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 j OPINIONS OF THE ANCIENT JEWS, 
 
 AND PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS ON THESE SUBJECTS. 
 IN A I/BTTER TO A VBIEND, 
 
 By OMICRON. 
 
 THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. 
 
 " Therefore bo yejl^o ready: f. .. »uch au hour as ye think not. the 
 Son of Man coi. eth."— Jksub Christ. 
 
 LONDON: 1844. * 
 
Till Rov. Joseph Forsyth, lately minister of the 
 Gospel m the Congregational Church at Waterville, 
 C. B., Pud who was called into the presence of his 
 Lord, at the close of 1866, was " Omicron,"— tho 
 writer, five and twenty years ago, of this little work. 
 
 It was first published by Nisbet of London, and had 
 considerable circulation in England. The author lon'r 
 desired its re-publication in this country, but never 
 realized that desire, although, as years gathered upon 
 him, it became stronger. 
 
 It is as some slight testimony to his memory, and in 
 early posthumous fulfilment of his desire, but still more 
 as testimony to what is believed to bo God's truth, that a 
 triend now gives to the press the only copy known to be 
 extant in Canada, that the work may, if the Lord will, 
 have useful circulation here. 
 
 It is truth of the character needed, by Christians in 
 these times; yet one to some extent goes "outside 
 the camp," and may bear reproach (as the author lonf' 
 ago did) in giving it forth. But if it be according to 
 the mmd of the Master, and he accept and own it as 
 testimony, that will be satisfaction enough, and that 
 will be best known in « the day which approacheth." 
 
 The author desired a few verbal alterations, and, 
 under the judicious criticism of an esteemed friend (not 
 residing in this country), these have now been made. 
 JJurthermore, the author had come to doubt the *' day 
 for year" reckonmg, and any references to chronology 
 in the following pages are to be read with understanding 
 of his abandonment of it. 
 
 The truths here set forth are fitted to comfort and 
 establish Christians, are preciously separating from 
 this present evil world i : their tendency, and iT used 
 m the preaching of the Gospel they would (it is be- 
 
 ing ot the unconverted. 
 Montreal, March, 1867. T M. T. 
 
AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 
 
 
 Until about three years ago, the writer, in common 
 with professing Christians generally, held the opinion 
 that a gradual diffusion of religious knowledge by 
 human instrumentality would renovate our sinful 
 world, and introduce a 3piritual millennium. About 
 that time, circumstances led him to a more close study 
 of the prophetic Scriptures than that to which h6 had 
 formerly been accustomed. By this means a change 
 took place in his views and feelings on this momentous 
 subject. The light broke upon his mind with irre- 
 sistible force; and, notwithstanding his former pre- 
 judices, he could not help seeing that we have no 
 alternative but either to reject the testimony of Scrip- 
 ture, or to admit :— That, the restoration of Israel to 
 their own land and national character ; the resurrec- 
 tion of the just and the rapture of the saints then 
 living ; the visible appearing of Christ and his return 
 to our earth ; and a dreadful tissue of fiery judgments 
 upon corrupt churches and a guilty world will precede 
 the establishment of our Lord's kingdom. Thus 
 brought into a new field of thought, and into an 
 altered state of feeling, ho was led to the perusal of 
 the works of the Rev. Messrs. Bickersteth, Brooks, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cunningham, Esq., Mr. Begg, and others, with plea- 
 sure and profit. He is also obliged to acknowledge 
 with grateful feelings, the benefit which he has derived 
 
Ti 
 
 author's preface. 
 
 at No 1 Warwick Square, London. Next to a dili- 
 gent studjr of the Holj Scriptures, he feels it a duty to 
 recommend a careful perusal of these works to his 
 readers. Let it not be said that the subject is triflinn-, 
 or of secondary importance ; on no other subject do 
 the Scriptures speak so frequently; to no other subject 
 do they attach so much importance. The coming, and 
 kingdom and glory of our Lord, and the necessity of 
 ookmg for these and of preparing for them, are con- 
 stantly presented to our attention. These things are 
 the blessed hope of the true Christian, and the terror 
 J'J I "f *^^y-^^"^^d formalist. They present us 
 Tl In. ^^ ^ approaching judgment, and call for 
 auigent preparation. 
 
 "Now, only now, against thnt hour, 
 \ We may a place provide." 
 
 May it be the happiness of the writer and his- readers 
 to meet together, m the blissful and everlasting king- 
 dom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.— Amen 
 
 April, 1842. 
 
3y, published 
 Bxt to a dili- 
 8 it a duty to 
 rorks to his 
 ct is trifling, 
 r subject do 
 )ther subject 
 coming, and 
 necessity of 
 ra, are con- 
 e things are 
 d the terror 
 present us 
 and call for 
 
 his- readers 
 isting king- 
 . — Amen. 
 
 T^B MILLENNIUM. 
 
 TT V^^^'c?. ^^*^*^^''?. ^^""^ ^^^®°*^3^ ^ee» meetings in the 
 United States, for discussion upon the subject of the 
 expected Millennium ; or the coming and kingdom of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ; and I hope that this calf upon us to 
 awake to righteousness will not be disregarded. At the same 
 time I feel some degree of fear, that the manner in which 
 our American friends have spoken and written on this 
 subject may not prove the most judicious; and that it may 
 injure the sacred truth which they desire to propagate 
 
 fulfil r. Tu ^7^^"g °^^^ ^0 the great crisis which shall 
 tumi the roll of prophecy, is generally admitted by the 
 
 fn"^ f^ \ P'7?f y • ^.""^ ^^ ^^"^^ ^«* forget that the day 
 and the hour of the coming of the Son of Man are concealed 
 
 signs of the times, and to labour to understand the chro- 
 nological prophecies ; but these things must be done with 
 
 ^^o^DirSinr ^'' "^"^^ ''''-' ^^^ '''-'''-'' 
 
 inl^rS^iil^^JtSJ.!! '''' ^"^-*' '^ ''< 
 
 desUdaXrS trbf fie?' '' "'^^^^^ ^^' ^^« 
 
 ar e'dr^wLHo t1:r"^^ '' ''^^"^' ^°' ^'^ ^^^^^^^^-«' 
 
 land Jnd'V.f!Kf'r/'°°°* ^' ^""^ '^'^^''^^ *<> *heir own 
 befL ?^. ^'^''^^''^f ,^« a separate nation and kingdom, 
 betore the coming of their Messiah in glory. 
 
 .__T A»«,',that their Messiah will appear some timo Jn iT.^ 
 
 spnng 01 the year 1843. No .'ess than eight prophecies of 
 
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 the public. It is much tn L ^uf u^^^ ^'^" ^^^^ before 
 with a little mo Caution N.ft? '^"' '^? ^'^ '^'^'^ 
 a course of events wnuuT ; /?^ ^^^^ ^^''^^^ ^^ated that 
 1843, which woddmnn^'f^'f^ ^^-'^mme^.c^ atout the year 
 ward : and tLt dar^lTJ"', ^^''^^^ °^ thirty years after- 
 
 bee.peeted%tLtlTT"r*rthe^^^^^^^ 
 
 reign in his kingdom -9 0^1? \^!T ^""^^ ^^« s^^" 
 
 who are lookin° C'^?/' ^^'°?« ^"d takeaway thelivincv 
 
 divine writh upon eorr^^^^^^^^^ ^T '^^ ^^«'« ^^ 
 
 And after tWTing ^ ot/w-th 'n^' ^"^ '^ ^^^^^-4. 
 fire to tread the wintpress o^f^T ^" ^^?«?^"t«in flaming 
 the kingdoms of the Ent in iT'^V^ ^?^' ^""^^"ate 
 kingdom%hroughout S^rworrt^^^^^ 't'^.!^^^ ^^« «^« 
 more than is believed and Hni./? ""^"^^ ^^^' ^^^^ «« 
 prophecy inourorcouXv I. .^^ "'""^ students of 
 remembir that manyTudiJus mJl'T. 'T' ^^" "^"«* 
 which the chronolodcal Zni • ^•'"'^ *^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ 
 expounded: and dSd ff?^'"''" ^ ""^^rstood and 
 
 that in the Vrophet c'writits TTr^^T""^^^ ^'^'^'^' 
 fies a year. But of thif tT ^^^ ^^^ ^^"^"y signi' 
 
 sucI°:tSf „T„Atf ^"^ ? "P""™^ »*■ *» views of 
 fied with your X°i^^ . °"'?''"",'"''J'='='- ^ ^d grati- 
 
 will do whatTcan ild .„! "1"" '" "^ inol^ation. 1 
 
 compass of a letS their " ^^ "rP^^^^ ""«» the 
 learned on the subitt '"^p"*^"'"' "^ ^tat I have read and 
 
 «.»st refer /o'lTt^tttht^nrd '^ "■^«™»"»°' ' 
 
 . -tn gmng a sketch of the views of ZSltc c 
 
 .n our own eountry, I shall endlvour to slow- ^'"^""^ 
 
 is J- Wntr^;" s'ri;^''""''''" and happiness 
 
nerican friends 
 been laid before 
 hey had spoken 
 •ely stated that 
 about the year 
 rty years after- 
 of Man might 
 dead who shall 
 way the living 
 ar the vials of 
 /ty world.— 4. 
 ints in flamino 
 od, annihilate 
 blish his own 
 have said no 
 J students of 
 me, you must 
 he manner in 
 lerstood and 
 »ied position, 
 isually signi- 
 irwards, and 
 ecies are the 
 ent, yet they 
 nd diversity 
 
 the views of 
 I feel grati- 
 sh that my 
 lination. I 
 within the 
 v^e read and 
 brmation, I 
 
 I 
 f prophecy 
 
 3 happiness ' 
 
 tne for this I 
 
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 Lord Jesus Christ. "'""■"«'"">. by tlie coming of the 
 
 own land; and made the hid of^,°,r'''T" "^"'«'' 
 earth; which shall be blessed In ?hem! ""'""^ "^ ""« 
 
 oveT tli^'^ealtrand laTi?;^ ^'f"? <» ^"^'^ ''"I -ign 
 
 fits will bo enjoyed bvl?^""- '?'"'! - ""'"'"' ''<^"''- 
 theirgoyemmS ^ '"'>»'»"""^ of the earth under 
 
 dralJue^rrUm 'tlTrtkotfr'^f"-!"' "',"'? P'"?"'-- 
 signs of the times. '""""""S" "^ chronologists and the 
 
 SerTptU'''''^"'"^ "'"' "^ ""^ ^'''•j^'". ^ exhibited in 
 VIII. The opinions of the ancients on this subject 
 
 tures,U man STme^tsfint^ot Td'thir'': T"" 
 of existence aibtted to creatnrp, f,,. V ?'*'"'' '«™ 
 
 ton and suffering. The toSSri t td" d^h't' v"!' 
 the creatures are subieof nrn fu« .' " ,","'=ath, to which 
 
 of human transtresln ; anV'bX^theto"""^^^"^^^ 
 the transgressioS can terminatrth! V consequences of 
 mustceas?. It is thLforHw;- Z'"''"'"'"''^^" itself 
 atonement for huraanTi^fl. 1! °° *^ remember that an 
 the crucified See^i"^^* II at'^ ^'^' ^^. *^^ ^^^^^ ^^ 
 person of the Holy' SpMt to «f '' fP^r*^^^ ^" th« 
 atoning mercy toThe hS'of th'e'S^^^^ ^' 
 
 smner. And thnno-f, f^n „ 1 1 ^^pencmg and behevin"- 
 
 benefits ha^e beerfffir. "Ifl'L '!Ll.'''»»'»<' ?ears thes? 
 it is consolino- to rest in fC ^Z^' ••-""niy purtiai success, 
 period when the;;il Z eiyL" by'iSl » /," ^PP™-!;-? 
 beblessed inhim ; a.. «at,o.s shallcall ..imtllS' "'"" 
 
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 ^^ J{^^^ol^o^i°S passages of Scripture establish this cheering 
 
 T ^T\^^l' ^-Jr^f • " ^"^^^'^ *^^ ^^y^ co°^c, aaith the 
 liord t^^-^^ 1 will make a new covenant with the house of 
 Israel, m J with the house of Judah : not according to the 
 . covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I 
 took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of 
 ^gjpt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an 
 husband unto them saith the Lord : but this shall be the 
 covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: after 
 those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their 
 inward parts, and write it in their hearts ; and will be their 
 (^od, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no 
 more every man his neighbour and every man his brother 
 saying, know the Lord ; for they shall all know me, from 
 the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : 
 tor I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember- their . 
 sin no njore. 
 
 Mai. i. 11. " For from the rising of the sun even unto 
 the going down of the same, my name shall be great amon- 
 thebentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered 
 unto my name, and a pure offering ; for my name shall be 
 great among the Heathen, saith the Lord of Host- " 
 
 Isaiah xi. 9. ''They shall not hurt or destroy Tn all mv 
 holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of the knowled4 
 ot tne Lord, as the waters cover the sea." ° 
 
 Isaiah xL 5. '' And the glory of the Lord shall be re- 
 vealed, and all flesh shall sec it together : for the mouth of 
 the Lord hath spoken it." 
 
 Isaiah xlr. 23. " I have sworn by myself, the word is 
 gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return 
 that unto me every knee shallbow, every tongue shall swear '' 
 Numbers xvi, 21. " But as truly as I live, all the earth 
 shall be filled with the glory of the Lord." 
 
 I make no comment upon these passages. They are so 
 clear and decisive that it is needless. They are only a very 
 few, out of the great multitude' that might be cited. But 
 they are satisfactory, and they make a time of universal 
 righteousness in the earth, as infalliblv certain a° thp. olivine 
 existence. With righteousness are "associatod" peace' and 
 joy, they will be realized together; and sorrow and mourn- 
 ing must then disappear. 
 
1 this cheering 
 
 mc, aaith the 
 the house of 
 lording to the 
 he day that I 
 P the land of 
 ugh I was an 
 1 shall be the 
 Israel; after 
 law in their 
 I will be their 
 hall teach no 
 
 I his brother, 
 ow me, fVom 
 th the Lord ; 
 nember. their . 
 
 m even unto 
 great among 
 
 II be oflFered 
 ame shall be 
 osts." 
 
 oy in all my 
 3 knowledge 
 
 shall be re- 
 le mouth of 
 
 the word is 
 
 not return, 
 
 hall swear." 
 
 II the earth 
 
 riiey are so 
 only a very 
 jited. But 
 if universal 
 
 peace and 
 luJ mourn- 
 
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 II. The present dispensation is NOT the timp 
 
 ' IZ ^' '^^^' ^^ UNIVERSAL RIGHTEOUSNESS, PE^^ 
 AND joy; BUT THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS OF 
 TIMES IS THE PERIOD WHEN THESE WILL BE REALIZED 
 
 tile?" Thr^^- '^"''^^'°.^' ^^'^ "^ ^^^ *'"^«« ^^ the Gen- 
 tiles While this dispensation continues, the Jews fall bv 
 
 the edge of the sword, and are led captiv^ into airnations^ 
 
 tTminf"Jj;^'n '\'r^t'' ^^^" «f *^^ Gentiles un^Th,; 
 t mes of the Gentiles be fulfilled. When these time are 
 run out, he natural branches will be grafted in. Then a l 
 Israel will be saved, and become the means of extending 
 the salvation of the gospel to the ends of the earth Th? 
 following passages will shew the design to be accomplishod 
 by the preaching of the gospel to aU nations during t^ 
 
 Cubjecr""'"" ■ P"'"P^ *^^^ ^^^ «^^ that^rdSe to 
 
 ' h»t^''"v'''S'^' ^t" ?^"^ *^^« gospel of the kingdom shall 
 be preached in all the world, for a witness unto dlTations 
 and then shall the end come " naiions, 
 
 th5''^ r- ]^' ^^' " ^^ y«*i»to all the world, and preach 
 baXTL"^ I ''''^ r ''''''• H« '^-' believeth and t 
 Sued.''' """"^ '' ^^' ^' '^^' ^'^'"''^'^ ^''^ «h«" fce 
 
 of ^bt'sholli^^e tt^^^'f- *\'.* ^^P^'^^'"'"^^ '-^ ^^-^««ion 
 or sins suould be preached in his name amon^ all nations ' 
 
 bepng at Jerusalem; and ye are witnes^ses of ^ 
 
 Hotv Ghof; lltn^ ^' '^'" ''''''' P°^«^ ^ft^r that the 
 untoVe both'in r ""T ^'V ?"^ ^' «h^" l>« witnesses 
 
 ugam the rams thereof, and I wilTsiru"upTth;t"thc''rc8i! 
 due of men might seek after the Lord, and a 1 the fipntitt 
 
 my name;, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things." 
 
