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for ever, is the meaning of and he will
think to change times and laws.' And
they will be given into his hand, for a
time and times, and the dividing of
time.' The meaning of which is, that
the KING of PRUSSIA, although aing
in oppofition to the will of God (for,
every man that reads the Scripture, and
believes it to be the Book of Truth, pof-
feffes, from that moment, a knowledge
of good and evil, of right and wrong, of
what is merciful and what is cruel, of
what is pleafing to God and what is of-
fenfive), is permitted to wage a war of
injuftice against the righteous for three
years and a half; during which time,
according to the prophecy, he would
conquer and defiroy great multitudes of
them. But my pravers prevailed with
God, even against his own recorded
judgement by Daniel; for, I befceched
him to oppofe the unjuft defigns of the
King of Pruffia before he invaded
France, after he had to fufpend the pro-
phecy, and, for my fake, to turn him
back. The Lord God fpeke to me in a
vifion at night, and faid, He hall go
out of France with fhame and confu-
fion.' This promife was fulfilled in the
year 1792. for, foon after the Pruffian
army entered France, God led it into
fuch difficult places as to endanger its
fafety. He alfo fent the vifitation of a
wafting fickness that forced it to go a-
way ahamed and highly difappointed.
Although the other parts of the pro-
phecy muft neceffarily be fulfilled, to
accomplish the purposes of God, and the
deftruction of the Pruffian monarchy,
the King cannot conquer as the judge-
ment intended, hut he is permitted to
oppofe, fometimes defeated with thame,
and fometimes encouraged by deceitful
fuccefs; until his armies become weak,
and the BEAR becomes frong, until the
proper time arrives for HIM likewife to
fall." p. 33. "As I knew, in the be
ginning of 1792, that the KING OF
ENGLAND would enter into this war,
and, by doing lo, fall under the fame
judgement from GoD as the other Mo.
NARCHS hewn in the vifion, unless I
could, by a juft explanation of the pro-
phecies, perfuade him to remain at
peace, he will, I truft, with the QUEEN
and Minister of State, do me the juice
hereafter to acknowledge that the dan-
ger was fully communicated, and that I
did not ceale in my endeavours to pre
vent him from joining in the confederacy
against France, not only for a long time

