers' lhall fade away, an9 they ihall
be afraid to C<Jtne out of their dvfe places.. tall him Lora, fayrng, the Lor~ fiud to my,
47 The Lord liv~s, and bldltd be my rock;. Lord tit thou on mv right hand, t11ll make thy
and exalted be the God-the rock of my falva- ~etnfes thy fotltftoo·l ~ H David ~hen call him ·
tion. Lord. how is he his fon ? hnd no ~an w~; ahle
48 It is God. tbat aver.geth me, ~nd that ' to an1·wer him a \vo:-d : ne:ther durftant man,
brings d<lWO the pe ple under me; and that from rhat day forth~ afk ~im any lllore quef..
brings me forth" Jrom my enemies. · tlons:· • '
49 Thou alfo haft lifted me up on high, above The word11 are, " Unto David and to his (~oJea
them that rife up againft me : thou liatt deliver-: for'ever more.'' ,
~ me from the violent ma~ It m ans, to continue in {uc,effion from fat~
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to fon, from the on~ as a mm, to the other a1 a
man; .while the world lafis. .
The ~letfed Virgin M~ry, thrBugh ~~hom 'hriJ
the Redeemer, 'V(ho wa~ &od, ca'fe i11to f116 wot!~,
waa dercenl.ie<l from ktng Davtd: It I& tor thts
that Chrift, though he wa• the EYerlatUng ~a.
ther ar.d Creator of all things, 'is alluded to as
~ the fon ot David. ,
Mary war; firft coufin to that Jofepb, who
waa promlfed to.be her hu£band wllen found
With child _by the Holy, Ghoft. St Matt !lew,
rltapter Ijl. Both Mary and jofeph we_re ce•
fcendtd trom one grandfather, who wa$ Mat·
than ; Ole the daughter of one brot'her, and ~o· .
fiph the fon of the other. Told fife by reY~IatiOJJ
from the Lord God •.
ZACHARIAH, Chap. viii.
10 Thus fays the Lord of Haft It Dta1J yet
(orne to pats, that thert .{hall come peoplr, a~d
the inhabitants of many cit its i and the inhabtt·
ants ot one ity ftla11 go to another, fay ing, Let
Ui go fpeedily to pray before the L.ord, and to
feek the Lord of Hotts; I will go alfo.
11. Yea, many people and thong nitions fhall
come to fcek the Lord of Hofis in Jerufalem,
and to pray before the Lord..
2.3 Thus fays the Lord of Hens, In there
.daya it lhall come to pafs,. that ten men ~all
take hold, out of all· languages of' the natt~os,
even fball take bold of the thirt ofbim that ts a
ew, faying, We will go with you; for we have
eard that God is with you.
)'he time of the worldt meant by the. pt~

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I Alld the chtlc1 Samce1 miniftered unto the

betore Eh ; and 1he ~ord of the Lord waa
f.)r~ee.tom in thofe days; there was no open vlfion. :
And it came to ,,af• at that tlme, w~en !J[
Jlid dQwn in his ,Place, and hi!i .~v.er bepan .
dirn, that he cou d not fe,e, ar.p ere the .
God wmt out In the temple~fthe Lorct,
the .ark of God waiJ and Samuel was laid
n to Sleep.
T~t the Lo.id called, Samuel; 2ncl he
~~•ere·ct.. Ht~e am ~ , ./Jt.,cllae , . :~mto Eli,
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fo n~u hat 1 faw the £afh a.nd O;ifelt thq· pj ~
der. · Bef<Jte tie dtat.b of he, 1n& l()f Swe9eo 1
w-as fbtwn, •u. a viuon, ~ar o t i t~af he
~ ould P4f dilli~(ed QVer fru~ the p oteelion .of
Cod, to pe (tl{)t.
,i
1 know J beta lie the,Lord God lias expl~tne4
lt to me by rev~ arion, that his , Qn meal)ll.
the m;~; 1 fired at to be the prelent king of Eug-
. l,a~d. 'fie will be fbot, but nut k1lled; he will
lse woupded, but not mortally, . .
He as not belleved me at any time.. although
1fully mform~ him in li91., and tince, that it
)lq~ld be fo : , neither w;,ll he qnti\ the ~ery evil
b. d~ted on 1):\n; .: apd v•fitt>d t~n bim,ito ·ncreafe
hts dtftrefs, at a ume '"ben be is fu.rr1.. ul'\ded with
danger-, and loaded wnh uouble; it moft cer~
tainly will. l'hett t!f kin$ .Of England will be
C~llvinced by w and teelir g proofs, but it
will be v~ry late, ;-··Co~paiati~ly when Dea h
knoclts at the :door, that he def~l1fed the olfeu:d
mercy of Gud in q9:r., and comlantly fince his
heft friend, among mtnK,1nd, u faite.
In th~ month called March, 17(14 I was ia
a v~on, and the L•1rd God. 11 ewed me a Iar~
~nd very taU oak tree ; it ftood a1o _; i£ was
~tirely w.itber~~ and all !tt bt'2tn:~e wtre cut
<>ff. \Vh1le-l was confidertn•13 the tref its lone-
ly condition>and D<1ked1·e~ hear.<! -a vtlr'f loud
voice cq,\1 out of hfa~eo, ~w. down Lhat tree
,i111mediately tlife trte w~s Co$~d •ltb a ·thick • ·
c1tmd of datkne(s, ~nd an angel defcended frotn
·God, who ftr.uck the tr~ ,'Nith fo viu1ent a blow
that \t tt:ll to the groundt (dd in.irs fail it made
-a great noif~. · ·
1{94· fi1ft ot t~e. mo~th cal~d Julll tbe

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~ord Go~·ta~ito me, .among othtr thtng!!, in~
vrfion, early tn the morni~g 1 for.l had 1ken ear- .
lltfily praying to ltlm the eventog before to b~tf•
ten my revelation to theJews,:tntl h1fotQ1 me how
long it would be until it too~ place ; 'bee2ure I
"':u daily abufed· as an in1pofi?r:, 'for publithing
hts c mrn'~l1ds, bv wic~ed men ; e\'efi ( ne of
!h led Crt under the in fit,ence of an ev: fr-·r r-·-
¥' ou mull be at Confiantinople, ln your way to
Jeruf.al~m, b thts time the nExt year. ·
The 2d Qf the f-ame mcmtb, the Lotd Gud (aid N U M B'E R S, Cllap. :rxv.
to me; in a v:fic;n on my bed, .early 1n the morn ..
ing~ in brealting bread you muft not anv longer 10 And the Lordfpake unto Mofes,' faying,
Jhy, ~o any ~rfon,~~eac~ and friend!hfp, but u Phinehas the fon of Eleazar, the ton of
fatvatlon onl'{to t'ht' 1-pnitual.
Aawn the ptieft, hath turnea my wratH away
1 l k~ow.t b}r revelation, ~~at Ghriftopher Love, from the chiMren of fratl, ·w'hile h~ v.•a-, zea·
a c1erg:vman, who was n'AJ lv tried~ condemn· kms ft)r my i-1\e among them, that 'J conCume4'
ed~ a1ui t't~t to. d~th in Lo. ~n, jn the veat ()f not tt.e·childien uflirat:l in my jt'llO\lfy.
r6s I, Iud \he divine Spirit of th.e livi\lg Gdd, n Wherefore f~y, Behold I give co· him my
nnd l~Gphe-c·ed hom it. He tefiifted ofme at . (O\'~t)ant of peace :
th:t time under different names~ though a11- ot I 3 And he fball have it, and ,his feM after
tlwm meant one and the fame rerfon · tho\t ot a him ; even the covemmt ·of an everlaftrng prie!l-
iright Star, ~sa Sound of Thunder i~ the Ears hood ; becaufe he was z~alous for his God, and
of th~ .\Vicked, a Lanthorn to. the )ews, and a mace an atonement for the children ofUrae1
Gre.tltMln. .
This is the recnrd~d teftimony which the Lord
rfht: Lord God commands m~ to give this tny God command~ me. to gfve ; and tp fay to
!eil1mon,, and alfoto fay, .that he will !oon'fer:d, You likew1fe, You are ltn~ified by the Ho!y
m al)ger, t~ v:1itation ~f his ju~gment on Lon· Ghoft, the divine Spirit of Truth.
-don, -and call her Rl a ftrld: account for 1hedding The Lortt God commands me to fay to a\l you•
.PPt on1y the b~-'~~d. of this righteous mao, but profeffing Chri~iantty, whom I h~\e, by hif fa·
li.kthiri~ ~ll his o!ht'r f:tfthfui .w~tnefie,. -tred dirtttion, ~cl\nowt~dge$1 to be of the He·
I knot\·likewJ'k, by r:: ·elation fr(l)m he Lo"d hic::wl', defctnded from Ifra$; fo~ you, and youc
Cod, Qnd am ton"'ntu.led to write it duwn: that dri!drf:n -after you, are fome of his chofe.n peo..
~Jhn M1xin iljan D.sut was f:mli!fi.td hy t htt di- rle; not to take cp, iu obenJent~ to ar y bw or
~ • P< pf;-i,t oj Tn~l";, M~ p:opheded, underit.J
.
liiJ !wmaa~ fO?..:l wh~~C\'er, 1:idik~ arms... t~

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4tS Whi~l}e (me~ning Chfift) yet talked to

the people, behold his mother tnd his bretn~eu,
ftood withQutl deirius to_fpeak wfth him.
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~ 3 And it came t~ paff, t~at wlteri ]ef'at had

finifhed thefe parables, he .depart~d then«-.·-
•.4.nd wh~ he was co\]1e ioto hi a own counrr1•
he taught them An \heir fyn~gogue; ~fomuqa
that tRey: were aftonithed, and fai~, · When~
has this ~ t\iia wifdOlD, .ua ~befe JD'btJ
work•? , '
'S ~ ls not this,t'he C1r-pentet'l (on ? ·ta Dot..hif
mother called Mary? ~rid his b~thren {mhlt•.
ing his brothers) J~mn_, .and Jo('ea, pd Shuo~
atidJudu?
fS'6 And his Aftel'f, are they nor U wlth All f
Whence men baa this man ~II tb~fe things ?~r. '
1
1 And they were.offended at him. But jefus faiti
• to tlteJJJ, A. prophet ia not without honour faye
in his own countrJ, .and in hi a otrn houfe,
. '
AIter the Lord Jefus ChrHt was bOrn of toe
ble\Ted V:1rgin Mary, the was married-to J~
•eph'; by wh Jm lbe had fons an~-:daugbtera ··-
the~ were fpppofed, as the unqueftwnable ttf· -.
ti'mony of the Gofpel demonftraces, to be hfa
brothers andJiflerf. ' . · ' I Tbe Lo_rd a;,a tommand• me to ray, for the
St. Paul, the apeftle,-an4likewife St. Mark, lnforma~i9n an~ warning of all men, That
haslefr on rttord ftmilu teflimanies, which sor· ~-ten thit . ~ay the ssth of .. t~ P.refent
roborate fhe preceding one, ·· mo~th j(allfd Qaober, and th! begmntn~ of
Being, Alyfelf, de[cended frotn tbat Ja~,. the month Ci\ltcd fune, l19S, Wtt~outm:nnon""
ing tQ tGY" perfon at ,~,hat particular tune .ta..,.
lne ek/eJ[on f!f M.-ry, by jfJ(eph, whom St. Faul
c~l• the Lord"• trot her, i• the reafon that the
. Jh-at '"t8l'va\, Dl'f rev~lanon to ~be Jev.~ •. With .
s figt;~ tbefame u Mofei in 'Egypt···~d to the ..
Lord God, who 'VU the Lord Jefua Chritt, fai~ pop e of London. will td\e place ; to the formh
to me, aa an expreffion of fondnefs, and ;o man·
iieft hinegard, Yoll rr.~ inform tbe kin' of &g~
p- to receive the comm1ndt of God th.roug .
land that l call ou my llt:p,~w~ . . ~- • ~ ~~all thett j;~_perty and depatl

]olm Wrigllt, are' appointed, and willl:e com•
tnanded by 1\im, to teftify publicly to tbe world
who 1 now ·am, and what my future defigna- ·' .
lion i&. , '
The Lord God.willtnftaence and commind
numbers of hi& people, botlt men and women,
to give he fame public teftimony. He will al-
. f !o give them,. to fulfil tpe prop/Jecy of ]ael in tlltJ
"-.d -ckaptei , 10 'wonderful vffions, d e11ms, and
Gpen figns in the hitven, a knowledge of the
approaching timet. · ,
1.8 And it filall come te paft tfterward that
1 will pour out my fpirit upon all floaii; and
your fons and your daughters fball prophecy;
your old men ~ fhall dre~tn dr~ms, and your
ypung men fuall fee vifion5.
1.9 And alfo upon the fervants -an~ upon the
. 1land-maids in thofe d·ays, 1 wm pout out my-
pirit. . · ·
30 And I will,fhew wonders in the heavent .
and in the earth ; blood, and !ire,. and pUlars
~f fmoke. .
31 The fun fttall betnrnt>d into darltnefs, and
the mooft iato blood, before tbe great and terri-
ble day of the Lord come. · ·
31 And it thall come to~. that whofoev,f
fha1I call on the . name of the Lord iball be de·
livered: tor in Rlount Zion and in Jerufalem
thall be deli,erance, as the Lord has faid, · Aml
,in t!J~ remtzant whom t,~e Lord Jha/t cail.

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' ' tiven t<? them over the third parr of the ~artl1,
fr~s REVIlLA'l{lON to ST. JOHN> Chap,,~~ to kill with {word. and "'ith hunger, and with,
death, and with the beafis of tlle e~rth.
· H'flith relatei to thJ pr.:j~nt. u-·ar---its f. 10g~ejJ··~ · · 9 And when ~e had opened the fifth feal, I ·
ana cd/1 't~uedC~J ; and IU deftru~wn by !he law under the :altar tht- f(Juls of t11em thet were
, woejul bu: :juft)ullgment OJ tJtl ojjended God. ; 1lain for the word of God, and f0r the te!Hmo-
ny whidi th~:y held. · And they cried with a
And I faw when'the Larni,-opened one ofthe loud vcice, faying, How long, 0 Lord, holy
reals and I heard aJ it were ttieJOIInd OJ tlumde~· and true, doft hou net judge and ~vcnge our
one ~fthe four beafts faying, Come and fte.--· blood on them that dwell on the earth.' And
And 1 faw, and behold a white horfe i and ht: white robes w regiven to every one of them;
tbat fat 00 hjm had a bow : and a crown ~v~~ anc it was faid to them, That thty f110uld reft
given to 1\iri:{; _and he went forth c~nquenng; , yet fot a little teafo~ until their fellO\\' Itrvanu
and to conquer. ~ alfo and tl1eir brfthren, tLaf' lboul be killtd as
And when he had qpened the fecond feal, they wer~, iliouiCi be Julfillt:d. .
1 I!eard the fecond be1ft' fay. Come and fee.··· •. The fifth j'ea! ts 110~ Oflened, (JTJd the Jecret
And .there went out another hotJe t.hat was red; propht:C)' L"otztained U'!Jdet it iJ publt.shtdjor the
and pow-erwai ghen·hitn that fat the~eon to iJJjotmatiflll ana ~et:ejit of all ti1f11. -
take peace from the earth, and th~t t~ey fu?uld . The openit;g a/the next /cal, whil~ it [,rmg.r
kill one other: and there was gtven to hJm a fi.Oe 10 1/Je :1 icked, ·wi/1 t:JiztJijejt lO i/Je jtHJ tf.e
great fw d. h' d. , r. t' great power ulld name oj their prince ;rit/1 (:Jou',
~ .And when he had opened the t tr 1e.11, us recorded bJ Dtmiel, far theit deln·e1 ana ami ,
l1ear4 he third bl!aft fay, Come and fee~ And rtf!oration. . .
1 beheld, and lo, a bhck h~rfe! a~d ~e th~t J
fat on him had a pair of balanc~s m hii h~nd.- :· THE P~OPHET DA~1EL, PhaP.. xii•
• And I heard 1 vflice in the midft ct tlie fo.~r ,
beafts fay, A iheafute of wheat for a penny, And at thlt time {ball Michael ftand up, the •
and three meafurea of b-arley for a pe~uy, and great prince wbkh fhnds for the chitdren of
fee that thou hurt ·not the ()ll and t11e _:Nine. .i thy peo1 le; and there 1hall be a time of trouble, '
7 And when he had opened the lOUrth fea' fuch a.s,nt\ler was iince tht:re was a nation, e'\.·con
1 heard the voke of the tourth heafc f~y' ~,ome to that fa~~ timt : mid at that time th.Y p.eoj)le
d f~t? And 1 iii ked and · behold a pale Jhat/ be ae!n·er.ed, f\ ery or.e that t al.f.be tound
h~rfe; ~nd his name that fat tbereon was~ eath; w Iitten in the bool\. ·
aRc' h~U followet} with him: and P0'"e! .was 7he tm. of the ··~'J !!ud~ -
i.ih ,( • 'u
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woe~t 11 f. calamities mmtioned here witl take
· plac~, i~ juft now t!'ome: M~felf, wl~o will be fhewing many fearful fig ;·--there will be fiorm~
rhe rc ealed prince of lfrael, t& the Mtchael and · Df wind, hail, and fkowers of rain. with vio~
the , gre:a prin~e- a11uded to htre by the angel lent thundet in~ a'tld'lightning; --·the very beafts
(peaking to · Daniel: but not the ~otd Jefus of the field, btrds c1f the air, and fillies of the
Chnft viub1y. who is God, and king over '111 : fea, will be frightened : all tbe· inhabitants of
r.either is it the an el that \s mentioned under the the earth Will tremble for their lives dreadi-H!:
t'ame of ~1ichael i11 tbe IiJt/z chapter and 13t~ that it is the .hour of rhtir diflo1ut\o~, andday. I
<~f. univerf~l judgment; fo fierce and terrible
.. 't ,.. ,.
vu~ 4 •
2. And many ot them that 1l&.."'J in t'he ~u,,;. Wtll the great anger of God be m~nifefied
of the earth full\ awake; fon e ro everlaihng - ~g~inft_ a wicked world, p~ofefilng Chrifi· with
life, ana fome tQ fu•me and everlai~ing con~ the1~ hps, but teaching r€bellion ~ againft his
• tempt. · · bleflea Gofpel in their public.law& and forms Qt
3 and they th.<t be wife thall thine as the t>rayer.
brightnefs of the . firmament; ~nJ th~y that f Swearing oaths; the Lord's fupper, ()ttalin!
turn rna y to righteoufnefs, as·the thrs ror ~ver the facrament to remember him and comm~:ro o-
-ar.d ever. r~te. the a.~ful momen.t v. ~l en he ·gave it to his
1
·4 But, thnu, 0 Danielt {but .np the.word~, . difc1ples, .'s ~a de a q~1lification, ev~n n. ·rhe
and feal the book, u.J'en to the tt .<e oftn.e en~ _: · ~oftunrhm~mg, abandoned, and wtcl\ed toierve
many fuaU run to and fro, and knowledge fhtll many public o!fice or employment w!1ate~er. ,
be encreafed. · Of the public prayers. Our Fatht:r t 'hich
8 And 1 heard, but underftood not: thea a~t in heaven; .halloweJ.i be thy name ; thy
· bid I, 0 my Lord. what fhall be the end of ~mgdom come; wlticll i1 the /ringa'om of pepc ~ .
thefe things? . · . Js very. good: but the next form f prayer i~
9 And he faid, Go thy way; ~:m~el ; ~or ~fee&mg God to go forth with fleets and "'ar-
tbe words are clofed up and feakd tz/1 tlte tzme mlt-s: this is very bad, becaufe it is in dirett
of tire n:d. oppofitioo to the former; it encourages ftrife,
to Many fhall be l'urified, and ma~e white. hatred, war• and bl oodllied; it is calling on
and tried; b:ut the wicked ihall ~do wtckcdly; God to keep back his kingdom, and to over-
and none of the wicked fball undertbud ; but throw his own gofpel of pe·ace. Tht worlhip
l~ wife flull undr.rfhnd. of Chriftiam oughl to . be _pure) humble, and
At this time, which is tne t\ir.-: alluded to by P:ace~ble, without any mixture of politica or
the angel informing Daniel, the earth wi~l dueB.10nal conftraint& from human Jaw. · ·
quake, and be rent in many plac~: the he~ven T_he bifuops are called Lords Spiritual.·-·To
or~am a cler~yman, .he mufi kneel down ~fo ·e
wm be convulfed; opeAiDg ar.d. QluttiJlg, an4
" . a btfhop, white he fays, " Receive the _Holy
( .t86 1 ~ay Qf deftrud:ion to punilh difobedi~nce tG th'
t.;hoft tor the office af\d w~tlt of 1 priell in tne gofpe1 is fo" very nigh, tha~ it will ta;k~ plac;
~hurch of. God, now coro~itt~d unto thte by . ·
~efore tlte expiration ot etght months fron: •thte
the impof1tion ot our , bands. Whofe fins thou ~flY·
' ~oak at your wiv~s, your cbil ren, and all
I
Ca\oft forgiv~, th~y ar~ f2r~iv~n; ~~d who{e Jins that is dear to you 00; earth; then confi.der
ou daft tetain, they al"e xetain~J.''
'tik~\:ffe, ~t the ~on[ecration of ~ bilbop,.. it
how great th~ bleffing to have them, to liv~ with~
:and poifefs them; but how terrible the evil tG
is faid, "Receive the Holy G~oft, for the office
and wortcc.f a biiliop in the church of God
fepuat~, to be burn~ with fir~-- .. ~~. die, and lofe
no~v committed unto thee by the rinpofition oi them for ever. .
Remember, -God created man in hie own im-:
OlH hands; in tlie ~Lame of the Father, ~nd of
the Son, an_d of the Holy <;Tho~. ' .Ame;1. ~JmJ· age ~nd Jikeriefs, and created the earth for hit
ttmt , ber that thou Hir up the grace of God, ule ; that man might believe in him, and obefs
'Yhich is g\v~n thee' by t~i.s impojition of out his corniRan·dJ.
He brought the cltildren of lfra~l out of E-: ·
.fa:zd.r,. ·
A~ there is in truth no Lord but God, no man
gypt to ~-ondutt them to the promifcd Iapd~--:.
oughr to a:fume hia~ facred name. No man is_ but when they difobeyed him in the wildernefs~
Spiritul:l h2.t as no~ the HolT Ghoft, ihe divtne
be dettroyed' thoufu,ds of them. He burnt So-
Spirit of Truth; it it hy Chrilt that it is given;
.. dam and Goniorr'\hs. oeca.ufe the people were
and he \vi1l riot gi~e it to any that promotes the' \vicked; but ·he faved Nineveh• which waa alfG
evil of wa,r ·and difobedience to his g•) p'=!l. A, -denounced, tlecau[e rh~ p~ople repented. ·
prince may g~ve to a maR a titl~. bat it Iii Go<l . Tlie ·Lord God is great, merciful, and com;
only that can make him' Spiritual: he cannot pafiionat~ ~o furgive ·an thit oo: entrea~. ancl
give th.~t m,ighty -Spirit wh~ ch he, has not th~, obey his commands ; but be affured) he ia al(o
p;wer to cvmmand, an~ which he n~ver receiv- great, mighty, and po~erfuT, jea1ous of his fi•
ed the gift of ~imfelf. :ro purf~ then'~ny long- c:red name and honor when given to men: ~n!l
er 1uch a fa fe form of ordination aftQ confecr.._~ . lie can do n~w what he.diel ofe1d, tlzey'are te•.
~orded for t5ur · exampl~ rmd wa~ning, that is,
tion, is not~ ~nly dithonorable to the king~, par..
liament. a~d teople of En~land, but alfo a r~ m:erthrows cities,··· ·and d.eftroy multitudes in all
1
inftant. · ' · ' ··
proacn tp th~ bifuops to. attempt to giv.~, ~nAt~ ·
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,Life, ~.l~ffing, and peace, it the, inb.eritancy

