the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praises in the islands. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste mountains and hills—and I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in a path that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."

Now here, from the words of the prophet, we must discern that he is speaking to the people in the language of the Lord, as though the Lord was speaking to them himself. No man can suppose the prophet meant, that he could destroy and devour at once; therefore he speaks of the Lord's refraining himself for a while; and then to destroy and devour at once, all that were his enemies, and make waste mountains and hills, till all the earth should praise

his name.

But through Mr. Brothers's writings, instead of saying, the Lord is coming to fulfil the words of the prophets, which he hath pointed out, he alludes the following chapters and Psalms to himself: Isaiah ii, ix, lii, lx; Daniel vii; Micah iv; Revelations ▼, xi, xii, xiv; Ezekiel xxxiv;' Psalms ii, xxii, xlv, lxxii, lxxxix. These chapters and Psalms, in which the Lord expressly speaks of himself, what he will de in the latter days, saying, I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord, I will seek that which was lost; and which is spoken throughout, what the Lord said he would do in the end; but as Mr. Brothers said all this meant himself, he began to bring on his own fall; for as wrong as he placed the chapters, he placed every date, when they would be fulfilled; and that is the way

that all his dates failed, to prove he had placed the one as wrong as the other; and by so doing he deceived himself; for it was not the Lord deceived him; and so I was ordered to lay before him how wrongly he had placed the Scriptures to himself, and in what manner he had deceived others, by his being deceived by an evil spirit. For no more than his prophecies took place, of his being revealed in the manner he mentioned, no more did. the Scriptures that he had pointed out allude to him; and therefore it was not the Lord who had deceived him, but he had deceived himself, and would bring shame and sorrow upon himself in the end, if he did not repent. I pointed out the whole in a letter, from his books, wherein he had acted wrong, and sent it to Mr. Finlayson, for Mr. Brothers, which was returned back again in a cover; so my reproof was despised and rejected by them both, though I pointed out in the clearest manner, wherein he had sinned, in his saying the Lord had deceived. him, in things the Lord had never spoken; and I also pointed out the Scriptures wherein he had erred in placing them to himself. Now as he refused to take a private reproof, and treated the whole with scorn and contempt, going on as before, as may be seen from a book published by him in September 1806, wherein are these words in the 20th page.

"God's permitting my confinement under those false charges, for publishing what he ordered, what was impossible for me to resist, and, what did no harm to any individual under heaven, is no repellent to the Hebrew restoration, nor to any thing else he intends, that is connected with it, for assisting them. The time is his own, and the means are always in his power. But that he has often varied from his promised time is a melancholy fact; to ME it is a source of grief; the Scripture verifies many such, and they cannot be denied.

When this book was brought to my hands, that

he still persevered to charge God foolishly and wrongfully, and was supported by those friends who had despised the reproof that was given in private, I was then ordered to reprove him in public print, from the Scriptures, to prove his assertion false, in saying the Scriptures verify that the Lord often. varies from his promised times. And now I shall come to the Scriptures., If we look to the prophets, who were called only to prophesy, without having the power of working miracles given them, as was the case with Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and all the following prophets, who were only called to prophesy, no man can say the Lord deceived them; but it was men's own judgment that deceived them, as the prophecies were given on conditions, with threatenings and promises, as the people obeyed or disobeyed; and prophecies of threatenings could be of no use to mankind, if they were put immediately in execution, without giving the people space to repent. Therefore in the threatenings being pralonged, as was said in the case of Ezekiel, the time was prolonged, and the visions failed; therefore they said he had prophecied for a great while to come, a time they judged to be afar off; because it did not come as they expected, without considering that the Lord had warned them to give them space for repentance. And this hath been the way of the Lord by his threatenings to his prophets; for judgments are not always hastily executed; and when the Lord sees that some begin to fear the threatenings, then in mercy he prolongs the judgments; and, for the sake of the righteous, for a while the sinners are spared, as the Lord said to Abraham, that he would save Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of ten righteous, after he had threatened destruction, if ten righteous had been found there. The same we may see in the case of Niniveh; when they repented the judgments were prolonged: So when the Lord threatens because of sin, his judgments are pro

longed, if men repent; therefore, in these prophets, we may discern in what manner the judgments came on; and for what reasons many were deferred for a while, that they were not hastily put in execution ; and yet, if we read the prophets through, we shall discern the threatenings were put in execution after they had been deferred for a while; and many of the prophecies that were given to these prophets stand for the end and for all nations. Therefore men could not be clear in judging all their prophecies, and though they prophesied of the Birth of Christ, and of his Death, for the transgression of man, and of his coming again in the clouds of heaven to destroy the works of the devil, and bring in his Kingdom of Peace; yet it was not in the power of man to understand the meaning of the whole, or in what manner the prophecies would be fulfilled, or at what time they would be fulfilled; for the prophets themselves did not know. And though Isaiah prophecied of our Saviour in the ix, chapter, That unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace; of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end; but at what time, or in what manner this would be fulfilled, was not understood by the prophet; and yet it is fulfilled in part, that unto us a Child was born, and suffered for the transgression of man, which was the Son of God; and the Son that should come hereafter to have the government upon his shoulders, and to be the Prince of Peace when he cometh according to the words of the prophet, in the xxv, chapter to destroy in his mountain the face of the covering cast over all people; and the veil that is spread over all nations, he will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall be

taken away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it and it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord, we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Then will be fulfilled the ii, chap. of Isaiah, and the iv, chap. of Micah, which are said to be in the last days-He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off: they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn War any more; but they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree; for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it : and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day, and the Lord shall reign over them in mount. Zion, from henceforth even for ever. Then will be fulfilled the words of the prophet Daniel, in the vii, chapter and his Vision will then be fulfilled, that he beheld till the beast was slain; and then he saw in the vision one like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him; and his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed; and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; but then all dominions shall serve and obey him who cometh with the clouds of heaven. Now if we compare these words with the words of our Saviour, in the Gospel, after enumerating the sorrows that should first come upon the earth, and men's hearts failing them for fear, looking after these things which are coming on the earth; then shall the powers of the heavens be shaken, and they shall sce the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory; but when these things begin to come to pass, our Saviour telleth us to lift up our heads, that our redemption draweth nigh, that the Kingdon