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 ^ These passages teach us, that the gospel is exwesslv nn 
 po nted to be preached to all ; and otLrWages S S 
 with equal clearness, that it is the " wUl of God that nil 
 
 tru h that "He is not willing that any should perish hTi 
 pointed to bo ,r.lCt'lZ fJXZe'lVo^oZ 
 
 pensation. Just as the obduracy of men Z ITX 
 former dispensations, to rejecttiie counsel of 1/'^^^ '" 
 . themselves, and to despise His oftered merev it ^'"^'^ 
 
 tations of mercy arc freely given ; but some s„ pZ 
 IZJTI' '^'"''^' ^"^ °*»^«r« e'^treat spitefulKnd 
 
 s^en Thl ""'IT ^J ^^^"^ '^' g-«i°"« invYtat oris are 
 sent The great Apostle of the Gentiles became all thin..? 
 to all men, not expecting to save all, but that by all me.nf 
 
 ne'r^w!?.* T ""^- ?^^ ^'''' ^'^ ^i" -] les oy s^! 
 ners without warmng them of their sin and danger and If 
 fording them the means of instruction and salvaS For 
 this reason, the gospel is appointed to be priached for a 
 witness unto all nations, that Jesus Christ did fnrfi, • 
 of men ; and that whosoever believeth in 1^^1,1 1^^^^^^^ 
 
 Spri^ILTh'^'^"^ ""h ^' *^^«^- «« that the^HoIy' 
 of W f k1-^'^°^ ^"^ P°^^^' i« placed at the request 
 of them who believe ; and that God has bound him.plf fn 
 
 stllTalr"'' " f' "^"^'"^ engagement, "For wh s '^^ 
 Thl • T,"P'^*'' ""'"" ^^ ^^^ I^ord shall be saved '' 
 These rich provisions and gracious offers, of divine mere; 
 have led many pious men to believe, that all mrkTnd would' 
 
 f reLtrwri '' ^-r^? V the gradualliJustn 
 01 religious knowledge, under the present dispensation 
 Against this supposition. hnwfiv«. fi,/Q.„:^..._ _ P?^^^^.°"- 
 ibllowing facts :~- ' ' '"' '"""i^''"'^ "Ppose the 
 
 1. The state of the world at our Lord's coming. This 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 is expressly ap- 
 sages teach us, 
 3f God that all 
 wledge of the 
 uld perish, but 
 Jtwithstanding 
 
 gospel is ap- 
 le will of God 
 ) come to the 
 ive no reason 
 te wisdom and 
 5 present dis- 
 8 led them, in 
 ' God against 
 ^ ; so, we are 
 
 present dis- 
 g to save and • 
 3, The invi- 
 lay — we pray 
 pitefully, and 
 nvitationsare 
 me all things 
 by all means, 
 destroy sin- 
 nger, and af- 
 '^ation. For 
 Jached for a 
 
 I for the sins 
 
 II not perish, 
 t the Holy 
 the request 
 I himself to 
 r whosoever 
 be saved." 
 ^ine mercy, 
 kind would, 
 ;al diffusion 
 ispensation. 
 
 oppose the 
 
 13 
 
 mg. 
 
 Thif 
 
 IS 
 
 ^ill not be a state of universal holiness, but a state of cor- 
 : aptiott and wickedness, resembling that before the flood, 
 in the days of Noah; and similar to that of Sodom, in the 
 days of Lot. This is clear and undeniable, from the 
 testimony of our Lord, Luke xvii, 26-30, "As it was in 
 the days of Noc, so shall it also be in the days of the Son 
 ot Man : they did eat, they drank, they married wives, 
 they were given m marriage, until the day that Noe en- 
 tered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them 
 all Likenrise also, as it was in the days of Lot ; they did 
 eat they drank they bought, they sold, they planted, they 
 builded ; but the same day that Lot went out of sidom, 
 It rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed 
 them all : even thus shall it be in the day when the Son 
 ot Man IS revealed." On the same subject, St. Paul 
 teaches us, " Yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the 
 Lord so Cometh as a thief in the night; for when they shall 
 say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon 
 them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall 
 not escape.'' I Thess. v. 1-3. The day of the Lord, of 
 which our Lord and the Apostle here speaks, is the day 
 when the pious dead shall be raised, and the living who are 
 looking for their Lord's appearing, shall be changed and 
 caught into the clouds to meet him ; and when the fong de- 
 layed judgments of God shall be inflicted upon a sTnful 
 world. ^ At this solemn and awful time, men generally 
 will be in a state of ease, peace, and fancied security ; and as 
 deeply sunk in earthly mindedness and sensuality, as men 
 were m the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot A state 
 Sned ""'^ ^0 one of universal holiness, cannot easily be 
 
 2. Some pious persons, however, have supposed that the 
 above state of things will be in consequence of the loosing 
 ot featan at the expiration of the thousand years, mentioned 
 f.Z;^V "^ ^^ ^ m\^iv,\iQ ; the loosing of Satan is an 
 
 event mhupcnt to that of which we now speak, and will 
 
 LnlTnM i ''rSu '*'*.' ^{ *^^°S« ^^^^ that which is now 
 contemplated. The mistake has an's^n fmm «,,«.i..i,;„^ 
 
 otner prophecies which shew the state of the world "and of 
 the church, from the time of our Lord's ascension to that 
 ot his return. The parable of the wheat and the tares is 
 
H 
 
 I 
 
 IHE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 decisive on this noinf Thn i 
 
 >", " Ho that so^Tth 1,0 t5t"r '?," i''" '7^"' I'ord 
 field is tho worl.) • .1, , ""'^'^ " "'« Sou of Man ■ il,^ 
 
 •"•ngoo^r tr'Lf iftho :,ir: '■■-•"'4 "f ' 
 
 Iho oncmy that sowod tL,„V,u ^ ■!'^ .""' "■'"'"'d ono • 
 end of tho world (ago) Z ho ° ''"'' ' ""^ '""•««' " ""e 
 'heroforo, tho tarLTri g^S '^K, »■■"'« '';'i?ek As 
 sl><dl .t bo at tho ond of tl o al nT '"'■ '-'" '^"'- «" 
 send forth his an-els -in,! L" i ,, " ^o" "^ M^a shall 
 dom all things thlo'flbad ,Z ',h"" ^l"'",""' "f"' klt- 
 bMI oast thorn into a furn'aoo of fi™ h'' ''<' i"'')""^ ^ »n°d 
 »nd gnashing of tooth TlLstn 1"° •''f" '"' "°"'"g 
 forth as the sun in tho kin^om of hi" i" T''"','"" 'Wnt 
 3- -43. Now tho first n7,r "'eir Father. Matt. »ii; 
 
 ?t tho timo of our Ws ;„™irrP'" '"^'"'»»<« « t 
 'n a stato of fanoiod security of „to"?/°""'''"^ "'" ^e 
 seoondteachosus that from JI,.-'^,''"^ *'>'>8'"J"y ; the 
 
 -wod.tho good soot to tTat winL"^'; ,*" ^"j' "' «»" 
 'P thoir leather's kingdom tl I „^- 5 "S'l'""^ shall shine 
 shall continue in the wo rid Th^ f" °I "'« ^'*ed o"o 
 
 elude all possibilit/of a oot verted Iri 1 f'°^ '=\""^'^ P^"" 
 dispensation. In tho millonnW .,? ''^''''"°S""=P'-e£nt 
 
 I-ord ; and in EVmr pla o me" £ °off ''^ '''^'" ^""^ "^ 
 but dur ng tho nrosent i™ Tj T °®'" " ?"■•» olTerin" • 
 theharvesi, auSlTkC^r'^ '» ">« very time "of 
 
 offering; tho wheat anrthoTre^ha^l' "T <''*^'- »?>"•» . 
 
 ;;^hah.ta„ts of the earth :^ t^T^^^^-JZ^l.^^ i 
 
 the\p^rnreti,t&To1''"« '•- '"^ ^"^^ 0^ 
 to oontinue to work nntil it rio"^ d i„ta ™'"";'5'-, ^'^-^ 
 the lyian of Sin should claim „!;• *?" "'''"'"■■^. "''d 
 party, who evidenti/ r„o1t3 /I? ""' ''T'^'- This 
 claims of religious ho^.i™ 7„!i „ ^'T' "" ""force his 
 minato the s'aints of God 'u"fil'^^?,Tr"''"'^.^°* 'o eztor 
 saints shall take the kingjom The rr""™^ 7''°» '^e i 
 
 explicit on this subject? He sneak, 'fT"^ of Daniel is i 
 
 and says, " I beheld, and the sfme hi 'T' P'"'*'". ' 
 
 the saints and msviiLA » • ^ ,, orn made war win, • 
 
 Bays eame,"a?d -S^nTL"! ! *^^!" ™'i' «- AnoLIt of « 
 «o.t High, and t-ho tinrela^rtf^irLlX^^d Z 
 
 l\ 
 
 
TnE MILLENNItTM. 
 
 en by our Lord 
 "' ^/, Man ; the 
 children of the 
 »c wicked one ; 
 J harvest is the 
 the anfjels. As, 
 in the fire; so 
 or Man shall 
 ut of his king. 
 
 iniauity; and 
 laJl be waiJing 
 ,'hteous shine 
 »*• ^^latt. xiii. 
 aches us, that 
 crally will be 
 isualitj; the 
 
 Son of Man 
 IS shall shine 
 3 wicked one 
 entirely pro- 
 
 ? the present 
 »1I know the 
 re offering ; 
 ery time of 
 )flcr a pure 
 jether; the 
 'ous, and in 
 
 'he days of 
 t- It was 
 olatrj, and 
 ?e. TJiis 
 nforce his 
 c to exter- 
 when the 
 f Daniel is 
 le person, 
 war with 
 i^ncient of 
 ts of the 
 5essed the 
 
 15 
 
 3 
 •I 
 
 i 
 1 
 
 1 kingdom.' This idolatrous imd persecuting onomy is to 
 be destrojjcdhy the hrightncss of our Lord's commg. II 
 Thess. 11. 8. The terms used by the Apostle signify per- 
 sonal presence and visible brightness. By collatin<' Isaiah 
 XI. 4 ; Dan. vii. 11 ; Rev. xix. 20, it is clear that the same 
 F-sou IS meant or signified in each place. Now, when wo 
 ctnsider that the evil was working in the days of the Apos- 
 ties, and was to continue working until ripened into apos- 
 tacy and idolatry; and that this idolatry shall include all 
 that dwell in the earth, wliose names are not written in 
 the hook of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation 
 i of the world; we see another proof, that a state of univer- 
 sal righteousness, prior to our Lord's second Advent, is an 
 impossibility. Iniquity will continue in the earth, and 
 increase and reach its height, just at the time of our Lord's 
 coming to establish his kingdom. Those who remain as 
 witnesses for God in the earth, will then bo subject to the 
 greatest persecution that the history of the Church will 
 record. Rev. xiii. 7. 
 
 4. The low state of piety among his people anticipated 
 by our Lord at his second advent, shows the reverse of a 
 state of universal righteousness. From Luke xvii. 20, to 
 chap, xviii. 8, he is replying to the question, " When the 
 kingdom of God should come ?" The parable of the widow 
 and the unjust judge, is the application of his reply to that 
 question. He shows that men ought always to pray, and 
 not to faint, because God, though ho bears long with sin- 
 ners, will avenge his own elect speedily or suddenly. But 
 mark the startling question with which he concludes- 
 xNevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find 
 taith in the earth ?" This question, from the lips of Jesus 
 thrist, teaches us that, as the Israelites in Egypt found 
 their oppression more grievous as their deliverance drew 
 nearer, and were almost driven to despair, so his people will 
 be so severely tried just before his coming, and so broken 
 in spirit in consequence of the length of the trial, that they 
 will be almost led to the conclusion that God will not 
 avenge their wrongs, nor grant them deliverance". In this 
 
 state of desnnnflnnnw Ko pr-nn/i^-^ +^ C-J i..-- i ■ i . 
 
 second appearing. The confidence that God hears and 
 answers prayer will be nearly extinguished. How differ- 
 
16 
 
 THE Jfir.LBNNIUM. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 II 
 
 ODt^^om a «t.to of prevalent pie,, „„<, flourishing Chri.«. f ^ ,„, 
 
 dispensat on. Thcv toao>, „« f^ f i -i .^J^ '^'° present 
 •hin' the ohiidZ XhZj^'IT;:''' the bna,^,„„,„ ;, 
 
 throv^, m„<,h tribulation, «nter the kinj,,^" J\ """'' 
 
 Thai, nil tlwt will live ,mdlv i„ nLs . T "f '"""'<"'• 
 
 periecution. Ami on the,„ i„ ,„ i ™' ''''""' "'"" «»«■«■• 
 
 patient unto t1^^ „™i ,;'„7[^""f„:; "' fx^rtcd to bo 
 
 C'Jmroh'8 triumph and deli™r„ ! r' ,"■'' "■'" '''"« "f •>" 
 This is the «nTvi„Hant!'r„?frv"''' P»"<"-ofSatan. 
 itexcludesah ^o of XrsneXor-^"''"'!'''"''""'' 
 even generally prevalenrbS tt: "t"" YfTh?'' " 
 ncss were un versa], there wn„l,l k„ ;' ^' "ghteous- 
 
 rcproaoh of the ero^ wn,I7 i l""" '° P^-^ute; the 
 
 would bo held in eZmh^l " ^''™ '""'^>'' """1 ■''"' 
 holiness of eharaeto? P'-<'P»™»n to their purity ,„d 
 
 th a't tlXX'^^f, t ii^^sltf r "?. "<"">' ^"- 
 fiery judgments. A few passa w5 ^l?""^', '^"^ "P» f"' 
 ■"'fj^,"" ""e-'will deZoaXMruth""""""'^ "'"* 
 
 heathen for 'thineinhe'^fLce Td 'Ih'' I''"'" «"'> '^"^ "'» 
 earth for thy poSon Tk v f f '"°'' ?"'» <>f 'he 
 
 rod of iron; thouSda,!, M " *«". break them with a 
 vessel." ' ""'"'""'" "^'^h them in pieees like a potter's 
 
 "ittfglHy- i^Hhl'Sil '\ T^"^ -P- «'J thigh, 
 -.Uesty'rid'e p'ol^^^^us VtlT' f "* 7 '''y 
 
 "tin; t5^S w^ " "'" 
 
 Salr^^SS3^°^?t^M I 
 For the tar^leamiT^n.! 'Tu''^'^'''''^ out of it. 
 
 f"^ "^Ht T^^^^ot cause ..' t?^ ^^^?:i | 
 1 .V , ana i mil cause the arroganoy of the proud 
 
 I will 
 
 man i 
 
 shake 
 
 place, 
 
 his fie 
 
 Isai 
 
 and I 
 
 scattci 
 
 cniptic 
 
 this ^^ 
 
 world 
 
 the cai 
 
 i *he eai 
 
 - \udU 
 
 i punish 
 
 I kings ( 
 
 confou 
 
 shall n 
 
 his anc 
 
 Isai! 
 
 thy chj 
 
 aa it W( 
 
 past. 
 
 punish 
 
 earth a 
 
 her slai 
 
 Isaia 
 
 and hea 
 
 therein 
 
 For the 
 
 his fur 
 
 them, h 
 
 shall als< 
 
 carcasse 
 
 blood. 
 
 the lieai 
 
 host sha 
 
 Isaia] 
 with fin 
 
 ftVS--': 
 
 ■ ha' mm 
 
TitE MlLLENNItr^. 
 