the clergy' to knee\ down to recdve.
Turl\ from fuch deceitiul un.manly ~ay$, ~nd o-f the fervanti, the fa~nts, ~nti .the people of~~.
~nieavou,r to live long ; fJr it Is. the wbrd or· Mo~.Hig~~ ,
God thro gh a lft,an that points at the crime,
and warns you to forfake, what muO:, if v'OI:l do,
.
not, lead to 'CeJ.taki death: for "b.:!devc ;•, t~e..
.. ,. me;
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~t crownF, and was more exalted; which I
llEVELATION. Chap. ,;, ,;n;imttJ~ dlarvelled at greatly.
' . \
44 So- I afiv~d the angel, and faia, Sir, what
are thete? He anfwered anJ faid to me, Thete
tl. And I beheld when he had opened tb.~ · be they that have put off tlie mortal clothing,
·!ixth feal, and lo, there was a gr~t earthqu~ke • _ and put on the immortal: (It mean• the Jews,
and the fun 'became black ai fackdoth of hair, who, when I am revealed, will acknowledge
and the moon became as blood: ~nd the frus that the ~ord Chrift is the Lord G d : rh~rt
of heaven fell to the earth, even as a frg tre~ they will put o[ the mortal clothing ot unbt!·
· calls her untilnely"fig~ wheR she is.shaken by a • !tef and error, and put on the immortal cfothing
mighty wind t and the heaven departed a~ a of faith and righteoufriefs) and have contefled .
fcroll when it rs rolled tog.,ether; and ~very the name of Gud: now are r~ey crowned, ~ and
mountain and ifiand were moved out of their ~cei ve palmi• .
places. · . 46 Then i'ai~ I to the angel, What yo?ng
t s And the ~ings of ·r e earth, a?d the g~tat perion ia tliat which crowns them, and gtves.
men, and the nch men·, and the chtef captams, them palms in thei~ hands. Soh~ anfwered ~.nd
and the migHty men, •and every bond{man, and ftid' to me; It is the Son of God, whom tnty
-every free m_an, hid them1elves in the dens, and · have confdfe<i in the world. Then I beg~n
in the rocks of the mountain~: .and faid to the · greatly to cpmmend them that ftQod {o ftiffiy for
tnountains and rocks, Fall on . us, and hide us th.e name of the Lord. '
from the face of him that fita on the throne, The Son of ~. alluded to here, is not the
and from the math of the Lamb: for the great Saviour the Lord jeftiS Chrift, as has been al-
c!ly ofhis wrath ia come; and who shall be a.:. w-ays er~oneoufiy fuppofed; but t hurn~n being;
.le to ftand ~ of fl~tb and blood, like any ot~_r. It ts a man,
tnd l>ut a roan ; though record~d, and honour- :
td with. being called the Son of God. It it
$ECOND BOOK OF !SDRA.S, Chap. ii. mytelf wh (' am tneillan tl at wiiJ be made that
rt~in~: -alluded .to by Ezekie~, in the xliv. xlv,
x1vi. and xhHi. chapters of ht~ Prop he y; and
·41 I, Efdras, faw upon the. mount Zion a in the fecond chapter ofHaggat, ~'11m k.·tzf!.dcm.r
~teat multitude of people, whom I co~ld not 11rc tlin?ul[e:i 1Yiin 1·.=otenc~ atH! war, wi{!' the jail
_· l1utnber, and they all prai!fd the Lord with '/ llrrona an'd the dejiruci'm ~(crmii!J, a;; a pr?- 1
fongs. . mi1~d : a deugnt:d 1igoet, mamrtftt>u t<' the wor ld
33 And in the midft of them there was a by t h~ g1ea~ power .md t'X!en.d!:'d ~o~oefs of God~ _
• you11g inan of a high ftature, t4ller Lhan aU . 1
t is tliat ILiln, wholll G.. d h~s dtUg14e to be
the reft, ~nd upo:a ey.ery oge o~ their headi he ~ , • f1

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th~ :iflbie prince of Ifrad. Af a. believfr in
Goa, (r, ,;:!d through Chr~l!, the di1'in:r Spirit .
:m~n:d, aTJnihi1atr.d, and utterly dellroy~; ~ ',
tcre t 1C ~xpiration of ten n•onths from thts da.y.
(1 Tritt!: . _ anl-1 ap obeyer ot'his rommandc:, he , ~onhoie unhlppy m~n, which compo,fe tt, ,
L a fan, an :tdopted fon : fo i~ every man undt:!r
is i(tbe injuftice 1f the pre\€l:t war w~3 not.fut-
h:3 ·en an :\Ch-towledrred fon, wht:ther ri~h ·Ot ' ftcient tr• provoke him, have 1mprudemlv gone
· l'Oor, that dJes the fa~1ie; and fo is everv wo-
on 7 add ill g e~ir'to evil, and now, more ~hi\n? -
rn an lil{ewife, an adopted and acknowjedged fore, publicly encourage ~lafphcmy "a 0 atnft htm,
ca ughter. .
and ~bufe aoamft his prop11et. Why do they do
· R~m~mber the_ words of the Lord Jt:fus 0
fo? [aid tht: Lord God to me. Why ? h caure
Chrrft tn the C.{Jipe1. when~ he fay~, 1\ Iter this
you have n t their !lla;k, but .my f~al ; you ha\·e_
rn:mnei therefore pray ye Our f<~.ther, wllich
not their authority, the laymg on ot handi of
art in heavet , &c. As God then is our father, . . their bishups, to give the Holx Ghoft to prop~e-
we th:n acknowledge and prar to him as fQcb
Jl"l' rure:l~• his fCinS and d:~ught€U0
cy bY, bu~ my Spirit,_ ~·~t the_le a:e du: mctz tfl~t.
prete11d to "judge oj fpmt., to dtkern the good
.~ll th.at belitve in the" teftimony of-Grsi hy: from the evll : tht:!y fuppofe every rna that
rne,, wluch he nm:'l c()n.mands me to rnake writes qr fpea~ u.n~r the powe: ~nt\ in uencc
kt· 1' :t.·n, a ~e his peopl", a part (!:l'cm~k tlie J•iji· of God, is !l talf~: prophet, an tmpoft~r un~ec
ble .('••r:rar~ ft:et:.~t a! lo(f1') olthatirmumera')le
dt1ufwn ; b€c:1ule the words of trmh, by hu~.
r..-j ·hm tle, ~.hewn by the angel to Efdras, crown- go to contradict. ibeir mark, their hum~n onh.:.
.. t'dw-..~ t(teivjng ' alms,
D:m~es, and political forms of pr~yer.
The L o~d Gn<, command~ me to remind :.til Tile Lord Jefus ChriJt fays, m tne fifteen~h
pe,,pJe of the lnu~ thunder that w~s' on the 7th
chtptcr of the Gofpe\ by St, Matt~t!W, u But tn
ot A 1guft l:.ft, and to fav, It was at. reat from
vain tht'y do worship ~e. ~each1~g, tor due-
him to deftroy London, fooner than fuffer mE" tQ trine$, the comman4menF ot men. .
. t5e hurt: take it tor awarning, and bewa·e uf And becauft: the annunciation ot my .km~dnm
tbe dreadtul confequPnces tha,t wil mofi: certa;n- of peace and· pref~r~ation, .hri~1gs w1th It the
1y rnfue,. if a f!mil r ininry is intended agai ff femence of death ag~tott t~en kmgdom of ~ar
me,: for tf you, the Enelish Gc·retnmerr t, art de- and hum~n -de{hu~1ion; t11erefore, h!:!~r wna.t
ttrmined to n1oleft me, the Lord God i · 01 1fo the Lorrl .Go.d fays to me \ly rt!velanon, i\~ti ..
determinea to oppo(e you·; and wil] vi-fit with comm-.flds me to write, That, :lS thev ha"e .
<Je.1th 1 on his enen1ie~, and with c1rt1ructiori on tncouraged blifphemy_ aga,tnfl me, th.ey sh_,n
rheit capit~l: • For the English Government • . not profper; for _I Wlll r~.na a bhdt _on thdn
l:fJtn n/J"'t r.r col/ad ch·i/ and eccl 'f.aftical, in it... that will coi1founct a\\ the~r counfela. and, a~
- prefent form. '"i!l, by the fierce ang~r and de· tht>v h~we encouraged abu{e againfi: you, whom
~trnlined judgment of the .Lord GQd, bt •rn.:» t 1 .ent, 2.nd whv entreated me tor their good. l

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will deliver them ov~r to the power of their ene-
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~lling by me his WOJd5 in the eleventh chapter
mies; to be hated by fvery body, defpiled; and oflfaiah, a part of which are---But with right-
trod under foot like mite in the 1lreeta. · eoufneri he will juP,ge the poQr. and repr9ve.
Th\! Lam God ·commands me to fay, for the "'ith equity, for the meek of the ~arrh : lntj
information. of the Englith government. the he lhall !mite the earth with tlie rod of his ,
jndg-ei, anti :111 men, that the prifoners, now in mouth, and with the breath of hi:r livs h~ fh.lll
onfinemt:.nt, and on trial for their lives, harg- flay. the wick-ed.
&d ~th the crime of High T ae~fon againl't the .
life ':.. t c king of Engl~nd, are innoc~nt: ai RICHARD BROTHERS.
l4Ch, he requires me to make kno-yvn to the king '
liis facr~d commitnds in writing, and to publi!h Londtn, No. 57, Paddington~Streer, {
this f,Jr the knowled~ ttf all. ' 16th ofthe month calli:d/ ct beit I79t·· j
The Lord God commands me to inform,
througa this book, all that honour tilm---his fer·
'ants ··the peaceable and righteous in all nations, §§~·.H4~§§H§ .
which lu ve had their prtiperty, 'whether in land ·
or money 1 confifcated, fd'r no ther reafon than . THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chap. ·li. '
becaufe the Patio~ they btlcnged to declared
war againft the nation they lived in, all fuch 25 I. HAVE raifed up one from the north,
property, or its full value, with reafom1ble iot~ (meaning the r~vealed prince ot. the heb Yo' i at
reft for the time, thall moft furely-be reitored. this time) and he thall come (m~ning to )eru-
Arid you, .Peter Wou1ft>, one of tiJe t\vignon falem, from that northern'" p~it of the world
Society, whom the Lord my (;~<l commands me ~ alluded to: ftr.gland Iils in the nonh, and it is
to mentiqn her~ by name, •s a teftimony of b's indeed the country meant :) from tht: rifin g of r
g.reat regard, your property, connCcated fl\ . ' the fun lle thall call upon my name: and he fllall
. Fr;t...nce, will a 1 be reitortld with intereH:, nd come upon princes 24 upon mortar, and as the
~uch kiodnefs lliewn to you oy the members ot potter treads day.
lt~ government : they wi!l reftor~ the property lfaiah ftooJ at jt:tufaiem when this prophecy
(lt ~very other peaceable indirzduallike ~ire: by • W~s given, :writing and recording it by the di-
the fam~ divine rule of juflice, Spain) England, redion of God, he looked to the northern part
l'ruffia, Germany, Holland, and all the nations Ofthe \TOdd, 'w httre thiS diftingui{he() perf._,n, .
~ of Europe. muft tellore theirs. For th time a
which he fo clearly mentiom, is fir ro rife, and
ff the world is juft now cumt', and ~od is firm· then come to Jerufalem, calli~g on the name of
ly determine~ to m~nifeft ~i& mighty power, for the Lord, from th>! riting to the ferting ot the
the prerervatiOn of hli peopla and fain~, by ftd· ' iun; as 2.~.llOi!i for an obedi~qce to tli~ ·Gofp4;l,
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~s David, his fatli r, was for the la "R : .trave1- Here the Holy hofi, the Tpirit of God, fpoke
lmg in the nJ~,ghty ftrength of th S irit. and by Ifaiah, as if fpelkin ' by myielf at this v~rr
~rmed with the uivine power of fire, like Eli· ho~r; for l have f~nt books of the judg ,ents 0
J<lh,• :he will fubjed: nRtions, remove throne$ God to the l·ing of £ng1and, and the membcra
"nd lJurn all rebel princes. · ' of his govermn~nt, his p·a1liam nt his· hiili(1ps,
2.6 \VIw hath dt!clared .from the b.e<Jinni
o '\
no
c'
his judges, and all th' foreign AmbatTado sin ,
t 1l;lt we may l<nuw ; and before the. time Lonoon, forth ir refpet.iw count i s: h\1t to
, ·~eanin betor~ tl~~ prophecy is fulfilled; It accomoli!h what is fo fai!hfu11y H corded ~y l~ e
b mg 2461 y~an trom its decluatlon tlwn to prophet. \\-'her he fpe~h fpiritu=.Hy as my ,f....
its ccomplilh ent, now this preft t year ot Even amon~ t em there was n ' <: tm fellor tha
I795 ~. that we may fay, He is tighteous! yea when· I fentto tl tm, · :ruld anfwer a word.
t.here 1 ~ non~ t:nt fht:wt•th ; yea, there is n ne z9 .Blho1rl~ t' ev att'l n1J vanity; th !r "'arks
tnilt declar ·n ; ye , thtre is noue th~t ' he.artth are no hing ; their moll n ima 0 es ~re wind ~nd
yam woids. confufion •
• The king of England,' a~ the members oft
h:s g~v"rnm~nt, tht: p<1rli. 1~.11!, hHhops, juclgts,
and ~fill the ambati.1dors from foreign natior.s, in·
London~ haye rereived the inf(·nnation of \heir • Other Pmt! of the Rrt•datim: to I. John Jthic.t
... fall nd de irutlion ; but they aU refofe tr~ be- t~re to !•c julfiiled, cmd f.VIliclz the Lf))' G~J
lieve, and by fo doin, fulfil endly what the f()ti:mm:, s me now to f;Ublisk, Chr1p• • rii.
prophet means, when h iays, Yea, there ,is
none that hearerl. yPt:r words. r Ar.d 1 flood. upon . the fand of the fea, and
·27 The firfllhall fay to Zion, Beh.old, be~ faw a bt'aft rifl up out of the fea, having f~ytn
hold th_em; .(meaning the Jev,..s crouJirrg horne , hea s and ten horns j and upon hii hams ten
to J~ruta.lem 1 gn.:at multitudes) and I 1\'i 1give .cw ·tns, and upon his heads the name of Blaf-
to J~rutalem one hat bringeth good tidings. phemy. .·
(I~ means the re;eale~ _prfnce,. re~urning home T..his • e~ft means the Englilh ~1onarchy; ar.d
Wlth tne p~oplt' to rebu:ld the defolatc city, and it i• by fuips an~ com me ·ce tl1a~ it h s rofd1~.
makr her rejoice.) the~ ito Juch afloni!hing grii deur. d magni·
18 For l bl held,, :md there Wl! n0man ,..... .:...• tude. Tht· head{;~ hc.tns. ai1d crow 1~, <\llude o·
even among tAlem ttit:r~ was no cu nfeltUr t ar, the many departments of G v rnmcnr. <\nd their
f!'Jendid difiincftior.s. The Bbfpht my a ~ns tl:e
11
Jljdra~
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when I afi:ed of them, could znfwer a word.
,llalachi. zJ.'. I, vmis. ljJiah, :ri. .4 • I!.

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tttl~s ~iven to, and ailnmed h: tht King pf Eng· •
land ; fu ·h a~, Our Moil Grac10os So ·&reign •
l.ord, .. .! red Per or., Majc. y, Defender olthe

