in the kingdom had its illuminations, fire-works roasting of sheep, &c. the whole having beeu a scene of complete infatuation. Seldom does man consider, that frequently "disappointment treads upon the heels of exhultation," and that "luxury and pleasures are the never failing subverters of the most flourishing empires." "But(a change of the scene) they shall FALL." Dan. 11-14.-" She saith in her heart I SIT A QUEEN, and shall see no sorrow." Rev. 18-7. Read the explanation of the said 18th chapter in the Little Book, and at this awful period peruse with a proper degree of attention, the whole of the 5th chapter, 1st of Thessalonians, the 3d verse of which I quote as applicable to the foregoing exultation, and subsequent fall. "For when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." Refer to the 16th verse of the preceding chapter, and "know" that by the 2d verse of the 5th chapter "the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."

Circulated in the village, the consequence was, a degree of persecution by a few ill-designed individuals, which caused the comparison to be more generally known.

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O virtue! virtue! whenever shall we find thee triumphant, and made the basis of the Christian dispensation?" Behold I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give EVERY MAN according as his WORK shall be." Rev. 22 chap. 12 ver.

In the 29th page, in the former part of the 23d verse, is the word "league," which I supposed had an allusion to the word "covenant" in the preceding verse, but when properly considered, the two words must appear to have a very different meaning: The word "league" which is only mentioned once in the chapter, signifies confederacy, or alliance, and the word "covenant," and "holy covenant" so often mentioned, signifies an agreement upon certain conditions, it is not therefore" the article entered into for the regency,"

as I supposed but the "league made with: him." After the league (confederacy, or alliance) made with him (of course the "prince of the covenant," as the last in the preceding verse) he shall COME UP (in the series, after the commotions, and divisions, and after the league made with him) and shall become strong with a small people," which may more properly signify from the single word small, a weak, or despised people who will "particularly advocate his cause," than as I have explained it in the elucidation" a small number of the people."

Rollin, in his primitive History of Greece, vol. II. page 229, mentions, Javan, the son of Japhet, and grandson of Noah, having had four sons, the third of which, he says, was Chittim, and "it is not doubted" he adds, "but that Chittim was the father of the Macedonians." (Macedonia is part of Ancient Greece, or Grecia. See Brooke's Gazetteer).I have said, in the 30th page of the Introduction, that the word Chittim in the 30th verse of the 11th chapter of Daniel, was an appellative, but it perhaps may be more properly applied to the 8th chapter. Therefore" the ships of Chittim" may be the ships of Greece or Græcia. There is a peculiar passage in the 24th chap-. ter, 23d and 24th verses of the Book of Numbers, where. Balaam took up his parable, and said, Alas who shall live when God doeth this! And ships shall come from the Coast of Chittim" and shall afflict Asher, and shall afflict

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Eber, and he also shall perish for ever." And remember, by the 14th verse, it is to be " the latter days."

Rollin's 5th vol. Page 157, has " one of God's designs" &c. In the middle of the paragraph he represents the shameful image of a WOMAN lost to all sense of virtue." See likewise his 7th vol. Page 139, where the text is, (Dan. 11— 45)" He shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces, in Apadno, between the seas, in the glorious holy mountains of Zabi ;" and he says he has translated it literally from the Hebrew (which is comparison), but he informs hisReaders, that. the two words Apadno and Zabi, are not to be found in ancient geography, and adds, the text is very difficult to be explained; now as being in Hebrew, which is comparison, or a likeness, may not it be. He A-bad-on (see 42d page Introduction) shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glorious mountain of Zabi--Zabi may mean the mountain of the Seas, alluding to the other part of the verse, the mountain" between the seas. The explanation may be supposed too fanciful, but as the words are not in our translation, and as there is a considerable similarity in the names Apadno and Abadon, I invert, or turn over the p in the former, and it shews itself a b; and I reverse, or change the two last letters no, to on; I then find the word to readA-bad-on, and not Apadno. It must be remembered, prophecy is enigmatical, and that certain verses pointing out particular circumstances, do not always follow as a regular series.

The verses Dan. 11-15 concludes with "yet (for all that)he shall come to his end, his appointed time," see 32d page, or the end he has always had in view," and none shall help him,” (not then being helped by other powers.)

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NOTE. "HE has now planted the tabernacles of his palaces, (or fixed his habitation or dwelling) between the Seas," or in the mountain of the seas, described by geographers, and different gazetteers, as such; and though it is not in the exact place I expected the planting to be, yet it is in a British Mountainous Island that being as an ironical figure," the "glorious holy mountain," or it may mean the "glorious holy mountain," as his temporary residence. This therefore is so far eventfully recapitulated, and remember, immediately prior to the awfully succeeding and last chapter of Daniel. And how wonderful that "his (costly) palace" should have been sent him as a present from this island.— From the latter part of the Combined View of the Prophecies, by James Hatley Frere, Esq. Page 468, I quote the following:"Bounaparte, on hearing the intelligence from the North, and from the East, will return into the Holy Land, and will plant his tabernades in the Valley of Megiddo, between the glorious holy mountains; there the treading of the Wine Press will take place, and there he and all his army will perish under the manifest vengeance ofGod." What a perversion of the former part of the 45th verse, 11th chap. of Daniel, and various other" combined" texts, and how the passage shews his art in turning them to his own purposes. This is out-doing the doings of a Brothers or a Southcote. Is this the gift of Prophecy, or a superlative second sight? O Britons! if you can gorge this, you may swallow any thing..

Refer to your Bible for serious reflections upon sixteen verses in this 11th chapter, which have not been elucidated, only as occasional detached references, which verses are an awful and" regular series of internal transactions.""He is to have indignation against the holy covenant," along with those that "forsake the holy covenant," 30th verse. Neither shall HE regard the God of HIS FATHERS (deviating from.