 'ishing Christi- 
 
 jurch of Christ 
 in«]f the present 
 ! bridef^rooni is 
 hat wo must, 
 >in of hcavon. 
 ^us shnll suffer 
 exhorted to be 
 ho time of his 
 owcr of Satan, 
 estamentjand 
 ? universal, or 
 If righteous, 
 persecute ; tho 
 sed, and m, .1 
 
 5ir purity fad 
 
 omf.j^;- j;roves 
 , and ripe for 
 Ititude which 
 
 ;ive thee the 
 t parts of the 
 them with a 
 ke a potter's 
 
 h thigh, 
 And in thy 
 iid meekness 
 1 teach thee 
 fieart of the 
 hee." 
 
 ord Cometh, i 
 w tho land I 
 of out of it. I 
 hereof; shall | 
 in hiflgoino- 1 
 ?hirvr A.nd J 
 wicked for 
 r tlie proud 
 
 17 
 
 to ooasG, and will lay low tho haughtiness of the terrible. 
 I will make a man more precioud than fine gold ; even a 
 man than tho golden wodt'o of Ophir. Th'^-ofore, I will 
 shake the heavens, and 1' <• earth shall ron.M^ve ut of her 
 place, in the wrath of the L.ord of hosts, au^ in the day of 
 his fierce anger." 
 
 Isaiah xxiv. " Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty ; 
 and maketh it waste, md turncti! it upside down, and 
 Hcattereth the inhabitants ihoreof. The land shall be utterly 
 emptied, and utterly spoiled; for the Lord luiHi spoken 
 this word. Tho earth mournctii, and fadcth away, the 
 world languishcth, and fadethaway; tho haughty people of 
 the earth do languish. The earth is utterly broken down, 
 tho earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 
 . And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall 
 , punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the 
 kings of the earth upon the earth. Then the moon shall be 
 confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts 
 shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before 
 his ancients gloriously." 
 
 Isaiah xxvi. 20, 21. "Come, my people, enter thou into 
 thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself 
 as It were for a little moment, until the indignation be ( ver- 
 past. ^ For, h hold, the Lord cometh out of his place to 
 punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : rhe 
 earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more co\ r 
 her slain." 
 
 Isaiah xxxiv. 1 — 4. " Come near, ye nations, to hear . 
 and hearken ye people ; let the earth hear, and all that is 
 therem ; the world, and all thinj^s that come forth of it. 
 For the indignation of the Lord "is upon all nations, and 
 his fury upon all their armies : he hath utterly destroyed 
 k If ' 1^® ^^*^ delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain 
 shall also be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their 
 carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their 
 blood. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and 
 the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their 
 host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth from the vine, and' 
 
 Isaiah Ixvi, 15, 16. "For, behold the Lord will come 
 with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render 
 

 18 
 
 *aE MILLENNIUM, 
 
 his anger with fury and his rebukes with flames of fire 
 
 • nat o„3, h ,1 pi^^j ^;j^ ^^^ hfw f..rv" 
 
 hat are Wicked to the word, saith the Lord iC sS 
 
 he Lord of Hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from naUon 
 
 to nat,on, and a groat whirlwind shall be raised up fom 
 
 at tlw'? V^' '"'"'• >"<■ *^ «'»'" "f the LordThal b" 
 
 end of z :rtr,r^ t '^ ^^^"' ^™» """> «- oth 
 
 end 01 the earth : thoy shall not be lamented, neither 
 
 Lord^unt i fb^^. m '5r."" ^'^ "P™ ■"«. »"* ^e 
 J^oid, until the day that I rise up to the prey • for mv 
 
 determination is to gather the nations, that I Lay assembk 
 the kinsdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation oven 
 ^^S::?^]^^i ''^ --"«' be de;o3 
 
 sale,ra-b:rde'n7omo"sti"e i" TJS.^V uIVT 
 
 Md h U rii. \^ will smite every horse with astonishmeut 
 and his rider with madness : and I will open my eves uDon 
 the house of Judah and will smite every horse of the nZl^ 
 with blindness And the governors o/juTh shal swt 
 
 Tjl7ZTtlt/'r'X'' ■"%'""^ '" thelZS "s 
 oi ^^erusaiem m the Lord of Hosts their God " 
 
 ♦h. T r/'-i, ^^•. " A"^ *^"« «^^^1^ b« the plague wherewith 
 the Lord will smite all the people that have fought a S 
 
 Jerusalem; their flesh shall co^^sume away while thev^^^^^^^^^^ 
 upon their feet, and their eyes shall consLe aw^ in thet 
 
 IITtss'lTr- m" ----- .Vin thd^moutt'' 
 rrJ} A^ , ' ^' ^^^^ *^e I^ord Jesus shall be r«^ 
 yea ed from heaven with his mighty an<^els in flamin. fi.'!' 
 taking vengeanee on them that know°i ot God and^hS 
 obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ/'' ""^ '^'' 
 ^ lIThess. 11. 7, 8. « For the mvsterv of inlnnU. ^..i. 
 aireaay work: only he who now "ietteth Vhindere'thVTill 
 . let, until he be taken out of the way, An^ thc^Irll] that 
 
The MILLENNItlM^ 
 
 19 
 
 ;h flames of fire, 
 •d plead with all 
 nany," 
 
 even to the ends 
 roversj with the 
 ic will give them 
 rd. Thus saith 
 )rth from nation 
 raised up from 
 he Lord shall be 
 1 unto the other 
 nented, neither 
 OQ the ground." 
 Q me, saith the 
 3 prey: for my 
 
 I may assemble 
 iignation, even 
 ill be devoured 
 
 I I make Jeru- 
 \\ that burden 
 :h all the people 
 
 lu that day, 
 
 I astonishmeut, 
 
 my eyes upon 
 
 e of the people 
 
 ih shall say in 
 
 he inhabitants 
 1." 
 
 ?ue wherewith 
 fought against 
 lile they stand 
 away in their 
 their mouth." 
 IS shall be re- 
 n flaming fire, | 
 jiod, and that I 
 V I 
 
 mdereth) will 
 lien shall that 
 
 wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume 
 with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the 
 brightness of his coming." 
 
 Rev- xi. 18. " And the nations were angry, and thy 
 wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should 
 I be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy 
 I servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear 
 I thy name, small and great ; and shouldst destroy them that 
 I destroy the earth." 
 
 I Rev. xix. 19—21. « And I saw the beast, and the kings 
 I of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make 
 I war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 
 I And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet 
 •' that wrought miracles before him, with which he had de- 
 ceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and 
 them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive 
 ' into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the rem- 
 nant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the 
 horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth : and all the 
 fowls were filled with their flesh. See also Ezek. xxxviii. 
 and xxxix., Joel iii. and Malachi iv. 
 
 Such arc the judgments which the Scriptures connect 
 with the coming of our Lord, the restoration of the Jews, 
 and the establishment of his kingdom in the earth. An 
 examination of the context of these passages will establish 
 this truth in our minds, and show us the evils which are 
 impending over a guilty world. Such judgments are not 
 reserved for the righteous, but for the wicked ; and, by 
 these judgments they will either learn righteousness, or 
 be destroyed. In either case the predicted infliction of 
 such judgments proves, that the world will be in a state 
 very diflFerent from one of universal righteousness. It is 
 especially deserving of notice that these judgments will be 
 preceded by a general warning to a guilty world. 
 
 The Apostle John teaches us this truth clearly. Just 
 before Babylon is destroyed, and the reign of the last 
 Antichrist commences, the solemn and awakening call to 
 repentance is given. The Apostle thus describes it :— 
 -'- And I Saw anuther angel fly in the midst of heaven, 
 having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that 
 dwell on the earth, and to ever\ nation, and kindred, 
 
i I 
 
 ! 
 
 *HE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 Jalse. 
 JUDGMENtTc? nmrr^*". '",""" ' /'"" ^^E HOUR OP HIS than W( 
 
 DGMENT IS COME and worship him that made heaven Cxertio, 
 
 nd the fountams of water." Kev. xiv Promot: 
 , and some othor /liV;«^„ t,.— .i , f.- /> 
 
 confe 
 \o earn 
 'aith in 
 
 10, I 
 
 t:rocl and give glory to him 
 
 JUDGMENT IS COME ; and won 
 
 and e-th,^iesea and the fountains of ^aU^r^^;^ ^^^^ 
 
 churches, at the me^ont ti^l T *^ ^^ *^^ Christian fation. 
 
 world, this vilVsTo; Svt.t ::r^"i"f '" ^^*^^ r.^i^ 
 
 must, however be adn.UforJi? .°- ^^^^^^pJishment. It f-entilef 
 ftifilnient^h' ^^^^ 1' ^^'^^'^one point the supposed ¥ t^e 
 
 cellent'little wort nn r?K- .• ^'" ^^ ^^" *« read an ex- |)resent8 
 
 befbreusinacearlnJ^^il?^?- r }' ''^' ^^' '^^^i^'^ #« ^^^^ 
 equal to it! '"^^'''"^ ^^^ht. I have seen nothing fligh ; < 
 
 and the wS^d ?L ^L ^'^'? of iniquiyr continue^ f «« ^^e 
 of nnr T irr ??• *^^^^ ^^^^ together FROM the timo i>erditioi 
 ^C;^ -^^ ^' ^P°'*^'« ^^ *t« Sioment of his^LcZ *^o ^itc 
 
 C dl ^ ^v '"'' ■•'S'>'<'<"'s°«ss and truth are triumTCt g"™ >>" 
 
 ad ent Tr^ea !: ^ir "wh ' "" K^";:? ""^ ^^ --" ^ -d -" 
 nf tha iir^A T . ^^ Siven why we shou d expect anvthino- ^^^se m 
 
 deso^^hpi J'^'^i'^ "^ ^^« ^^^'^r^t being triumphant iuf ^^'"b, sla 
 
 describedas the subject of sorrow, persecStion,3conflc ^'i" ^e c( 
 
 TinLl? -'L'' ""'^^^ ""'^^«* the expectotion of a state of *'^« ^''^^^ 
 
 Drolrrn/i^^*-'"'^''' ^'^^^^^ tto second advent The '^''^^ ^7 
 
 cKnowied^e that the greater part of the profession is 
 
 ■et, 
 
 jkilled. 
 [notice, |s 
 
TUB MILLENNIUM. 
 
 21 
 
 I loud voice, Fear 
 
 3 HOUR OF HIS 
 
 lat made heaven 
 ater." Rev. xiv. 
 les, have thought, 
 I, Bible sobieties, 
 ed by Christian 
 gelization of the 
 tuplishment. It 
 int the supposed 
 -'' The hour of 
 is not generally 
 the greater part 
 te the revealed 
 ce and Safety:* 
 itruction of the 
 cfore the vision 
 
 II to read an ex- 
 the Rev. John 
 
 sets the subject 
 
 ^e seen nothino- 
 
 le church may 
 uii:y continues, 
 mo^i the time 
 i of his second 
 ate of univer- 
 the question, 
 e binding and 
 of a thousand 
 e triumphant ; 
 id his second 
 ?ect anything 
 imphant, it is 
 , and conflict. 
 1 of a state of 
 idvent. The 
 places where 
 amoved. And 
 3 constrained 
 profession is 
 
 iilse. Our missions also proceed slowly, indeed more so 
 
 than we are willing to allow. This is not from the want of 
 
 Exertion. Never was so much instrumentality employed in 
 
 promoting Christianity as at present ; and yet we sec no 
 
 pgn of the conversion of the world. 
 
 I 9. We have mistaken the nature of the present dispen- 
 
 iation. It is merely that of the grafting of the wild olive 
 
 to a good stock ; the taking of a people from among the 
 
 entiles. And they are called to a higher honour than that 
 
 if the nations which shall be gathered to Christ at his 
 
 loming. They are called to conflict with the spirit and 
 
 orking of Antichrist ; to witness for Christ in his absence ; 
 
 ) confess him while he is denied and rejected of men ; and 
 
 ;o earn the crown which is allotted to the conqueror through 
 
 'aith in the blood of the Lamb. 
 
 1^ 10. Before the present dispensation terminates, the 
 Jloman empire must revive in its imperial form. Daniel 
 Ipresents us with the fourth beast, exceedingly great and 
 terrible; <Aen with ten horns or kings; after these with 
 the little horn, which persecutes the saints of the Most 
 High ; afterwards he shews us the beast again, which is 
 taken alive and cast into the burning flame. Chap. vii. 7— 
 14, John describes this as " The beast that was, and is not, 
 even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into 
 perdition." This is the imperial power that will kill the 
 two witnesses ; and to whom " shall be given a mouth 
 ipeaking great things and blasphemies ; and who shall con- 
 tinue forty and two months." This is the party who shall 
 inake war with the saints, and overcome them ; and whose 
 power in the earth shall be universal. '' And power was 
 given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations • 
 and ALL that dwell upon the earth shall worship him' 
 jvhose names are not written in the book of life, of the 
 |amb^ slam from the foundation of the world." This party 
 ivill be connected with another, a subordinate agent, called 
 he False Prophet, who will deceive them that dwell on the 
 iarth, by lying miracles and great wonders. This false 
 ^rophet, we are expressly informed, shall cause, that as 
 naiiy as nili not worship the image of the beast shall be 
 ikilled. ^ The antichristian power, hero introduced to our 
 |notice, js not the papacy; but a power which, with the tea 
 
22 
 
 THE SIILLENNIUM. 
 
 i ■ 
 
 kings who shall give their power and authority to him shnll 
 
 t h Z "'tm,'' """"'h ■"»'=» •«=' dosolate/a„d bur'nt 
 with iire. This power, it seems, will make a covenant with 
 
 fi^^o^hi^^KU 3 ther^r putVw^: 
 their usual .crviecs ; plant, like AntioehuI™he a'bom n'f Z 
 of desolation in the temple itself j and demand for hhn«.lf 
 the worship whieh belongs to God alone. Now wUl be fif' 
 
 unrighteousness in them that'perish; b^autXy reee ved 
 not the love of the truth, that thev might be sived T^ 
 
 who believed not the truth.^t^Ksu'^^ttX:^ ' 
 
 piistTut'is: ^si^oph^;^^ "'''"''' » '"^ -- 
 
 rf^td'^ffligtrK:! -> ba^uVitar/reatdt; 
 
 th/mstnrS^rZft^;-^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 all maj be damned who believi not the tath hutV ^^ 
 
 sure in unrighteousness. 11 Thess. if 1-52 ' '"'" 
 
 disprnt^^u'.WdtrihedlnTht l^'^f' .^L'^YTr' 
 
 unfaithful to her high vocation. The church has in flot 
 become the apostacj, and its sin. as in fnlL.LfJt'l' 
 
 ^power, aa a church, is gone. .The power of the spirit-! 
 
 the po 
 iove — 
 kndj 
 not on 
 only h 
 
 rii, 
 
 lND E 
 |TURES 
 
 I An( 
 
 lis the 
 
 |the uli 
 
 |a state 
 
 Ivants ( 
 
 ftion of 
 
 Iplish ii 
 
 lit is a 
 
 I power. 
 
 I arrives 
 
 I saints ! 
 
 I and pri 
 
 ^' what i1 
 
 I liveth, 
 I earth : 
 f yet in 
 I The 
 fthe Je 
 /their 01 
 ' last affl 
 Cliristi; 
 with hi 
 foes, de 
 in the ( 
 llev. xi 
 Jewish 
 for relif 
 lastly, i 
 and con 
 
 n 1 rr 
 
 iiCoQ. 1 
 
 I He foi'e 
 having ( 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 23 
 
 )nty to him, shall 
 'te, and burn her 
 J a covenant with 
 ;heir own land in 
 Q years. In the 
 ^nant; put^own 
 the abomination 
 land, for himself, 
 Now will be ful- 
 the Man of Sin. 
 ealed, whom the 
 tnouth, and shall 
 tig. Even Mm 
 '' with all power 
 leceivableness of 
 se they received 
 be saved. And 
 g delusion, that 
 Sht be damned 
 in unrighteous- 
 
 d in the accom- 
 
 is, and deceives 
 ^ xiii. 11—18. 
 rking miracles, 
 th and of the 
 that great day 
 
 He shall send 
 a lie, that they 
 
 1, but had plea- *i 
 
 •2. I 
 
 f the present I 
 
 od. And for I 
 
 with dreadful ^ 
 
 h, has proved I 
 
 I has, in fact, f 
 
 noi' Tnat-nr^^ vi 
 
 ...„ .ji-.^.^m-^j-, — 
 
 t commenced; 
 f the spirit— 
 
 Phe power of fa* ^ — the power of knowledge — the power of 
 
 love — the power of discipline — the power of prayer itself 
 
 lAnd yet we think to convert the world. Ah, me ! — we are 
 
 not only fallen but proud, and our pride has taken away the 
 
 only hope of our recovery. — Burgh's Lectures. 
 
 III. The only hope op recovery in the church, 
 
 ND deliverance TO THE WORLD, HELD OUT BY SCRIP- 
 jTURES, IS BY THE COMING Ot OUR LORD JeSUS ChRIST. 
 