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lf.ai~ h, and Snpreme H~ad of rhe Church: :.11 The leading into captivity means imprifon·
whtch names belong to God, he only can be , lllent and flavery -t and killing with the !word,
what they ~xprefs, _a~d when they are app!ied means violence and war. The patience of the
to 2ny other, the {Jn I~ maf~hemy in his t\ghc. faints is, to bear quierly with thofe evils, and
J. And the beaU whtch I iaw was like unto a to refift the tempt~atioos of wealth to do the&n:
• leopar.d, and his feet were as the feet of a btar,- AU that ha,·e faith in God will not do fuch
and h1s mnuth as the mouth ot a lion · a~d the things, from a belief that they are offenfive,
dr~gon gave him h.is power and his 'reat, and' becaufe he comman<is them not.
greatauthority~ • ,. 11 And I- b~hcld ano.ther belt\ coming up
The EnglHh monarchy, for being Snpreme out of the earth; and he had two horns like a
Head ~f the Church.' and over the many reli· . lamb, and he fpake as a dragon.
~lou~ f~C1s tolerated m the countr7, is the reafon
Tliis verfe mean.s the Eled:or of Hanover -
&nat 1t 1s, for their great number, compared to Coming up out of. the eouth, is to fignify that
a leopard. f1.1U of tpots, • his country or go1ernment is fittlated inland.
A~ a bear ii v~ry thong on his feet, fo fs the
The horns of 2 lamb, and the voke ·of a dragon,
~n,glt{n ~onarr.hy : aAJ as a lion roan with ,
means, that although be is weak in power like
h_ts ~outh the Joudefl of any beaft, fo does the a lamb, yet by hts •oice he can threalen in
Enghlh Monarchy proclaim its greatnefi more great and' mighty w~rds like a dragon.
tha any other. - 1 r. And he exerci!eth all the power of the
3 And I faw one of hia heads a5 it were
wounded to death; andbi:ldeadly wound washtal· !rft beaft before him, &c.
lt..means the EleCtor of Ha·nover's fuccei1io11
ed : and all the world "'. 1ndered ·after t11e h,eaft. to the crown~ place, and power of the tormtr
· The beginning of tbli verfe mean• the death King of Engla d. To ful.ftl this part of the
of Charlesthe firit King 9f Englan<l ~ and the · prophecy given by RevelatioB to St. John, the
deadly wound ~eing healed, means the recove- ' Utter expu1fion of tbe Stuart hmily muft againft
ry of Mon·u rhy by the reftoration of Charle11 the 11 Human oppofition have taken place to admit
Second. During rhe interval of time .between.
t the, EleCtor of Hanover.
~ the d~ath and fuccdlio~, aH the \vorld wonder-
A great part of this chapter is taken up in
ed if the Englith Monatchy would ever be refior· defcribing the king and par1iament. I am com• ..
td gain. · · • manded to inform botn of the tecorded judg-
9 If any m1il have an eat leE him h~ar. He ments of God, -the dangers which tbrea~en
that lead~ into captivity, fh~ll'go into captivity_: them, and their certainty of taking place, un·
.he that kills wlrh the 1word t'llltfr be kil:ed \vith lefs they implore him for mercy, and obtain ir.
rhe !word. Here is tbt' patience ~od the hi1h. They have individually promifed, by their
f die faintf. &odfathers and ioamother&, in the facn:d c:ove,.
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nant ot h~ptifm aad k , ~ ,
tion of it hy re~eivin ac •owle~ge a. ~onfi ~· Lora; s:re, Majefty, and honor him witl.i
were i~Hituted by th~ L fadraJment~ (fo.r bpt~ humUlty itt fupplication, when they re·
~elieve~io him and obey 0;. efu• Gbrllt,) to quhe any thing, as it he realiy waa the Lord ~
n twith(landin thi& h ,. Js commands ~ yer. of heAven and earth , fuch as, Humbly pr•ying
which a in~mangbel~o ~a vie({ of ~11 oblig~tioPJ_S that your Maiefty would be moft gracioutly plea·
with his G d 0 can ~nter toto, (for it it fed, &c. 'flie(eio.re GoJ~ in his gr~at anger, be-
Jiis falvati~~· ~e~p~~don thh_e perfor~3:nce ofwhic~ In~ jealous of his name and honor, ca\ls tbe.l\ing
~. t e laws thev
part of th~ Thirty·nine Arti 1
k
Jd rna e, ' ~ beaft, and th~ p~rliamenthis im~g~ and numb~r;
~be forn:ts of pr~yer, ufed i~ es, ap . Come .of
goes.more to break th ', pu~!IC .,yorlhlp,
~Hhonour God e tovenant of baptlfm. to
bleffed Gofpel • t~~! oppofe·an. obedience to ht1 1 An~ I looked, and lo, a lamb ftood on the
other nat' ' ' wa~ ~ver authorifed in any' lllltl\t Sian, a~a ~hh ~i~ a h\o\ndre&an~ tony-
four thoufl\nd, having his father's name wr~n~
. 100,
· Without !ubmittin · h ~
fcribed by ·aa of a {' to t · e or.ms of law pre- in their forehetds. ·
oppofition t th p r t.tment, which are in dire& The lamb.~ ~~ntioned here, meanli myfclf, a&.
ilnful to do on , e c~nnmand~: ot ~hrift, , and \'try Prince or the Hebrews; and mount ~ioa, Jem· .
~tor truft, ~n·~ rn~~ ca~ ~old a.ny.place of pro-: falt'm : The hundred and fort,-tou.r th.owfan41 ,
co mpara.tiveli t~ buy ~~~reir.g~ ~f. freedom,_ and, , with me, having the name of my ather wrote
1 7 And th4t n9 ma ·· h , in their foreheadst me n not only the vifihle
~e that had the mark .~~~ t b_uy or f~l1, fave: Jews of thf twelve tribes, but Ukew\fe the in~
•
or the numbor ,
of ht' s name. " e n~me
· of the beait, . vilible ·:-lt comprehends-aU of H -brew extrac-
tion thilt w11l b~\ieve· in the teftiloony oi Go~
~
x8 He~ is wifdom L t h' h
Jerftanding coun~ the •. be . lCl t at lias un-: ~y me. • · ·
· . h
U IS t e number of
.,. num er of thP be ft f
• · · ~- ; or 6 And.I faw another a,ngel fly in the ~\dfi: 1
~ix !Ju?dre~ three fccie~~~·hx~nd his n9mber is. of heaven,' h ving the ev.erld\ingearth, Gofpel, to, ,
and tO, .
preach to em tlttt dwell on the
'Phi& vrtfe means the lt' r .
and altho it exceed' th ' ?"ng l 01 p~rl~am~nt ;··- every nation, and · kindreti, and t(\ng\le, and ·' \
,· yet, notwithltandin e.n?mber men_tt n~d here, people; f~ying, with a 1oud voice, Fear God, .
fembly of men all d ~- It ~s ~he real ~nd v~ry at- ~nd ii"e glory,to him., for the hom of hit judg~
~he number 'of 66~. e . to ~~ the revel~t~o·n, by m~nt is come~ and worlhip him otth.at made ·
Becaufe the r h.eaven and earth, ·and the fea., and the fou.r~~
4refs t t kina 6 a~~~~~~t acknowle~~e an~ ad·
nl to GOdo 1 Ivme.n2mes Wlllch be\on
· S~x-~
ta\ns ot warer•. · ·
8 And the!e followed another angel, 'f4yinjj,
... Y •r
. . ; fuch
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a$ Our' Mott
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Gracwus
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·~~~l.on b fallen, i&, tallen j ,t~t ~rea~ ~ity, r
r '
( 2;01 ) ~
( . ~~0 J .,
waters fay, Thou art righteous, 0 Lord.
he~ure !he maae aU nations drink of the wine hich art,· and was, rand (halt be; beaufe th01.1
~ of the wrath of her fornication. ft jucfged thus.. For they have ilied the blood
· .9 And the th!rd an~~l.followed them, fa'ying, faints and prophets, and thou haft given
wtth a lou~ ~ ice, at any man worfuip ~he them blood to. drink; for they are worthy. .
bean, an.d h1s 1mage, and receive his mark in 10 A11d the fifth angel ~oured out his vial
llis forehead, or . in his hand, the fame fuall upon the feat ot the beaft, and his kingdom waa
drink of the wine of the wrath of ~d, which ttill of darknefs, and they gnawed their tongues
is pouted out without mixture into the cup of for pain l and blafpbetned the God of heaven,
his indignation; and he fuall be to'tmented \ecau{e of their pain and th~::·r forea, an&tre"!
with fire and brimione, in the pre fence of the ted no.t of their deeds.
holy angels, and in 'the prefence of the lamb:
tnd the fmoke ot their torment afcendsu~ for ChaP.· xxi
e~er and ~ver; a~d they bave no reft day 11or 6 And J1e raid to rne, It isdooe, I am Alpha
ntgbt, who worfbtp the beaft and his image, .and Omega, the beginning and the end: I will
and whofoe ..•er receives the mark of his name. give to him that is a-thirft of the fountain of
u Here isthe patl~nce ·of the faints: here he waters oflife freely, He that overcoilteth
tre they that keep the commandm.ents ot God, aaU inher\t. all thing~; and I will be his God 1
and the faith of ]efus. ' and he {hall be my fon: · ·
8 Bnt the fearful and unbelieving, and the.
Chap. xvi. 'ho'minable, tnd murderers, and whoremonge~s,
and forcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, £ball
t And I heard a great- voice out of the tem· have their 'Part in tbe lake 'which burns with
ple~ faying to the · ftven a.ngeb, Go your ways, fire and' brimflor.e; which i~ the fecond death.
tnd pour OUt the vials of the wrath of God up· The . Lord God comn1ands me to fay to you,
on the earth. · George the Third, king of England, 'that im·
2 And tht: firft went, and poured out his vial lnediately on my being revealed, in London, to
upon tke eanh; and there fell a, noifome ~nd the Heorews as tbeir Prince, and to all nations
• grievous fore on the m~n which had -the mark ot tttheir Governor, your crown muft be deliver-
the ~aft, and on _them which wor1hip his im:ige.' ed up to me, that .all your power and authority
An~ the fecond angel poured out his vial upon the lllayinftantly ceafe. On my being revealed, the
fea, and It became as the ·btood of a dead maa; lnvifible power of the angels of God, wkJch
I
, and every living foul died in the fea. I guards me no\vt will then become· vifible as a ·
4 And the third ;lOgel poured out his vial ilame of fire; the very fame that accompanieli
upon the rivers and fountains of wateri; and . ltlu!q aad the childieq oi Urael out of EtrJPt~
they be~ame blood. hnd·I he.ard the angel of
( Ol )
.I muft not acknowledge any fupeHor but th_ , as a plfvention, in future, t~ their a&tng
Lord Ch;ift; who is the Lo1d God: and as a unneceffary queftions, that 11lthat ts proper nd
man raiff:d up, lilceDavid, by hitn to l)e a Princt ' allow able fot me to relate irom him, is publithed
he commands me to allow no equal, but inftant~
tb this book. •
]y to turn Ollt ,o f nis kingdom the rtbellious and
difobedient. Read the •li. chap. and ve!fe lS;
of Ifaiah, Tlte Copy o/a l~ettei,to Jfilliam _Pitt ClzatJ:d!tJr
Be' ad vi ted ~y this, fo: evii is going to be Ie; oj the Exchequer, which thJJ Lord Goa ?Jm-
loofe • when Jt Is, the k&ng of England ,\\'-ill no· mtmds me no;;· ro puh/iJk~
· more belieV'e the figns of God by rite than the IN obedience to the berea comm~nd of the
• king of Egypt would by Mofts; therefole, de- Lord God whofe fervant and prophet I am, 1
fir~ your fervams to dt1iver direCtly ro you all inform th; Chanc1llor of th~ Exchtquer, t~~t
• letters and meffages frolil me; for, it is for your the prifo'nf!rs now m confiner_nent, an~ on,tt!al,
con~empt to fr!e that your country is orde;ed to charg,ed with the crime of Htgh T.reaion ~gaLnit
1
be •nvad!d. and y'bur power to be defirojed, the Kint;'s i~e, are innocent~ . •
The tstll oak, with all its branches cut off, ·men- I am liRewif~ commanded to ttrform you, be·
tioned ln bne of the "lions of Gad, in the pre- ttu e God is very merciful and cofupaffion. te,
ceding part of this book, means yowfelf and that the feventh chapter of the prophecy of Dan..
family. • iel,andlaftpart ottbe fix:thcbapterofthe Re'9ela:. ·
The L.ord God commanos me to fay to you, tion to St. John, will.be fulfilled before the ex-
. . ~ath~nitl Bnffey Haih~d, that as yon are re- tJirat\on of f~ven tnonths from this.oay ...tin~ al~
, . ~lle.d 1nd cc_>nfidered. by yult former acquaint- fo my revelati~n to the Htbrews, as thetr Prtnce
;ances, as rwned 11no lofr; for fpeaking the truth and Leader, according to the twelfth ditpter
ts I:e manifelled it , to you, for publithing your ofthe prophecy of Danie1; to the king and peo-
tefbmony of me, hi£ ftrvant, you tba.ll, bv the ple of England, ~nd t~ peop!e of all nations,
, expiration of thre~ monthb, from this day,· ha'ie :at their Ruler---for-- and tmme€t tely under God,
your choiee et being either Governor General Qf according to the ~wenty-fecond t:hapt~r of he
India, or Pr~fident of the Board ot Control in Seccnd Book of Samuel; to tll rtattc..tns as the
"England; tl~at all men may be condnced, tl;at promi~ d !,j~r,tt of }\~·ace, according ro ~!-!e feqnd
he,th:u r~1its it, h~a·;en is able to exalt or to a· chapter of'H~~~gai; and ~s Elij'ah, to t~H~ 1 Wi k
baf~ i that he is Hill able, even \t this late hour !d t e . r~villrs, 11qd bllfpbemers agam God,
' t \I ) !"
~cc'ording to Lhe fou th ch<~p t',r o, 1.. ~ :>. .\cu.
of a wicked. world, to' rew~rd the obeditnt to
his ~lefftd Spirit, aQd giVe the rnoit emi r. nt .. RICHARD BROTHER~ . ..
'}?laces on earth Ci hom1aever 11e pleafes.
('I No·. '57, Paddingtou Str~t,
~he Lord God <om_t11aod w~ t inf rS}l tll tho the 1J!onth ~a!1~d Notentber.

Tlle king, and duke of Portland, as recretary
'of fiat, were wrote to at the farnetime.
-
. REVELATION, ,Chap. xi. Q F·
IS And the feventh angel founded, and ther
were great voices in ~eaven, raying, the king- ICHARD BROTI1BRS
doms of this world are become tke kingd&ms of
our Lord, .and ot his Chrlfi; and he fhall reign THE PRORFIET.
for ever and e~er.
I - RICHARD BROTHERS.
Tnt man that will he reJ•taled to t!J~ Hihrrw.r
· as their PritJCI ; tr1 all natirmJ tzJ tlzeir Gov·
. ernor; according to,the covenant to king Davil.
immediately under GoJ. ·
· London, No. 57, Paddington Street,
J.Oth ot the month ~ed Fwhrnary, 1'i9S ~
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• tered ml\n, a moft wonderful trait of ctaratler.. ncity Of his predittipns, or his being the , hofeu
Allowing him to be a h'ypocrite, to blind an reftorer of the lfradite! to their kingduUl.
- ~ppearance ottruthfo artfully, with the reality
of f:.1Ifehood, as to ~on(ound the moil learned in
fctlpture, .evinces a facn1ty th~t few men,. how-
~ver powerful in the arts of 'deluiion, in the Witl1 regard to the particulars ~hat h~ve tranf-
· courfe of age&, are found to poffefs. As a mad- pired refpetting Rich4rd J3rotheu,---we have to
man, ther~ is fuch an urbanity of manners, fudi · ftatethe tollowing: .
a piety of r"rinciplt, fuch a forbearance of felf· In q81, he was a lieutenant on board the
patification, fuch a ~: nifotm p·erfev~rance in Albion, of 64 gurr5. This fhip being paid o:tf .
attending to the welfare of human n~ture.-·• in 1783, he was reduced to btS half· pay, on '
that we think it impofiible.for ~u the faculty, . ~hich he fupported himfelf until 1789, when
, verfed in the ditferent kinds of Mania, to define fome religious fcruples •nifing in his mind a-
the ·nature of Mr. Brothers's madileta, and to 1 gainft the t~lting of o~ths, he was prevented
.,lafs it under its refptdive fpecies. Suppofing receiving his arrears unt!l th~ie were two )'ears
llim an enfuufiafi, be is equally extraordina:i'y. due, in 1791. At 1this peHod lre lodged with a
~uch perfoos are generally impelled to the moil Mrs. Green, in Dattmcuth · ftttE.'t~ with whom
ftrenuous and violent of bodily and m?!Ud · he had then refided three years. Dmlng this ·
effort~ Their faculties are in 1 a ihte of per- time, he behaved w.ith honefty; affable temper,
petual agitation. Their paffion s feldom find a and morality of principle.
quie(cent paufe from continual cicitemenr.-·- Although he fuffered the greatefi eiftrefs from
~fheir objett, whatever it may be, fo powerfully not receiving his arrears ot pay, an ountina to
interel1s. all their thonghts. th•t they are nev'er 13ol. by refufing to · take the neet-Irc~ry o~ths
becalmed, . by reft or peace, Qntil nature, ex· 'bef<J:"e the'Agent, yet he'perfifred in refufin;; to
~2ufted, 'fubmits to their foothi~ influen~; bt1r, -b.e guilty ot the crimet ,~, hich. b.e calls '{_olu~ra
~ontrary to this, Mr.}?rothers has appeared to rtly fwearing.·--The re.~fon he ftat d ·for his
• lle almoft diveited of tht!. common paHio11• of refufal was, that he co.~fide_red fw,b.ring, everr .
~attt;e. Ever 'Callll··-ev ·r colletted··-ever aaa- I fix ~qnhs, as a q~1ahncauon .to rel!ei~·e ·pa): ,
»le and commuriicative of (entirnmns~ dichred by was unne..:elfary, un1ufi, and wtcked. H.1vic tr
. a lJoundlefs attachtncnt to ttu:! peace 'Of man, if flared what he conflder~d th(;' cbnceal!:d and
aii enthufiaft, he is, of -aU entlm ialls,-.:·the 1noft \lnh':!ect:d cruelty of the o~th) in :addition to ob..
\'t'Ondcrfu 1. jediona ~gai:nft the fo;m, he {:vn, to! ',. the;c
·The above obfervations arc ftated tllerelv as was ~n ot\1er of couricil to talle'tbe oath. and
Eviden<:e ot his fln gula riry of ch~raCtt>r. Tl ry that it wa-. not in the power of,the alimirairy ~o
~UC not meant !0 Viudicau: Qf tli.ft>Nie
,. tile ve·' 1iifpenfe wtth it. ' " ·
l
I
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He foon after fupported his former obje ftiP.DJ:l
. nd made another re.quei!, th~t he mig t recei-te may be admitted as a proof at his bcing, at te.a!l;
lt pay without being obliged to t~ke the qath. 11 ncere in his religious pr6feflions. huw~ver he
( n this occafi'on, he obferved, that if the orde~· may be. the dupe of his own vUionary d¢lufiona.
.;>f council in forced an oath, in any ffi;ltlncr or Mrs. Green being greatly diftretled for the
• nv f9rm whatever, and that the man it was di• money due to her trom Mr. Brothers, applkd
r tl ·~ tO (Jperate up.on, tWOt8 that be was not to [he work houfe board O\ the United l)arilhe•
forced, but that the oa h he. took wag a volun- of St. Margare~·s and St. John·s the Evangelift~
tu;r ~a. he refalt of his own free wil1·-·WOt11d Wellminfier. The WNk-howe boar~ Col\!ider-
it not, in the fight of God in he1ven, ~nd every ing the difirefa lhe muft fuffer, as well as what
man of difcerument undet him oR -eanh, amount tppe~n~d to them, the lamentable fituation of
tu a f~lfe oath? Thefe reafonS' <1n« objeClions our Prophet himfdf, refoh·ed to rec lve him u
:1e pubr.a~ed, at the time. in the l)u 1ic Adver- 2 cafual pauper. Agreeably to n ;order from
lifer. He a~fo pnblifued the lc~ter h~ received the board, he, ~vas brought abo a week af~er
fro the admir<ti~y, ~hting their infuffident to the work-houfe. He entered the room with
ower to difocnfe with th u·~,al form or wear.. his hat on, a.nd requetted they would exctife hi
ina. Know!o't:; rh~ prefident of the 'ol.dm r:~lty' taking it off, as that haq1age- he confide red only
w sa mctn1cr of the counc.ii, l1e ':rote W·h;m: due [O the Almighty. ·
I 1 thig.,. he 1hted, that as me-a;l, ;vt • ~!~i fe\' !n :At firft he appeared offended with his e11:~mj
11 l!Dber, Oi the inc:'eafed multiJUdP Of a fena:c:.. nation; hut being efired to take :t chair, nl.;
.w~re n t ·nraliible, they nu ft <.:cwft.. ,t~l.!ntly b· goo~ temper returned. He then took oft' bii
fuhjeeho error.. To enfruce th·s Jue~1i01, h{.· hat, and laid, lie 'knew when he was treated
ailuaed to the dedfion of the ,pliv~t ut ,,ciJ, rer- . with that refpeet his cbaratler demanded. In
l.ati • to a native or Glafgow·, ' ! o ha hi 111 • this infiance, .he appears to have refufe<i taking
.·.!iZ'?rl in the V.7eft Ind;es, fotwt1:n, he con(\de . . off his bar, more from id~s of perfonal confe ..
· d, ~h a:l undefigned:infrmgement of he ~a i- quer.-ce, than any peculiar homage he meant to
g.a.• on ..'\!ft. . ' ' te[e:,·c for the Almighty. .Hiti examination con ..
Such w~i t-~l$ averlon to taking the o.. th,that tamtng fentimenu; which fe1ve to difphy hh'tem
.e ·• ~ured. the w3nt of eve~ a bi of bread. per, (lnd the . f!~te Gf his mind, '"e inf~rt it •~
\\";thout confidering.him a Prophet, but merely follows. Pray, fir. do yuu know the rcafun of
~s a man of purity and piety qt prindplel he· ii your being brought to tbis houfe ? lnrle d ~ do
w ihtl adrn1red for th~ fo1titude with whifl\~e '• De'".. All that l know of the ma~~cf'i;:, t.Y<l J
endured h's futferin;s, ratbttr than obt~n re.ief w h ou ·ht (n 3' Vcry "' tpug!t manner; but a_
bv committin at ~ 1 , which apn a to him
,j
~.t!ernal ebjccb affed me b t lit , 1 acq iefce..
t:n.oil offeQiive h.\ Q~Jd aJd n 3.n. This condu.a.
1 hu1 1lr, you are ·in l$ ~~~jdty 's ft: ;ice:

[ ( ~10 ] ... r. 1.11 J
Y 0: are -miflaken. I ~ffigned two _.yearS1incte
~ aJl.l in the fervice of~ ~ritJce, the greateff and
\Vhere. did you lodge~ before you came. t•.
Weftminfier ~ In Brictwell precinct. ~
ll'loft potent. A Prio!:e, in whof*: fervice •my
yv ages~ ~vill be certain ; buJ .h!s. kingdom. i not You will excur~ us, ~r, t wf! mean it nQt asim-
of this world. Whit, fir, was~our reafon for rtinent but as a neceflary queflion ; \Vh8.t ·
refigning your comtni!Lvn ; Difguft ; l ~ohceiv id YJlU p~y we~Jdy ~ I am above. that falfe pride
ed th~ military l}fe to. be totally repugnant to th~ which fhri.nks from \flqu_iry, I w1ll a1;1fwer any
buries o~ chri11ia .ity, and that I could not cctll; qnet1ion Y.rlll p1eare to put to me. '
fcienttoutly rec~ive tb~ wages of plunder' ol.ood..
'
(bed, !nd n.urder
... ' <I ~ '... • ,
· · · ·· · ~
·· I have'alwlys. endeavoured to 1ive within the
bo•~nds of mv i-ncome- -n'a.rrow a' thf·y were ;
H,ow did y,ou fmagine that you could Jive. .
but... yvu may Jfuppofe, 1 f ·r ,
t 1at ou~ o fl Qmma ;.,V 3s.
wi.~hout your pay'· and that pay i , which, frooj but really ~s. xod. per rlay, l could n' t afford
y ur cb~ta,Cler and app~a1auc~, we {hould 1up .., any fup-erb lodgings. In faet, I paid loS. 6d., per
J'(,f~ "Yitb h0n~,u r k· yowf~lt and advantag~ to. \yeek tor my rriC>lll. (
your cou?t.ry ~ ·r, er~f01~ l ·rej~ded. I obferv~·
~d b~fC'!re, t~a.t. ~t V.' ;ss impollibj~ for a milit~u·r
1:11 .. to take hi;;_ p~y yit~ a fafe cnnt~ience; 1.
tru{l the m~fler 1 ft>r !f: will not futfer ne to wanr. fThe cqncluf.orz of tit" anecdote~ of Jl1r. Br6-
It tbalh · in a kw d. · ~~ -r~·~· e a fu in more tha n· ' . thirs are promi/ed in zhe /Ui.'Ctcdmg lltlmbcr: of
fufficient to pay dii& woman's
• ,, ' ~
deht, ten time .. J \ • • t ... ,: • ) .. ' ,; ... .! ins Reuijier of 1he Times, wh~d1 !zus not ye~
~~~~ •, J • ' - • • :
~~~p, r~,·~iJ•:d by t4~ .dm.eri~at~ tuitQr.r,.]
~rav' ur, have you ever been a ho lfe-~<t:eperi\
!. can~oi: ab(olu elv fay.l hav~ not; I once a-
gre~d for a F)~_uie and was twq Il}cuths in pofi'ef-
~on ;_but 4;S a ver.y, melancholy idea. ~omes ac r of~
'flY rpind wh~n 1 rhio~ 9f that.perioo, I ~ope_
. ~o~ will not pref~ n:e fu,nh~r t)pr,m rli~t quei\ion., .. '
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fcr.ja l ttl 1-P.tbiltr J ook-Store; in

"'n,.ta, tftll y tho ld be· found ~uJty of avin
in a few infta,nces facriticed orn.nneu -a't th
lhe I.Pbtte llou(o, cv1·ner of tate atJ'd Olrin~ of utility.
Pearl-Streets, Albany. li ce lanie$ in ptofe and \'erfe; ind1ding re-
Vlh\V o~ the United States of Amt:rica lllarl~s on Englilk plays, operas and farces, and,
. i 1 a feries of papers~ written at \'ariou 'on ~ v~riety of tber moderll 'Publications. By
tnnes, between t~e years. 178 7 and 1794 , hy the honourable Lord Garde:lfione.
r~NCH COXE. ofPbiladelphia; interfperfed Ledures on:Fem.a!e Edu~ation· and Manners
wJth ~u:hentic Documents ; the w. ole tending By J. Burton.
to cxht~tt. the ~togrefs and pr fen t ftate of civil Givt eAr, fair Daugh!er of Love, to the In.-
:and reltg~ous hbert"! p~pulatio~, agrkultu~e, flmttio~s of P.mdence; and Jet thf; ,Precepts of
cxpo~ts. Import~, filhenes, navrga ·; 0n, fhip- Tru:·~1 hnk d~p:i: lhy Beart.
but1dmg, manufatiures, and general improve- . The Rt:ign of Grace, from its Rife to i~s Con-
ment. • !ua'll\l:uion, By Ahqnam. Bo th. · \Ve b~lieve
An Hiftoric~l Dlfqnifitlon concerning the· tnat tll~ough the gr.\c~ of rhe Lora )t{u Ch;~lt ·
knowledge which the Ancients had of India .' ~e {hall he faved. St. Peter. ,
:and the _progre[s of trade ~ith that country prio; Lett.TS on the I nrrovea. ·'!lt of the 'Mind, ad-
to the d1fcovePy ot ~~~ pafiage to it by the Cape Qretfec;i to a Youn~ L-a-dy. By ~ ~. Chapon ,
?f Good Hope. ,\\ tth an AppeRdix, comaie- The Life ot Barojl Trend~.
mg obfervations on the civil policy the faws Sen ca's Mor~ls, by way of 1\bftrad. To
.and judicial proceceings, the a:rts, th~ fciences which i~ a<;fde& a Dif(ourf~, und i the titie ot
and religious in litutiens of the indians B; a.r.1 After fFf)ougbt. .,.1d4rncd with Cot!{.
\Villiatn Robertfon, D. D. F. R. S. ·Eden- MHims . nd :txlora1 R~fletl:iqns, by the puke
burgh, Principal of the Uhiverfity, and Hiftori· ie Rochef cau~r. The l)ublic ls her~ pt~fep·td
ogr~her to bis Majefty for S.cotlaud. • "ith a n w tranil, tio!i of the Mo.ra1 M. xims of
. An Impartia1 ~iftory; of the late Revolution Frands e r"xth, Duke ci la Rvdl foucault:
t
m France, from tts commencement to the death A perfom anee of. iuch dUm~tion, that its noble
of the Qu:-en, and the execution of the der• uti~s u~hor lived to fee five o fix ~it1ons of it;
of the G1runde pany. _One ~pology ~rl aps :ano iiuc~ his dtath itha run tbroug~ ~s many,
may he req:1ir~d. T~e hlftory may ~ppear too more; DOt IO mention ttaniJations.
If;tiah. A n w tranilatioo; B\~ th~ late Ro·
clrcumtt~ntla! m 1om~ mOances in recording dates.
Tke ob~tous anfwer ts, that the book is intended bert Low h, D. D. BHb· p ot London. To
ai a book of iaCtt, as a \york that may be {)Ct:a- which i& ad ed, :.l v ain, concife and particular
?onally referred to with ;1 aegree of confid •nee. Eip anatiWl f ach Ch'J·pter. :F:xuaaed' cHief-
fhat being the ctft:. t~e aulhor hopes to fla~d ly frqm '' A Treatift: 0:.1 the l)rcph~.:~s,'' ~11
I

