stroyed, and cast out of sight before that time, and, in a relative sense, forgotten?

But now, when death and hell shall give up their dead, she shall be brought to remembrance, to be exposed, and her works made known to an assembled world, and her final doom pronounced. For in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain on the earth. Rev. 18, 24.

But still the dreadful trump blows its shrill blast throughout the globe, and awakes the dead in every clime. There, from the sea of Sodom, many thousands rise from underneath the stagnant lake, who offered violence to the wayfaring angels in the days of Lot, but now are suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude, 7. There, from the Red Sea of the Egyptians, come forth to hateful life Pharaoh's tawny host, whose trust was in the gods of the Nile. The Jews at Jerusalem, and in all other countries who partake of their character, of whom the Saviour said, If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins, (Johu 8, 28) and, Whither 1 go ye cannot come-shall rise to see Him they hated, and hung on a tree, God over all, blessed for ever more, coming in the splendour of his meek and eternal kingdom.

Ah! what a host shall now come forth from all saint butchering countries, to feel the eternal smart inflicted by a holier inquisition from above; for God hath said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay it, saith the Lord. Rom. 12, 19.

And the sea gave up their dead, which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in

them. Rev. 20, 13. This verse should be understood, that the sea and the earth is here personified by the word death, who holds the bodies of the wicked dead under his power in the grave; and the word hell, or hades, personifies the place where are confined the souls of those wicked dead till the final judgment, which is unquestionably in the subterranean fires of the earth, the volcanos and burning mountains. This idea gathers strength from the recollection, that it is said in Revelation 20, 14. And Death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. From

which it is abundantly certain, that the first death and

first hell spoken of appertain to this earth, else how

can they be taken and cast into a lake of fire, which St, John says is the second death, and is that hell or lake of fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, into which the first death and first hell, which appertain to this earth, shall be cast at the day of judgment; else how can the Revelator say, that death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, if they are not considered two separate places. The place, therefore, of departed spirits, who have died in their sins, is in the subterterranean fires of this globe. There, in those flames, in the literal sense, did the soul of the rich man spoken of by St. Luke, 16, 24, lift up his eyes, being tormented.

It is supposed by philosophers, " Boerhaave, Boyle, and various others, who devote their lives to the study of nature, that the centre of the earth contains a mass of lava in a state of perpetual fusion. This ocean of flame they call a second sun. Various observations

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stroyed, and cast out of sight before that time, and, in a relative sense, forgotten?

But now, when death and hell shall give up their dead, she shall be brought to remembrance, to be exposed, and her works made known to an assembled world, and her final doom pronounced. For in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain on the earth. Rev. 18, 24.

But still the dreadful trump blows its shrill blast throughout the globe, and awakes the dead in every clime. There, from the sea of Sodom, many thou. sands rise from underneath the stagnant lake, who of fered violence to the wayfaring angels in the days of Lot, but now are suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude, 7. There, from the Red Sea of the Egyptians, come forth to hateful life Pharaoh's tawny host, whose trust was in the gods of the Nile. The Jews at Jerusalem, and in all other countries who partake of their character, of whom the Saviour said, If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins, (John 8, 28) and, Whither 1 go ye cannot come-shall rise to see Him they hated, and hung on a tree, God over all, blessed for ever more, coming in the splendour of his meek and eternal kingdom.

Ah! what a host shall now come forth from all saint butchering countries, to feel the eternal smart inflicted by a holier inquisition from above; for God hath said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay it, saith the Lord. Rom. 12, 19.

And the sea gave up their dead, which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in

into the lake of fire.

them. Rev. 20, 13. This verse should be understood, that the sea and the earth is here personified by the word death, who holds the bodies of the wicked dead under his power in the grave; and the word hell, or hades, personifies the place where are confined the souls of those wicked dead till the final judgment, which is unquestionably in the subterranean fires of the earth, the volcanos and burning mountains. This idea gathers strength from the recollection, that it is said in Revelation 20, 14. And Death and Hell were cast This is the second death. From which it is abundantly certain, that the first death and, first hell spoken of appertain to this earth, else how can they be taken and cast into a lake of fire, which St, John says is the second death, and is that hell or lake, of fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, into which the first death and first hell, which appertain to this earth, shall be cast at the day of judgment; else how can the Revelator say, that death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, if they are not considered two separate places. The place, therefore, of departed spirits, who have died in their sins, is in the subterterranean fires of this globe. There, in those flames, in the literal sense, did the soul of the rich man spoken of by St. Luke, 16, 24, lift up his eyes, being tormented.

It is supposed by philosophers, "Boerhaave, Boyle, and various others, who devote their lives to the study of nature, that the centre of the earth contains a mass of lava in a state of perpetual fusion. This ocean of flame they call a second sun. Various observations

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tend to support this idea. In the first place, the rays of the sun have scarcely any power ten feet beneath the surface of the earth. Secondly; M. de Luc, on the fifth of June, 1778, descended the mines of Hartz to the depth of 1359 feet, where he found the air some. what warmer than on the surface. But in the mines of Hungary, which are 3000 feet deep, the heat becomes very great, and almost insupportable. If the sun is not the cause of this heat, it must arise from internal fires.

But to return to our subject. The terrors of that day proceed, for now reigns confusion and dismay throughout all the earth, except in the camp of the saints; for behold the ancient of days is coming nigh to this devoted earth, though seen only in the person of the glorious son of God. The prophet Daniel had a view of the glory and majesty of his appearing when he shall come in the clouds of heaven, with all his mighty angels, to be admired of his saints, and to judge the dead. I beheld, said Daniel, till the thrones were cast down, i. e. he had, in the vision of God, seen the end of all earthly glory, thrones, kingdoms, honours and riches, and found they were counted as the small dust of the balance in the sight of him whose throne is now set in the top of the heavens, the splendour of which will hide the sun as a taper lost. 1 beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thou