 And here let us not mistake. The coming of the Lord 
 lis the object of the Christian's hop-, we know ; but it is not 
 fthe nltimate object of his hope. The millennial state is not 
 |a state of perfection. It is merely the state in which the ser- 
 
 i'vants of Christ will accomplish, under the immediate direc- 
 tion of their Lord, that which they would gladly accom- 
 ,plish in his absence, namely, the regeneration of the world. 
 I It is a state of putting down all rule, and authority, and 
 power. When this is doiie, the state of consummated bliss 
 arrives ; and in the all-pervading presence of the Father, the 
 I saints shall reign with Christ, in a higher degree, as kings 
 and priests, for ever. — Rev. xxi. xxii. But let us inquire 
 what it is the Scriptures teach of the coming of the Lord. 
 
 Job xix. 25—26. " For I know that my Redeemer 
 ; liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the 
 earth : and though after my skin worms destroy this body, 
 yet in my flesh shall I see God." 
 
 The term latter days, in Scripture, signifies the time when 
 the Jews shall be converted, restored, and established in 
 their own land.— Jer. xxx. 24. Also, the time when their 
 last affliction will issue in their deliverance, from the anti- 
 Christian beast, by the sudden appearance of their Messiah 
 with his glorified saints, who will then appear to destroy his 
 ' foes, deliver his afflicted people, and establish his kingdom 
 in the earth. Ezek. xxxviii. 8, xxxix ; Zech. xiv, 1—19 ; 
 Rev. xix. 11 — 19. Again, it signifies the time when the 
 Jewish temple shall be rebuilt, and frequented by all nations, 
 for religious worship. Isaiah ii. 2, Zech. xiv. 16—19, And 
 lastly, it denotes the time when, after Israel's restoration 
 ^nd conversion, the Holy Spirit shall be poured out upon all 
 iicsn. xhe lauguuge of the prophet is clear and expressive. 
 He foretells the affliction and deliverance of the Jews ; and 
 having done this, adds, " And it shall come to pass after- 
 
24 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 of plntfL, Notwithstanding what took place on tho dav 
 place, was of the same 'L*d I'LTs t1xtnded'Tut'°"he 
 
 tra\7'rtrs:rXT;tr[!?^^ 
 
 Lord established in the earth, h s Redeemer shouTd Ini 
 
 chronize, or take place about the same time. ^ ^°' 
 
 UD^n 7L'"-/^7\^.- " ^^°" «^^^^ «™« ^«d have mercy 
 upon Zion : for the time to favour her vpi fliA =o* ,. ""^V 
 
 come. For the servants take^feasS"' riet stone'Tnd 
 favour the dust thereof. So the heathen shall fear the 'mm^ 
 of the Lord, and all the kings of theearth thy lU When 
 the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appeaHn hiLw " 
 This psalm ,s of a prophetic character! and it exSiv 
 declares that it was written for the generation to come t 
 
 1- A prediction that God should interuose in hnh^lf „c 
 
 fr'inr'' "v"""* '^-ii^^-'-: and tfartie tS 
 
 de^m-rM^T?" '"" ^^"'' "»" •""""•«« irrevoeaWc i 
 descnbed as being come-a form of speech usual in V' 
 
 2. That kind and favourable feelings in the servants of 
 
 £lL^™'''^%,''r'"'' '■"^'"'"^ *^ """^ of her apZchin! 
 deliverance We see some manifestation ofsuchfSl a! 
 
 3 That when this interposition takes place the heathen 
 
 Se iL"S/bit^ Sr ^ -*• *^ '-^^^ 
 
 .ll T^V'??"?'?!' '« «>"« rebuilt, and-these things take 
 ^,.„..., ,,^^ ^u.u, iviufi tqjpear m liis GloriJ. This rphm'M 
 
 Wg Qf Zm is still futufe; and the glo/ous appearing of 
 
 nd the 
 ley sh 
 'ow uni 
 imite E 
 •eturn ( 
 nd sha 
 ,- ut of I 
 
 IBhall sei 
 
 the thir 
 
 ^he mid 
 
 faying- 
 
 ff my h 
 In th 
 pfhich si 
 Snd des 
 wyy the J 
 ilVhen t 
 
 ^od. 1 
 ^■emain t 
 
 |)re8sly ir 
 
 Judgmeni 
 
 jgaice of ■ 
 
 %i SWIFT 
 
 Isaiah 
 
TUE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 25 
 
 upon all flesh." 
 place on the day 
 ulfiUed. Indeed 
 what then took 
 Ktended ; but he 
 ed its fulfilment, 
 was this : — In 
 ;ored, the Holy 
 kingdom of our 
 5r should stand 
 hat he himself 
 ere professes to 
 
 pointedly pre- 
 !se things syn- 
 
 d have mercy 
 the set time is 
 -r stones, and 
 fear the name 
 r glory. When 
 ■in his glory." 
 d it expressly 
 I to come. It 
 In the above 
 
 > in behalf of 
 
 the time for 
 
 rrevocable, is 
 
 usual in pro- 
 
 le servants of 
 approaching I 
 
 ch feelings at I 
 Guide to the 
 
 ■ the heathen 
 le knowledge 
 
 3 things take 
 Phis rebuild- 
 ippearing of 
 
 ,e Lord is connected with that event. This appearing is, 
 
 erefore, anterior to the conversion of the heathen, and 
 
 le establishment of our Lord's kingdom. Whether we 
 
 nderstand the building up of Zion literally, or spirit- 
 
 lally, is immaterial ; the sacred text asserts, that when it 
 
 ikes place, the Lord shall appear in His glory. 
 
 Isaiah xix. 1, 21—25. " The burden of Egypt. Be- 
 
 lold the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come 
 
 Qto Egypt : and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his 
 
 resence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of 
 
 {[t. * * * * ^nd the Lord shall be known to Egypt, 
 ind the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and 
 fhey shall do sacrifice and oblations : yea, they shall vow a 
 ow unto the Lord and perform it. And the Lord shall 
 tnite Egypt : he shall smite and heal it : and they shall 
 f eturn even to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them 
 imd shall heal them. In that day shall there be a high way 
 0ut of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into 
 Pgypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians 
 Ihall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be 
 the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in 
 ithe midst of the land; whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, 
 faymg— Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work 
 pf ray hands, and Israel mine inheritance." 
 
 In this chapter we have a prediction of awful judgments 
 
 viiich shall fall upon Egypt, and subject it to oppression 
 
 and desolation ; these judgments will be partly executed 
 
 fcy the Jews, who shall be made a terror to the Egyptians. 
 
 When these judgments are accomplished upon them, the 
 
 Egyptians shall be brought to the knowledge of God and 
 
 become His true worshippers. Then Egypt on the south 
 
 p Judea, and Assyria on the north, shall be united with 
 
 he Jews in religious worship, and in the mutual enjoyment 
 
 >t the Divme approbation. They shall be the people of 
 
 od. These predictions have not been fulfilled yet : they 
 
 ■emain to be fulfilled on a future day. And we are ex- 
 
 .)ressly informed, that the fulfillment of these predictions of 
 
 udgment and mercy shall be preceded by the sensible pres- 
 
 — ,j .,.^._, :jii.-ii,ii vujxis iiiiu il^uirX' UPON 
 
 SWIFT CLOUD. 
 
 Isaiah Ixvi. 15, 16. « For, behold the Lord wjll pome 
 
 B 
 
26 
 
 1 If 
 
 ii) 
 Ml 
 !] 'I ii: •■ 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 with firo and with chariots, like a whirlwind tn vnn,i«. i 
 anger with fury, and his ribuke'^trfli of fire kI M ^''' 
 by fire and by his sword wUl the Lord nCd w^ j. In fl T I''"'' 
 and the slain of the Lord shall be many '' *^ '^^ "^^ ^T 
 
 nni^l? P'^P^'Y, P°^n?« t^> a time when the Jews will be Im'Il 
 partially restored to the r own land but in n «f«t^ r.p u i- c t 
 
 They will be engaged in the buildinrof the tlm^^^^^^^^^^ t7 ' 
 
 this tunc God will interpose to deliver his faithfi.l ;.L„i Sir • 
 and to punish hypoerifes and idollr^ Then hrSFlhc 
 gather all nations to see his glorv— restore th„ ^™ • ^1 i 
 onteasts of Israel-and r^estfblijh hrstw^ wXTn'ufr n,^ 
 P«r.ty. But when these events take pWwe ?ead * ^ 
 
 "FOK BEHOLD, THE LoBD WILL OOME With 6^ ami 
 
 with his ehariots, like a whirlwind, to rend r l^fan " 
 
 , ^•"'^' ™- 13,14- "I saw in the night visions and 
 behold, one hke the Son of man oame wfth the ebuds oifte dea 
 
 tZhliltfbfdXT? '"''• '"' ■'"'"Saom thaf ore e 
 He shews the last head of the Kotrem^^ra "Cfcj' 
 
 Zer the maHn'J'of i'°'t ^'/'^'T""" "^ '^e Eoma, iwould i 
 K of onr I o J,l ^^ l-"^^-"" °^ *'' '"rfd the ki„= ithe de, 
 aom^ot our Lordand of his aaints-and the appe^..^ iOhrists 
 
 SrSTh?tlfi*1 '" l"! "''''™' "« made' to"^niti™s, i 
 cnromze, or to take place at the same time, f Soco 
 
 ;e tri 
 ^0 po 
 akepl 
 >nce 01 
 ic asci 
 'hich 
 .0 des 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 27 
 
 ^ind, to render his 
 lames of fire. For 
 lead with all flesh 
 
 .jj;ainst 
 
 I the Jews will be 
 I a state of unbelief. 
 
 their temple, or in 
 leir more conscien- 
 )wn sanctity. At 
 lis faithful people, 
 s. Then he will 
 tore the remaining,' 
 )wn worship in its 
 place, we read,— 
 tfE with fire and 
 
 render his anger 
 
 light visions, and, 
 svith the clouds of; 
 and they brought 
 him dominion and 
 nations, and Ian 
 1 is an everlastinc 
 I his kingdom thai 
 
 rophet foretels th> 
 i Roman empires 
 3mpire, as a bons 
 Vcr. 11, and Rev 
 seen in the cloud? 
 whole world. A 
 lorn will be sharci 
 J kingdom undk 
 ople of the saint 
 in EVERLASTi:v 
 n of the Rom:v 
 s world the kinc 
 
 THE APPEARTN' 
 
 re made to sjn 
 
 s, 
 
 Zech. xiv. 2, 3. " For I will gather all nations ..„.....„„ 
 
 lerusalem to battle ; and the city shall be taken and the 
 
 )use8 rifled ; * * * and half of the city shall go forth into 
 
 ptivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut oflF 
 
 om the city. Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against 
 
 lose nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.'' And 
 
 is feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, 
 
 hich is before Jerusalem, on the east." Ver. 5, " and the 
 
 lORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee" 
 
 Sim). 
 
 The restoration of the Jews includes two points— a par- 
 ial restoration in unbelief, which partial restoration is now 
 -I progress— and aflerwards a complete restoration of all 
 ,e tribes from^ every part of the earth. Between thcjc 
 jwo points, the invasion and deliverance, here mentioned, 
 ake place ; this deliverance is afiiected by the sudden appear- 
 ince of the Lord, who descends to the same spot from which 
 e ascended to heaven. And in the bodily manner in 
 hich he left the world, he will return to it; neither does 
 3 descend alone— all his saints, previously raised and 
 ihanged, come in glory with him. Now Israel will look 
 ipon him, whom they have pierced, and will mourn ; their 
 nemies will be smitten with pestilence and death ; a change 
 "ill take place in the earth and atmosphere, making both 
 lore congenial with human life ; and the kingdom of our 
 ord will be established, In which Jews and Gentiles will have 
 fellowship in religious ordinances. (See the chapter.) The 
 jremillennial cOxMING op the Lord, with his saints in 
 glory, is here established beyond all contradiction. 
 % In Matthew xxi-, and Luke xxi, the questions proposed 
 ^^0 our Lord, are tnree : — 
 
 ^ 1. When shall these things be?— the overthrow of the 
 temple. 
 
 2. What shall be the sign of Thy coming ? 
 
 ,^ 3. What shall be the end of the world, (age)? 
 
 1 In answer to the first question, our Lord shows what 
 
 would be the state of his disciples, and of the world, until 
 
 ithe destruction of Jerusalem. (Luke xxi. 8—21.) False 
 
 . tions, &G. 1 7 r 
 
 Secondly— He shows what would be the condition of the 
 
28 
 
 THK MILLKNNIUAI. 
 
 'ell 
 
 led away captive into all nations „ i t ^^^, ^^°''^' a^'^ ^ 
 down of thcrGentilos;(Ve:Il°24 ) "' ''"""^^"^ ^ ^'-^^^^^tel 
 
 tii-,;^'aitr^ *:^::^ii^^^^ ^^-^^ «^ ^^^ «-f ^^ 
 
 8l««ll bo Signs in the sun and in tho '^°'^- " ^"*^ ^hor *" '^^ 
 »"d upon the earth d stre "of " i "''"v"°^ ^" ^^^««t»r« 
 sea and waves roaring Ten^hcr/r^ perplexity; tl. 
 fear, and looking aftoVth^l thin i5" '"« ^^^«°^ t^"-0"^'^ 
 the earth : for the nowor«. V ^L ''^''^' ''^'"^ ««""n^ «Poc 
 
 And then shall theyin'Ln of T" ^^"!^ ^^ «^«'^- 
 BHa^lt;;«t:;Sf tl^^^^^^^^^^^ T^- ^^- thin.. 
 
 -referri::?!!^ t^hrte/T^-r^y ^*-P-4 ,«-' 
 
 of this devoted eity is i„clS j^f i^'^'^^^l^^- Tho .ie^f^^r' 
 
 no means the principal muotl ., ' P^P^^^y, but is £ P^»»- 
 
 prediction. A?y iS-^t^^^^" ?^^' «"^<^«t of th f'^^f "! 
 
 absurdities and falshocfds n ms, h ■'''''? ^^^^^^ involvcf "^^^ ^^ 
 
 absurdities and falsel3 a^ar't^^rf ' J^ ^^^^^d/Tl 
 
 the usual mode of internretn^fnn ^- f *? ^^ ^^^^^Ived i. |,f \ " ^ 
 
 «alem, with all its hcS^^^^ f ^^^^ «^« ^^^ge of Jeru-P ^^^ 
 
 tion, as that in the text^Je^ e^tt-'^TT^^'^^^ tribulai;^ ««d 
 
 lution connected with the sie^^ K 7 ni ^ ^^- ^he tribu.#^ ^'^' 
 
 iv., was equal to ITand Sl^.f'' Chaideans, Lam. i., n.W^'^f 
 
 of Home by the Goths v ^^ connected with the s e^ef "?? ^^ 
 
 read, '^ Th^andsT^e pi^i^r'""^"^ '^' ^^^^ ^1 ^^^-^ 
 
 own children; they we^^^^^'j^^" ^^^ ^"^^^» ^heir r ^";^S 
 
 the daughter of my Sle '^n SI V" ^^' destruction of ^^f^^ 
 
 told, -rhey tore onfanothp/ t ^'* of the latter we are ^"?,*h 
 
 other's flesh ; and mothers ddno^' ^''''' '' ^"''''' '''^ ^-^' 
 their breasts inhumriv eatL T '?"'" *^^ ^"f^ntsat i?f ^^^ 
 the world." SeconTy L eon^^^^^^^ broughtinto ^^^ 
 
 ^'is previous to" the tribulation !ff J''"' '^^ ^^« troops f^^^^ ^ 
 very cause of it • but th! " ^ l^^ ^'^^e, and was the I Y®""'^ 
 predicted, is a>L the trt^^^^^^^^^ ^^n b -jBettled, , 
 
 the distrek here m!ntinnn^-^/?'^*^^^^«P^ST. Thirdly ^^'^^' ^ 
 ^•*_-- J- , "'.^^ mentioned is not hmitnA ♦^ u.- x ""^V' kvp.rv / 
 
 vAtcuuuu io the earth and tn «;.7" ' -^^avoawa: it is Tp -f" " 
 
 and to «a^io«*,and to All that ">^^"^;^° 
 
 These 
 
AI. 
 