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John ~mith: D. D. MinUter of the ,Gofpd at Vice her o,Vn in:tagt, tnd t'h~ very age and body ·
of the time his form and prelfure. .
Campbleron, Scotland. , .
Etrays Moral and Literary•. By Vi<:elitnus · Mo fe's 0niverlal.Geography: Do. -abridg'd:
Knox, M. ~· late fellow of St. Jolin's college P-ik~'$ titithmttic. • 1 .
Oxford. Ther neat' on the pPC>priety 'Of adorn· Moofw's jour,nal in France, in French and
ing Life,· and fefving Society• by laudable Ex· Englith. Th'e Gazetteer of France. ,
ertion. Oo the importance of a good Charac- I Pilgrtm•sProgreis: Teftamenu•
. ter, confidered oo1y with refpett to lnteJeft. . The Life, Exploits and Precepts ofTAMA-
On the folly and Wickednefs of neg1ecting a NY, the famous Indian Chief. •'
Family and Chilrlren, for the Pleafures of Dif· LETTERS from FRANCE ; containing a '
"6pation. On forming Cqnnettiont. great variety of intere\ling and original informa-
The Commerce ot America with Europe. tion concerning the molt important events that
pnticu1arly with France . and· Great-Britain: ., have occurred jn that country--:~ To which are
comparatively ftated and explaitied. Shewing annexed, the 'torrefpondence of D~ourier witli
the importance of the American Re\7olution to Pache, the war minuter and the commitfaries--
the mlerefts of France, and pointing out the . . ~tters from Bournonville, Miranda, Valence,
·aCtual fituation of tne United States of North icc. &c. ,
Amer1ca, in reg-ard to Trade, Manufatlures and The American SPELLING BOQK.
Population. Br J.P. BRISSOT DE WAR- c~ R. & G. Vlf:bfter, having t~e exclufive
VILLE,andETlENNECLAVIERE. Tranf- . right of printing the American, or WebHer•
lated from the laft French Edition, Revifed by· "Spelling Book, tor all parrsuf this State, except
BrHfot, and caHed the Second Yo!ume of his !
.'the City /of New- York, acquaint the public,
that they. have juft completed - an edition of
VIew of America. Witli the Life of Britlot,
tnd an. Appendix, by the Tranfiator. · · lo.ooo of faid Book, which they are det~rmi-
Quarto, odavo, fchool and pocket Bibles1 . ned to fell, by the rooo,. !Oo, or -doz. for rea- '
Pfalrru and Hymns, Watt'i Pfaims, pliin, gilt ~y pay, as !o~ as can be purchafed at N.- York •..
and eleogant in.Morocco; the Scotch Verfion, . - !~Y have a}fo, Th~ Copx Right ?f the
do. do.. by the fiogle, do~ or hnndred; Hymn Tktrd Part ~f !J·ebJe't' s (1rammatka~ itlj/1/:Jte of
Books fer. Chriilians of ail denominal.ions. ~he E17glhb ! .aNgur:ge '; or, the Ame:rkan Se-
The Mirmr, a ph i0dical paper, in two vol- Ie~ion of Le ~r tns in reading and fpealdn a; .
umes, \Htnen ~n Edenbu;gh, in 1779 and nBo, calculated to improve t~e· Minci and refine t~e
in the ilYtle . nct ipi r!t o.hhe Spe~ator, 1n which wralle of YoHd: ·- whic~ they 'lv.t-;e cnu!hi Jy
the :~u:hor hase ndt:.wnuredto bold the MIRROR ' Nr fale by tlie q\!.Uitit~'.
up' tJ nature, to sl&t:w \'irtue lier ow11 feann-:~,
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tor Generali;~ or Office and Duty of Juthces of 6 F THE
the Peare, &c. The Laws at the U lited St~te!l
and of this State; The Young Clerk's Maga· AUTHENTICITY
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the Ac1:refpeclingrhe Poor ; Steuben's Exercife; 0 F THE
The Yonug Gt:ntleman ~nd Lady's lvfonitor;
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' AND OF HIS
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BY NATHANIEL llRASSEY HALHED, M.P.
,
A~D GOD SA ID , "LE'f T:Ii.!RE BE LIGHT."
ALBANY:
Pri11teJ hy CHARLESR. f.1 GEORGE "'EBSTER,

.l u tlu White aoufe, Corner of State .:m.t Pe.ul S ~re cr~ •
. ~. '\,

HALHED, Efq, -
MEMBER OF Pt1RLI'A~IENT;
I
. I
P. A L L-M A L L .
N ~bedience to the faered ~om~and of the Lord
IformGod,yqu,whofe Servant and Prophet l am, I in·
that youare defcended from his anci•
ent people the Hebrews, of the tribe of Judah,
and of the family of. David, King of lf'raei. .His
f~cred commanJ~t ddivered to 1 me by revelation
for yon, are, T,bat you publi01. and declare to the
worl~ in wrjting, without the le~ll fear of any
hutnan power whatever, that the reveal d know·
ledge of hii judgm~nrs given to riJe, and pub·
lifi1ed by h~s tacr~d cb.tnmand io two boo!<s (ca\4
led a Revealed Knowledge.of the Prophecies .and

'l'imC'S,) for the information, warning, and bene.·
fit of all Nations, is from hina the Lord God,
.and is true.
I am likewife comman~ed to fay to you, Write
and publifb) acc.ording to the light, wildom, and
underfianding, which the Lord my God gives
you by his uldfed fpirit ; by the mighty power
of which you was converted to the full ],now-
ledge of his Word, and convinced that I am his
Prophet.
I am likewife commanded to fay to you, when
your Td(imony ofthe Judgments ofGod, and of
me the Prince of hi!' P::ople, is wrote and pub\ifh·
rd, you are direeted by his fact·ed command to
~ • • :r fend printed copies to the King of England. hi!t
Q.ueeo, and \1'amily ; all the Members of both
l-loufes of l'adiam::nr ; the Jud~es 1 and all the

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f()rt1gn Ambatfadors; the Mayor, and all the Af..
~crm~n of London. . ..
&c.
I am likewife direll:ed by the Lord my God,
to inform you,· that his command to you is, That
you putllifh thi~ Letter, containing his diretlion~ 1
with your own ~ellimony; HE 'quellion of u Peace or \Var, , I1:1s DO\V'.
RICHARD BR0THERS,
T been twice agitated in the Senate, fince the
commencement of the prefent feffion ; and wh:~t •
evlr may have been the decHion in thofc .affem· ,
The man that wil! be revealed to the He.' blies, the difcuffion is fiiil ooen before rhq trabunal
brews as thtir Prince, to all natior s ai of,the P~blic. ,It was undou~tedly my dury, if 1
thdr Governor, according to the Cove-· tpought I couHl thro\V any n!W light on the fub·
nant to King David 1 lmmc:diately under jeet:, to hJve delivered my fentimeots in Parlid·
God. meat. I was prepared to do fJ, and very anxi·
ous to obtain a hearing.-Gent\emen wh.1 fa\V
London : me repeatedly rife for tlht purpofe ; and lHll mo.re
. N•, 57, Paddington-Street, the Speaker, to whom l verbally communicated
- ~8th ~t the Momh called jamury, 179$· my wifhes, c:tnnot but bear witnefs of my in ten •
tion.-Comr.elled however, by circumfiaoces, to
in.voluntary lilence in that quauer, I mu(l no\Y
'difcharge my confcience through. my pen.-Here
ther~fore I 'mofi unrefervedly pnblifh my opinion,
That rtfilutely to p~rjijl in ojfmftv~ War, is nott!&rJ ·
/l;jl m~thod of ptocuring Ptac~.--
Our objeCtions to treating with the prefent
French Government are f\ated to be, beclofe it is
ttlo difcordant not to l.Je fufpethd of inllabiliry,
and too recent to afford any affi.Jrance of perma-
nency. In aJl other refpras, the arguments in
' favor of Peace are clearly on the fide of Oppofi-
tion; ~nd it cnly remains to decide, wh('ther, for
the b'are chance of unfieadinef~ or verfality in the
actual adminiflr~tion of ~·r~nce\ve are con£cnt to
fee almo~ tlic w.hole w rld peopled with nothinl:
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11ave fo;~~d ·or the jullice or nec:eflity of this'~~~
but foldiers ; ana Yery eOabUlhed ft*m of go- at its commencement, the gro.und has been _fo-
\lernment in Europe, not excepting our own, go completely {hifted Iince that ,Pe,nod,. as to au_tbonfe '
to wreck in the eonteft. Th~t .this muft inevita· different tenoments of the proprsety of tts ar·
bly happer., unlefs the f'rench be inductd by gene- thtr continuance, and t.o require new ~odes of
ral pacification to lay down their arms, no mall con2H8: for its lermination. The fituauon and
wbo coolly confuters the nature of their revolu· cirn•mUancfiS of all the great powers ?f ~ urope
tionaty fyfiem can well venture to deny. I lhall are entirdy cb'a,.ged from what they were oni.Y
fay nothing of rhe arguments foun~ed on the pro· two years ago ; and if this be the cafe already, 1t
pritty of our. retaiping .the french colonies in .btlwves u.s leriouOy to coPfide~, not merely the.
cafe of a peace, as a necdiary . inclemnification for eff. . cl of I his cha ng~ at the prctent nloment, but
:()Ur enormous ~pence~; beca,ufe I think Lhey have wbat progrds it m•~Y be l.i;..~l} LO make,, up t~ a-
not a l1Htc1ow of jufiice or good fai ih to fupport ny future given per~Otl : an u at what l!!lle Ol by
them. Hail we Hood aloue in the conflifl, th~ what meaoll, we may .flatter ourfelv~s With~ ~?re
rloa rine wo~}~ have beeol nlaufible enough ; but favorable opportunity for conclutlmg ho(hhues.
cor.nected as we are and bave been w'[h various lf we reafon from pa(\ eKper!en~~~ the atl v~n~a~es .
allies, each (hiving with all his .dre ngth, aJ wt in (lore for us are not ver y.tovltll1g; and Jt IS tn·
a r 6 told, and many beyond tneir fireogr.h, in the • cumbeot on minit\er_ia11ogic to demonr\:r~te hpw--
common caufe, the conquell made by any indivi- theuoiform fuccdfe~ of the French Republic fhould. -
dual me~ber of the alliance canr.ot' poffibly be augment our expe8ation~ of its fl,eedy overth.row.
viewed in any other light than as prizes taken by Eut in tl1c courfe of the pre.fent contef\,France has
a fingle iliip attached to a fleet. The whole 1of' ' not' only beaten our allies, {he ~eems ~l[o to ~ave
the capture tnuft be thrown irito the general mafs, made converts of tbe.m to lier caufe ; for I ?eheve ,
and lh?uld .ferve, as far as it w,iH go, to balance there is not a man well infor~ed of wh~t ts p:df·
the partnerfhip account of profit and lofs. If po.li· ing on the Continent, who WJl.l not reftGily a.grec
tiel! and ~ood faith do not alwap go han(fin hand, 1hat the ~·rench are lefs obnor.lous to the fubJe~s
I am heartilJ forry for the cqtimry, :whe·r.e they ef every one of the BeHigerent Powers than their
are feparated. Bu·t the conduct '~bich, in my prl· own haughty purfe-proud co~federates tl!e Eng·
"•ate fituation, I ' hold to be effe dtially wrong, I li{h. The conlequenct<s of thls general dJfen.eem
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,n,all not henceforth, in my public capacity, fup· under which we labour, lle::.ve .[0 be ~~mputed .
por't as conditionally right ; for that we ffi o';!ld at by fuperior adepts in polilkal an~hn'.r.nc. : to my
.all times, and under all circumflaoce!i= 1 profefs a un<lerftanding, their g~ofs am~unt lS 'llfa(\er! fub•
readinds to tre~t 'with all our enemies \\ho.mfoe· jugation and ruin •. It ts ~ot. ~ ltttle extraordmary
ver, ~ rleea~ to l{e an indifpenfable ol>ligaiion of ' to obfervc th~ very fame grounds of arg~m,ent
the religion to which we have all fworn obedience ~reffi:.d in the fcr.vice of two oppofite P ruea, te ~
ar dar l>aptifm. Whiltever opinions ·men mi&ht
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co t) tr n~Js, from rhe very vidiJrie, of 1 he Frtnch Vnfortonately, whatever be the deftgns or m~rits
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th fl.t th~y are_ ton txtravagant to latl; Oppofition of the various dHfeminators of thofe oracles, they
tmunta1ns, from the re1teratf'd cl~ft-ars o ~· the are at leafl uniform in the melancholy (lrain of
all ies, thilt they are too much nduced to re- dwir predi&ions : and it behoves every well re-
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co~t~. Here then ~e come dirt Ctly to the point gulated government to attend minutely to their.._
at lflt~e. Does the prdenr poli tic;\ I Hate of E11~ ritotlion thefe foreuoding'l may produce on the
J'ope ntlhorife our . perfeverance in ho!lilities, public mind. For if their doCl:rinrs be well found·
~r warrant the neceffity of immedj ute pacifi::a- ed, we have not an inftant to lofe in adopting a
uon. complete reverfion borh of our moral and polid-
• ~ for a peep into futurity ! m::~y 1he plain eal t}'Uem ; if they be falhcious; no p3 in s thOLild
n.hte~ver .allrl\vabl1 cxcla'm -)\ ptep into fotu- be fpared to undeceive the vietim! of their impoft.
l uy · ~~l~tJrcs, andcrd, of the perioc\ to come ~ion, and no puniClunent can be too r~ vere for the
2.u cxlllbated to ns by boah fide~t pf the quel'. ~ttrocious criminality of their prop:~~ators.
t1or.; hut who lhnll certifv the abilitv of the A·nong the productions to which I allude.
· pain ter, aml who fhall voo;h for the fidtlity of tbere ;s not one fa general in its circulation , nor
the portrait ~ a thoo[andth part. fo forcible in its delineaLlonsof
It h:1s :~I ways been oblen·ed. :bt t1mf's of cnh. approaching mifery, as the two pamphlets en l'i•
~ity. are pecu!~ar~y fertile in vifions am~ prog~of· tltd 1 ' A revealed KDowledgt oft he Propheci.·; aud
tl:allon!, predH~bons :tnd prophecies. \\1 ben the '·'Times, and patticularly ofthe prefent Tiibe,
mwds uf men are foftened by the prdiine or the I; the pr~fent War, and the p .. op Je cy now rul-
• ~ppprehenfion o~ accumulatir.g evil,, then itS the " filling, wrote by the Comm:md of Almighty
rnoment for the iafutary \varmnrts ofrbe jqternal CJ God, and publifhed by Richard Brothtrs"- tu
m~~nitort and cautionary voice of the fpirir ll:ll
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author whofe tremend•)U! rhreats and unqoalifiecl
g•~•Je. }he ~~at mal! of the people, t<Jo fore anathtmas fulmina-te de •hronement and fpeedy
wuh the1r fuftermgs not to oralp at an}· ofFer of
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death on almoft every on~ of the Sovereigns of
, conw lHon . anu too credulouc; to form accurate E\lrope by D3me, and particula rly on our own be-
uot\ons of the divinity of ita origin, is es~6ly loved monarch. Nor is he le(~ liberal of his vi-
wonH·d •Jpon by evtry ~1ecie~ of oracular preten. olent menaces agaiuft barh our h ouf.~s of P rlia-
fi(>f'l : ard we ail knaw . 'hat when men a~e orce ment, our<:h·illnd ecclefia!lical efbblifhutent, tbe
H~adi l y perf1..1aded of the authenciry of a prophe- city of Lonrloo, and the whole Britiih nation: and
cy'. lhey ;u e almr.O:. involuntarily led to perform all ~this, roo, in ten~1~ precif.:ly fi1i ted to the com•
tbe .r p(irt towar~s I TS comrle~ion . The pre!ent prehenfion of the moa 0r di' !a rJ capacity: re plete'
momcnr teems WI h thefe a11ucipations of futuri .. whh grammatic;l l faults ; defHtu te a! ike of harmo~
ty, beyond the example of every former period. ny of arrangement , and eleglnce ~) f <~ id:ion ; in
the fiylo · of a peafant exalt:ug himf~lf al.>uve the
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mightieli of priAces: affirmir.g, tb.at he is utterly ar a mad1•1an ?-overlooking, probably, u is of"-
invulnerable to all human pnwer ; and brning, ten tbe cale with very eager difputanws, a thir_d.
with the moll unrufHt'd indiff'~rcnce, that govern- ' poffibility in the fubjetl:, namely, that he was net~
ment whoftt aurhority his d,·chines and d~Oina· 1her the one, nor the other.
tion are~ by himfelf decbred to counteract, and The books which I have here brought forward '
whofe efhblifnmc:nt the completion of his miffion contain f.>mething more than that mere p~ef lnt"
mufl necdiari Iv fubvert. futrtrity for whid1 I lately expref~~d fo amnous a.
What fhall ~ve fay or think of a man who has ddire. They pretend to bt-, parttcalarly the fe.
been iu the habit f>f writing letters :o the King. cond, an abflratl: of the brief chronicle of the fu-
the Q.ueen, ard the 'l\1inifters of Srate,. ever fince .. ture fortunes of all Europe. But an abllract, no ·
the bep-inning of J 79l , foretelling many events- tloubt, may be incorretl ; and :~chronicle c~n be -
that would ahc1 wards,(fome of which have aCl:u- conceived totally wanting in nuthenticity. To
; ally already )come ro pafs; advifing or reproving fix thefe imputatioos on tht prt-fcnt w~r~, notb-
them as occ~dion feemed to him to require, in pe- ing. '!lore is 11ecefa.ary than to adopt. the pHhy d~-.
remptory and ditlorial Pl<ffage3, faid to p,roceed c:Hlon of, he fpounng club, that H1chard Broth.. .
{rom qod himftlf; and perfiaing, thour,h in the us mu(t be either impofior or m3dman. To fup-
molt unaffecred mediocrity of private life, tore- port the firft r-,ropofhion, we mutt ~ecdTarBy di~·
iterate his i;ltrufions, and reinforce his reman- · cover fome P' h·ate i~ter-ell, fome .perfonal. gran•
firances, on eath Re\V viciffi[ude of public events. ticalion {omc premeditared deceruon hnkmg.nn•
n:.~y more. who Heps fot th to the world, in a der the' plauftble preteufions of philanthropy and -
·fiurdy publkation, avo~·jng all he has done, and piety : (he fecond ~an ?nly be fully ~md.e out c:by
tel!ing ro who~, on what ('uhje&, in what man· jome proof of glanng ltlconfi~ency m Ins pro , ~f-
ner, and how often he has repeated this extra· fions ~ and in both thefc part1cuhr s I hoi~ h~rtt
'ordinary correfponder.ce : and makes the whole infinitely f.t periur to all impuut:ou. Upnglu·
£ngli'h nation a fort of u111pire betwetn the con- 11el8 of intention and candor- Gf fouJ breathe
fiitu:cd powtr of the State, and one obfcureiudi· thro everv line of his compofition. B\lt in \'OU('h·
\tiJual ? i11g ' fo 1 his h1meUy I do not, a priJry, .c~nclude
Tbe policy of Go\·ernment, however, has, I hi~ infaliil>ility. I can ody fay, that Jf Jt were
Lelieve,' hhhcrto J fc h1mfelf and his publicati· poffible he (huuld_ deceive ot~lers, ) a~ morally
uns, &o rife or fall by their own merits; and he certain fs om the tnrernl11 evtd.:nce of h1s whole
has betn t>rought t') trbl only by a very fubor- work that' he 1 iu;r·(f the firfl .vittim of the de-
cliuatt: t zjbun~i indeed: only .a.llxper:ny fplluting ception. On wha~ criteriun then lhaU we decide
t luu! \\ I:;ch kn1e time ago_ propof~d as a t9j,ic for: hili merit5 ? to whal authorir) £hall \fe a: peall
c.~t·b..ate, \~It ·ther l~icl1ard Brothers, '' ha c.alls His own anfwer i~, " &arch th~ ScriptareJ . your•
lbJ.:lf G~d r).l1J1i~ht) 'i ~\<-rhew) b,e an impofior. "filvtl. As Cbrifiians1 yo,u 111uji acknowled:;f

