OR, THINGS TO COME. Ο ΕΡΧΟΜΕΝΟΣ ΗΞΕΙ. BY LEWIS H. J. TONNA. BIBLIOT SEELEY, BURNSIDE, AND SEELEY, FLEET STREET, PREFACE. THESE letters were published in the CHRISTIAN LADY'S MAGAZINE in the years 1840 and 1841. A few copies were also struck off for private circulation among friends; and the Lord having been pleased to make use of them, having come to the writer's knowledge, in leading the minds of many believers to examine and to receive the testimony of Scripture, on the subject of the Lord's personal pre-millennial advent, they are now for the first time published in a separate form. They are merely elementary, and profess to be no more; and as such, believing them to contain truth, the writer now commends them to the Lord's blessing. LETTER THE FIRST. [THE following letters were addressed to an esteemed Christian friend, with whom the writer had been discussing the great doctrinal truth, which to his eye is legibly written in every page of the Bible, that the LORD JESUS CHRIST will come again to this earth, to be glorified and honoured in the very scenes where once for our sakes he suffered scorn, indignity, and death, and that this fair and lovely world was not made to be for ever the scene of Satan's triumph, but of the glory of the Redeemer-the Incarnate Lord. It is with diffidence that the writer ventures to offer these brief remarks to the public eye, intended, as they originally were, merely for the perusal of a friend. They contain nothing new, nothing probably that may not be found stated in a clearer and better form in the many works which have, thank God, been written by some of the brightest lights which now adorn the church, on this momentous topic. But as novelty is not the thing needful in Christian meditation, the writer is inclined to think that a condensed sketch, like the following, may not be quite useless. Prejudice has struck its roots so deeply into the minds of many sincere Christians, that it is difficult to induce them to read an extended treatise of this glorious doctrine. If a book do |