Lord God would be reconciled to hear
mv pravers, and fpeak to me with his
former kindness. In ten days after the
three, I was in a vifion, and, being car-
ried up to heaven, the Lord God fpoke
to me from the middle of a large white
cloud, and faid, in a ftrong, clear voice,
ALL, ALL. I pardon London and all
the people in it, for your fake; there is
no other man on earth that could ftand
before ine to ask for fo great a thing."
For ever, O Lord my God, I will praife
and thank you for this great infance of
your bleed regard; all nations will
bear it and may all nations bonour you
by their obedience! your great mercy is
over them all, and by its goodness the
world is now Jafe. Had London been
deftroyed in the year 1791, the place
where it ftands would have formed a
great bay or inlet of the channel: all the
land between Windfor and the Downs
would have been funk, including a dif-
tance of 18 miles each fide, but confider-
ably more towards the fea coaft. It
would be funk to the depth of 70 fa-
thoms, or 420 feet, that no traces of the
city might be ever found, or even fo
much as looked for." (Book I. p. 43-
46). We have feen, in article 14, the
prophecy of Daniel, vii. 25, applied to
the FRENCH. Our prophet refers it to
the King of PRUSSIA (II. 32). "The
beginning of this verfe means the KING
of PRUSSIA fpeaking in blafphemy a-
gainst God, threatening, in great words,
as if he poffeffed the whole power of
heaven, to conquer and deftroy with his
army all cities that do not open to him,
and all men that oppofe his defigns.
This was exactly fulfilled by the HORN
when he entered France in 1792; the
proclamations which he iffued at that
time are full of blafphemy against God,
prefumption for his great army, and vi-
olent threats, to deftroy cities, and cut
innocent men in pieces. Change times
and laws, the meaning of which is, that
what God decrees is his law, and his
prophecy contains it: an oppofition by
the King of Pruffia to what God has de-
creed thall come to pafs, is endeavour-
ing, by force of arms, to top the courfe
of the prophecy, and change the decreed
time for it to be fulfilled. The King of
Prufia, by threatening, with the great
ftrength of his army, to build up what
God, to fulfil this prophecy, has thrown
down; to refiore that MONARCHY in
France, which God, to fulfil his recorded
judgement in this prophecy, has removed
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before he intended it, but also after he
had-even till the defigns of Govern-
ment were ready to be executed by open
preparations for hoftility. If this war
was like any which has preceded it, a
prince might, as ufual, fit down at his
leifure, and calculate from his fuccefs
how long to carry it on, or by his de-
fears how foon he must leave it off: but
the death of Louis the XVIth, and the
Revolution in France, having proceeded
from the RECORDED JUDGEMENT OF
GOD, the Two things which bave oc-
cafioned it, and which have rendered it
Jo entirely different that its confequences
are already determined, will be the fame
to the monarchs engaged in it as hap-
pens to a man unexpe&edly caught in a
large trap on forbidden ground-the
pains of death convince him of trans-
greffion before his eyes could warn him
of the danger. I know the Judgements
of God; by them I am directed: by
Revelation and through his Holy Spirit
I write. To fulfill them, the feventh
chapter of Daniel, and fuch parts of the
Revelation as mean the present time and
the fame things, the war now carrying
on will involve all the nations engaged
in it in great diftrefs, and nearly all the
princes of Europe in death. As I knew
all this a confiderable time before the
war, I fet my heart and my mind to in-
tercede with God, although it was a-
gainst his recorded judgements, to fave
the KING and fpare the country I live
in. I fucceeded with God, and obtained
an offer of mercy, but could not with
'man to believe and accept it. I wish
well to the KING and QUEEN, and
likewife their FAMILY: to know all
that I have related, and more than I am
'permitted to tell; to know the unavoid-
able death of him, and afterwards the
certain deftruction of an amiable woman
and her children, Would, I thought, be
a crime to reproach for ever the feelings
of my heart, if I did not implore, when
I knew the great kindness that God had
for me, and endeavour, by all the means
in my power, to prevent it." pp. 35, 36.
As the prophet fell under the lafh of
human laws, and was confined in New
gate, he has it in command from the
Lord God to procure rewards to Ifabella
Wake and Capt. Hanchett, who relieved
him there; and to inform the latter,
tha, though his name is Hanchett,
there is John Pitt Earl of Chatham, Sir
Gilbert Elliot, and Charles Grey, you as
well as them, the whole as well as my-
felf, are of the Hebrews, branches of my

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own family, and are defcended from
David King of Ifrael. All this has been
told me by Revelation from the Lord
God in vifions of the night." P. 47.-
"When I was writing of these things to
the Earl of Chatham, on my knees I
made a folemn vow to the Almighty
God, declaring, that, if he would be
pleafed to enable me, I would most
furely procure an indemnification for
the poor man that loft his fhip. Since
that time, the Lord God has told me,
by revelation at night, that he would
moft truly enable me; for, if I liked, I
fhould be prefident of the council, and
chancellor of the exchequer; I fhould
have any thing that I required. Imme-
diately after this, I heard another voice
from heaven fay, the Lord have mercy
on them if they had not you for their
friend and counfellor; for, England is
the Spiritual Egypt mentioned in the
11th chapter of the Revelations of St.
John." p. 51." Hear, therefore, all
nations, and be warned by it, what the
Lord God has told me by Revelation,
and now commands me to write, that
the injuries I received, because done for
obeying his word in the bletted Gospel,
the remembrance of them should never
be blotted out from the throne of hea-
ven. Moreover, he faid likewife, that
he would shake the English Admiralty
as a man would violently bread in a
basket, until he loofed the foundations of
the earth, and shook the place in pieces."
P. 52.-"The Lord God commands me
to lay to William Bryan, that you are of
the Hebrews, and of the tribe of Judab;
and that you John Wright are appointed
and will be commanded by him to teftify
publicly to the world who I now am,
and what my future defignation is." p.
83. The Lord God commands me to
remind all people of the loud thunder
that was on the 7th of August laft
[1794], and to fay, it was a threat from
him to deftroy London, fooner than fuf-
fer me to be hurted: take it for a warn
ing, and beware of the dreadful confe-
quences that will most certainly ensue, if
a fimilar injury is intended against me:
for, if you, the English Government, is
determined to moleft me, the Lord God
is alfo determined to oppose you; and
will vifit with death on his enemies, and
with deftruction on their capital. For,
the English Government, both what is
called Civil and Ecclefiafiical, in its
prefent form will, by the fierce anger
and determined judgement of the Lord
God, be removed annihilated-and ut-