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" them to bt th~ perfetl: fource! of all vtracitv quiretl in the former cafe, while the otber.parts
•• (md l~t tA. m·be tfe l!.uchf.one of "J a(Jertitn.s."·' arr only thrown in to miflead the oblerver. J·~a
H~re let us pa_ufe f01 a moment, and rdleet, as if rhe real objtth to he reprefented in a piaure
that tf we take b1m at his word, we are once were fvftened down, lllfhed away, and ohfcured
n1.ore c.onfrgned to the m) flerious depths of Da- in the diUance of the back ground, while ;he pro-
,Jll el, l .frlrac:, and of the Hevelatior.s where fo Jninent' features of the C!dign, that occupy the
tl1 ar.y U1genioo~ in1upretersJ' aod :ub,letic C<lhl· (root of the canvas, tbould be fo rm~cl of ,aaven-
n· entator~, have bu~n a ready lliipwrefked. titious or fr ivoious reprelentation" , of no c&nfe·
Eo ~ fhall we efca! e a fimilar1 caJamitv ? It it he quence or neae!lity to the piece. lnlbncea of both
)'Wffillle Of) this fea e~er tO make a f;fe harbot kiutis will occur as we proceed ; and · frequent
. w~ mull certnilll,y firike (1Ut fome new coutfe; :n d fpecimeM of tach may be found. in the differ-
take for our con1pals \he following confidcr:nj. ent prophecies of the Old .Tefiament, which
•ons. ~n the nature and properties of proyhetic Ue acki)OW }t>cJ ~ed by all fourteJ trh ics aflO expo..
. wrmng. fitors, to allude to the coming and fufferings of
~ All prophecies are r.either more nor. lefs than the Mdliah. .
true:. genuine enigm.s, in "liich the meanir g is l n this·place it may not be faperflnous. to rnen·
· fo ntcely and ar.rltida lly enveloped by arnbiguiry tion, that in the occupation of decyphertng my-
• ()~ fenfe and of; exprt'ffion; · that until we oe fut· llerious and allegorical modes of com pofidon I
rofued by the Jn Vfr.tor himft)f with the propfr am far frt)m being uadifdplined • . If I h~~~ been
tdue to unravel them, they are c:alculat('d to aJ"· rat~r negligent of our o~n fatred ~r!tmgs, I
~ar as a tiffi1e of the .mofi incongruent abfurdj. bad at lelllt bten in the baun of o~fio\\llng unwea•
• ttes. ( ,f thefe prophttJcal compofitiotls fome are ried attention ott· thofe of the old Hindos : wri-
c:~m.paa and clofe, lilie die gr. attr part of the tings Atlt widt1y diffimilar in f\yle anti manner
Pagcan oradt'S,_ and others more copious and dif- from the prophetical treatifcs in our o~ n Bible.
• fufe. ~n the formt:r cafe, every word, 1 had ai- Nor have my refearchcs b~en altogc!ther fruHiefs;
Jnofi !'a1d every lt·ttrr, comes in for its lbare of .fince ll){l vt bcna fortunate "'o~ gb to 4if~over
meanmg; ard the key that doe' not precifely 6t the true tneaning couched unJer lhe Hindrt triao
every one of •htm is good for nothing. No al· of Eoerg~ es or. power.s, called 81'ahma:, ViOin~,
Jowance is to be adnJilled for any thing fupera- · and Shivs, wbsch hffirm to be nothing more than
• bu.ndant o~ elllra~ous. In the longer compo. ·poetical perfonifications of , . atler,[fac_e, and tim~,
• ftnons e greater fa t itu de prtvaih : among feve. and I fay, that by rbe prOiler apphcatton of tbefe
· ral fenrences, or diHintt members of one fentence three term&, a-1' the furv1ving remain! ofgeouin~
. the mea,n.ing.is all c()ntained in a fingle phrar: Brachmanical mythology may be truly elucida-
(lnly, wnah .JS to he confirued with all the mi. ted.
nutt prcc:iuoo aud undeviating co.ofillency re- · li'ortifH:d tbctrcfo•-e with ~his pre·aoqu+red ap-
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tituoe for fuch fludies, 1 fat do\Vn with pleafure rtlt revelation from God, is to fincl a kty, one ar.d
to the talk recommended by Mr. BrotlJers, name- indivii'ible, that fhculd apply pert~ltly ;lnd equal-
ly, to r~ad the modern hillory of Europe iu the ly well to all the four: fo that taking each or
propheuc records of the Old and N;w T efia- them feverally, or the whole in a mafs, the true
ment.
me3n1ng lboold b~ no lefs p~rfpicu?us, and pal·
For t~is rurpofe, llotbing was reqoifite, bu~ pable in their unton th3n m tbe•r fepar?uon.
to examme, by tl~e tell ofhumau fagacity, whe· . And fo with regard to the Rabylon mentioned
~her the c~ue furnrlhed by him were in f'rofi and In the Revelations. The portrait of Rorpe is fa
Jn all its p t 8 ·fi .a.J e
h ar per eu y cornmenfurate to the rvident in that part where Rome is really meant,
w ole t enor and purport of the myfler.ies to ba that not a fingle commentator of the hundreds
unrave 11cd '· ~0 r ·r · 1·a1·zed tn· any one pardcular
1 It who have handled the pafiage has ever once mif·
or ~ere found too Jong or too Ihort in its appli~ taken it. But they have all erred 1n fuppofing
c;;two to any one inrlancf'-a8ttt.v cffil dt~ '''c- that Babvlon univerfally, and in all cafes, figni·
~e works of God are ~H without tLnv; and for. ied the f;me Rome : and I have no doubt, but
tlufr clue to ~oUefs that degree of perfection, it that \'ery clrar and intel!ig!ble. def~ription of
~~f n~ce(fJrJiy have proceeded from God him. Rome in one place was exprefsly mferted for the
e • w 0 conHruCl:ed the vifions of the pr01,ecie1 fole purpofe of mifguiding, and J~Utting to fault,
at firll, ~ 0 th~ ~er.y intent that they never naould their conjrftures on other parts of the prophecy,
~:c~mle JO~elhgibJe, Udtil, at the time dilliotd by where a different citv is 2!luded to under tbe fame
1h YfdwJIJ and Hleafore, the true mot dd'~euiu.
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title. Aml this i!lagrenble lO the ordinary con-
tne ou . be reve a Ied to Ius ~
. creatures; and when dutt of God'~ pro" ide nee towards m~nkind. He
once thJs clue flwuld come to be known any ha~ not totally denied them light i but the ray
!Dan W!J~tever • with a •o'mperent fit are of J~arn- t.bich he has gracioufly imparted to them, onlY: .
1~f a nd ~ndu!lry, might comprehend and e~pound f~rves ro lead them al\ray, if they for a moment
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~e ecre-ts to which it applies, as Wt'll as gi~r· ~ loofe to the wanderings of tht.ir own ima·
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• 11~ ''ery ruao to whom it wu orjginally impar..
leu. gi·.ations. .
f his then is tl~e quellion :-Has Richard Bra·
;o mak~ this point rnore inteJiigihle, I lhal 1
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thers pflff,.. ffion of this clue, and has be rleclared
obier~e, that with refjleCt to the foua- beafls in h in' hi! book ~ I anfwet, Yes; becaufe I am fure
.the Vlfion of Daniel (and the fa !Be il another 1 four.d it th ere. Bot at the fame titne, I afftrm·,
~;afe) it might happen, and ptobabJy has happen- be nl fi kts very ·little ufe of it, h~caufe be co.mes
td, that fome rr.ao or other lhould fol'm a very at hi~ knowledge 3' Jhorter W'ity. • •
probable guefs as to the meaning of a fiogle bealt, H~ j, ch·ed prcten].:; to :m imn,ed1ate and dJr_d't
or even two. But what has never been done infpir.1 t:on from G,od. :Knill.take:lpon myfelf t?
I I and what DCVC"r could uavc been done~ but by di: · prorc, b:· the nr:Hr.;;.(y exertion o. humau bgach
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ty, that he is really infpired. Alld l 'lhall prove The Emprefs of Ruffia.
it in this manner, He tell:J us in a dry, concife,
The Pope. "·
unttualiti(d afiertion, that fuch a thing is (f) and :The Kings of Englaml, France, Frain, Pn:ffia
fo-as he bas it from God ; but he gives us no tn,t Sardiob · ·
reafon why ic fuould be Co ; and we lee at once To every one ()f thefe lbs Mr . Brothers prog-
11oflicat~,l a fat<ll cara(lrophe; and I affert that
that he repeats his leflon by hearfay. I will take
of mvfelf, without any affilla'nce from him , (for,
hh clue, and lead y•m on t\eg by fie~ through the
different degrees of aual} fis, 1ill you come at "· h~ a; 1 c3 tled UtJ On l1im exprer~Jy tO beg txp.la·
flat ion and fatisfaCl:ion, he ha1l no olher anfwer
the verv conclufion with wh1ch he fets out 5
for me, th::tn .that l mull examine the Scriptu re~)
-fhewi;lg _you by fcitntifical 1 proct>fs, and al • .
1 have difcoverrtl the fate of every one of thefc fO
moll occular demonflration, ~n the predicamfnU
I which ht ha!! totally omiued ;-and fo connect be uncqui\' ncalty announced in t~1e rropbecie~;. of
Daniel and Ercfras. If l fucceccl tn ftdly dl:?hllOJ.
my arguments with his affirmarions, tb<at they
f))all mu lually fuppor t, CtirroborateJ and con .. ing there poinn onl)·, and I fhall clo mo~e, there
h an end of :tltercacion : we \'ery _f,IJrly t!HI)'•
6rm cecla other. The aaalyfi~, <>n my part,
lhall give evidence to the atnhenticity of his in. r nly :ve otlght~ and b~ tbe mo[l ri~id s~ultll Qf
f 'liOU e:-hicifm 30U fog1C We mun, glVe )J)ffi Cte•
fpir:uion ; and the affer tion, on his part, fiull
dh for all the rdl Cfb\s preilidions-e:: p.:iLJ Hfr•
e c~uv~rfo b.ear witn~fs to th~ fidelity of my e~po•
iition. tillem.
And no\v, tp give fome previou~ tellimonial NJw for th~ d-ifcuffion. It moll nec~ffarily be
of my own pretcullons in tltis mode ' of 1nve(H. ·llry ; an\\ '"'' h:~t 1t wants in enter!ainmt.nt mutt
gation, conformable indeed to the general line of ile m3de ll[',' if poffil>le. by conclfeo~.r.~ on .my
Mr. Brqther's declarations, but not explici~ly Fart, taking care at the fame time to omit nollllr.g
mentioned in any pa:t of them-1 affirm from ofimpor[ance. . . ·
111y own difcoveries, that th: prophet Danid po· Daniel "in on~ ofhtq v1fions, tells tl! that h~
fit1vel)' and parcicularly denounces ~nnihilation faw four besHs•; thefe wer:e inttrprttred to hi'!'
to the Britilh navy, in this war. And on proof to be fonr ki ngs. Ail tbe commentators on thts
of this propofttion, in th~ courfe of my EUay I chapter have fought thtfe kings in four fu~ceffi~e
am content to reU my whole P.fl!tenfioul to pen- monarchies, and they have all laburC"d tn va10
etration.
.. An(\ f~t; zrelt bca!t:s c~me from th e fi!d, different
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If we conAJit the map of Europe, it will he found from one an ot her. , .

to comprehend little more lhan t.he do111inions of: The firft w:~s lik.e ~lion, antl it h:1J e:~t;le ~ w!ng.~; I
the following fovere}gns.- • • hehdd till the, ing~ we.re plucked, when 1t wa~ l ~ft~ ll np
The Emperor Q[ G~rm1ny, and the Prh1ces of on the cart h, ~nd mJc.le ltand on the e~nh ~s a m•.n • aml
iba Ernp:re. a man's he<l rt was giYe.1 to it.

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.to fix any one of them with accur.acy and preci~
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Mr. ~rothers gives us the clue to the whole

cnyf~ery ·Jn a fingle word-he fays," they are four
" ktng~ TJOW.u
... For very obvious 'reafons, I omit to fpeak of the
rfirll beall, \\ liich we are told m~ilns the -Ki 1 g of
,F.~1gla nd ; and, fbal! u(e fo. o"uch the lefs ceremony I
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W\l h the fccood.
" And behold another·beaA:, a fecond like to a
cc bear: and it rai(eo up iti"f on one tide · and it
"had three ribs in the mouth of it betw~en the
" ,teeth of it: and the~ faid 'thus u~t-o it: Arife1
4 ' devour much flefl1."
Mr. 'Brothers with moll laconic precifion fays

· c4' This verfe means the prelent Emprefs of Ruf-
1' fia!'7'Now fGr the proof:
• It w1ll. hardly be contended me, tHat the bear
u not a JUll, apr, and congenial fymb ol for t1le·
Ruffian territory an~. ~mpire ; for, as we fay the
'R()man eaglt, the Brttijh !toll, or the Chine(e dra ..
gon, fo we fay the '' 'R.UJ!iall bear.'', ln tbe famous
!ittle treatife of John Hull's Law.fuir', England
.1s ~::. Ued Jghn BttJ/, r'rance Lewis Baboon, H'dland·
'Nzc Frog, antl Ruftia Plter Bear. Nor is it poffiblca
I t~at any ot~er · ~onarchy inEu ope thoultl be ty•
• , .ptfied by_ thts ammal. Bef.de~ as, 'in a complete
• well-wrmen prop~cy, every part mull mutaaUy
1 ·:bear upon an<i f~pport all the rdt, to iuake ohe
. co~patt whole, we muft prefently fee, by the re·
rounder of the ~ontext, that this bear can be no
ot~er than the prefentEmprefs of Ruffia. "It
~aiftd "P itjdf on r;11e fid~," tbat is, it extended
·· Jts dominion, it ·exalted its f!Ower all oo one fide.
And how could Ruffia ao otherwi1e! vVhat .it>
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Natural ills hn·e ohferved 'the leopard to have