 P tlio Oontilcs shoi, 
 ofthe sword, and [4 
 'crusalom bo troddw 
 
 he state of the Gen 
 close. "And thori 
 ^n, and in the stars 
 «;ith perplexity; tliJ 
 '•ilmg thorn throu-l 
 ch are coming upor 
 n shall bo shakon 
 1 coming in a cloud 
 —27.) 
 ^hen these thitii: 
 
 lift up your heatfs 
 erse 28.) 
 
 ncrally interpreted 
 salem. The siege 
 rophecy, but is bj 
 nly, subject of the 
 uie which involve^ 
 ed. The followin.' 
 to be involved in 
 thosiegeof Jeru , 
 paralleled tribula i 
 5 be. The tribu- 
 leans, Lam. i., \l 
 ed with the sie','e 
 f the former m 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 29 
 
 xxir. 
 
 ell upon the face of the whole earth Matt 
 -31; Luke xxi. 25—27; 35. Fourthly, it 
 lately iwrn/., the redempf-.m of believers in Christ ttio 
 ingdom of God m the earth,— and the glorious reward of 
 e samts Luke xxi. 29-31 ; Dan. xii. 3. But the siego 
 Jerusalem was followed by the dispersion of the Jews- 
 le fiery persecutions of the Church ; and a state of war and 
 lamity which have continued for eighteen hundred years 
 mode of interpretation, so prolific in absurdities and 
 ntradictions as the one under notice, must be rejected 
 .y this unhappy mode of interpretation, the noblest pro- 
 Ihccy of our Lord is perverted and obscured ; and is rendered 
 omparatively useless to His suffering followers Let us 
 am to receive the words of God in their true sense and 
 
 iieaning 
 
 Such is the way in which an infallible teacher fills up the 
 ntcrval between his leaving the world and his coming to it 
 'gain. One scene of varied but unbroken calamity is here 
 resented to our notice, and no hope of deliverance is afforded 
 ntil the Lord's return. (See AhdieVs Essays.) 
 Some pious persons have been perplexed with Matt, xxlv 
 11 .T, ^°<^*^^« gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in 
 \\ ttie world, for a witness unto all nations ; and then shall 
 (he end come. It is asked, how can the end be near if 
 ^he greater part of the world be without the gospel ? A few 
 Passages of Scripture will show us that this prophecy has 
 'eon lulfill.jd. t: tr j 
 
 ■' "ic iurmer m , ^p™. x. 17, 18. " So then faith cometli by hearing, and 
 
 ive sodden their J'^''""! ^^ *^*^ ^^''^^^ of God. But I say, have they not 
 
 le destruction of ^-"card / Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth 
 
 the latter we are *"JI,*"eir words unto the ends of the world." ' 
 
 to devour each , ■^' ^' "^^^ gospel, which is come unto you, as it is 
 
 -u uuvcur each , *' "' -^"^ S'^»py», wnicn is come unto you, as it is 
 
 re the infants at 'f ^}'^ the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth 
 lev broncrLf inf. ^''^^ in you, since the dav ve heard nf if nn^ tn^™ ♦!, 
 
 devour each 
 *o the infantsat ", "•"" --"."""^^j "im urmgem lortn iruit, as it doth 
 ley brought into ''''J,'" ^o^^' si"ce the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace 
 3 and his troop. ""^ ^^ '" ?"' 
 
 ge, and was the ,,, ^^® 23. "If ye continue in the faith grounded and 
 on of man hen ..^t- 7' ^°^, ^e not moved away from the hope of the mspel 
 PAST. Thirdly, Z y® have heard, and which was preached to 
 
 tiiu ^owa; It IS m-D ~r~ -'^^^^^ nniuu is urvDEK HEAVEN: whereof I. 
 
 ^ to ALL that J ' ^^ ^^^^ ^ minister." 
 
 m These texts were written about thirty years after Christ 
 
 w 
 
30 
 
 THE MlLLENNITTAf. 
 
 since then i, „„t „ hiZZ„f„,u ^^^1 "^ "'" """""h 
 ^ Other, have bocnT^XedtSrC",'''' ^"'?';"P"»'«oy. ' 
 I "ay unto vou tl,nKi,7 . "'""■ M'v. 34." Vorilv 
 
 thesi thing/b:vJ,lSfw'" *'""""'""' "'"'" ""^ P«« «" a 
 
 some critics, " ihi.rn^, .A, " '' "'"^foro, rendered b, 
 
 doubtediy is the proper version J; • /■ /""^ ""'» »"• 
 PcAaps, the best eStTon of '.hi i''', ^""'*'' """^in, 
 
 therefore— A certmn nnW ^'^ "PP'^"'*- Ho said 
 
 vernment_tho ffoverm,,.!^ <• Vi '^ '"vested with ro- 
 ™urt, to his FXr's 4ht L ^' T^'^' ^e is gonct 
 ond is now expccthtlmutt • ' *" '""'^"'' "« d'guity 
 Presently he wU Z™ takr^'^r" """^'^ WsfooStooh 
 dom, and then he ^Xittd h f P''^^'=^''<'- »f !»» kini?- 
 enemies. The ketton of o.mrrr"'f """^ P""'* ""^^ 
 
 fte Lord JelusChrisf Ssh^n '^T^"'^ '"''''"' «•"! ""d 
 dead at Us appearin^t^histl^l^f, ""= -l-'k -^ the 
 
 chapter vril U 'J'n'^ .r"«\lik» the prophet Daniel 
 
 ^9, Conner's' ihVa;ttij:°ft'hl?4''^''='p"™^ 
 ■nent of his kingdom in hf eLVh ' ""'' ""' ^^'"W'*- 
 Place at the .«,««."« Th» 1" Sf '"'"'' "l-'et take 
 ""'..the other: andTh» 1^!.^ *''l?°t take plaeo with- 
 «"tU ho eomes to set"it'up'''°S'L^-"''' T'" ,°'" exist 
 
 "up- '■'"stactissoelearlyandao 
 
that tIiefroHpt.1 wii 
 
 <torv of thg church 
 nt, but of upostacy 
 ; xxiv. 34." Verily 
 11 not pass till all 
 
 is passage, is reii- 
 ofore, rendered b, 
 ;^ to be a distinct 
 And this un- 
 » Essays contain, 
 tors that we have 
 ers also contained 
 icter ; these, it is 
 •esent. 
 
 these things, ho 
 thought that the 
 pear. Ho said 
 a far country to 
 RN." * 
 
 parties invested 
 lat empire went 
 nperors. Like 
 vested with go- 
 He is gone to 
 ive his dignity, 
 de his footstool, 
 ion of his king- 
 and punish his 
 ' earth is here 
 lis kingdom. i 
 'efore God and 
 quick and the 
 
 ophet Daniel, 
 1, chapter xiv. 
 the establish- 
 ts which take 
 ce place with- 
 wili not exist 
 ilearly and so 
 
 1' iSI 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 31 
 
 ^.ly domonstra^d by a collation of the passages that it ig 
 lujposHiblo to evade it without grossly per vert irfg or wilfully 
 rejecting the pl.u, st predictions of ifoiy Writ! It would 
 be useless to multiply words on . subject, because nothing 
 can add to the clearness of the statements, or to the strength 
 of the demonsfration Only one appearing of Christ now 
 remains as ' the blessed hope" of liis waiting people^ 
 and that app uring takes place at the coming of hfs king! 
 
 i\3r'J' ^^^'" And the seventh angel sounded, and 
 there wore great voices in heaven, saying-The kingdoms 
 of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of 
 his Chris , and ho shall reign for ever and ever. And the 
 four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, 
 fell upon their faces and worshipped God, saying- We give 
 thee hanks, Lord God Almighty, which ar^ and was! 
 and art to come ; because thou hast taken to thee thy grea 
 power and hast reigned. Ana the nations were angry^and 
 thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that the^should 
 bo judged ; and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy 
 servants the prophets and to the saints, and them that fear 
 
 ^LTTl '""f "''** S'^'^ ' ^°^ ^^^^"idst destroy them 
 which destroy (or corrupt) the earth." 
 
 The first verse in this passage is frequently us2d as a 
 text, when sermons are preached i,i behalf of missions. In 
 iuL ?f fhV?""" '' "° .impropriety, so far as I am able to 
 judge. It the true meaning of the passage be given. But I 
 have often heard it greatly perverted, and used for the pur- 
 fnT f ^ P^^^r"^/ P^'"'^ 'P'"*""^ kingdom, which shall be 
 
 m nsTfl^f '^' P'^^'?^"^ '^ '^'' ^« 'P^^' «-d *^« increased 
 means of religious instruction. This, certainly, is not 
 speaking according to the oracles of God. The whole Das 
 sage connects the coming of the kingdom with the time of 
 
 h^ZT^ '/'''} '^' ''T '^^^^ 'he righteous dead shall 
 wLnT ' .^f^J^^f^'fnd rewarded; and with the time 
 when the wicked and obdurate, who corrupt the earth, shall 
 
 read nfT«.^' • .^^' ""'T'^ *^"™P^t ^''^' ^^'^ tl^at we 
 read of in Scripture ; and this trumpet, which proclaims 
 trie arrival «f ^^^'^ +>™« ^e al- i? f ' , , ^ ^yiamxa 
 q1ii«,k„ r T, " ' 'T^'^ '^J' ^^^ iii"gaom, uioo breaks the 
 
 partnership wUh their Lord in his kingdom. We hsye 
 
32 
 
 THE MiLLENNItfM. 
 
 him tL . v,'i- I ^"° ready to share its clorv with 
 out of the w?attrf Go'd' tf '"• '^^^'»«~^y 'hepSg 
 saints, andihe deS" of%rwi;n' ''™«"°f "^ hi! 
 
 learn what oufCd\rS%„/t';4^4^^^^^^^^^ 
 words, and not in the sayings of men "'"" '" *"' 
 
 the Lord S K "^ ^'' S'^^t. that those who die in 
 
 harve^t'of t^'^^^ CZf'^.T'''^^ "--^- '^h" 
 
 The living s..at"wh:;ainff:Stdre™?^'- 
 
 Lo^''a?rhni;nf:fte'"='tSrt"'"' "■""■"= ''^««' 
 the ponring out of tLo ^iH 'tht'w l"o"^ 7T'"4,'^? 
 the preparations are making by the be^t and hf; ^^''' 
 rates, for the conflict wl„VI> .tiii j 'r'as','''"' his eonfede- 
 
 p^p^r^fo^ uSrd;:^z,^crii.tr:.»^<' 
 
 ti^^^-Krg oi t^r^roTcr sr 
 
 vvcr 
 
 
THE 3IILLENNIUM. 
 
 g to propliecy, 
 until his second 
 3r notice, we are 
 m until after his 
 re its glory with 
 — bj the pouring 
 •ewarding of his 
 is very different 
 the gradual dif- 
 e our wisdom to 
 Jise faith in his 
 
 1 a white cloud, 
 e Son of man, 
 lis hand a sharp 
 
 'd Jesus Christ 
 ill be enforcing 
 , and when the 
 lose who die in 
 
 blessed. The 
 ead are raised. 
 Lord's coming, 
 ^ord : and the 
 7. xix. 7.) It 
 nts, which de- 
 ! the estabiish- 
 'V. xix,, XX.) 
 
 Blessed is he 
 le walk naked, 
 
 Joming of the 
 »ccasioned by 
 God. While 
 I his confede- 
 overeignty of 
 , therefore, as 
 ^minion, and 
 
 assured that 
 has arrived, 
 
 33 
 
 though we know not the day and hour of his appearing 
 Commentators generally understand by the Euphrates, in 
 this chapter, the Turkish empire ; and if this be correct 
 the Lord s coming takes plac^ before that empire is anni' 
 hilated It IS while the vial is draining upon it that our Lord 
 says, Behold 1 come as a thief." 
 
 Now, taking these passages together, we see that when 
 j«ie blessings of the latter days are realized by men. their 
 jRedeemer, according to the faith of pious Job, will stand 
 lupon the earth in a visible and glorious form. That when the 
 Lord shall build up Zion, and make it a praise in the earth 
 he will appear in his glory : that when Assyria, and Canaan! 
 and Ji,gypt are united in religious worship, he will have 
 come m the clouds : that when the fourth beast of Daniel 
 is cast into the burning flame, and the kincrdom and domi- 
 nion under the whole heaven shall be given^to the saints of 
 the Most High, the Son of Man will come with the clouds 
 Jjeaven : that when the Jews, partially restored, but in 
 unbelief, shall sigh in their last great tribulation, they shall 
 oe delivered by the sudden coming of the Lord, and all his 
 saints with him : that when the Man of Sin is destroyed 
 who will sit in the temple of God, it will be by the breath 
 ot our Lord s mouth, and the brightness, visible brightness, 
 ot his coming : and, that when the seventh angel sounds his - 
 trumpet he will proclaim the kingdom of our Lord, the 
 wrath ot Orod, the raising and rewarding of the saints, and 
 the destruction of the wicked. These things, which form 
 he great burden of prophecy, will take place nearly sinml- 
 tuneously ; and then the truth of Scripture and the veracity 
 ot Crod will be gloriously and awfully demonstrated. 
 
 It has been maintained that a figurative coming of the 
 i.ord was frequently mentioned in the Scriptures, and also 
 a spiritual_ coming.. At one time deference to great names 
 made me incline to the opinion. Further reflection has 
 convinced me that it is unfounded ; and that the comin- of 
 tHe Lord always signifies his true and personal coming. One 
 tuture coming only is now the subject of prophecy ; and a 
 Hf '''?n'^."!^"Si8 set aside by the angelic testimony. 
 r ^ ■"""' ^^\" ^^ "^^" ^'^ iiahiee, why stand ye, gazine 
 up to heaven? this same Jesus which is taken up from you 
 into heaven, shall so come in like manner, as ye have Ln 
 
 b2 
 
u 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 him go into heaven " a „ j 
 
 also by the fact, that wemi^fTl^^'.^u '^ ^"^ '' ««* aside 
 pose that pur Lord his 7ertt^ ^^e Scriptures to su/ 
 he earth. He explicHlyTeete? t^^^^^^^^^ ^4 
 
 io, I am with vou ArwA^ *° ^'^ disciples, "And 
 
 Now, if there bJno spirTtuIi T *' 'I' ^"^ «^ ^^^^ -Pk una 
 t^^al return; but Ce'h sten^^^^^^^^^ ^^ "^ «Piri| that 
 
 fore can be no such return Th« ^ ^^'^"^^' ^"^ <^here.| quer 
 a personal going from thJ earth ^hifreTur7?H'' ?^"^' ^4 *he 
 be of the same character. ^^^^ return, therefore, must^ 
 
 . ^ spiritual cominfT of th^ t r. j t 
 ritual millennium, w°ere not t a^T' ^^"«*' ^^^ a spi. 
 about a hundred aiTd for?^ ''^ °^ '" *^« Church until 
 Bickersteth, whose 1^?.^' u^^^ ^^^^- ^^^'^d 
 «ays, " I have not been .Wp ? ^ '^^J"^^ '' extensive,- we n 
 Whitby, who speaks of it a. IV'V' ^^^her than Dr ■ Tb, 
 
 beginningoftheVhtet^'n u^v .?r?^^«^«^«> ^t thel Li 
 7 fore Scripturaf authors a. V.7;- "^^f '' '^^'^ adoptedl ire r. 
 of America, Lowman and 'n i u T' ^^^ards, Hopkins f 
 
 -^d -camU b^th;To^. Sl't^'"^^^^^^ 
 
 the present day." !„ " a^®"?^^^'J received sentiment of 
 
 framed accordim. to this N^w w """''^ ""^ ^^^ Millennium 
 
 «ays "Scaliger wusVl^ e^^^ ^^^^^^^ Whitby' 
 
 he did not write uponthpRoT'P^^^-^^as wise because a renec 
 
 not for want of w^sCmt^/^'t^^ I ''''^''' ^ ^o i 1 he n 
 
 cient reading nor judg^e^nt to dLemr f '' -^ ""'' '''^■M th-r^ 
 ot.the prophecies contained in W .^'"'i^ '"^^^^^^ent I and p 
 eeiving that I have eithe ?oand n^Tf ^""^ y'^> «««" ^ 
 words (Rev. xx. 4) wh.Vh , °7^' *he true sense of these 
 dation if the supposed mill?'' '"^ ^'' '^^^-^^ ^« ^^^^ fouT 
 jnartyrs to reign''; h Gk^UtTtC ^^^7"^^^^" '' ^^e ' 
 easthave said what is suSntli''.'''^^ ^'''''' ^' at- 
 to understand them inTpTopVn ""Vf °^* necessary] 
 niy sentiments of thatM!. '^"'*' ^ *^ave comprised 
 
 Which I submit to th:'j Xt3 :? *^« r ^^^'^o tre'ati^ ^ 
 . H^rewehavetheor&S^l'^^'^'^^^^^^r." 
 
