about to arise" shall enter into the countries, and overflow "and pass over and have given into his hand, Edom and "Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon; and "shall stretch forth his hand over the countries, and the "land of Egypt shall not escape." So that by his hand shall fall both the Papal and Mahomedan superstitions ; whereby he may be so inflated as to desire to make himself the prophet, and priest and king of the whole earth, and set up for the temporal Messiah, for which the Jewish nation have so long waited; and delude that people, and constitute himself the great personal antichrist, and war against the faithful witnesses of Jesus; wherefore Jehovah's ire against the combination of the heathen to cast away the authority of his Son, may bring that great vengeance upon him, and upon the nations which he hath blinded. And, on seeing the fate of him in whom they trusted, the children of Israel may come to be undeceived, and in the miseries they endure, the anger against them may be accomplished. From which time forth they may be visited with help, and be converted unto the Lord, and replaced in their land, and the worship of the true God restored in Jerusalem. Which will be accomplished, according to this vision, in the year 1847, being nine years from the time when I now write. Nearer than this we cannot come by chronological revelation; but how near is this!

For the preceding part of this note, I beg to apprize the reader that I am mainly indebted to the writings of the Rev. Edward Irving, and to a work published in 1701, entitled "Apocalyptical Key," by Robert Fleming, V. D. M., from which latter work I make the following extract, for the purpose of showing that nearly 100 years prior to the French Revolution, Mr. Fleming, in his work, clearly

pointed out the downfall of the French Monarchy, as it existed at the time he wrote. The reader will recollect that his work was published in 1701, in that work he says, "There is ground to hope that about the beginning of "another such century, things may again alter for the "better; for I cannot but hope that some new mortifica"tion of the chief supporters of Antichrist will then hap"pen; and perhaps the French Monarchy may begin to "be considerably humbled about that time; that whereas "the present French king takes the sun for his emblem, "and this for his motto, NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR, he may "at length, or rather his successors, and the monarchy "itself (at least before the year 1794,) be forced to ac"knowledge, that (in respect to the neighbouring poten"tates.) he is even SINGULIS IMPAR."

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Bishop Newton, in his Dissertation upon the prophecies, most justly observes, "To explain this Book," (the Apocalypse,)" perfectly, is not the work of one man or of one age; and probably it will never all be clearly understood, till it is all fulfilled." He mentions that Bishop Burnet, in the history of his own times, relates that his friend Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester, was employed above twenty years in studying the Revelation with an amazing diligence. and exactness, and that he had foretold and proved, from the Revelation, the peace made between the Turk and the Emperor, in the year 1698, long before it was made, and that after this he said the time of the Turks hurting the papal Christians was at an end and he was so positive in this that he consented that all his scheme should be laid aside, if ever the Turk engaged in a war with them. Bishop Newton, in a note, observes that he thinks Dr. Burnet might have mistaken his friend of Worcester on the

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point of the Turk never being again engaged in a war with the papal Christians, and hence misrepresented his meaning, adding: "If he said, indeed, that the Turks would never engage in a new war with the papal Christians, he was plainly in the wrong, the event hath shown that he was 66 wrong. If he said only that the Turks would no more "hurt the papal Christians, would no more subdue any Christian state or potentate, he was probably in the right, the prophet seemeth to intimate the same thing, "and the event hitherto confirms it."

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I have quoted these two instances of the predictions of Doctor Lloyd and of Mr. Fleming, both built upon the study of Scripture prophesy, and which events have been so remarkably verified, for the purpose of showing that every one who devotes his time, talents and abilities, in humble dependence upon him from whom prophesy proceeds, is not a dreamer. I might add many other predictions, the result of similar studies, which have been fulfilled to the very letter; but if I were to go into details this note would swell into a volume. I cannot help remarking, however, that so long ago as 542, (not 1542,) St. Cesaire, bishop of Arles, predicted the fate of France, and particularly the taking possession of Paris by the Allies and that in the year 1752, Dr. John Gill predicted the French Revolution and various matters connected with affairs on the continent.

Note k.

AS "THE MILLENNIUM," a poem in blank verse, with "THE REASONS FROM PROPHESY WHY THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS PERSONAL REIGN ON EARTH ARE IMMEDIATELY TO BE

EXPECTED," were printed in Dublin in the year 1787, we

may judge that they were written about that time; but as our author informs us that forty years of the last forty-five (which at page 129 he endeavours to make appear were to terminate in 1790), had passed away, we learn The Reasons from Prophesy must have been written in 1785, which falls five years short of 1790, two years after which it was printed and published. The author, I have been informed, was Mr. DOBBS, an Irish Barister.

Concluding Note.

As we have every reason to believe that the time for the commencement of the Millennium really draweth nearso near, indeed, that it may have begun before this hand has lost the power of using a pen, or if not, before my own heart ceases to throb, my own pulse ceases to beat, yet in all probability within the period destined for the life of my children-I do certainly think it behoves me to use every endeavour that is within my power, to be prepared to meet the event; and, I do deem it my duty to point out to every one who may read this, how indispensably necessary it also is for each to be prepared to meet it. I am fully sensible many will be ready enough to say, Of what is this babbler speaking? Is he not more fit for an asylum for lunatics than thus to meddle with a matter so much above his comprehension? Perhaps such do not recollect what Saint Peter says in his second Epistle, chapter iii. verses 3 and 4. "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, "all things continue as they were from the beginning of the "creation." Nor perhaps do they remember what he further says in the same chapter, at verses 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

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"Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is "with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years "as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his "promise, as some men count slackness; but is long "suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, "but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the "Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the "heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and "the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth "also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. "Seing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation "and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming "of the day of God."

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Shall I call to the recollection of those who ridicule the idea of an approaching Millennium, how literally many of the prophecies, contained in the Sacred Volume, have already been fulfilled; beginning with those contained in the third chapter of Genesis, where it is predicted that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, and that by the sweat of his face should bread be procured by man. Shall I advert to Noah, who prophesied the coming of that flood, by which every living thing that moved upon the face of the earth perished save those received into the ark which he had been bidden, by the Almighty, to prepare, and by him instructed how to build ? Shall I point out that although Noah preached righteousness, and held out to the men of his generation, for a period of full one hundred years, the approach of that flood which was destined to sweep every one away save eight persons, verifying his own belief in the prophesy by preparing, before their eyes, an ark of safety? Need I, I repeat, put