al1 the rna licious pla)fulnefs of the cat or monkey
united with all the ferocity of the tiger' ; and
Vohaire's defcription of his own countrymen .ex.
aEHv tallies with this idta i for he fays they are
a ·c~mpound of the monker and tiger. Nor is
tbis aiJ; fur the delicate variegation of the leop-
ard's fpots, and the beauti ful fleeknefs of his fur,
exactly mark : out the Parifiao petit·ma~tre. I
might hue a<lded, that, as the leopard .• fpots
arc fprinkled in regular coufufion, and of n~arly
rqua) fize, over his whole body , fo were the ro} ..
al robes of the king! of France CJ>rinkled all over
With fleu,·s-de-lis of gold. But this leopard of'
Daniel's had four heads; and one ofthefe 1 which
St. John in the Revelations (though omitted by
Daniel) favs he faw cut off, and afterwards heal-
ra, Mr. Brothers tells us, means the death of
Charles I. of E1igblld1 and the rdlorat!Gn of
monarchy in the perlon of Charles JJ. Tllii ve-
a-y circu~1(lance, \\'hich fums at firfl to throw an
inexplicable difficulr,r, in the way ofinterpreting
the whoie beJ(t as 1·eprd'entative of the ki11g of
t'rancc, is the very due which muft lead U3 to
the jutt and infallible fenfe of the enigma; and
is of hfelf q!lirc ft.:ffidcnt to c\·ince that the e~
Jllication comes frorn a power moie than human.
Evtry body knows that our Clurlu.l. was be-
trothed to th~ Infanta t:f Spain; but that go-on
ing incogoiJ.o to MadriJ to fee her, ana being}
clifgu(ln! ~·ihh her- perf,,n; he broke off the ti1a1ch
and rrrurneu hom~ througl; Pllris, where he' fell
in love with Henrietta of France; to his mar- ·
tiag~ wiiiJ whom all IJis ru:lfl<lUellt mi::~fortuna!
an<J rrcmiilU;c death an: lO uc a~tribtHed. Hi$"
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' two tons Cha;les and James, wh~ oath reignetJ one htad. But as he allude6 to four dift1n~
in England, wert avowed or concealed p ~nlion- nearly independent monarchs, boom' toge..;
ers of the Court of ~. . ranee, apd t~e ·latter died in ther by the dofefl ties of alliance and interdt,
that country, a refugee and wret~bed dcp~ndent ht beautifully repreft!nted one body as the com·
on the ofleotatious hofpit:1Jity of.tew;is,Xl\'. lt : nion (;entre of union for four diftind: heads.
is impoffible then to deny for a m~menr. that the · 1 bad almoll forgotten that this French leo.
Stuar~ family were a fupernumerarj .bead on tb,e ~rd had four wings of a fowl.-Well, thefe wi11gs
body of the French monarchy ; bot dying before . a e nothing butjaiiJ: they ooth belong to 1he
it. Lewis XVI. is the fecond head ; ~nd he f!e"' fame elemtnt. \Vbo. does not know that flu/
ri01ed. like th~ firfi, byAecollation, ft1me. ti~e 1 a~d wi11g are in all languages convertible ter~s?
fi•bfequent to the lofs of Ius throne. ~he 1h1rd,. and when Dreda)us is faid \O have made wmgs
h~ad is the 1>refent King of SP,ain, a lin~al d~ - for himfelf and his Con Icarus to fly frvm Crete,
fandent of Lewis XIV. of Franct-, who pJact4 does any man doubt that they failed away infh,ips!
1he Spanifh crown on hi§ grandfon's head ; but The wi ngs are the :Beets of France, and tbeir
a decidnous crown it is, and fore to fa 11 : for, aa , numher i~t jour, becaufe thofe fleets pervade all
the. main head and he-art of the beafi are gon~.~ the quatters of the globe. But why then the
with Lewis XVI. it is certain that none of irs wings of afc,w/.;J Here I mull neceffarily let out
members, much lefs any one ofit~ brads, can long t)le difcou 1 y, to wbirh ! l:iaye already appeal~d
furvive the cataUropt.e. Conf.. nguineal and ro- Is the tdl of ID)' own indi\·idualfkill in prophetic
Jitical alliances co-operate to point out the_ ~ing phrafe. Though (ow.'s may travel the atmof...
of Sardinia as the fourth head, whof.:, d9m1mon~ phere on theis w1n~s from one end of the world
we haYe gtlaranteed to him. He has two daugh· r,o the dther, rhe eagle a1one is qt~een of the aia· ;
ters married to the two brothers of Lewis XVI. and to her ali the fe<~thered creation mull ttecef·
~nd Mr. Brothers is thus p~"rfealy warraptcd by farily {hike fa"l. New Daniel nas rxpreffiy faid
Daniel in faying, that ~'it is oot all the navy of that the eaglt-'s wings were attached to the body
England, nor the · armies of Europe .unire~j caQ qf the BritHh lion (the fidl beafi:) and l1e adds, ,
pre\<·ent the King of .Sardinia from be!ng detbro· ~las ! '' I beheld, to:td the wi11gs thereof wer:
ned., ''plucked!"'
Now we fee to demon(lrat1on how \Yell the 1 he final dif.loluti on cf thefe three firft beafll
four heads of this leopard tally wjtb. the aCtual ~~thus fol',mar1ly fe t forth by tht Prophet:
fia[e of Europe.-Had the prophet mea11t to de· u As concerning the 1 eft oft he btalh, they hall
fcribe four fucceffive fovereigns of the lame king· their d~miniou taken a w'ay yet their ·lh·es were
dom, or four. {epa rate l~ingdoms united ~nder the prolonged for !I fealon !nd time."
~:me fgvereign, the bea(t, in prophetic language, That is, in plain Eng1i!b, they mufl all lofe
co\ald no.t polfi!>ly have had more tban one bo~r' \heir crowns; as Lewis ~ V1. did. who waa on::
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of the three, nbou~ two years previon5 to the lofs ' ct I' of held even till the bea~ was Gain, anc:l hiS'"·
of their lives.' Now I pofitively affirm, that in ltooydefiroyed, arJd f:iVC11 fo the bu,.ning jlami! ,"
th:fe inflaJJces, as far as they go, we mull f:itil er Mr. Brothers mofl truly interprets this paffa g~.
nqcct the prophec1es of Daniel as ah!ord, apoc. ah relat1ng to 1be de~ t b of t-he En.1peror of Ger-
rypbal, forged and falle, ot· ::dmh tlJat 1\lr. .• many, (p 110.) '' It i•," fays he," certain, aud ·
B.,rorhcrs, who has fo com pletely unlocked their all the armies jn FurotJe cannot Cave him. The
myfleri~us allufions, has re·~.:eived directly from. is
judgment of God al f~, that he {hall luffer tl~e
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GOD lnmfelfthe key fer that purpoj':. puuirhment of everlal\ing fire.n H~ entc:rs. m~-
Our Author has l·nten·tl much more into the . putely into pardculars in anether part ot hts-
('e.cail ref~,ecting the fourth heaft, than :lOY of the book, where he tells us.1 " ilu· Imperbl family ·
former, for wlJich reafon 1 01alltake fo milch the wiil all u~ cut ofl, . a~ld no fucceflor will for ever
ld~ notice of him. But it h impoffihle nor to feel after a.r ife."-And again," 1h1s is Francis 11.
the full force of his application of lhe prophecy lhe pre!'eur Emptror ofGeqnany. ~robe rdattd
to the King of Pruffia, i11 that little horn that to him now, will-be conftderedhereafter as a ca-
grew up af~tr the former,'' in which were eyeJ tU pital crime!'- To come at this uwfi tremendous
the C)'I!I cj a 111011," \'iz. perpetual:y oa the watch, ~urfe, and alfo to find the pardcu hr defign-ation
~ ~~ looking lharp out after every profpect of ad· of the death of the King of PruHiu, and the ll1 te~
dlllonal territory, or immedic~te profit, without downfal of the Pop.edom, we mu!l ha\e rrcourfe
reg:nd to tbe means :-whether in ~'ranee, or iu to the :d Book ofEturas.-Now tb1s 2d Book 'of
England, or iri Poland, or any other where elfe- Etoras-has hitherto been dteemed an apl' Cl'J'J
neither an acre nor a JoJJu comes amifi to him. phal compdition of the lowdi or.d~r, anrl fo it is
" Ar.d I beheld!" fays Daniel, " becuuft: of lhe 'ermed ill our church Bibles -;. where it is faid to
gt'"eat words which the horn fpake."-The pro~ llave b.een written · about the: titne of Domitian
Jlhet himfdf feems here to fympad1ile with lhe by fome learned H-ebrew, to be extant only in the
01Honiflunent of aH Europe, .a t &be mon(hous at·· .Latin, an{) to be fiuffcd full of jewifh fables and
t_rocities and intolerable ulafphemies uf th~ Duk.e l\abbinicaiJ·bapt{>rlies •. But I have always confl·
elf Brunfwidt s famous manifcllo, ..,..,·bicb l am {or· dercd th1s fame book of EfJras as one of \he molt
I'J 1 haH not hue by rne, to infcrt as a comment ' fUblime, the mofr compreheniive, and~the mofl: tf'•
ori the dh ine texr. The ruin at:d death 9f t.his plicit of all the ancient prophecies. And when·
<~leih-ble horn 1 fh:~ll prefently {hew from Ef· 'We fball have heard his beauliful allfgory of the
d r;ts : 1> .w iel g,i vcs it us i 11 the 26th \'erfe : " 13u~ wbole Hom3n empire, from its fia {l republican
th<; judgment ihall fit, and they 1l1all take away form to its atlual fl:ate at this moment, I am fure ·
h i~ Juminion 1 to confu!lle and to defiroy it, unto we fhall agree that, whether Efdras lived iu the
t he rnd ;~·- ~~ w~ll .,.~ io tb~ lumr with tJut Qf time of Domitian, in that of Daniel, or in that of
tlu b~ n f! , · Aiam., there never was a more truly wonderfal
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Q~tt ruper.lmman. epitome of a long nnd evtntfu
lullory revealed trom tht pen of man. It is iD ~gle be allrgorical, tbe fea from wh~nce it arirer
tht' xith chapter. s allegorical :1lfo. We have the dirctt explana·
" Then l faw a dream, and behold there ,Jme ion of it in the Revelations, where men: ion is
np from the fea an l"agle, which lwJ twelve fea• ade of tbe great Whore that fitteth upon many
therfcl wings, :tnd tlnee heads. An(l I faw and ~aters.-And in the r 5th verfe of the fame chap-
hehold lhe fprt:td her wjng~ ovt>r all 1 he e~rth, t.er, the angel fays ; " the waters which thou
:ind nll the winds of the air blew on her arrd , where the Whore fitterh, are peiJpln, 2nd
'''e!'e- gather~d tog~tlJer. And I hehelrf, a11d out !f414ilWuaes, and n!Jtiom, and tongu~s." This eagle
other tc-athers tl~ere gre\v other c1mtrary feath· erefore coming tljl from the fea, is the dty of
ere:, 3nd they became little feathers, and fmt~lf, gradual1y rifiog among the nations ol Italy-
But her hea~h were xt refl: ; rhe head in the midlt Prophet fir!l is made to behold all the fiac-
w~~ grrater than the other, yet rdled it with t11e viciffitucles of her fate, wrought up into
refirl·•e: l\tor~ver, 1 beheld, nnd Io! rhe eagle ope compact atfemhlnge. Her extent of domin•
flew wllh her Jt>athers, and reignrd upt•tl earth, ton ia marktd by her wings over the whole earth.
~nd over them th:~t dwfl[ therdn. Lind 1 fa\f ijer twelve feathered wmg'i are the twelve Cre-
that all rhing~ undt'r hcnvt'n were fnbje~t nnra C.us, and her three heatls art, the Pof'~' the Em·
'her, snd no II!MI fpake ::IO''{in(l hrr no no~ one ~eror of Germany, :tnd King 'Of Pruffia. Well
.:re:aure upon earth. AnJ b '
J behttH,' and lo . the Indeed mighr it be faid, that the heads njltd, for
\"t~gle rofe upr'ln her tr~lons, and fpoke to her f~·<~· as ye~ th~y were nothing but embryos in the
ther~, r:'l~ ing, Watch nnr all at once; fleep eYe ry yomb of tuturi:y. '' And 1 beheld,'' fays the
nn~ an h1~ own placr, ~md watch by co\Jrfe. B l! ~ t, ''and lo ! the voice went not out of her
, let the head~ ue prtfen·ed unto th~ hfl. An J i , but from the midfl of h:r body.''- This it
b~held, :iltl{l lo ! the \'oice went not out of her true fpiri~ of prophetic lore, this is the gen-
l1eaos, bin from rh~ midfl ofh~r bo«lv." · ae fpark of Promethean fire! How was it pof-
1-Jt'r~ in thete firfl rtn verf.-s we h<~"e an Jllaa. irlfuch few word!!, and yet whh fuch afton·
~nc! more than an lliad, in a nt~t1hei1.-The e~g · ' ng accuracy, to ddioeate the focus from whence
is the tyre nf Home. In this at leafl l {hall ~ot ,emanate all the ray~ of republican authority ~
be in ddnger of contrC~ditlion. Ver. 1 2. 1 ' And I looked, and behold! on the
Lut wh:lt is the meani:-tg, in tl1is and fpv eral fide ~here arole one feather, and reigned
"ther raffi•gt"s of the Prophtt, nfthe wonlf a .:.--. all the earth: and fo it was, that wh~n it
Jt c:mnot he taken lirerallv ; for P tlme h an i11· gned, the end of it came, aod the pl.:1ce thereof
ja"d chy.-1 t molt ther~fore be oh{erveil ~~ a p~ared no more."
w·nef~.d ru1f', .that i.n allegorical writing' tt·ery The feather that now rof.• up on the right fide
»""'I JS a pottlOn of the all!'J;cry; :ul(! thus if lke "a~Julius Cre(•r; and the Prophet's upreffioll
very zemark~ble-cc J\nd fo it was, that when
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•t relgn!d, the ~nd ofit came, and the place thel'e
llbe mid(l, for that was greater tHan the two oth•.
er heads , and then I faw that the t\YO other hea~s
of np~nnd no more!'- e l~e clearly ,that this
1reign txpirrd tuddenly, alrnoCl at 1its very com· . were joined with it. A1d beh.old! the hea~ .waa.
·turned with lhem that were With H., and d1d ~at
\11Ctlcement; ancl was folio-we~ by a ~ertain pe•
Tiod of interregnum. · "P the two feathen under the wing '.that wou),l
have reigned. But this head put the whole euth
''So the naxt following flood up 1na reigne~ 1
in fear and bare· rule in it over all thofe th1t
dwelt ~pon the earth, with much oppreffion •
l8nd had a great time; and it liappentd, that when
"t reigned, the cond of tl came alto, like a-s the firfi,
and it had the gover·nance of the world 1110r~
fo that ir appeared no m:>re. Then there came
tha11 all tht whtgs that had been." ,
~ voice unto it, ancl faid : Hear thou, that ba(t
Npw we come to the Pap:::cy~ to that great
~borne rule over the earth fo lorJg : :h1S I f3y un-
head in the n1idfi: 7 .to which were joinetlthc two
o thee, O«!forethou beginne!l to ap~ear no more, \
other heads .; na mclv, the States which wer~
There fhall none attel' thee attam unto thj
the-reafter to form the ·dominions o£ the Empire
'(imt",neither unto the half tlicreof.''
.and the King of Pruffia. The gradual encroach·
~he next feather after tliis interval is /\ugufi·
·~Dents of the fpiritual predominence over ~U th•
tl'i. iTo ,put the matter nut of all doubt, the in•
temporal authorities ot the time. are adm1nbly
Jj>irtd writer takes particu~ar c~r~ to •Jnrorm us
.defcribed by the head eatmgup th~.twofeathe~s
of the great length of his rcign: a drcumfiance
tint wonlrl have reigned, And thJ ~uzJoput th~
~markaole enough of ir felf, but .rendereO. pwch
fVhole earth ilz ft:ar. How~ By launchm_gns mofl
"'1ore fo, by his bting fo minutely accurati as to
(tcne with p-yecifion, that the ·re-ign of no other
blafphemous thunders in i.nterdiClions~ t.xcomm~
r.ications, and every fpectes of ecclefia{ltcal ~·ul~
rrince Who fhould ever after govern. that ~OUOtrj
}try, with much, very much oppre!fion, as fays .the
lhould attain even to h1lf the dur~non of that of
Propb~t. Now for the clo.fe of the pro1>heuca 1.
~uguJtus. And therefore it is imp ~} flible tbH '
drama: ·
verle ilioald ' be interpreted of any oilier emperor l
H And after this, I beheld, 3'3tllo! the head
bur him. · )
that was in the midll fuddenly appeared ll~ morr,
I.lhaJI not .here follow the Pr!>phet thro' the
like as the WJ'lg~ ~ bl.}t there rea1ainec.l the l wo
n.e:11 t ren verfes, from t be 17th to the 27th-
h~ads which alfo in like fort rnied upon t~
( fhey defcribe the rdl of the Crefus, and th~ . ·~
earth ' aud over thofe that dwelt thereto.
r~.hfequent commotions in the ftate)-but thaU gd
on to the z3Lh ver(~. I
Th~ reformation and revolt of fo many nati-ons
from the- Pope's power, b.1tb tern poral and fj)i •
H And 1 behtld, and Jo ! the two that remain•
ritual, are fiefcribed in thefe verf~s : and h1s
ed tho\1ght ::~lfo in themfelves to reign: and when
downfal is e1(preC,Iy m~ntioned to precede that
tbey fo lhought, bthold! there awaked one of the
· ~f .ttl~ otaer. tWQ heads ; n:tmely1 the E~.,c:r~
heads th4:.t were at rea, uamely 1 it that waa itt
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~g \\itli a grievous ficknefs, and it is now on its
cleath-l)ed expiring in greitt agony. Mr. Broth·
.ers tells u~ in his l>ook, that the Emperor will
foon give it the co11p de gn"~· ~
· " ~·or the two that rc:main Jaall be .f1.1in with
, the fword."
' Tile Emp~.ror's.authority and that of the King
of Pruffia ar:e·now lfl apparent health: their down·
fall, therefore, being dellined to be fudden w
.hav-e ne appearance of a natural decay; bu; may
be 1ikened to a violent dea·th by a fword.
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For the fword of the on• {hall devour the
-other ; but at lafi: fhdll1e fall through the fword
.himfelf.H
When thefe two great potenta-tes fhall quarrel,
""~ cannot poffibly doobt but that the J.Jmperer
'"Ill prefcntly demoiHh his Pruffian Majefiy i and
tl.1e:-efore ;w.e a.re at no lofs to afcerraio their
~dfcrent perfons in this place. And now, hav.
Jng feen • aH ther.t heroes fairly brooght to the
gravpo7 llhall here ta.ke sny leave of tbem, and
t,roceed to n new .fu bject ; for whieb purpofe we
muO: open tbe Revt"latieu& •
. Mr•• Brothe-r;..tt-11-us, that the Babylon mea•
tloned tn tbe xamh chapter Apoca1ypie does not
fTif:tn ~o~e, but L ,don-contrary to the ex·
pr~ fs ienument of all forme-:_ expofiwrs .; and be
p roves his pnfition in a very fatisfactorv manner,
(hy il1ewing.,. tha.t the vario.us and muhi~plied ;11lu·
fi_un~ ro na.vJgauon and comm~r~e in 1he defcrip·
1
tl!n of th1s rlabylon cannot po!hbly be Hrairaed,

nlth any rropiety, to indicate Bll i&:,}and ciry, tO·
t:~Uy it~capable of fhipping , and rem~trkably detli-
' tutc ~f trade. Hi:~ remarks are perfettly jull and
.app.o.f1:e ; all I have ahere.iore to4o, is, .to corry•
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~lfa fold there-S~rt/s of mm I
ftluls of men are tloned pronit•t•e in tl1e- market, the other remain·
ed li.allenlv immovlllle !lt homl". The eruanci-
And where can f~ml~ of mrm be properly deemed
pariun o('the form et· would have op~ned the .pri·
an article of trad:!? Certainly net 1n Rome, where
l;Jn doors of th~ 1 't~r-conlcl I hnve c::ttght the
igt1or:~nce and p'rieficraft bind up the fouh of.all
Spt>:t!<tl''3 t-y~. But it j~ of no confeqllence nO\V
their ddudecl fuhjelts in chains ot •everlaftmg
-Lito ~ravi a1rirna; m~pm-ancl both my fvul ant!
adamant. Sri!( h·f3 in the (t·dcvant Pari~; or
ronrue 3re from htnceforrh nt liherty.
Vienna, or MadriJ, or any o1ber city nnd.er a def·
potic government, where tyrann~ whole dJence
L~ ~td"n, n<~ Mr. Brothers f.wo;, is known alfo
in the Hcve-lation.~ by tile na;te of S"d.,,iz : for
jt i~ to e>.:tingui!h and utterly aoiht!ate the human.
mind idelf, leaves not a fingle man who cao tru· "'hich he quot~s chi~ pJflJge of tbe xith chapter ;
' "Ar1d their de:1d bodi~s" (viz rhoie of the two
-ly and pruperly cell hiJ.fmi hiJ owr.. lt is here,
witnefl~o;) "fh1lllie in the ~reat city, which fiJi•
in Englar:d: it i! in this land of liberty, where
ritnally is called Sodom io Egypt, where olja ortr
every man haJ a foul which he can keep or fell, L:>rd t/14J cruc-jitJd."
a~ he pleafes, that this arricl~ can a~one be cal·
.1\ nd in wh.at city C3n our Lord be faid to have
lt'tl ~ merchand!z~; and P..tdmmen: lS tbe granq
l~en crncifi•r\ ~xcept at Jeruf.tlem, wbich furtly
1
emporium fvr th~ commoditv.

wa~ ll!tt in Ehvpt !-Why there, a.>Jd th~ re <mly
Mutl: I fpeak out? mull (proclllce an inflance?
where rhe hl~l~(l iacr~me t of redemptinn i'! pro·
\Veil, then, I ha;;~ <ln ioHance ~ 1 myfelf am that
llitu~eu to the purpof~s of v~n~lity and ambitio!'l:
j,Jfiance, and the Speaker is fl liv\og \•itnefs to
where the bt:nefits of fzlvation :~r~ harrered for
the truth of my afl~rtion. There as he fat in
fihl:y lucre : wh"re the holy commetTto:-ntion· of 1
ltis rhair, day after dtJy, for thr~e ye<WI together
•Ctnirl's d~ath is degrnd~d to :t tcf~ nnd qn:JJ)fi:-:3-
beholding me crouched bebino the :freaCury
ti!>n f;>r holling civil ~mjlloyments: aud confe.
Bt>nch, wnh my, foul in my hand, lil~e a country
girJ in the mnrket with h~r bUtter and egg'l before
(1\lently. '"her~ the tWO \drndJes or th~ Gol'p~l
•H·e trampled under foot hy auth!•riry <'f !he State.
her, anxioufly waiting for the lncky mon ent when
-In no nation u.1der beaven ho( in Englancl,
the Tcllcr!i would cmne ::~nd . rid me o[ my bur.
in no chnrch in tbe woriJ but that hv law ef.
then;that J might run home ;,~d hjde myf~Jf.
tal•I,fh .. d l:ere, doe, fJc!J a prof.1nntion ~xitl ; irt
And whi!e 1 did fdl my faul, it .wa~ all in the
th~u v~ry dH1rch too which e:ocprefdo;,• fl)'"~ in one
true fi·irrt of commercial credit tl-at./i pa.u'iarly t • '
" pan of her own rit.nal, tiut takwg the f:..crame,Jt
i!:jlitJ 'JtJ;fb rs t?iJ 'a:mtr)': I f.>ld it pnrely upon
tnlUJo, thil;• i1 cruci(;:in._; C ', .ill's l·,~(!' a(rtflJ, and t'uf·
Hu(t ~ ;;j never have received one lh,l iling; and
i 1tg ~md drilili\t.: '.Jrtr ow11 dum•la 1i'JIJ. •' Ot.t: of thine
l1ow I am taught by experie.!lce to apprehend t~2.t
own rno"th will I <'ondernn thce"-1!wu '"ir.:k-
ihe purchafer will nevf'r p:1y rne one fanhin1J
ed ch .. rch !--Htre rht-n Wf hnve io St. roltn hodt
fnr it. Hut though I fold r.1y_foql, I cou!J n~ve~
~abJbn :lnd .Souoan to fignily oue anJ. the fame,
f10ll m.\ to_n,~,;. While tb~ une !qitered an aba.ll•
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it is fit this work fhould be comprifed witl~in
fi~y. JO~ as w~ have' the two. c.itie! of LondoB· :noderttte Hmirs, as becaufe I am latisfied I have
·and WeJ\'min~tr within the fame bou?dary; hut heaped, proof upon proof beyona all ' reafonabJe
hie~ df the twe be S!'dom, and wl~tch Ba~ylon, 'necdfity for full conviction. ~nd hece I Lhall cloH:: .
I leave to be decided by that fagactous. afiembly the fubject as far as rtlates to politics, and em-
\Vhich hacf no t.loubt moll oracularly pron()unced ploy a few words with regard to Mr• .Brothers
'\\'heth~r Ric.hard Btothers be an impoUor or a himfelf. '
tnadmao. · • He fays he is come to recal the J•ws to their
AAd hrre 1et me an<:, whether I liave norm the native country ; and for the proof of his divine
moft clear ar,d (3tisfactory manner, and upon_full miffion he refers us to the miraculous difcoveries
·proof, eUab1ifued t'\'ery one of tho~e P?linons contained in his books, from a perfu 1fion, that if
which I at ftrU: pledged myfelf lo mawtatn : as we admit the prophecy, \\-e cannot rtj~d the pro-
well in lupport of Mr. Brothers's well founde? phet. Now that all Scripture as wtll as all tra·
' pretebfions to ilivine. j~fpit·ation, as. of my o~vn · dition bears teOimony to the certainty of thf' re.
~ualifications .a.nd a.btbnes for eKecu.raug the I alk cal of the Jews in the latter age of the world no
1 had undertaken ~ .A:nd I hope thole perfons of man wbo has. but a fmattcr1ng of arq_naintance
the better condithns lor life, whom I l{no~ ro · with either will for a moment pretend to deny.
11a·te fai<l that this l>oClk wa!\ calculated to m~ke The main ddign of Mr. Brothers, as far as he is
an imprtffion on none butt e mol\ i.lliterat~ vuJ. perfunally concerned. is to fhew us that rhe life
g'Rr, wili be now i~clined to aomJt that Jt.n:try· and conluet of the firfr M~fes was a fort of type
) ave weiobt even wttfl a man not much lcfs JO· or pre determined pattern for-that of the fecond:
. 1 p • {'
firuftecl or experienced than tnem1dv~s, n1~r ve- and for this pur pole he quotes a te"t of cripture,
r:y greptly tHeir inferior in uoclerl\antlmg. litera- which can neither, be eluded nor explaintd away,
ture orfttootion. M1l!l of all, I h~pe that ev~ry that the man ddHned to lead the Jews a fecontl
(lne witr ~t 1eall: think it worth w!nle to examme time to Paldl:ine fhould be He to .l'lr;j~J hnni· lf·
•th'e Scrjptures calmly :lnd aue.miv~ly,, to com- The f>arallel between the two perfonages, l'vir.
pne tnem wi1h 1\Jr. Brothtrs s <tf!enwns, and Brothers fiates ~o have tallied hitherto, and lie
then judg~ for himfelf; for ~ cap aO·ne my read· affetts that it will continue to do fo; for, as Mo ..
ers, that I cuul<t never obtam the lmalle~ expla· fes afcended fr-Jm the atk of bull -rufhes, fo did
r.:nion of any part of his book from Mr. Brother!!, Mr. Brothers rife from a lhip having been bred
"hom I called upon exprefsly for thlt purpoft!. to the navy. That this coincid ·nee of characters
lie drilv referred me to n•y Bible, obferviog. that might be evident at firfl: fight, ~r. Brothers af'.. ·
·f could n~ither fuh1raC1: from, no.r n~u a ho~le fens, that, by the command of God himfelf, he
"word th what God had expre(sly du~tatccl to hun.. cut a wa,•d in 1 79 2, which is to perform precifdy
ihe fie!d is lllll op,en for frefi1 labore1 s ; I h.1 ve t~e fame aniracle• wi~h the former wauil of Mo.
cccu 1>ied lti.at a fmall part of it: as well becaufo - L .
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re~6 Nor need we now be afrl)nifbed or fcanda- I Extend the line of filiation as far as we pleare,
Jjzed, when_we hear Mr. Brothers affirm that God through 50, too, or 1000 defcentst the laft is Jill
fpeaks to him in plain dirett words, as one man a nepbew, lineally d{ fcend~d from the firtt, in Lhe
• would fpezk to another, fiocc we k,w\v that in fame manner as every Jew to thi day is a fon of
this refpctt J\ttofes was favoured with a cumn~u Abraham, and as we are all of us beyond all doubt
nicatioo exactly fimilar. Mofes, born in Egypr, " the foQs of Adam.
Jed the 1fraelites from Egypt through the Bed Next, Mr. Brothers fay's, he was in a vi!ion ta·
Sea i,ito Palcft•ne. Tbe birth place tberefc,re of ken up to heaven, where he faw the Holy Ghofl
' the iecond Mofes, and tlle country from whence under the figure of, a filver coloured dove. A3 a
he is to ft.1mmon the modern. Hdrrews, mufl: fpi· fpirit truly the Holy Gbo(t may have no fltape ;
ritually, ~t lea(l, ha\ie at one time ot· other been but that he ati:ually appear~d as ·a cove when Je·
alfo denominated Egypt, to make the parallel be- fus Chrifi was baptized by J->hn in Jordan, I pre·
tween two event'i m,vve on all fours: and r have fume no believer in the Gofpel will think fit to
already proved, from St. John io rhe Revelati- conte(t whh me. Ag:Iin, Mr Brothers faw Satan
ons, lhat the great city (viz. Ll)ndon) was fpiri· entering London ir1 a hu1Nan jhape• . Why what
tually called ~odom j,~ Egypt. fuape fbould he be in? Perhaps1 indeed, if hr.-had
In the fpirit of this paraHel Mr. Brotbers re- reprefented hirn with raucer eyes, cloveo huofs,
marks in the 1 71th page of his fecond book- anrl a tail a falhom and a half tung, all the Q]d wo-
'' fhpraoh ii appoint.1d1o die, and his ~'Jvermner.t to men of both fexec;, in this great city would have
Ire dcflroyed; the pri~fh arJtf all the abrmJin"bl~ idol- been mightily tempted to believe him. But af£er
g.trieJ of Egypt (hN:t pc1 ifh'f mver to be found any all, what other (bape can we l\lOre co,1Gfl:ently
mo're.'' " fuppofe hhu to have worn in his triumphal entry
I 1l1all now fiightly mention a few expreffio.ns into a city. ioha9ited. b~ men ? 1 am only forry,
to be fo111 din Mr. Brothers" books, which have that, defcnbed a:. he IS 10 robes of white aod fear.
operated as fl~mbliog-blocks to weak mindi. And let, he moll have b, en hardly difringuilhable at
fir!\:, for the phrafe wnich has caufed fo much of· fidt fight from any ufrhe Peers ofGreat Uritaio,
fen~e, where he calls himfelf God Almighty's N~· whom I have feeo in the fame drefs con,: into and
phew.-l fi,,cerely hope tbere is no man in this go out of Weftrninfter Hall at the diabolical Im·
<:ountry who will openly deny that Jefus Ghrifk. peachment.
is God Almighty~ If there be, 1 ftieak not to ObjeCtions, but thofe perfeCtly groundlefs, aod
&1im ; I am fure no member of the efl:ablithed founded in grots ignol'ance of tbe general courfe
Tdnitati1n Chu.rch can fafely fay ()lherwife. of (iod's judgments, have been fiarred ag1 inft Mr.
Now if jcfus Chrif\ had brothers and fifl:ea·sj as is Brother:t's aU~ aion in his fir ll book, " th~t God
expredly proved from .t~t Gofpel, the (.on of any would have drllroyed the dty of Londou i11 l 791
QU(: of tb;Jf~ muLl ncceB.\nl)' ha v: bee~ hu flephe w. -but for his iutt rct.ffiooi•. , ·

