some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God." Luke ix. 26, 27. "Then Peter, turning about seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, he shall not die; but, if I will that he tarry, what is that to thee?" John xxi. 20-23.

According to the foregoing views, Mr. Miller is entirely wrong in all those calculations designed to prove that Christ will come to judge the world A. D. 1843. The texts brought to prove this had their fulfilment A. D. 70. On page 67 he says," And through his policy, he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand.' This description agrees with Paul's man of sin, the mystery of iniquity which worked in his day, and which would be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming. See 2 Thess. ii. 3-8. 'So that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.' Gabriel says, 'And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many; he shall also stand up against the Prince of Princes.' That is, against God; the very same character which Paul has described. 'But he shall be broken without hand,' that is, 'by the brightness of his (Christ's) coming,' as says Paul. But as Daniel has said, By the stone cut out of the mountain without hand'; or as he

says, Daniel vii. 21, 22, I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed over them, until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.'" This brightness of Christ's coming; this coming of the Ancient of days was A. D. 70, or before his apostles had gone over all the cities of Israel.

In Lecture XVI. Mr. Miller gives an account of the last judgment founded on Matt. xxv. 1. "Then shall the kingdom of heaven," &c. The whole discourse, however, is wrong; for it is built on the erroneous supposition, that Christ did not come at the destruction of Jerusalem. The judg

ment described in Matt. xxv. was to be at the coming of Christ; and as he came A. D. 70, that whole chapter was then fulfilled. All that he has said about the first resurrection and the judgment to take place then, instead of being fulfilled A. D. 1843 was fulfilled A. D. 70. See Mr. Miller's 2d Lecture, where he argues, that this resurrection was to take place at the second coming of Christ. Here he is unquestionably right, as may be seen by consulting Dan. vii. 21-28. We have only to ask, therefore, when was Christ to come? This we have already answered. John tarried till he came.

At this time there was a resurrection to life, and a resurrection to damnation. Henry says,— "When upon the appearance of Michael, our Prince, his Gospel is preached, many of them who sleep in the dust, both Jews and Gentiles, shall be awakened by it, to take upon them a profession of religion, and shall rise out of their Hea

thenism or Judaism; but since there will always be a mixture of hypocrites with true saints, it is but some of them who are raised to life, to whom the Gospel is a savor of life unto life; but others will be raised by it to shame and contempt." Dr. Campbell says, "The word rendered resurrection does not primarily signify rising from the dead, but from obscurity to eminence."

Hence the circumstance, that a resurrection is spoken of at the coming of Christ, does not prove, that it did not occur A. D. 70. Jesus says, "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, that all men should honor the Son, even even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live." John v. 21-25. Observe these expressions, "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will"; "passed from death unto life"; "the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live." Thus there can be a resurrection without a literal rising from the grave.*

*See Lecture V., where this subject is more fully explained.

But we must close. It is not necessary, that we should refer to all the places where Mr. Miller has misapplied those Scriptures which speak in relation to the coming of Christ. The reader can easily detect his misapplications, if he will only bear in mind what we have proved beyond the possibility of dispute, that Christ's second coming was at the destruction of Jerusalem.

Some of the signs by which Mr. Miller attempts to prove, that Christ's coming is now near at hand, are as ludicrous as his reasonings are false and absurd. One is, that many shall run to and fro (p. 268), which he thinks means the rapid travelling by railroads and steamboats of the present day!! Now I know, that in dissenting from such a learned illustration of Scripture, I shall subject myself to the charge of wilful ignorance, but our author must excuse me from believing, that the prophets foretold the invention of steam engines. Besides, it seems but little like the arrangements of God, to burn up the world, just as such a valuable discovery has been made.

Another sign is the great increase of riches." Our author is sadly mistaken here. Times were never worse than they have been for a few years past. There have been thousands and thousands of failures, and people, instead of growing rich, have been growing poor.

These, reader, are a fair specimen of Mr. Miller's signs. "He looked for a sign, but no sign was given him."

LECTURE II.

HOW, AND FOR WHAT, DID CHRIST COME AT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM ?

"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily, I say unto you, There be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." Matt. xvi. 27, 28.

HAVING proved, in our first Lecture, that Christ came at the close of the Jewish dispensation, I am this evening to consider a supposed difficulty, arising from such a position. The texts which I have quoted speak of his coming in the glory of his Father; coming with power and great glory; being seen in the clouds, and of his coming to judge the nations. They also say, at this coming the sun shall be darkened; the moon not give her light; the stars fall, and the powers of the heavens be shaken.

Now the question is, Did these things occur? In order to satisfy ourselves on this point, we must inquire,

I. How did Christ come? And

II. For what did he come ?

In answering the inquiry, How did Christ come, we must be guided wholly by the language