 ^«n. of a spiritual milium '^'r''"''^Tly received opin- 
 
 Scriptures; it is ^ot even Sessed /n l"\ ^'''''^ ^^^'^ *he 
 
 but IS uvowedly a human fabricatfon V?'"'^ ^'"^"^ ^^^^ 
 {» momnnf. tu^ -'■-^ ^ ^""rxtacion. Let „a o-o-o.^: ^_ / 
 
 -nt^tor^up^ ;j;:^-|^^^ au«^^^ ^•;;rno:^i 
 
 lestament, leaving out the book of 
 
 ding 
 for 1 
 ernes 
 we n 
 is,b> 
 
 of as 
 the I 
 mind 
 recei^ 
 tures 
 reflec 
 the p 
 
 concli 
 
 religic 
 
 to lea( 
 
 meani 
 
 tures. 
 
 until ^ 
 
 for ou: 
 
 true ai 
 
 respeci 
 
 speakii 
 
 ourseh 
 
 things 
 
 Hi's I, ti 
 
 be litei 
 interpr 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 coming is set aside 
 e Scriptures to sup. 
 ituaJlj absent from 
 ^is disciples, "And 
 e end of the age.' 
 ere can be no spin' 
 absence, and there 
 away of Christ was 
 fn, therefore, must 
 
 35 
 
 Christ, and a spi- 
 
 the Church until 
 rhe Kev. Edward 
 yect is extensive, 
 
 higher than Dr. 
 ■POTHESis, at the 
 ^was soon adopted 
 Jdwards, Hopkins 
 'modern divines; 
 ived sentiment of 
 ' the Millennium 
 rs !" Dr. Whitby 
 
 was wise because 
 I confess I do it 
 I have not suflS- 
 true intendment 
 But yet, con- 
 le sense of these 
 ?ed as th^- foun- 
 irrection of the 
 : years, or at 
 IS not necessary 
 have comprised 
 nsuing treatise, 
 er." 
 
 ■ received opin- 
 rived from the 
 -ned from God, 
 
 le was a com- 
 )«t the book of i 
 
 the Revelations : and he inarms us, first, that he had not 
 wisdom, nor reading, nor ju Igment to discern the meanrng 
 of the prophecies m that book ; secondly, that he found 
 out that the text (Rev. xx. 4) was not to be taken nor 
 
 tZlTh V"/'' ''^""^^ '''''' ' '^'' i«' ^^ had founS ou 
 that when God says one thing he means another, and conse 
 quently can neither be understood nor believed for thTs is 
 he inevitable conclusion to which the discovery leads 
 1 nt ^' .if' Tt^^'"' grounds he had comprised his sTnlC 
 TnAnM •' ;^^^«r'^ «" '^' Millennium framed accor- 
 ding to this New Hypothesis." Now, with all respect 
 
 erness for the failings of one who sleeps in Jesus, must 
 we not as a religious duty, reject his New HypothesisTi 
 s, by the express avowal of its author, founded in the re- 
 jection ot the proper sense of the words of God. Thus we 
 are reduced to the alternative of either rejecting the notion 
 the'K .'^ w"'""^"'?'"'' of rejecting the proper sens of 
 
 Lfnl^f/. /T'T'- J "^^'^ '°"^^«« *« y'^^ that to my 
 mind, the fact of such a Hypothesis being so commonly 
 received by professing Christians, is one of the darkeS 
 tures m the aspect of the present days. And when I 
 reflect upon the number of publications which issue from 
 the press m support of this unscriptural and groundless 
 theory, and see the manner in which they a?e lauded 
 
 ^1 Ff.^. '1 °''' ''^^""^^ ^"'^ magazines, I cannot but 
 conclude that the signs of the times are ominous. The 
 religious literature of the present day has an awful tendency 
 to lead the unsuspecting reader to reject the plain literal 
 meaning of the word of God, and t<) wrest the Holy Scrip- 
 tures. We may spiritualize and allegorize the Scriptures^ 
 until we make them anything or nothing, and be applauded 
 tor our pains ; but if we receive the words of God in their 
 true and native meaning, as we should receive those of any 
 respectable human author, and give our Maker credit for 
 speaking plain truth, in a plain and true manner, we find 
 ourselves at variance with our fellow-Christians. The two 
 things to guide us in our search after Scrintural truth arp 
 Mr«i the simple rule, -That interpretation should always 
 be literal, except when the context forbids, or when a literal 
 interpretation would lead to an absurdity or natural impos- 
 
36 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 that it will alwavrbe'so" ' Tf °^?'f' "^ ^"^ '« •"="«ve 
 of the second aTent ^we ,.! lu''"'F'''.*^' P^P'^'*'^ 
 
 be t^e'mrnf f hiJX'oZpprrilr'" K *"' *^'"'« 
 to his waitin.. neoDle •vTiZ^iF; ?" "PP""™ ^^t 
 
 appea. «„ sSo^hTL w^>o' Tin't ^'attr-l "d^ 
 the Lord whom ye seek shall ^,,^^1^71 ^^'^f ^^'^^ And 
 
 that this firstman;festation»inw i •^""'? '"' ""' '""St' 
 
 mont andelearinfof J Xlh wmt^''""^^^^^^^^ 
 
 he has fulfilled hi? m.rnL« ;„\ • "^^ "^ *''^' '"'■■''• After 
 
 his juds„>e„pXr„r.XtirreV:af hTS 
 
 him ; the/shll'l LI: is' ofti w^ .d'r '''""r^"^" 
 the words of Daniel rt ° 27 Te fllfil J^? '""'T'' hia, and 
 Lord .0 his sainH and his iw™^^ """"^ "^ *» 
 ferent things; the former mnrhffi. them a^ two dif- 
 he eomes with them ™fuo.mr„f ''" '"'"'"P'ished before 
 manifested .to the worid f ^t h.! "l"*' ^^T'^'^- ^'^""^ he is 
 But this makes hireomingt hi': feefr "X^'""' "»'• 
 very near, much nearer tha^n « Id ttined™ df ''^''''' 
 
 fXt'S^r.'' ^Ttt^l willT&fhSl:^ 
 Then a« al(fo?s:&s?nt^^^^^^^ 
 
 ai^ Thusdoibencv^hr;;i-;f':hXdt ^0^/^:^^ 
 
all fulfilment has 
 e have to believe 
 ■et the prophecies 
 ) do those of the 
 d plain. 
 
 laoifested at his 
 ho waited for the 
 ion at large until 
 us that this will 
 ■ He appears first 
 :for him shall he 
 alvation.' ' And 
 ae to his temple, 
 1 ye delight in : 
 bsts. But who 
 who shall stand 
 *'» fire, and like 
 f gold and pu- 
 is of Levi, and 
 ly offer unto the 
 e we are taught 
 •le, and the judg- 
 irstwork. After 
 id accomplished 
 J himself to his 
 
 the heathen, 
 so that pierced 
 become his, and 
 ) coming of the 
 im are two dif- 
 aplished before 
 •re, before he is 
 '• we know not. 
 waiting people 
 i ; and further, 
 hem that sleep 
 hall rise first.' 
 reek, I Thess. 
 
 1 be caught up 
 ' Lord iu the 
 3 be very near; 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 37 
 
 and blessed are all they who love his appearinsr M-.v ih. 
 
 .Sn:;rj;iretrt' -^p^^ £^^^^^^ t 
 
 Advent ^ ^ event. -^ee Hooper on the Second 
 
 This gradual manifestation of our Lnr^l «* 1 • 1 
 
 advent,appearstobe taught, MaU xx!v xxv E^L !f ""T^ 
 his ministering servant", chap xxi^ 42^ 'S'-'^'^J' 
 those of his people who w II constih^ IV^. • • * ^1^^"?'^' 
 follow the bride^ Chap xxv f n P^ l""''"'"!'' "^ ''^'" 
 
 consecutive? or aK„nui!Z^^- ■ t^' ""^ '""^'"^ noMssarily 
 affairs wheV the L^rd hall 001177 "ff"'' "^ '^' ''''" "^ 
 
 subject is given i„ the SlatZs l^ijp ^fTs ™8 1"'"' 
 us that our Lorr? pnimoa *^ i,- • ^'"'*P-'^^- ^♦J — lo, shews 
 
 them is over, and the marrL. n? H t ^^tJ^^S^^"* with 
 he comes with his saints tnf.f ^^^^'^^'^ P'^^t, before 
 federacy, Sr onnresl T^^^^ ^' anti-christian con- 
 
 to the nations of the earth W« '. ,T *^^" Proceeds 
 
 with the wioked, at the jS^ment It af M ""' "'" '^"^ 
 and that all their sina J;„.i^,l ■ ' ""^ ^"""^ '"no; 
 
 Mixn„ every work into judgment, with every secret 
 
3d 
 
 THE MILLENNIUJf. 
 
 thing whether good, or whether evil." Eccles. xii. 14 ; Matt 
 xii 36; Acts, xvii. 31 ; Rom. ii. 16— xiv. 10, 12; 1 Cor.' 
 V. 10, are also adduced for the same purpose. None of 
 these passages, however, teach the opinion in question. 
 They merely teach us that all will be judged : but they do 
 not teach us that, all will be judged together, or at the same 
 time. It 18 also pleaded, that the failings of the saints have 
 been pubhshed to the world; and the sins of David, Peter 
 and others made manifest to all. These things are true • but 
 still they do not prove the point. It appears to me to be an 
 impossibility to prove that the sins of God's people, which 
 have been previously pardoned, will be mentioned on the 
 day of judgment ; or to shew that any of the saints, who 
 belong to Christ, will be judged with the wicked. The 
 loUowing extracts deserve notice. 
 
 • '3- *?^°' *^^ ^^^"^^ ^^^ *^ ^^ mingled with the wicked 
 m the judgment of the great day, the secrets of their hearts, 
 their idle words, their evil works, and all their nameless 
 abominations of which, in the days of their rebellion against 
 him, whom they now call Father, they had been guilty • 
 nay the corruptions and offences over which, in communion 
 with God, they are even now mourning every day, against 
 which they are engaged in holy conflict, and the knowledrre 
 of which it was their wmfort to believe was confined to 
 their heavenly Father and themselves ; all— all must b 
 published to their shame, in the presence of their cnemie*^ 
 and before the world of the ungodly-a grievous punishs 
 ment in itselt to a sensitive and holy mind. 
 
 "Surely this is not the way of our heavenly Father with the 
 children of his house,— of him who, as to our old sins, has 
 said, ' Your sins and iniquities will J remember no more-' 
 and who 'by one offering hath perfected for ever them that 
 are sanctified ;' who has taught us that ' there is now no 
 condemnation to (judgment against) them which are in 
 Christ Jesus ;' and has put into our mouths not only that 
 blessed challenge, ' who is he that condemneth ?' but if 
 possible, the still more blessed one, ' who shall lay anything 
 to the charge of God's elect ?' ' It is God that justifieth? 
 
 And vet the theorv of nn nniiroraol 4it<4»w.^^i. /_: li- 
 
 ncously executed) necessarily represents the blessed justifior 
 of his saints as bringing up their sins from ' the depths of 
 
es. xii. 14 ; Matt. 
 .10,12; ICor. 
 irpose. None of 
 ion in question, 
 jed : but they do 
 ;r, or at the same 
 f the saints have 
 of David, Peter, 
 »gs are true ; but 
 rs to me to be an 
 Va people, which 
 lentioned on the 
 the saints, who 
 e wicked. The 
 
 with the wicked 
 ;s of their hearts, 
 I their nameless 
 rebellion against 
 id been guilty ; 
 I, in communion 
 ery day, against 
 I the knowledge 
 ivas confined to 
 11— all must b 
 f their cnemie*^ 
 rievous punishs 
 
 Father with the 
 'ur old sins, has 
 aaber no more;' 
 ever them that 
 here is now no 
 I which are in 
 IS not only that 
 aneth ?' but, if 
 ill lay anything 
 that justifieth.' 
 
 THE MILLENNIITM. 
 
 dd 
 
 
 /-: lA- 
 
 Dlessedjustifier 
 ' the depths of 
 
 fhl hTvf'' ^^i^.\*hey had been cast, restoring them to ' 
 the book from which they had been h]nfn/Zl° \ • 
 aying them, thoagh but /or alitUowh let hei "h'S 
 their accuser. By those who holrl tli.-a L«l t/ieir cnarge as 
 to be overlooked o'r unkUn S^cWrilTr 
 ence between the saints and unreconciled siTne is tt 
 that the former sJiall be for.nven and f»,P inffl j •' J 
 hereaftpi'- Knf *u„* x. T^^"' ^"" *"^ Matter condemned 
 nerealtei' but, that tne former are forgiven even now T 
 John II 12 ; and not merely as to their' ins fordve^^^ 
 
 InU TMr''°l'."''^P'^^ '"^ *h^ beloved/ ^Eph i-l 
 adopted children-heirs of God. Their relation towards 
 
 nft \'f'''^y ?}^^Sed; and while they formerly Hke - 
 
 nZsl' zif '\'''.*^y/';™'<J 1"= 'partakers of Us Ivoli- 
 
 God thafjie will ilV ?^ ''°"''"=''' "^ ""« Fa'h"''. !">' ^ 
 P„ ' that he wil judge the secrets of men by Christ Jeinq 
 
 sISo ;\ ;e?e"lTt^f; - ostensibly set aside for a 
 
 forget wh:LLi':si^^" '""^^ '™''°--- '^ 
 
 REMEMBER THY SINS " ' "^"^ ^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 winhaveeo»palio„upo''„SX„i^tbdrou^„t«mos^ 
 
 I L 
 '1 
 
 ''1 
 (| 
 
40 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 •and^thou wiU oast all theie szks inio the i,bpxus op 
 
 re Je«tto?:t»itr °" ""T^' •"»"««' <""- 
 depths of the sea if;r^t '^"° """■"' """ '"^'in'o the 
 
 that they will be reyelj 1°'"'' T "f'"''^ "'« "Pi-i"". 
 
 judgment wihoutTnv^^^ "7" °r'' "^^ '^T''"'"^ '» 
 proas declarations Slyl^Hf ^'°""= "'''* "'^^ ""-^ «- 
 
 The sL orsttWurirvallte r/rT''^ ."■«'' '''="<'"'»«■' 
 tinotly mcDtioned bTt nn^r '"^^?'^ ^'""''^ »re dis- 
 
 theo approj The pTooedu „'i'f »f •"'? P""^^ "''<' «« 
 the rig'hLusness 0? tKLou, t '.hl°'""" ^ •? 'o™"' 
 should -be rewarded • Lt!^ ,' "? '"'' "^'^" "hy they 
 of the wickeJas the Zt 'T^^'"""' "'« wietednei 
 Those who find red m'>r'; ^''^ '^f^ !'"'"''' ''^ P-'-i^'-ed. 
 giveness of ?heir si^T' need I ^^■''1°''? "''^i""'^*' ">'^ f"'" 
 
 hensionthatthesius hat alemerSlv'f ""•'"■ "° "PP'^ 
 bo mentioned and revealed thTn"^^ '^"''8'™° """'' ""' 
 
 quesUon ■Va?°^''th':r,7"°!' ™PP°^'^ "'■^ "»' "f the 
 Utobeemptt 'Xr-'' '\f ■ J^^^SO the world 
 the bar as crimS t ^ fu " ""^S- """«• ""d to stand at 
 
 -undin^yr "se e bTurpet T^ tt\-"'" ^ *« 
 samts are judged and rew3 The Seat 'Tti if- ^' 
 reign is p aoed bv the Ann^til V i, ? ' anti-Chnstian 
 Key. xii Jf VlT • S "^""i" ^bseqnently to this, 
 by the ^a'rabk of the itr™ V^ "'^ ^°''''. presented 
 
 dristiLretn Thent P,r"?,P"^ *■*"' '^'^ ""'i" 
 his (dorv and ;i,„ , 1 a""","'^^<"> of m™ appears in 
 
 judging^Le tweWe trib^nf'^r''^''^ 'K ™ '''elvo throni^ 
 fered for therfaithfar,?f i,'*"' ' '""J"" ''bo have suf- 
 
 with him have Powei over .T"' '.■ ^''™'' ^'"'" "^'S" 
 world. P ' "^ ""> "i'tions, and judge tie 
 