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To fue~ th~t this doctrine is. not unprecrden- tending to one and the fame di(lint'r end; or whe·
te~. we m•ght m!tance Abraham s rtpeatt:'d folici· ther au impoflor fllould fo honeftly and difinter•
tataons for the prefervation of Sodom, and God's dledly eutreat us only to take fC"rious care of our-
anfwers in the xviiith chapter of Genefis: aa felves, and our own molt important concerns
wel.l as feveral other fim iliar circumrlanees in leavjng hi01felf and all poffible perfonal advan:
Scr!pture, ~ut there is a paffage in Ezekid rage totally out of the quefiion. And what then
W~1cb c.o'"?e~ tf poffi~le, Gill more exactly to the is the point he fo artluouUy labours? Nothing
pomt; tt 1s 10 the xxnd chapter, the title of which more than that we would, before it be utttrly
runs thus-'' V. t. A catalo~oe of fins in Jerufa- !oo late, relinquilb this Jufl and neceJJary war;
lem.-I 7· God will burn them as drofs in his . Jull, only becaufe it jufiifies God's vengeance-
furnace.-~3· The general corruption of pro· a~d , nece:flary, only becaule necdlary for our pu-
phetS 1 prieHs, princes, and people."-... Now let ntfhment. And I rloubt not but it is his opinion,
us attrnd to the 30th and 3 tfl verfes. It is God ·as it is mofi aff'urecl]y mine, and my a(hice alfo,
that fpea\~s. tht the Fajl which is appointed for the 25th of
" And I fought for a man among them that l''ebruary, to implore fuccefs on our arms, lhould
fhould make up the hedgr, and Hand in the
gap be converted, by Addrefs to his Majet\y from
~efore me for the land , that I !hould not dellroy both Hou{es of Parliament to that effect, to the
lt; bu.r I !ou~d no.ne. Therefore !vve I poured. purpofe of a folema and fincere hmniliation for
out mme 1nd1gnauoo upon them, &c.u our crimes, and a moll earnel\ fuppHcation to God
•. \\'ord~ cannot be found more incontefiably ap· lor the refroratian of peace ; and that we may
pucable to i\lr. Brothers' defcription of himfelf' take warning by the fate of our aha11doned and
'' flanding in the gap blj-ore the Lord .f r the city, fuhjugate"d ally, not to pofi'pone our offers for a
tf,at h:' jbauU nat dejlroy it/' To con{rove rt this negociadon to 'the very la!t moment, when the
p,rinciple, is oot to want convitlioo, but to re .. fword £hall already be at our throats, and all
pel it. _ llopes of obtaining moderate terms mun be to-
. Now to conclude :If any man, calmly atte nd.. tally relioquifhed. Let us, while it is yet poffi-
mg to w 'at l have adduced, can flill confiJer ble, adopt ~;iat roofr divine fentence of tbe Gof•
Mr. Brothe• s as an impofior or a madman I with pel, " rm edtth peace, goo4 will towA.rdj men."
him littla jvy of his feeling-; or his pr~fprac.
But. whatever judgme1t be pro11ounccd oo him, NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHED.
let H at lca!l be after a fair trial and fuffident
h~aring. Let us fi rtt rtflett, whnher it be noffi- Pall-Mall,
ble that .a mad!tl30 fll.ould fo ab 1y 'anc\ COil fifi ent- 29th January, '79S•
Jy prefs Into. bts fervtce the wh ole !Jody of pro• T BE EN D.
rl1ecy both 1n tbc Old and New TtH~m~ 1 .1, oall

A
cALCULATIO-N
ON THE COMMENCEME~T OF Tl-IB
MIL LENNIU~l, -
A~P A Sl-iORT REPLY TO
D a.. H 0 R. N E 's P A M P H L E T,
ENTITLED,
'' iour.J .Argunzent, dilfated hy Com111orJ Smje.~
TOGETHER WITR
G U R S 0 R r 0 B S E R VA1' I 0 N S
ON THE
. . " Age of Credulity.'.'

BT NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHED, M.P.
!"'o ®hich is add_ed, AR Original Letter from Mr. Bro·

ther8, to Philip Stephens, Efq. with bi.s .Anfwer.
A PAPER IS SUB']OINED,
POINTiNG OUT THOSE PARTS O.F
Mr. Brothers., Prophecies,

Tl{AT HAVE BEEN ALREADY FULFILLED.
Alba11y-Prjnted hy Charles R. f!f George 1Vebjer,

in the White Houfe, corner of St~te :tnd read Streetc~

THE
M I~ L L E N ~ I U M.
HOUGH there bas be~n !lO age oft he Church

T in which the Millenium was not admitted by
iadividuals divines of the firfl: eminence, it ia
'et evident, from the writing~t of Eufebius, Ire•
11zus, urigen, and orhe rs among the ancients, as
well as from tbe biftories of Vu'pin, Molheim,
and all the moderns, that it was never adopted
by the whole church , or made an article of the
ci\ablifutd crt ed in any nation .
About the middle of the fourth century the
lr!illinarians held the followir.g tenets:
tfl. Tha~ •he city of Jeru{altm fbould bt" re-
built, and that the land of Judea fhould be tHe
habitatiu~ of thofr: who arc to reign on earth on~
thoofand years. . •
2d. That the &rR: refurreetion w~s not to be
conined to the martyrs, but that afttr the fall of
I Antichrill alllhe jufi were to rife, and alltbat
were on the earth were to continue for tbe !pace
tftime.
3d. That Chrift: fhaJl then come down from
Heaven, and ba feen on earth, and reign there
with his fervants. '
4th. That the faints, during this period, 1haU
enjoy all the delights of a terrdlial paradife·
Tbefe opinions w·ere founded upon cveral par-
rages of Scripture, whkh the Millenarians, a·
Dlong the fathers, underfiood in no other than a
literal feofc; but which the moderns, who h'lld
bat opinion, ~oofider as partly literal and parrJ1
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ce.ive the nations v;ll1ch are 'in the four quarter&
m~taphorical. Of tliefe pn!:lg~s, that upon of th~ !'arth ;'' and there is r.o renton to btlie~e
w~,·ch the greate!l flr ::fs has heen laid is the fol- th:n· he wjiJ have luch p lWt'r or fuch lioerty !ll
lowing: " And I f. .,.,ran nn~,el come do'wn from ~ '' the new heavens and the new earth, whereu1
heaven, l1aving tlH: key nf the hortomlefs ph and dwellcth rigblecufnel~." '
· u great chain 1ri this ll'md. And he laid hold on
the <~ t~ag0:1 /:tn t,old {' rpent, tWbich iCJ the devil
and Satan, attrl b u, d him :t tho11jll;:d )'earJ, and A . C A L C U L A T. I 0 N '·
· caO: him into the bottnmlefs pit, and Owt him up,
nn1l fet a ft;a! upo him, th~t he lhould clereive On the Cmwnencement of the
the nations no 111ore till the th(j:,(md;•ears fli<dl be
fulfi"leri, anH after that he muh: l>e loofed a little
feafQn. A~(11 faw thrones, and thej fa! ;)pon R. Brothers has taken much pains to adjuR:
th!'m, and jlld~mt>nt was glven unto them , 'and and afcertain tht'. B1ble chronolvgy. He ·
I (aw, the louis of them th:a were b~beaded for gives,it in detail at the opening 0~ his nrff book .
th.~ witne:fs ofjcfns, and for tfiC word of God , If and ~·1\udt"S to it in f~veral parl oi the fecond.' :lS
~hidl'11ad not worfhipprd the beafl:, neither his heldmg out r.o men an ev1.ueot pro?f t~lt the tuue
image, neither bad received hi~ mat k upon their for the completion of anc1eo t p:ophec1~~, ~nd the
lo· t.h ads, o• in their h:wJs, and they lived a.·d recordi!d period for the u;ecu:wn of God ~ Juog·
reio-ned with Cbrill 1a thrmfcmd yearJ. But the ntents is really arriverl. But .rhe cotmechon b~
re:t of the aead lived 0'Jt again till the thot.t/(md tween the age of the world, •tJZ ••59'3 years,. 10
yt>arJ<we,·efi,,ijhtd. This is the fir(l rcfurreCl:ion. A •. D. r 79 4, ai1d this p1 eclettrm!nrd refoluuon )
Rom. xx. J-.6. · • · of the i\lmiglty is by no, means a1,~~~· e~1t at firfl:
This paffage all the ancient Mi!lenarians took fight, or to a curfory oblerver. Somethtng more
in a fenfe grof:.,ly literal. and ral ght, chat during is certainly necdiary to develope t~1e my.Hcry, and
the _MilJen!lium, the faints on eartf1 were to eo· th!" folio :ving is an attempt to tlucttlate 1t by com·
.ioy every bodily aclighr. r Tk: moderns, on the , put=1tion.
other h.:wd, confider 1he power ar.d pleafure of Allufions to the Jlllillemriuvl are to be found
this kinrdom as wholy fpiritad, and th~y tep- in all parts of ~cripture ; an~l Ll~e dodr~ne g~,ne•
:;efent the ·· as not to cf)mmeGce till ~fter the con- rally received is that the' Mofatc ccount of the
. flagration of the wefent earth. Eut tfir!t tl!e creation of the '•.•()r\d is a prophetical type of
hft !uppofi~ion is a mifiahe tloe very n.. : xt vr.rfe its duration : ta}'Jng (according to St. Petet> and
but one evinces ; fgr it is rhel'e faid, thnt ·' when Eph. chap. iii. v'er. B.) one rhou tand yearsjr.r r-ne
tl1e thoutand years are expired ~atan fball l>e day. So that wl' are to Ill dt'rlhnJ the world to
loo(i d ()Ut of h1s prifon> _and 0Htll go out to da· have b~en ddlin~u tO la(l 6000 JW~/) unuel' the

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yok~ of labor and tribulation, (metaphorically find , on dividing this quotient bJ' 360, a produce
1i~mfied by the labors of God in the fix day1 of ere. a~nount1ng to 5999 furh divine yttars and a- frac·
au~n) an~ on~ lhou(imd years under th~t d1fpen. tion ; which fraCtion, d e~ ufre d trom the fum to·
JatJon WIHch IS typ1fied by God's rcfling on the tal of one year leav es a defic , ,. n~ y. at the 'end of
s.. bhath-day , and which is called Chrift's King. the year of our Lord r794, equal to 32z days 6
dom, or ~he Ki,gd om of Heaven, or the dominion bours 40 minutes :23! feconds , bei ng fo much
of the Sa1ms, &c.. &c. when it is e:xprefsly faid wanting, at the opening of the prtfent year, to
that the ~aints fhould enter in:o the refl of God the full completion of 6ooo di,_,j ,~e or pr&phetical
and t· &o rJverfo of the wicked, it is faid, '' unt~ years ; and fhe\Viog that I he r~lillennium wilJ
wh~m I fware in my wrath that they jhould not en~ commence, on the 19th ot N )Vf tnber next, at or
ter t1Jto tJJJ ref/. . about fun-rife , in the latiturle of , erufalem.
• Now, if we fuppofe the 5~ r 3 years, abovemen- If this calculation be true. It follows that the
tioned by Mr. Brothers, to b.e common years of time during which "t~. Saints . !hall live and
,f?lar t1me, .we find 8 7 years fi:iJI wanting to ar. reign with CbriO:," which accordtng ro St. John,
rne dt the clofe ot the fix fymbolical days of I a- in Rev. chap. xx. ver. 4· is one 1houja1Jd y earst
bor, and confequcntly we are too remo te from ' mull be in fa& 36o,ooo .years. So that the
t~1e period of tht- Millennium ro have any thing Millennium will btar the fame analogical pro-
eltht r to hope or fear perfonally from its ap· portion to the previous duration of the world as
pr~ach. •Hut if we <tdvert to that mode of C:llcu• that very previous duratior. itfelf bold to tbe fix
lau<?n um.verfal}y adopted, both by Danjel and original days of the creation.
St. ~obn lQ their prophecjes ; wh,.: re not only a
day Is takeo f?r a year, bur a month invariably NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHED.
made to contaJrl ;o fuch 'days, and 42 months to
con~p reh e od 1l6o fuch days, and thefe 1260 divs Pall Mall, March z:aJ I 7~).
to form exactly three years and a half, and the;e.
fo,re every fucb year to confift of ;6o fuch days.
\\ ~ m~y very welJ adopt this method of compu-
tatJoo ru our endeavors to explain any pt'opheti-
c~I chronology, a.nd may V6ry fairly call thofe Di-
vtne years, by wh1cb, as Mr. .Brothers expreffes it
1
~ God fuljiiJ hii record~d j rdgments., Now admit;
ttng the comm.on folar year to confift of 36s days,
f) h(Jurs, -i8 nu~ures, S4t feconds, and multiply-
..
~ 5913years mto quarters of feconds we lhall
1

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S H 0 R. T R E P L Y the Evangeii(\, wri~ing. after Ch.i{l':; deat? and

TO SOME OF THE ASSERTIONS 'Ht . refunectlon, calls b1m, m the laf\ ''erfe of hts fir(!
chapter, his mother's firfl bvrfl fon, ergo,fe mufl
DR. HORNE's PAMPHLET, i:av:: ht~d a,!_~~ond. ~~~ Jraft. If the ol~ m1fcrable
· expofilion of Datalel s four bea(h,. whtch I knew
ENTITLED, before be took up bis pen about as well as Doctor
Ho'rne, can by ~ny reafonable perfon (after rna- ~
'•SOUND ARGUMENT, DICTATED ' ture deliberation) be deemed better than that
furnHhed . by Mr. Brothers-be it fa-opinion is
Br COMMON SENSE." fre(-but 1 decline being of the party. And as
for the phrafe of f..liing my fvul, w tich feems tG
:I HAVE endeavored to perufe, without pre·

_judice, every thing that has been wri(ten in
have given fuch alarm, and furnifhed fo much
matter for falfe wit: 1 now think that every man
. who enters into Padiament with aft} pcrftmal view
~fijwer to, or rather againjl my book: and if I had what~v:r, 3nd not wholly a~d exclufively for the
Jn any of the publicatioos met with a ftogle para- fervice of his country. mu{l: be deemed bo,!afidt:
, graph worthy of an anfwer, it {bould have beeu to have fold his (oul-1et hi1i1 be of what party he
ar.fwered. The felf-fufficient and abufive Dr. will ; and alfo that every man who joins ar.y par-
' Horne of Oxford, ha.s not oue word of truth, or ty te vote on all occalions for the purpofe of pro-
argument, or common fenfe, in his whole pam- motincr or fupporting the party at all even"ts, is
phlet ; nor would it have rnilliecome a Doetor of . perpe~ally guilty of the f.une a~ offilling hisf oul,
· Divinity who, by his own pen, confdJes he can 1 dt ny having ever fold my foulm any other man·
ntither underf\and Greek, nor read the Gofpel in ner than this -and if any one thmk or fay other·
Engliih-to have endeavoured at )eafl to give his wife, on him be the omu prr-bandi.
jargon fomething, if poffible, of th! Gent/m,an. I take this opP'ortunity of renewing my exp'ref,.
That he does not UQdedland Greek, is clear from fions of perfeCt: convitlion in the prophefies and
~is doubting \Vhether the Holy Ghofi: appeared · miffion of Mr. Brothers, and my encreafing re.
mjhope of a dove, when St. Luke expreilly fays, liauce (founded on hourly e~~rie nce) on the com•
r
Somatiko eidei ofei perifieras, in a b.,dJy pletion of every one of his pr dietions.
NATHANI1L Bt' A~~ EY HALHRO.
fha'{>e, Me a novE) and that he cannot re~d~
or has net read, even the firft chapter of St. Pal!-M!Jl/,
~alth~w, mu~ be evidfnt to thf.fe .who per- }.1 tJTGh I I' l 79S·
ceJve Ium den} tng that Chrifl had Br tltrs . and
who fhall, at the fame time, have obfd-v~d th~t

CURS 0 R Y .REMARKS t [ 13 J
ON TKE PAMPHLET INTITUD, Daniel fa\V this vifion after Neb ucba dnfZ%.~ r
J d ad, as it is evident from the fir(l vet fe orthe
u TRE AGE OF CREDULTTf." evemh chapter . Afte r thi:., \:hat does my ano·
I
nymous author think of the fuppoHtion mention-
td in his 14th page 1 The four ueaHs meant Qlon-
archs, and not morJarchttJ. See Lhe 1 2t h ver(e.
T HE anonymous Author of a pamphlet, inti• · '' As concerning the rd l of the bea(h, they ha d
tied, " Tht Agt of Credt,Jiry," was fo obl!g·
ivg as to fend the book yefierday to me ~ wnb
t:ir dondn ion taken away, ye t thti a· Ji~es were
longt>d for a feafon and time." T he life: f a
an opinion, I prefume, that I fuould fiod Its 2r· · irm I ca.n conceive to be a poet ical phrafe,
gumenu incontrovertible, a?d ,he t>ofitions I have
admit its propr i~ty ; but to take a way the
atfumed in my own publ~auon totally untenabl~. dominion from a dominion, and yet prolor.g the
I thould be foJ'ry to interrupt the grnrleman•s tn- life of that dominion, is too much even for me,
umph by any unfeafonable feverity, and I am u:.. with all my cred ulity, to t:om prehend.
terly a verfe to alJ argumtnt for argument's fake. Daniel law t his v1fioo in the firfi year of the
I fhall; therefore, only beg him to take in
reign of RelJh<J zzar, the very Jafi king of Babylon,
good part the tew hints which I here haflily
who lofi his life at the fame moment with his do-
tflrow out for his confideration.
minion, and therefo re his life \e rtain ly \~ as not
Jf he had turned to Cruden,s Concordance, ar-
prolonged for a } l}a_(on nor a tJ1!Je . A~ d in the
ticle ' ' Wing,' ' be wou ld ha~e found ,( 4,t,h ~~
1
vification) "it is put for the fa1lsof a fhap, 4ola1•
17th verfe oft his fame feve nt h chapter, the angel
tells Dan iel,- •• t.hefe great beafis. which are
ah xviii. 1. ' • Who to th~ land jhadawing with
four, ar fou r }).iogs, which Lh all a rife out t~f lhe
'lui,gs ;" meaning Egypt,. wbic~ abounded with
earth,"-fhall arife- in the future tenfe : not
{hips,'( whofc: f;~i/s were llke wmgs that lhadow ,
one of whom is al ready rifen--and king1, not
the fra." . 'lit,gdc,m, Fr om th is \'erfr, nothing can be more
So much for his pithy objeCtion in the tSth
ndubitabk , t han that rhe ki'"'g ot· kinbdom of
page. 1 he gra nd cheval de batt~i. ~r: o.f all my
Ion is to tal h· ou t of th e qu!' niun ; a Pd there•
doughty opponents has been Damel s \'JUon, as
the other t l~re~ mnn rchies, in the common
explained by certain former clear fight~d exp~fi
interpretat}on, a11 necdf·ui!y fa ll to t he gr ound as
tors. to mean four fucceffive monarcb1es ; VIZ.
r ffiing on this bafe. I hope I fh all never h.ear
Babyl-.1oian, Mede· Perfian, Grceian 1 and ~om a~,
them mention t d ~o-a in . My autho r ham pers lllm·
-1 have been lo battered a11d annoyed ·wJth th1s
ridiculou~ phantom, that I flull here demolifh it
fel f again in his 2 ~ll page, on rbe fi lllilit udc a?d
diffimiJitude b t\" n the fourt h beafl of Damel
altogether, at once.~ for the peace of the public,
and the eagle of .hf\lras . If he will ca vil at no·
aa well as roy own.
or every thing , let h1m. But if he !:hoofe