terly

terly deftroyed, before the expiration of ten months from this day." p. 91. This date was printed 11 April, 1794, altered with a pen to Oct. 26, 1794; and the acquittal of the prifoners to be tried for high treafon at the Old Bailey is predicted with confidence. Laftly, Peter Woulfe, one of the Avignon Society, is promifed the refloration of all his property confifcated in France, and that of every other peaceable individual by Spain, England, Pruffia, Germany. Holland, and all the other nations of Europe."The very loud and unufual kind of thunder heard in the beginning of January, 1791, was the voice of the Angel mentioned in the 18th chapter of the Revelation, proclaiming the judge. ment of God and the fall of Babylon the great. It was the loudest that ever was heard fince man was created, and hook the whole earth every time the Angel fpoke, it roared through the streets, and made a noife over London like the falling of mountains of stones. Many buildings were damaged at the time of this thunder, and many perfons were frightened by it; the great flashes of lightning proceeded alfo from the Angel, and was, according to the first verfe, reflected from the brightness of his glory." I. 41. This is defcribed Jan. 21, at Liverpool, in our vol. LXI. p. 82. That on the evening of Aug. 3, 1793, was the voice of the Angel ftanding in the fun, Rev. xix. See an account of it at Ipswich, Aug. 7, LXIII. 761.

So much for the author's own intrinfic marks, which we have been thus long in extracting that the publick may judge of his credentials and commiflion. Whether he is a volunteer, or the dupe of fuperior intellects, It us try by the account given of him by Nathaniel Braffey Halhed, M. P.

of his credulity, and fuppreffed his pam-
phlet. Certain it is, that what we are
now reviewing is called the second edi-
tion. After a difcuffion of the question
of war and peace, on which Mr. H. was
prevented from delivering his fentiments
in the House of Commons, he proceeds
to characterize the prophet for his plain-
nefs, fimplicity, want of grammatical
knowledge, harmony of arrangement,
and elegance of diction; and, having af
fured us, that he himself had explained
all the Hindu allegorical writings, he
fets up for an explainer of all the pro-
phecies of the Old Teftament, in which
he perfectly concurs with the new pro-
phet; declares that the prophecies of
Daniel can abfolutely apply to nothing
but the prefent ftate of Europe; and af-
firms, from his own difcoveries, that the
prophet Daniel pofitively and particu-
larly denounces annihilation to the Bri-
tifh navy in the prefent war; and, as a
proof of this propofition, in the courfe of
his effay he is content to reft his whole
pretenfions to penetration. p. 13. Mr.
H. afferts, that, without the affiftance of
Mr. B, who, when he called on him,
only referred him to the Scriptures, he
has found the fate of Europe in Daniel
and Efdras, which last he admits into
his canon of Scripture; but, as it is not
in our canon of the facred books, we
pafs his conftruction of the prophecy
contained in it, and proceed to hear how
he concurs with the modern prophet in
pronouncing LONDON to be Babylon-
because it trades in Daves, and fouls of
men are fold there. Would one not be
aftonished, after this, to hear that Mr.
H. had fold His foul among the reft-to
the treasury bench-for nolbing? or ra-
ther, waiting, with his foul in bis band,
for a good offer? But, though he fold
his foul, he could never sell his tongue-
and, more unfortunately for him, he
never has been lucky enough to catch
the Speaker's eye to get a fingle oppor-
tunity of using it. But London is alfo
"Sodom in Egypt, where our Lord was
crucified;" i. e. where the bleffed facra-
ment of redemption is proflituted for a
tf. The two cities of London and
Weftminster, and the wicked Church of
England, come in for their share all to-
gether. In proof that Mr. B. is to be
the re-conductor of the Jews, Mr. H.
obferves, that Mofes was born in Egypt,
and afcended from an ark of bull-rushes:
this fecond Mofes was born in fome pi-
ritual Egypt, i. e. London, and rose from
a fhip, having been bred to the navy.

The prophet having commanded him, in the name of the Lord God, to publih and declare to the world, in wiiting, without the leaft fear of any human power whatever, that the Revelation by him published is from him the Lord God, and is true; and that Mr. H. was converted to the full knowledge of his word, and convinced that he is his prophet; which teftimony he is to fend copies of to the King of England, his Queen and family, all the members of both houfes of parliament, the judges, and all the foreign ambassadors, the lord mayor and all the aldermen of London; this, we are told by fome, was done; by others, that the writer was afhamed

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