 Having so far noticed the time and manner of our Lord's 
 
■ TttE MlLtENNrtrjT. 4( 
 
 Mming and judgment, wo may proceed to eonM,I,.r i .i 
 fi™tresurreotion-2.therapt«Jeof hclivUT^f, 1, l.e 
 .Tilt^MlS' I'»""-4, the judgments Zeh'stlF^l!?; 
 
 t.™ |rsf Thertsr %et^: ~« «' «-> 
 
 'Burro'';'"?,,'' '■"J'""""" '» "'"y one rf the„,.{ ^ 
 
 jeoted to doith nnT/? *^ / ^^ *'''^° ^^^* ^oth are sub- 
 
 under he empire o^^^^^^^^ ' ^V^' ^"^ P"^*^ i« retained 
 
 sa^o • ZTii , , ®® ^'^*'*^ ^^^^ contained in the pas- 
 
 tr'':lJ'::;:it,^:^' O-'-^a the., a„d .ade al, 
 
 ^ci"dtni"drioTo„''7dTi" *''^^r/r p'''''"'™^ 
 
 n .:.\!?./„*'^ -V?^' ^*»en I have opened vour ^rav«« . 
 " Tk/""^'^'''' f '^ f^fougiit you up out oi' your craves " ' 
 
 »»bylon. The prophet had foretold the blossednesa of 
 
 ''I 
 
42 
 
 THE MiLLENNItTM. 
 
 don,. Ood d'ccirdlaf tJc^aVcrZ k"' f"'' 
 though thoy must dio before i J e°tablSun„^^ l^^^' 
 surely aa the prophet had „„„„ .''"».''VS'"n^nt. And as 
 
 restored to Hf^'o loi; wouTd\he ZT^hf ^ '^- ^ ''J"" 
 out of their crave^i hrhJth^- ;"^^,'^'™ighty raise them 
 
 them an uni.^™pT„pte^or k.t t l"' °""l^'' "'»'"' 
 among them and m„tr ,7 v ."'*''','"* ""n tabernacle 
 
 certainly pLedplrt^ ^°^ ^* ^« 
 
 Saviour"^ kingdom! ' ^"^ estabhshment of the 
 
 P^tgetfeltted':itT^^^^ 
 
 king, -who is the beast of chan Z\u a S"^ "^rthern 
 with the time of great trbulatL'i'.f,"^^^^- ^»^- ^^> 
 and restoration of Israel k f ""f ^^' deliverance 
 
 establishmentofourLord'Vlcn i' •'''("'"' P"^'' *« «^e 
 then, be anotW resuire^^^^^^^^ ^'°^"«^ 
 
 at the close TtL mnln?.; Tu' ? *^^* ^^'^^ ^^^^^ Place 
 si.all and l^^^Z^ ^^^ ^^^ ^all the lead, 
 
 of time ; one takes place before the mnf-f " '^'"^^^ 
 other at its close; th^ one ist^tillrth-'l^rlS,''"" 
 
 worthyULTn'tt wlwrageT ri'^t ^'""' '^ """"'""^'l 
 the dead, neither marTy „„r^a?e\e„ n mrr"™ ^T 
 can thoy die any more- for tli^vlt '"arriage; neither 
 are the children of God L„7t. I*'-??' ""'"S'^lsi ""d 
 rection." ' ""^'"S ""^ children of the resur- 
 
 resMrtt'ionrf th?S.""^ """" ^ might attain unto the 
 both 'L*'"='J''y judicious critics that the Greek tezt in 
 e^oyed W Tfenhrt "' ^"^"^ " -»""«on aVfs 
 reiuLtZ A d ad f^S bulf '''""'^- • ^°' " 
 
 -, seven men of h^n^^ .^^^rtr^rc^SreVrn 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 43 
 
 .ni unjust. But he -as anxi „»'^''bo't„d w HI.H 
 hktJt T^r ' "^Tv"'' '^"^ """ "« Christ's a 
 
 mS up thrrnXt^tr^^v-trK^thr „t: 
 
 ho^^hall have put down all rnio and all auttrit/a„3 
 
 £s:r^L^^is{^-L - - «rt rs 
 
 our^'ord^sTh.T''^ '^ '^^•". ^^^^ '"i"««"ial reign of 
 ^rL Vo T^- • ^ '™? "".^^^ ^ «^°f"^ world shall be sSbiu 
 lt,\t ^!!!!! S^"^^,' and brought into conforS 
 
44 
 
 
 I I 
 
 j 
 
 ■f 
 
 fiJn MILLENNItlM. 
 
 ^ 
 
 lake of firo. The o„r"h i» m,bi«,' /t^^„ '"'" "'i'""^' '■"♦" *'"' 
 
 dwells w th nifcn nnH Kn»; k ' .^""f' ^"a liimself now 
 Christ and hi^^Snt. tint" ""•'"' '^^^'^ «'"""« thorn, 
 now enter upon Tnl! "'" '''»""^ "" thousand ycnr« 
 
 over the happy and^rCewed earf h^ ^.-^ ^^' ^?^^'''^ '^'^ 
 ever and ever. • ^^^' ''' '''"S^ «»^^ priests/or 
 
 1 Thess. iv. 13 17 t<n„i t h 
 
 ignorant, brethren, concern .4^,.""."'"™ T" '» '"' 
 yo sorrow not oven as oihe™ ti • k u °* '""'' °'W. that 
 
 wo believe that Jesus died nnd To,f °™ "° ''"P"' ^■" "^ 
 which sleep in Jesus wi I ("nA™ "S!""'?™" «> thorn also 
 
 »«y m,to y^ by the word rf «?? "f 'l'"'- ^'>' ">'' "« 
 
 »livo and^renmirn^tTTho J^n^°of'ttl"':i"^,^ "^ 
 prevent (go before 1 thom „i • I. ^ , ""^ ''"'■"^' »hall not 
 
 himself shall descend f^n,! if "" =" fP' ^"^ ">o Lord 
 the voiceof he S„.t°ldT?i: T\ " *»"'' ""'" "'* 
 the dead in ChrUtlTrisrfi J"Vt„'77''''*^?<''r'^ 
 we which are alive -inHri!;.? ', ,, u " (afterwards, Gr.) 
 
 with then, in the ebul "nek t°hi t" T?*" ."^ '?«'""''• 
 so shall we ever be with 'the Lord " ^"'' '" "''"''^i ""<• 
 
 botlYhS :pi*s''"i j'thrt^- "J'" -T^ «"»p'^' ■•" 
 
 the reader is piS^d down M H Tf fP"""' "''»?• 'i- 8, 
 
 him. This demonstrator th^fw*^!?:,^,**^™' ^°"*° ^i*h 
 takes place i«X th^ n^t? ' ' ^^ ^^ ^''^ '"^^ 
 also 4.e t&tti'^^^^^^^^^^^^ -^ -, but 
 
 the com nff of thp Tnr,i j 1 P ^ ^^"' ^^^^^ makes 
 
 noar : but\l fetr ^^Vnlt I, ^■^'T"""''""' ^"7 
 Kev. xh. 7, that it must^rv! ^o "bo gather from 
 
 destruction of the n,»T„f ■ ^'T 'f"*" ''"^ '"'*■•« the 
 
 ".arriage of fhe*Lrb"lceL\t dot' ??"'"'" "«^ 
 f»» of the apostate ChurehrSd' th^' ^^,"7 2 
 
'"K MlfJ.KNNllM. 
 
 3 things which 
 e cast into tho 
 I rep:onoration, 
 d himself now 
 among thorn, 
 onsnnd years, 
 J'Knity ; and 
 Father, rei<;;n 
 lul priests yor 
 
 ive von to bo 
 B asleep, that 
 lopo. For if 
 so them also 
 For this wo 
 '^0 which are 
 rd, shall not 
 'or the Lord 
 ut, and with 
 3f God ; and 
 wards, Gr.) 
 up together 
 he air; and 
 
 46 
 
 boast, who occuHions that downfl.il i. i t_, 
 resurrection and tho apostate o!r 1 '"'^'.^'^^ '''« ^''''t 
 about tho same time or the L''^ ^'''' ^^''^ pJ«^'« 
 cede it. ' °*^ "'*^ fi*^* resurrection way pro- 
 Hob, xi. 32 '^l •< A 1 , 
 
 tl.ctimo would fail mo totll „f"n,"t ''"'" '.""^ """« ? ^r 
 of Samson, and ofTcphthae L^n""?; ""'' «»' «''™k, .,„d 
 
 of tho propl,ot« who "^hrouVf ^r"*' ."I'' *'"'"»'J. ""<' 
 «rouKl,t n^^hteousnol ofi ',"'"'■ ""Muod ki„pd„„„, 
 ■nouthsoflL^ aucSn^. i''''''"''"™' "topped the 
 
 o<)«e of tho BworXTu, °f 1^» ™l«"'o of firo, os^.pcd ho 
 
 valiant in fl«ht, tlod TflS .1'" '''"•*' ^'r«'"««' 
 Women received their dead rafsed tu^''-"'^ "" »"™»- 
 wore tortured, not aeoentiu J Lfv "^i"'" ■ ""'^ others 
 
 obtain a BETTER ^^Z^^^t •■""""• """ "'"^ '»'s'>' 
 
 whieh these^faSl sakt! .^ff"'","'''' "» "■« object for 
 dangers. They wee dSus ofS.? T^ 'o"' '""' 
 
 j;;o^™ da,, wa. trrtsW&XtntLii- 
 
 ^Qy. XX. 4 6 " Anrl T c ^1 
 
 them, and judgment was givel uTth' '"^ '^!V^* "P«" 
 souls of thew that were bfheald f 1^"^ '• ^°^ ^ «^^ <he 
 and for tho word of God and whi >,' }' ""'^"^^^ °^ J««"«> 
 beast, neither his imaTe no?th, i '^ ^'^ ?"* r^^^^PPed the 
 their foreheads, or fn L h !? '''"'^^ ^^« "'«rk upon 
 reigned with Christ • thousTnJ vp '' '"i? '^^^ ^^^^^ ^"d 
 dead lived not again unTZJ '''. ^"' *^^ '^^t of tho 
 This is the firsu arr^l'^'*^^r°^T^^'^fi"i«l^«^ 
 hath part in the rn.ZsTecU^^^^^ Tl^^^^ ^« ^^ tha 
 hath no power, .ut Z^shTh. ''^V^'''''''''^ ^^^^^^ 
 Christ, and shall reign With hi n^''^"^ ^^'^ '^"^ of 
 It is obi, ated thatrln a'-housand years." 
 
 were beheider The word -/''^ '^'i'"^'^' *^^"' *1^-* 
 dred times in tho Bible to .tT 1 "«^^"'«re thua uhun- 
 
 --;„ordoXri:;tS^-*to^be 
 
46 
 
 TUB MILLENNIUM. 
 
 beginning of ^he thousand years can bo denied, without 
 involving a denial of the resurrection of the rest, at the end 
 and so a denial of all resurrection ; it being evident, that 
 whatever sense the word lived in this passage applies to 
 the one, it also applies to the other. If those who live and 
 reign a thousand years,.live or rise spiritually, then I argue 
 sodo <7ie rest who live not until the thousand years are 
 finished j but if it be admitted of these last that they live 
 by literal resurrection, then I argue so do the first ; it being 
 inconceivable, moreover, that a resurrection should be classed 
 as first with reference to another totally dissimilar and 
 having no one feature in Qommon:'— Burgh ' 
 
 We now see that the doctrine of the first resurrection is 
 tound m numerous parts of the Holy Scriptures. It glows 
 m the songs of the Psalmist ; inspires the themes of the 
 prophets; is embodied in the discourses of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ and in the writings of his inspired followers; 
 and shmes forth with greater clearness and glory as we 
 approach the close of the sacred canon. It was the object 
 ot the hope of the Jewish captives, who sighed in a strange 
 land over the sins which had brought desolation into their 
 own country; and which had deprived them of the inherit- 
 ance, divinely allotted to their ancestors. Ezek. xjtxvii — 
 It animated the hope of the bleeding martyrs, when the 
 mother and her seven sons suffered the most exquisite 
 tortures, and died for their religion.— II Mac. vii. And it 
 animated the heart of the great Apostle of the Gentiles 
 to press forward to the mark, that he might obtain the 
 prize ot his high calling, namely the resurrection out 
 
 FROM AMONGST THE DEAD.— Phil. iii. May we be SO 
 
 happy and blessed as to have a part in the First Resurrection. 
 I I ^^^* resurrection, which will probably be 
 unobserved by mortals, the rapture of the living 
 who are looking for their Lord, will take place. On this 
 tact the bcriptures are explicit. 
 
 I Cor. XV. 51, 52. "Behold I show you a mystery ; we 
 shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment 
 in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; for the trum- 
 pet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible 
 and we shall be chanr^pd." ' 
 
 I Thess. iv. 17. "" Then we which are alive and re- 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 47 
 
 the Lord." ' "'"' ^° *"" '"^ "^'or be with 
 
 shall be tatentd^fhTo'^her kft""^'"" '^ '" ""' ^^'^ ' °- 
 
 come, and without anvT,. "!•*" "'§•"- *''» I""-<1 "iU 
 those evil/Xr^„li: -•> "' 
 
 ^^^XSX^ -ero hi W 
 '" "Matt T™T-I3) '^.tnt t'l,°?.' *J''- -- 
 
 of trouble is thus described -^ ^ ^^^^ *^"^^ 
 
 
 fl;f 
 
48 
 
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 18 great SO TiiAT NONE IS LIKE IT : it is cvGD the time Of 
 Jacob 8 trouble ; but he shall be saved out of it. '• 
 
 -uan, xii. 1 " And at that time shall Michael stiind ,m 
 
 the great prince which standeth for the ch^drei^of tW 
 
 people : and there shall be a time of troubt such as ne^^^^^^ 
 
 WAS SINCE THERE WAS A NATION even to that thne Ind 
 
 sin t r' > P^'P^^ ^^^" ^' delivered, everv one that 
 shall be found written in the book " ^ 
 
 Matt xxiv. 21, 22. "For then shall bo great tribula 
 nn, such as was not since the beginning of^he wo Id to 
 
 honuT' 7' ""^"^^^ «^^" be;"andeScept thole dav8 
 should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved • but 
 for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.'' * 
 the snfriT'.f *"^^«*i«?« «^the last days, as foretold by 
 ocriptures. Let the reader take h s Bible and tnm tn ihL 
 
 Z:f: "ifhti?! IZ\Y ^^ P-enTdirpe"ns!rtio'n 
 
 dreadful\i fp ' r /"if ^T^"^ '°,^ ^^^^^ accou^s of this 
 areadtul time. And all who are left behind in the earth 
 
 when the wise virgins go ii. to the marriage, will llsT^t 
 intihrifr^T -'^r '.^'^' '' ^^" «« *o *t'e lastragS 
 «bTe at tV' ' ^'' f ?^ '^?* '^' ^'"^^ ^i" beyull 
 
 ffiah with d? t"' f-^'l *^^' *^^ t^^^h^'^' when their 
 messiah, with all his glorified saints, shall suddenly burst 
 
 upon them, discomfit and destroy their foes and send his 
 c"orneTo?th -"-!;^f ---ng tribes'^om t?e fou 
 ZZ:o1.^:i7!l%, ^'''^' "^-^ 2-h- -., Rev. xix.) 
 
 AlI^IsJap'? ??fj^^«^«^ ^ND ENTIRE RESTORATION OP 
 PLACED It Trptr"" '^^''^ '^''^"^' ^^^ ^«^^ WILL BE 
 
 FOLLOwZ .. ^^^SSING TO ALL MANKIND. ThE 
 iOLLOWINQ PASSAGES SHEW THE TRUTH OP THESE 
 STATEMENTS: ^•iJJ.n ua lUiSE 
 
 dafttvf • %^^', "^^^ '^ «h^" «««^« ^ Pas« in that 
 day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come 
 
 E a'?l^^. A°d I will pour upon the hou^e c^^ 
 i^avid, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the snirit 
 of grace and of supplication: and they shaU'look uZ 
 me, whom thev hkvfi nmvoc,A ^^a ^ 1 J \ •_ "P*^° 
 
 one that IS m bitterness for his first-born," 
 
 is writ 
 shall ti 
 In t 
 deliver 
 them, I 
 saints i 
 nected 
 fathei-s 
 Isaial 
 them, a 
 nations. 
 Tubal a 
 my hm 
 declare 
 bring all 
 OP ALL 
 
 litters, ai 
 iJiountait 
 Israel bri 
 the Lord 
 Isaiah 
 Jacob, an 
 own land 
 they shall 
 shall take 
 house of ] 
 for serva 
 captives, 
 over their 
 Jer. XX 
 
 ALL COUN 
 
 and in mj 
 them again 
 Safely; anc 
 God." 
 