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to read and think ingenuoufly far: himfe!f, he e cturges of Jalf~hood, in every on of the par-
might fiud, that Daniel omits in his fourth beafl, ars by him enumerated, pages 33 and 34·
as in the other three, to make ar.v mt:ntion of the
rife or fplendor, or even exHlenc~ of monarchies : The fir(\: is, " the defeat of the Em~ror~s a.._
His bea!ls are mere perfonages, and his fou'rrh the in the Netherlands." It isfianda/our to term
Emperor of Germany ; fubfiitute for, and fianding prediction f alfo ) becaufe it is not yet fulfi!l.:d. I
avo:wedly and oftentati9ufly in the place of the · ay a~(o, the Emperor's army will b~ defeated in •
anc1ent emperors of Rome, Efdras delineates 1he Netherlands : and if there was no other pre ..
the monarchy or kingdom itfe]f, of which-he ex· difpofing caufe for this defeat, an anempt to raife
prefsly fays, in the t zth chapter and. I llh verfe fil"ge of Luxembourg, now ferioully invefied,
of the fecond book, that the Lord told him this ould fuffice for the purpofe : and I add, there.
kingdom '' was not expounded U1l!O hi; brother Da· re, that he will acknowledge the French Re-
niei,H and therefore it was now exolained to him. blic, and will make peace with it.
Efdras faw the whole hiflory in de'tai), and even Secondly, The Dutch have acknowl~dged the
what would come to pafs after the death of the French Re?ublic, and are making a bafiy peace
prcfent Emperor of Germany, the prefen t Pope, . with it. Mr. Brothers never faid it would bap .
and prefent King of Pruffia, the three heads ofbis pen without a conqueft, or that they would rreat
eagle : whereas Daniel only beheld t h~ prefent on equal terms. t'or the completion of llis pro-
Emperor and ~l~tl:ors of the Germanic body, phecy, it is enough that they fl10ulQ have aUed
without a glimpfe of the Antichrin or of the Pope. as theJ are 'a8in~.
By the fule of foub, pages 24 ~Hi d 25, (for I am Mr. Brothers ne·ver faid, our army would be
not writing a regular ar.fwer to a l mphlet,
llifbandeu and fe.1t home, hy the twenty-fifth of
which is too infignificant to cleferve one ; hut
IMar,h: our au~hor, therefore, lbouJd not have
ba(\i)y running over a few of its capital errors)
incurred the riik of the retort difcoorteous, un-
is meant a ,onjciouJ fo!e t,f a1z article known to 6~
til out army was out of the poffibility of being fo
in one'J ow.n foffiffio'l: Thofe who purchafe par· ated at alL Nor did he erer aifert that th~
dons. and mdulgencJeS of popesJ are not in this uke of rork would be detained : he exprefsJy
prcd 1camen t.
s ' the general' of the Englifb forces. That
Of 1\'lt·. Bt·otbers' p efimJpliM, ig,Jorance and ar-
ow Count )A'almoden : to-morrow it may be
tifice, of which he's accufed in the 27th, and fub·
ehody elfe; but to do away all chance of ve-
fequent pages, ~ Jhall take no notice : my author
atio.,, the army {hould be proved to have no
may compare lus own primphlet with the few re•
neral at all.
~arks I hav~ here thrown together, a11d fit irt
Jt1~((111ent on hmlfllf, on the fame articles. In thefe three little articles, wherein our ano·
Bnt I lhall boldly and authoritatively retort oymous author bas attempted to fix an imputa·
tion of falk·hood on Mr. Brotht!rs, he has ccn A yoluutary aB: is an av?we~ freedom of
oicc, and under that denom1nauon cannot, to
vifred himfdf •" prefumptifJn,-ignortll.c,-arti•
fice-andfulj(hBod; and here I leave him. ar ju[tly, admit the infhence of a ~ompulfo. •
order ; but ( am not allowed any chorce, f"'ear
NATHANIEL BRA 'Sb:Y HALHED. mufl, and fwear !be oath I take is not enforced
Palll'r1all, Mat'h 2}, 1795· order, comFulfion, or oeceffity, but a volunta·
act lf my own, received \vith equal freedom as
~tir I breathe, as a.n indemnification for impo·
fing :w inlproper oath, I am obliged by the fam'
LETTER, &c. Je to leave my fignature duly attefled by :a rna-
rate as a record, certainly not of fuperior wif-
That Mr. BROTHERS irl th~ J'ear r 790 prffeffed
m. To fwt3r, 'thenJagreeably to tle pr frri·
(and it is thwght hy ma,zy that hh facultt .J al
form luiJ down )y the privy council, is oGvi·
prtjdllf art aJ prrfr~ as evu') ike pou,t:rs of re~·
us lo tl 1e pi · inef\: ca1ucity a urreptit~ous o th,
fotwlg corrdfly logical, aud ~j. exprejmg hu •~lnc,ealing ir~ deformity und.~r that m1\d appel·
tho!lghti ln ~IJ ~afy tu:d e/~~11111 1r{/to/J, the jtii~J'UJ· ~ion : for I hope no man u fo far lofi to all
illg lf.tter wt/1 muqut t ocally evttJce.
nlc of virtue, ac; to prefer raki11g an idle oath of
THURSDAY, Sept. 9, 1790. is kind or any other dtfcription, when per-
To PHJLIP STEPHENS, Efq. Ad niralty·Office, itted anJoplion, by the very word voluntarily,
SIR, o decline-it.
o avoid the imputation of appearing trou· Infiruaed from my infancy to nard againfl:
'T b]efome, 1 wahccl confiderable time ;~Iter the lfehood, as the moft poifonoas evil that can pof-
bly invade the human mind, a11d ~o court tr~th
half-pay, was ad vertifed, that a very jufi appli·
catioo, tho' I believe unprecedented, lhould not the moil beautiful of all mora) virtues. I v1ew
rlifpleafe the Admiralty. Government is in my oath a the mo(~ awful and folemn appeal whicb
debt to a much greater amount than twelve man car. poffibly make: he rre~ent judges fay
months; and altho• I have not enj 3ed any emo- lhoulae adminit~ered with cauuon, and never
lument, p rquifite, or profit, from any bufinefs or te<l except when prdfing nece ffi1ty requtre~
~ .'
employment whatever, the only reafon advan~ed r this reafoo 1 an oath before them IS a public
for detaioing lllJ property, is the want bctng or ond of true evidence; tear away the folemniry
qu,tlified evtry fix months, b} fw aring the con- habituat prati:ic~, tl1e facred bar~ier falls t~
tenh of a certificare as the refult of my own plea• e ground, aod every m:u~ enters w1ld and Ia w•
fure and inclination, when an order of council on the ct'lmmon of petJllry.
commnnds me, and abfolutely prohibits the pay· It wa.s the la nguage of Mr. Pitt, in the Houfe
ment until I do. Commo 1 { 1 ulk pard a 1 for the introduCtion

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of his name) when a daufe was offered for.a cer• as difcovered, I bel~ve it would torture the in·
tain bill late in the larl ceffion, recommendmg an tion of the moft learned dHquifitor to frame a
annual oath or thereabout~, as nece!fJry for tbe
' . .
better payment of that part ot the reven~e •.t w~nt
rofecution for counterfeiting a forced, nnjufl,
inal, voluntary oath. To me, the evafion
to defcribe hill anfwer was, fuch a multtphcauon onJd be difhooourable, and amount to a crime
of oaths te~dcd to denroy every public principle~ equal magnitude as embracing the evil I com-
prosnote fraocl and perjury, more than any imme- ain of. •
diate benefic to the Exchfquer could poffibly com- Profa'ne fwearing, er any other defcription of.
peofate to fodety. I lamenr, fentimtiHS eqoally 1 Idle oa~s. as a pafiport to receive thofe wages the
difcerniog and honorable do not adorn the heart law, reafon, and eqllity, do~s not allow the deten·
of every man. 'on of. under any pretence ~ in the IHorl uncivi·
Having fervecl onder three co~manders, n~t ed countrjes, is forcing a man privately by the
lefs amiable in private life than en1ncotly confpl- cruel of all tortures, to the commiffion ofini··
cuous on the )j(l of proffffionat merit, thdr paren- ty, without being able to advance even a plau.
1 tal precepts,. tbt:ir example ~f r.editud.e and m~n reafon in its defence; for I obferve, it is not
ners, remain (Hll as. an admontfhlng I fiun of adv1cq the prevention offraud to the revenue, or to
never to be departed from. To driu l f~o m .a foul vent that kind of emolument in future, which
fiream in preference to a cl ear fount 111 , • r no goe back to difcover, neither is it to prohibit
other ;eafon than a multitude beiog conll:tnd~ led ,fficer from wa ndc.: ring abro d, when liable to
by offici I p rfu 1fi n to do fo , ~it hom once d t Jg~· cn llrd for at 10m r, but for a purpofe which
ing to e amine th! contaminated refource u: be gu fled t-delicacy will not allow me to
flowed from or, aa a gentleman in the com,miffion ntion.
vf the peac; obferved to roe with evideot ms ~ka At any ratt>~ as men of more liberal and inde •
• of difp1eafure, whclt buunefs have you to obJ.e dent charaCters now fill the departments of
againfr it, whe~ ot~1ers d~ it ? would be. treaung te, than at the period wbich gave birth to this
every facuhy w1th mg. au tude, and mantfd\ an o· rio us orrler, the intention it was introduced
pen indifference for the good of knowledge. i no~ done away, confe:quently a C'lntinu-
l can pafl by the oath : it is frequently cone; e of it is entirely unn e ll~ry: not ~ilhllan,rl. ·
the terlll are low • fafe, and practic bly eafy ; for the remote period of its formation, thofc
it is ioconfi(\ent ith common fenfe to take a vo· ho advifed it, were in fom e degr·ee fenfil>le that
luntary oath as an aa ofneceffi ty: it is a ba_cl ~loc;· public oath could nor be impofed on any part of
trine that goes to obliterate the terror ~f tntqul· c mmunity beyond the walls of the council
ty by habitual re petition, a'ld a&ualt; hbels the mbert unlefs fpecifically introduced aJ¥1 au·
11ropriety f juflice ; but to be £ rc:ed m any a_naae orifed by aa of Parliament, or fo great a people
ner1 and f~ear tQ t•le contrary 1 ·if tl:. lraul ld never attempt to cone althc inbecility of
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t ,
a me::~fure, anc1 fritter away their own pown, by
'-' - £ mployment, ei lh.. r :tt ~
retiring behind the fpedou~ form of ' thi~J depo·
'' or on fhore, betwct.n H
nent voluntaril} makes oath,' when an abfolute
~~ Jfi:: of Jul~, i ;3g, nJTd tb·
order was in force to carry it into execution , or
"31U ot Uecemb~r, ' 1 "190.
ftop the payment of wages until it wa · obeyed.
If I am to be precluded from all uft> of my pro·
(Signed) "A: B.'
S\.vorn this day of < . •
fltrty, becaufe I do not implicitly fwear to error
1 7" before
anJ contradiction, unde·r the vain ·Hea of com•
pu.Jfion being an ample lhield againft the dirgrace
· 0. P. Juflice.
of fwearing improperly, and that the enormity
woul.f revert on thof~ who i n1pofed it, fuch Jan· Admiralty OfficeJ July 10, 1790.
guage is beneath any man that had underflanding 'S I R.
to perceive, though not fortitude to oppofe it; lN ret urn to your' three letterl>, dated 25th<
clo1hed with the benign hand of Providence with May, 291h June, ar1d the 8th inflant~J ont.he fu\·
htalth and fi:reng h, neceffity fhall never compel jtti of the oath required to be taken for the pa)
me to look for it by any way ~ifhonorable to my- mt:nt of nmr half-pay, and reqneftingfor thq,re3
felf or repugnant to the nicefl:laws of equity. fons mcutioned in your faid lcttt rs, to he relieve
If it is tme virtue animates the hero, and ern· therefrom, I am commanded~ by my Lords Con:
nla~ion is meritorious in the yollth, if vice is ug·· miHioners or tl1e .1dm1ralty, to acquaint youth~
ly, and falfehood a deformity; as a fenator, and the order of council for eHablil11ing half-pay r'
a. ffi:JO of f~nfe, th ,.. good of the navy, the benefit quires the Qath to be take~J, and that th ir Lon ·
of your country, call O'l you to attenlpt the ex· thips af'e not authoriftd ~o difpenie with JOUr nt
tirp<~tion of a cufl:orn dirhonorable to God 1 ~nd taking it. '
reproal.!hable to m:tn. I am, Sir,
I am\ Sir with great refpea, Your very·humble Serv ant.
Your very humble 1ervant,
:P H I L I P !) T R P" H E N S.
R. BROTHERS.
Na. 5: Bumfort. Bwldhrgs, Straud,. *11!t of April, tth of May; oroirtc.d to acknowloJ~,.
'' ·W e(J mhrft er, } '' Thi~ deponent, A. B. Lieu·

To Wit • . " tenan~ in his Majefiy's oa·
. .., "vy, v lut.tarily malwh oath,
'' CJ hJ.t be h:nh no~ received
'• the b~ndit of any publie M.
Tnt fillawing Paper, 'tJ111tl from a gtntleman prevent, it was record•
l~to'UlP for his .ftJ't1111ous fup/trl of Mr. Brothers'I td and could not be a.
Principles, and 'Who is p11rticular/y meTJtioned iy j
•oided
the ~rophet in hi1 Bods in the warrnef/1ernu o[
Gratitude and Efleem. • p. 93· By the fame On the 1ll 0~. 1792.
~ example, if the French the Duke of Brunfwick
~HE Prophecies and reyealed knowJedgt com· army was to be defeat· retreated, after he bad
~ municated to the world by Richard .Broth.- 1 etlt! even again & again, been expeCted at Paris
1
ers, having generally attraaed public notice, l It fhou]d recover and in two or three days,
think it my duty to O:ate fome of them a" they r:onquer like wife. ,but ever fince the allied
have been already fu)filled, and let the world p. 124. At the time of armies hav~ retreated 1
judge of them according to th~ir own knowledge y writing to the king and b~en beat.en beyond
aod belief. The ttuth of them ought to be care· :Of England, relative. to any examp}e m the an-
fully examined. That fuch a man will come there be king.ofPruffia, I JC· nals of h1ftory ; and
can be no doubt of and is exprefsJy mentioned, formed him, as I was few will now. I believe,
Jerem. xxviii, 9• '' The Prophet which propliefi· commanded, of the cer· aOert that they can ev·
eth of PEACE, when the word of the prophet ~ain failure of the com. er repenetrate France,
fhall .come to pafs, then finll the prophet be ined armies of Pruffia and reilore monarchy.
known, that the Lord hath trul) Cent him." nd Aufiria. ·
Page 98. The kilag of It is reported he bas
Richard Brothers prophefieth of univerfal pearer roffia will acknowl. already made peace ; if
that 1h'ortly will.~ rellored to all kingdoms upon 1
fdge the ~·rench repub- he has not, in all prob·
earth. lic, and alfo make peace ability he foon will.
•ith it. .
Book II. page 103. The war enfued. On 99· Rllffia will aJio In the Leyden Ga·
Richard Brothers fays, the z 1ft of Jan. 1 79 3• 'uarre l with the Poles, zette, :£.?ec. 26, 1794, it
"Are yoa William Pitt, the king ofr'rance was I nd devour great nom. fays, in the= accounts
to whom I wrote in beheaded. This pro• ors of them; Warfaw from Watfaw, " Tha~
:May afld June, 1791, pbecy has been fulfilled. _,ill be fet on fire, and the attack began at five
informing you of the · the government -entire· o'clock in the morning,
· confequences of this iy changed. at nine the enemv was
war to your country, The above has been in pofieffion of the· place
when the war was not ' too fully and too fatal· -five thoufand Poles
intended, and of the ly fulfilled furely for 2· were flain in ll .: af·
death of Louis the J 6th, one to deny. Pruf. fault the remaining
which was intpoffible to was not-able to con.. sood were taken prifo·
•uer the Poles, but Ruf- · ners or difperred. On the 27th of June The French iftands
fia, the defiinecl power, ter tbis was over, and 1 79 2, I wrote to the have been conquered hy
foQu conquered them. every thing appeared l.t'rench ambaflador ,then the Englifi1, according
to be quiet, ten hours in London, by command to the former part oi
after all ref1fiance had of the Lord God, ac· this prophecy. The lat-
ceafed, about nine o' • quaint1ng him with the ter part remains to be
clock at night, they fet future lols of the French fulfilleq,.
fire to the town, and be~ ifiands, and likewile the
,l gan to butcher the in- fall of the Englifu.
habitant ~ . The fick and · Page 1 S4· After this I The king of Sweden
wounded peri!hed in the W!lS in a v ifion in Lhe was fhot at a mafquer-
fLtmes ;-the re(l, old month of January 179!, ade , March 10, and di-
men, wom ~n & children~ ar.d was cart·il'd away ed March :9, 1792.
perifhed by the fword. by the Spirit of God to
Nine thoufand perfons, Sweden, &e. The King
of every age and of both of Sweden is delivered
texes, art computed to over for death, and that
have fallen in the O'.Jf- is tbe very man that
,, , facre, and the whole of will fhoot him.
the {uburb, except a few ·•55· And when you Richard Brothers was
! •
fcattering houfes, was write hereafter of other taken up by government
reduced lU allies., things io this country March f, 1 79 5; that be .
)OU will be r.alled an has been reckoned all
1 oo. The Sp.anifl1 mo- Holland is entirely impoUor, a fool, and impo!tor by many, the
l)archy will ceafe uy this couqoc:rcd, & th~ Sud~· ·a liar. world itf~lf mq(t allow~
war, and the St&dlhol· holder is now in this When I fee this it
derlhip of Holland w1ll COilOlfJ· wi\1 make me angry;
I
• be cut oif clofe to the I'll then be-gin 10 kill
g:ound, according to the people, and 1 fball
(be vifions of God to me ., furely defirt>y this city •
in 1 792, and which I Page t8o. oa. z6, Mr. Halh~u pubJilh·
commnnicated at that J 794, the Lord God ed b]s tdlimony Janua·
time, by his facred com- commands me to fay to ry zc;, J 795·
mands: to the King and you, William Bryan, Mr. Bryan pub\ilhed
Q.ueen of. England. that you are appointtd his tefiimolly Feu. •o,
. [ 26 ~ · [ '-7 ] .
and will be command· I 79 S; wherein he .&C• either as an · impofior or madman. If he has
ed by him, to teftify . know1edges that he was not wrote thofe lette~s to government, as he af-
publicly to the world compelJed by the Spirit ferrs, then he is ,a falfe prophet, and the 011us
wbo J now am, and to write, being againlt probandi lays with the minHlers, &c. If thora
· what my fu ture ~ef,g - his natural will. Sey. letters are ellablilhed, I think his prophecies l:Offi•
Jlation is. Tlte Lord eral others have publithing true, abfolutely prove him a true prophet.
God witl influence and ed and are publi1hit1g I have taken every fiep to detett him in impofitiosa
commaP.d numbers of their temmonies. Ma- or madnefs, but cannot in either.
his people, both men ny alfo have given their
and women, to give telHmonies by letter. CANDID US.
the fame public telli· .., John Wright p~blifhed March 26, 179)· :
D:Jonies. his teRinwny Aug. 1,
l79+·
192. oa:.26; 1 7Q4· ] he prifoners were \.
Ee informed the Eng· all tried and acquitted.
lith government , Judg-
es, &c. that the prifo· F I Y IS.
Jters now in confiotment
and on trial for th~ ir
lives, &c. are innocent.
...• * •••••
Thefe things having been already fulfilled, • • * ••• *
• lli • • * •
()Ugbt to be a caution to every body how they
deny Re~e)ation and Prophecy, and it behoves
every perfoo to examine inro the revealed prO<>
pheciu very carefully and judge impattiaHy •
... ,.
• * •••
• **
.Afts v. 39. " Butif thefe 1hin gs be of God, ye ·
c:snnot overthrow them.'•
Ri,hard Brothers O:ands in the Court Calen-
der as a naval vfficer, Jan. 3, 1783. Surely then .
his character and behaviour during bis cominu-
. ance in the navy are very eafily to bt enctuired
hy chofe that doubt his fanity. Becaufe he quotes
Scripture and believes in Gon, is too rid icol.ms,
auo would thi11k1 for •oy pt~on to fc:t him dow•
ju.fl Publi/htd, ~'l Charles R. 0' G('(.rge Webfler,
l'!ice 3-4ths of Dollar, neatly bound and lettered,
A New Tranflation of the PrGphecies of.
ISAIA H,-by BiH1op Lowth.
To which is added, A plain, concife and particular
Explanation of eacb Chapter, by the Rev. Dr. R. Srmth.
IN the explanations, the ttmc anl occa!ion whCL1 the.
prophecy w:ts written, the peculiJr ftilc of ISAiAH, the
beauty and fublimity of particular pafsages, the allufion
to ancient cufl:oms and manners, the connection & fcope
of the feveral pares of the prophecy, and the events in
which the pred.i8:iop.s feem ro have had. their accom-
plishment, arc occa1ionally afccrtained ~nd illu(hared:
The whole forming an agreeable and in1l:ru6tive Expofi-
tion of this SEI,{APHLC l'ROPI;!ET.
THE de!ign of this pul>li~ation is to excite Chrifl:iarts
to a. more d~ligent peruL1l of the Scnprures, and to rcn.
dcr the perufal more a~rreeable and protlt.lblc. Tlll:y arc
here prcfcnted with or~e of tltc molt J.ignitietl. arJd t:v.m~
gelic.1l ~ortions of HOLY \V'Rl r, un1kr a TranU.uion.
which, 1n refpea of fidelity&. elcg.1nce, is held in high.
e(bmuiort. The d.ifl:in"'uished Trantl.uor:'by [uccd'sful-
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well a~ the llgniticarion, of the original, into bts copy.
h:1s a~<iell the charms of eloquence co thl! d.lvt~dt ~n~
i\:,·u!tlOns. The glo .vino- 6 .!ltres, tb-:: p.ulu:nc n.:fcrtp-
tion~. them 1jdtic fe11d~eLl;s, and the unutterable con-
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'wns, &c. ~c. &c. · lAc foregoing repoit. JOSIAH 0. BOFF)tAN, frca·c.
For fale at V/ebfl:er's Bookfl:ore,
The Signs of the Times ·
Or the Oven,hrow of the Papal Tyranny in Fr.1nce. the
:Prelude to {he Deftrucbon of Popery and Defpotifm ;
But ot PEACE to Mankind, By J. Bichcno.
'' Ye can difcern the fnce or the sky ; btn can ye not
difcern the SIGNS of the TIMES 1"
" I have told you before it come to pafs. that when i.t
come to pafs ye mighrbelieve.'' . .
" Babylon the Great 1s f:~llen, is fallen l''
Extra8.s from the above Jrork.
Hiftory no where informs us of any events fo extraor-
dinary as the late r~volution in France. If viewed on
all fides,. with its attending circumftam::es, by an atten~
tive and unprejudiccq eye, it muftexcite the greateft af-
tonishmem; and thofe who have been ufcd tO unite in
their minls the providence of God with hurnnn occnr~
renc.cs (whether they appro'fe of this great change of
things cr not) cannot help enquiring, "Is this from
" m.tn, or is it from God 1 Is it one ot thofe commotions
.. produced by the contliuing pa!fions of men, thnt rife
" and ink & are forgottC!l i or, is it one of thofc evcna
•• which mark the grt~at reras <'f time, and from which
.. originate new orders of things i'' If the latter, it is
1!1ndoubtedly rhe'rheme of prophecy.
A ferions application to the fttdy of the prorihecies,
~nd an am:ntive obfervacion of the Signs of tho.:: Times,
have produced in my mind the Hrol\geft pcrluarion, that
the utter downfai of the Pap:tcy, th..: final overrhrow of
Ddpottfm, the re!torktion ot rhe Jews, anll the renov.t-
tion of all things, are ncar at ho1nd. •
•• Blow ye the rnlffi ')Ct in Zion, and fdund an alarm
"in my holy monntaih: Let aH rhe inhabitants of rhe
• • land tremble : For tl1e day of the Loni cum~:rh, for it
.. is nigh at hand !" Joel 2..
: Alfo, The Prompter.
Or, a C~mmen.tary on Common S.:1.yings ::tnd Subje£h,
which are full of Common Senfe---the belt Scnfe itt
the wotld. To fcc aU others faults and feel our own.
The Shorter Ca techifn1

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0 F THE

HECIES .dND CflMES.

n•a:n· SiGN oa WARNING~

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· 16;6 from the Creation to the Flood.

291. from the flood to the birth of Ab~aham. '

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the reign of Zedekiah, when the Temple and

. plc to its deltruttion.

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done, Jike the overflowing of a :flood ; aod lO ,

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I bundant mercy 'ofGod, and his gooduefs to tb'eir

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7 And 1 will make the remnnn,t that l1a~tf' • 1

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pointed by the Lord God r~ u anJ unilb th'

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knowledge of them, and of futurity, revealed to .

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faying t9 them, Be fruitful, and multiply1 and

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pieres, and utterly overthrown.

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PRES~N'f; TfylE, .THE PRr:SENT. ~AR.'

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It b(ing ajeco1Jd Sign or War11ing for the •Bmefit of

By the Man that will be rev~aled t~ the Hebrews a~

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. St uL, the ~on .of Kith, af1er being anointed

~.~NIEL, a cap,tive prince i .Bab1,lan~ in.Affy·

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focceji t? tb~ir amu ; to that very grJcious a.. d ,