death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces: It shall be said in that day, Lo! this is our God, we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his Salvation." So if we trace the records of the Scriptures through, we shall find, from the beginning to the ending, there is a Promise standing throughout the Scriptures that the Lord will destroy the power of evil and sin, that is Satan, and bring in his kingdom of righteousness and peace, that all that have breath may praise the Lord from sea to sea, from shore to shore, even to the ends of the earth, will men see the Salvation of our God.

In a publication by Mr. Mayer, intitled the Prophetic Mirror, he says in the 22nd page-That opening the Seals in the Revelation means disclosing the will of God; the blowing the trumpets the proclamation of his will.

Now if HIS will be not revealed to man, how can this be disclosing the will of God? or how can the proclamation of HIS will be made known without a revelation from HIS Spirit, to make it known? Will men answer, it is by wars and tumults that these things are made known? Then if we turn back our thoughts to ages past, and discern all the dreadful wars and tumults, that have followed amongst mankind, since the Gospel was published; we may say these Seals have been opened before, and the vials have been poured out before; and it has been judged by commentators that this alluded to ages past, which Mayer himself condemns: In the 24th page, he says, "The stars of heaven falling to the earth, as a fig-tree casts her untimely figs, has seemingly an allusion to the fall of those, who through the pride and arrogancy of their possessing natural and acquired abilities above others, have claimed a preeminence in the religious world, and are supposed to have unveiled the deep mysteries of God." Now here in every line he hath condemned himself; because all these natural abilities, pride and arrogancy above

others, to unveil the prophecies of the Scriptures, and the mysteries of God in them, he hath now presumed to aspire to, without professing any revelation from God, of revealing to him the meaning of them; nor of the times and seasons when they will be fulfilled, he does not profess to say he has any knowledge from the Lord to know; but all his boasted knowledge is from himself, through pride of his natural abilities. So in this fall he must discover his own; and if he discern his books through, he may clearly discern his further observation; as he says, "It may have a more particular allusion to the fall of those who, by their theological definitions, have led men from the simple truths of the Gospel, bewildered their imaginations, and involved them in a labyrinth of error. Here he hath drawn the complete picture of himself; for if men read his books through, and mark his words, saying, "The finishing of sin and transgression, and the restraining Satan's power was at the death of Christ; then I ask him, what is to be finished now? If all was then done, there is nothing left to do: for when sin and transgression are finished and made an end of, there can be none remaining: and yet he confesses in the 25th page, "That the time is at hand for every valley to be exalted; and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, and the GLORY OF THE LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it,' alluding to Isaiah xl. 5. 6. Now if these things are to be fulfilled at this time, they cannot have been fulfilled in ages past; and if the glory of the Lord is to be revealed, it must be revealed by the visitation of his Spirit; it cannot be fevealed by the wisdom of man for who hath been his counsellor, or known his decrees, at what time he meant to fulfil all his words spoken by the prophets? Did not our Saviour tell his disciples, it was not for them to know the times and seasons, which the Father had

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put it in his own power: but ye shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Here our Saviour plainly telleth us, it is from the power of the Holy Ghost, our being visited by the Spirit of God, that all knowledge is to come to us; and it is expressly said, the wisdom of the wise men shall perish, the understanding of the prudent men shall be hid, and all men's wisdom and counsel shall be brought to nought, that no flesh might glory in His presence. Now thus we may plainly discern the truth of the Scriptures, from the wisdom of men; for though they boast of their own wisdom, as this man bath boasted, as though he had knowledge of himself to explain the mysteries of the Bible above all others, and the wisdom of God appeared foolishness to him, in revealing the mysteries to his creatures; yet I might fill a volume to point out the foolishness and contradiction there is in this man's books, and prove that what he saith in one he contradicts in another; for in one he says, "Making an end of sin and finishing transgression, and restraining Satan's power, was at the death of Christ; and the Gospel being preached;" but in the 29th page, he saith, Opening of the

seventh Seal is to be considered as the disclosure of the determined will of God respecting the abolishing of the kingdom of Satan, and the universal spreading of the Gospel over the earth." This I grant to be true; and then will sin and transgressions be finished; but not before. In the 32. page he says, "The Isles I consider to represent the various systems that are set up in opposition to Divine Revelation." This he may mean against those who deny the revelation of the Scriptures; but if he denieth a further revelation to be given to man, than what hath been already given, he must deny the Scriptures likewise; for there is no man upon earth who can prove the Scriptures true, especially the Gospel, without he allows the Spirit of Truth must come from the God of Truth, to warn us all of the Coming of our Lord, according to the Gospel spoken by our Saviour, which I have

mentioned in this book; and the same is affirmed by the Apostles; that a further revelation would be given at the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ: but this would be denied in the latter days, according as it is written by the apostle Peter, who expressly says, in the Second Epistle iii. 3, "Know this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lust, saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things re nain as they were:" But know, HE assures us, that HE will be revealed in the last times: "Therefore gird up the loins of your minds, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." And it is from the Spirit of God, and not of man, that this revelation must come in the last days.-But here I see the pride of mankind; they cannot bear the thoughts of any knowledge of the Scriptures being concealed from theirselves, which the Lord hath reserved till the end, to be revealed by HIS Wisdom and HIS Spirit; but as no writer upon earth, among all the learned divines, or all the boasted wisdom of men, ever mentioned that the Sun of Righteousness would arise, with healing in his wings, to heal the fall of the woman, she is put out of the question by men, and all they ascribe is to theirselves; I can by no means rely upon their boasted wisdom; but must rely upon the Spirit that plainly tells me the mercies of God are over all his works, in creation and preservation; and as the Lord created her at first, and to her HE made the promise of bruising the serpent's head; on that promise, and the goodness of God, first to make it, I rely on his power to accomplish it; and on him alone do I rely, where I see wisdom and justice, truth and equity, mercy and goodness, united. together from first to last and from the Truths that have followed my Prophecies, and the manner the Scriptures are explained, I see it is a chain so joined together, that it is out of the power of man to put

it asunder, without he is determined to break the chain that hangs together, for our Redemption, and have no part in the Tree of Life. For how can man, that is born of a woman, ever be freed from the fall, whilst she stands under the condemnation of the fall? and as it written, The Blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin, so he must cleanse the woman from the fall, and destroy the works of the devil. This promise was made at first to the woman, and this promise must stand at last; and here I see the enmity kindled between the woman's seed and Satan's seed, which I am sorry to say visibly appears in what we call a Christian Land. If a man mocks the Scriptures, and says he doth not believe in a God, he is not abused and despised by the world at large; neither is he hated and ridiculed for his unbelief; neither do any seek to injure him; though Christians may strive to convince him; but if they cannot, they leave the man to answer for himself, without shewing any malice against him. The same we may say of the Arians, who shamefully disgrace the character of Christ, and blaspheme his blessed name; and yet we see they go on, having their places of worship, corrupting the minds of the people to bring thein into their belief: and yet; these are not illtreated, hated, or despised; though many Christians shudder at their doctrines and yet these men are unmolested. It would be tedious to enumerate all the different believers of the Scriptures, and all the different modes of worship there are among mankind; and yet all these, whether right or wrong, are peaceably left to theirselves, without any malice or envy poured out against them to insult them: and those that even write against the Bible, that are Atheists, no bitter inalice is poured out against them, like the persecution that is poured out against me and my believers, whose faith is to BELIEVE THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF TRUTH WILL BE FULFILLED, knowing God is a God of Truth, whose words are Yca and Amen;