"on the right hand and on the left: and Jerufa"Jem shall be inhabited again, in her own place. "And it shall come to pafs in that day, that I "will feek to deftroy all the nations that come "against Jerufalem. And I will pour upon the "houfe of David, and upon the inhabitants of Je"rufalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, " and they shall look upon him* whom they have "pierced, and they fhall mourn for him, as one "that mourneth for his only fon, and shall be in "bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for "his firft-born.

Daniel alfo diftin&ly foretells the fame event, and he seems to connect it with the deftruction of a power, which, from his defcription of its rife and progrefs, most interpreters conclude muft mean the Turkish, which has fo long been in poffeffion of the Holy Land. Whenever, therefore, this fignal event fhall take place (which is likewife, probably, denoted by the pouring out of the fixth vial in the book of the Revelation) we may be looking forward for fome other very great and glorious events, but which will be preceded by fome very calamitous ones, refpecting almost all the known world, as the following prophecy, together with others in the Revelation, plainly inti

mates.

* For the authority of this reading, fee Mr. Eyre's Qbfervations on the Prophecies relating to the Restoration of the Jews.

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Dan. xi. 40. And at the time of the end, fhall the king of the fouth (the Saracens) push

at him (the Roman empire) and the king of the "north (the Turks) fhall come against him like a "whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, "and with many fhips, and he fhall enter into the "countries, and fhall overflow and pass over. He "fhall enter alfo into the glorious land, and many "countries fhall be overthrown: but these shall "efcape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, ❝and the chief of the children of Ammon. He "fhall ftretch forth his hand alfo upon the coun"tries, and the land of Egypt fhall not efcape. "But he fhall have power over the treasures of "gold and of filver, and over all the precious "things of Egypt: and the Libyans, and the

Ethiopians fhall be at his fteps. But tidings "out of the east, and out of the north fhall trou-> "ble him therefore, he fhall go forth with great "fury to deftroy, and utterly to make away many. "And he fhall plant the tabernacles of his palace "between the feas, in the glorious holy moun"tain: yet he fhall come to his end, and none "shall help him. And at that time shall Michael "ftand up, the great prince who ftandeth for the "children of thy people, and there shall be a time "of trouble, fuch as never was fince there was a "nation, even to that fame time: and at that "time

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"time thy people shall be delivered, every one that "fhall be found written in the book."

That great calamitous events await the prefent governments of Europe, feems to be fufficiently evident without a spirit of prophecy. “The state "of Europe,” as Dr. Hartley observes (see his Obfervations on Man. vol. ii. p. 455.) is fo particularly" critical and alarming, that hardly any “thing less than univerfal confusion must be the "confequence; and if famine and peftilence "should accompany civil commotions, it will in"deed be a time of trouble, as Daniel fays, fuch as was never known before.”

The present kingdoms of Europe are unquestionably represented by the feet and toes of the great. image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his prophetical dream; and upon the feet of this image will. fall the ftone, cut out of the mountain without hands, which represents the kingdom to be fet up. by Chrift, and which, after dashing in pieces the whole image, will itself become a great mountain, filling the whole earth. From Daniel's interpretation of this vision it may be clearly inferred, that the forms of government, ecclefiaftical and civil, which now fubfift in Europe, must be diffolved ; but that fomething very different from them, and greatly fuperior to them, more favourable to the virtue and happiness of mankind, will take place in their ftead. That this is the meaning of the prophecy

prophecy can hardly be doubted by any person who shall give the leaft attention to it. Dan. ii. 44. "And in the days of these kings shall the God of "heaven fet up a kingdom which shall never be "deftroyed: and the kingdom fhall not be left to "other people, but it shall break in pieces, and "confume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand " for ever."

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When the prophetical thoufand years abovementioned fhall be expired, we are informed, by the fame spirit of prophecy, that there will be another prevalence of infidelity and wickedness, which will bring on the last crisis and final diffolution of the world. The following is the prophetical description of this great event. Rev. xx. 7. "And "when the thousand years are expired, Satan fhall "be loofed out of his prison, and shall go out to "deceive the nations, which are in the four quar❝ters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather "them together to battle: the number of whom "is as the fand of the fea. And they went up on "the breadth of the earth, and compaffed the "camp of the faints about, and the beloved city: "and fire came down from God out of heaven, ❝ and devoured them. And the devil that de❝ceived them was caft into the lake of fire and "brimftone, where the beast and the false prophet "are, and fhall be tormented day and night for

"ever and ever. And I faw a great white throne, "and him that fat on it, from whose face the earth " and the heaven fled away, and there was found "no place for them. And I faw the dead, fmall "and great, ftand before God; and the books "were opened and another book was opened, "which is the book of life: and the dead were "judged out of thofe things which were written in "the books, according to their works. And the "fea gave up the dead which were in it; and "death, and the grave delivered up the dead "which were in them: and they were judged "every man according to their works. And I

faw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first "heaven and the firft earth were paffed away."

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