 Kzek, XX 
 Behold, I V 
 Ilea then, wi 
 ovuiy side, 
 they shall d 
 
the time of 
 . >» 
 
 jI stand up, 
 
 Iren of thy 
 
 AS NEVER 
 
 time; and 
 7 one that 
 
 at tribula- 
 le world to 
 those days 
 aved: but 
 
 • 
 
 bretold by 
 the Holy 
 urn to the 
 pensation, 
 nts of this 
 the earth, 
 be subject 
 raging of 
 be peeuli- 
 ben their 
 nly burst 
 send his 
 the four 
 
 TION OP 
 
 WILL BE 
 
 EARTH, 
 
 in that 
 at come 
 louse of 
 e spirit 
 'k upon 
 
 , &o OiiO 
 
 him, as 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. ^g 
 
 Isaiah Ixvi. 19 20 " Ar,^ t -n 
 them, and I will send thn«..i } ^'^^ ''^ ^ ''S^ ^^^ong 
 natiois, to krshish Pulfn/i r.r ?^*^^°^ ""*« *h« 
 Tubal ^nd :jZTnZ fh J'isles af "r iff'jh 1^ *'^ ^'^' *« 
 -y f^m.e, neither hJZltyl^^'tTZ'^^^^^^ 
 declare my glory among the GenUles A J It^ 'J' 
 bring all your brethren for an oSi u^to fhl \% '^'" 
 OP ALL NATroM« „«^„ 1 "°^""g unto the Lord out 
 
 Israel nr no- on nff-r.,. • i •*^"^") ^^ tne children of 
 tho L„rd> *"*° '" " '''^''" ""^^ i-'o *e house of 
 
 they shall c..„„. to 'the tuse i jVfT^ ff '^""- "»<' 
 shall take tliem and l,ri„ ,i "1 ''^ ^'"' ">e people 
 
 hou.e of W^K'p^S t 'ri " t&jTf ih:f 'V 
 tor servants anrl V.nr,ri»v, -j ^'" "^.^Je lana ot the Lord. 
 
 captives, ;hnp\t r Lt- wTrt't'd t" '"h'I.^T 
 over their oppressors " ' ^ ""^^ ^^^^^ '"^e 
 
 and io ™, W, a'?r/^ tm^tdlTifir'- 
 e„j5,' ""^y ^hall be my people, and I will be their 
 
 BowtrwrnikeShe dflH " ^^/ ^^''l *^ ^"'^ God ; 
 
 l-oathe„:, whiVef^hltVe''^™ f,/S' ,':-'. -.»«'''« 
 -very side, and brin^; f h«.» ;"\ "Vi _7;" B«"i- ineia ui 
 
 bring them into their own land 
 
 thpv a^oii^ i7 . ,S ''"^'" ^»to their 
 they shall dwell in the land that I have 
 
 un 
 
 I 
 
 1/ 
 41 
 
 
 
 And 
 given unto Jacob 
 
 »l 
 
60 
 
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 children's children FOR FvVn a ' '^''^''°' ^"^ ^^^ir 
 
 be their mnZ'ir.V.T ' AIZ'^^^^^^^^ 
 
 covenant ofpeace with them- iH ?iT' ^'" ^^^^ » 
 
 COVENANT With them nnTl '„ 'f " ^^ "° EVERLASTING 
 
 of the straneer shall not, rlrint „<•*[.' ""'""« sons 
 thou hast laboured But thev tw / """"' f"' ^'^ "hich 
 eat it, and prairthe Lord :L thev tto T^^'f '" ?°" 
 together shall drink it in the eou W^ WnesT""'" '' 
 These passages, with numbers beside estahHT/h. f . 
 of the restoration of all Israel and X ^f !r • *^ '^'" 
 settlement in their own oouStrv T^ ^,^T Pf "'anent 
 at the head of the nalLsoftS elt? "'" *"' ^ ^^'"'^ 
 
 Chap. Ix 12 '' For f^ of Amrnon shall obey them." 
 
 had mercy on thee." ' ^"' ^° "^^ ^^^^"^ ^^^^ I 
 
 waSiti:^ thTlfraise^'un th?/'^" ^""^, "P ^^^ old 
 they shall reUVZ^'^J^^^^^ 
 generations. And strangers shall stand on^rl'"''"^ 
 flocks, and the sons of the alLn ilTli k ^^^^ ^o"'' 
 
 and your vine dressers Rnf t r, nf ^^ ^^"^ plowmen 
 of the Lord men Tha'l ca^l tn^? f^" -'."""^^^ '^' P"««t« 
 ye shall eat Trictf onhfGe'nt^^^^^^ f •• 
 
 shall ye boast yourselves." ^^"'^"^^^ ^n^ m their glory 
 These passages are snffinlnn* *^ ..i, ,, . ., 
 
 ways, 
 
 shall ^ 
 
 Jer?isa 
 
 Zed 
 
 one wl] 
 
 Jerusaj 
 
 the kir 
 
 taberna 
 
 Rom 
 
 of the T 
 
 Crentilej 
 
 away of 
 
 the rece 
 
 %th 
 
 to whom 
 
 their sta 
 
 means ol 
 
 restoratic 
 
 Iiord's k 
 
 that the 
 
 must be I 
 
 AFTERW^ 
 
 This is th 
 will be no 
 
 The Holy 
 
It; and they 
 5n, and their 
 t David shall 
 will make a 
 
 VERLASTING 
 
 and multiply 
 idst of them 
 > with them : 
 y people." 
 by his right 
 will no more 
 ind the sons 
 3r the which 
 ered it shall 
 B bnought it 
 ness." 
 
 ish the fact 
 
 permanent 
 
 « be placed 
 
 3 shoulders 
 oil them of 
 pon Edom 
 
 SY THEM." 
 
 a that will 
 3S shall be 
 
 build up 
 
 1^0 THEE : 
 ir have I 
 
 ' original 
 
 THE MlLLENNID3r. 
 
 ^KftilJ^-tt^l^tb^ 
 
 made blessings to all maS? '^'•^' '^''^ ^^^^ will be 
 
 ^ech. vm. l^ 23 <' An^ '. l „ 
 as ye were a curi among 1he Ltf nT *^ P'^^^' that 
 and house of Israel- so IllJ T ^^^^^^"^ house of J^dah 
 Wessing: fear not but jJt "our' hnT'.^"^ Je shall be a 
 saith the Lord of Hosts Tn n ^^""^^ "^ ^^'^^S- Thus 
 ^hatten men smTakel^^l^^^^^ ^^^ 
 nations, even shaj] take ho]donL^-\ ^^-^^S^s of the 
 Jew, saying, We will go with vou /^^'^ 'l^'"^ *t«t is a 
 C^od ,8 ^ith you." "^ ^"^ • ^or we have heard that 
 
 Isaiah ii 3 a a j 
 ye, ar:: Jet us "^o un fnT^P'^P^''^^"^^ and sav Com. 
 
 house of the|:d?fl:efb^"Th^ °'n*'^ ^-^' '^ tt' 
 ways, and we will walk in" hf l""'" *«^«h us of his 
 «hall go forth the law and fh ^''^Z' ^'^'" ^"^ of zfon 
 Jerusalem." ''^' ""'^ ^^e word of the Lord frim 
 
 -^ech. XIV 16. '< AnrI ;f i, n 
 
 one which is left of aH tt ni*"''"'' ^^- ^'''' ^hat every 
 
 Jerusalem, shall even ^o „n f ''''' "^^^^^ came againsl 
 
 \e king, the Lord of^Hosl^r rr ^ ^^^r to wShTp 
 
 tabernacles." ^""^^^^ '^nd to keep the feast of 
 
 of SrworL^'nd'^ be the riches 
 
 <>entiles, how much more their /i ^'^J, ^^^ ™hes of the 
 away of them be the re^onenL t/^f ^"^ '^'^' «a«*inl 
 the receiving of tliem be bnf r? ? *^^ ^^^^^> what shall 
 ^ % these passages we ar.H t {'.^^^ ^^^ ^«ad ? " ''^^^ 
 to whom the'chutLTsril^^^^^^^ 
 
 their station at the head of th/n«r ^^' T ^^^ to resume 
 ^eans of instruction and KI. • *^'^"'' ^°^ *o become the 
 restoration of IsraeJ?. In ^^f f "g to all the world Th! 
 Wd's kingSn hetTh' 'V'r ^^^-^-nt of!u 
 that the northern armv mn«; /°5^ ^^Pressly teaches us 
 n^nst be blessed andSe^"^ ^! ^T^-'^''^ 'that W 
 AFTERWARDS, God w"f ^j^^J -. then^^G^ : and that 
 
 This IS the order in the econo^v Ifn- ^'" ''^''" ^" ^"«h. 
 ::!I?L7. -^P..'-ng ofX ri/n?r?LT«^:, There 
 mi^'rVt^^' «" wi Aj<'ter /srapl'a fi«u ^ "" '"^ •"-^^niiies on a 
 
 '■I 
 
 I 
 
 I! 
 
 X 
 
 *», 
 
 4ii 
 
52 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 of the kind. They make the conversion and restoration of 
 Israel to depend upon the coming of our Lord Jesus with 
 his saints in glory ; and the conversion of the Gentiles and 
 the universal establishment of our Lord's kingdom in the 
 earth, to depend upon the conversion and restoration of 
 Israel, wliich brings us to consider the nature of the kinc^. 
 dom. ° 
 
 V. Our Lord and his glorified saints will reign 
 
 UPON THE EARTH : THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD WILL 
 BECOME THE KINGDOM OF OUR LoRD AND HIS ChrIST. 
 
 This kingdom is the subject of numerous prophecies in 
 the Old Testament ; indeed, it is the burden of prophecy. 
 It is also a prominent subject in the New Testament. 
 When John the Baptist began to preach, his subject was— 
 " Repert ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." When 
 Jesus Christ began his ministry, he taught, " Repent for 
 the kingdom of heaven is at hand." When he sent out the 
 Twelve Apostles, he instructed them to say — " The king- 
 dom of heaven is at hand." And the Gospel is denomi- 
 nated by its great author—'' This gospel of the kingdom." 
 After the resurrection of our Lord, he spent forty days 
 with ^is disciples, speaking of the things which pertain to 
 the kingdom of God. And the Apostles made this their 
 constant theme, and went about preaching the kingdom of 
 God. 
 
 This was not introduced as a ne^ subject. Neither the 
 Baptist nor our Lord explains the subject. It is intro- 
 duced as a subject well understood, and as one for which 
 the people were waiting. This can only be accounted for 
 on the ground that the kingdom, which was then preached, 
 was the same kingdom of which the people read in the 
 Psalms and in the Prophets. We are warranted, therefore, 
 in turning to the Old Testament writers to ascertain what 
 they taught on this subject. 
 
 I Chron. xvii. 11—14. "And it shall come to pass 
 when thy days be expired, that thou must go to thy 
 fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall 
 be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall 
 build me an house, and I will establish his throne for 
 EVER. I will be his father, and he shaU be my son ; and I 
 will not take away my mercy from him as 1 took it away from 
 
 him 
 
 and 
 
 iishe 
 
 P, 
 
 holin 
 
 END! 
 ME. 
 
 as a J 
 
 Isa 
 
 a son 
 
 shou]( 
 
 seJlor, 
 
 ofPei 
 
 theie 
 
 upon : 
 
 judgmt 
 
 EVER. 
 
 Jcr. 
 Lord, ' 
 and a 
 judgmei 
 shall be 
 his nam( 
 
 EOUSNEJ 
 
 Zech. 
 
 shout, 
 
 unto the* 
 
 ^"g upon 
 
 J will cut 
 
 JerusalcB 
 
 speak pej 
 
 from sea ( 
 
 the earth. 
 
 I'Uke i. 
 
 the Son of 
 
 him the tl 
 
 over the he 
 
 shall be no 
 
 Psalm ii 
 
 hill of TAqx 
 
 unto me, Tj 
 
itoration of 
 Jesus with 
 sntiles, and 
 lom in the 
 toration of 
 f the king- 
 
 ILL REIGN 
 aLD WILL 
 IRIST. 
 
 phecies in 
 prophecy, 
 ^estament. 
 ect was — 
 V When 
 Leper. t, for 
 intoutthe 
 The king- 
 s denomi- 
 cingdom." 
 brty days 
 pertain to 
 this their 
 ngdom of 
 
 3ither the 
 is intro- 
 for which 
 unted for 
 preached, 
 d in the 
 herefore, 
 un what 
 
 ! to pass 
 
 to thv 
 
 iich shall 
 
 He shall 
 
 NE FOR 
 
 Q ; and I 
 ^ayfrom 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 Mm that was before thee • hnf T -n , ^ 
 
 fnd my kingdom for ever ? T" ««*t>«him in my house 
 l^Bhed FOR EVERMORE ''^''' '"^ ^'' '^'^^^^ «halJ be estab! 
 
 i salm Ixxxix. 35—37 '« n 
 holiness that I will uoVL , .?. ^^^« ^ sworn bv mr 
 ENDURE FOR EVER and h T ^''''^- ^is Seed shdT 
 ^'E. It-shall beestab Ished Fo«r' ^' '^'"^ «^^ ^^^onl 
 
 sho'uM"" ^^^^" ''-^''^hTg^^^^^^^^^^ unto us 
 
 ""■111 be saved, and Israel st,,!! J ,i . '"" "^^s Judah 
 his name whereby hr shall 1,7„ n 7'" '^'^'^ J "nd Ui'i" ^ 
 EousNEss." • - ""'".''« ""I'ed THE Lord oue rXt! 
 
 Zech. ix. 9 10 a p . . 
 «hout da,.. 'hte^of SlSf'^l'^; ?,<''"'«''ter of Zion • 
 
 ^^peak peace to the heathen ^it'"^°^' «"d he shaH 
 
 ter-o-,aJt;r>etttS^ 
 J^uke i. 32 S'* <« tt i 11 
 
 the Son of the Highest • Vnf}'' f ^•'*' ''^"^ «hall be called 
 
 over the house of Jacob/o/eLr!n^'nf?-^ «ha]l reig„ 
 sftjdi be no endr -^ ^""^"^ ' «"d of his kingdom ther" 
 
 i'salm ii. 6 — 9 u v^* u ^ 
 tillofZinn T l.-n t ^^^ havc I set mvkfno.,,^ , 
 
 :1 
 
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 ill 
 
 jtj 
 
 ' 'I 
 
54 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine in. 
 heritance ; and the uttermost parts of the earth for thv 
 
 ETsh-th'^'^'^'^^^'T,'^ the'mwitha rodoTlTth J 
 Shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel " 
 
 Dan. vii 13, 14 18, 27. " And I saw in the night visions 
 
 and behold, one lik. the Son of man eame with theTud^ 
 
 of heaven and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought 
 
 a^X anT 'r- /"^*^-« -- J-n him dVmTnTon 
 and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations and Ian 
 guages, should serve him : his dominion is an everlaatin. 
 dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom tha? 
 which shall not be destroyed * * * RntT.T-!' 
 
 kingdomforever, even for ever and ever. * * * * * 
 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the 
 kingdom under the whole heaven shall begiven to the Peonle 
 of the saints of the Most High, 'whose kingdom is a? ever! 
 lasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him '' 
 Zech. xiv. 9, 16--19. "And the Lord shaJl be kTn. 
 over all the earth : in that day there shall be one Lord an! 
 
 thatTsTf^nf im^ '' ^^^" ''"^^ *^ P^«' *h-* -v«V one 
 that IS left of all the nations which came up against Jeru- 
 salem, shall even go up from year to year to worshin tTe 
 
 And It sha 1 be, that whoso will not come up. of all the 
 
 the Lord of Hosts, even upon them shall be no rain And 
 If the family of Egypt go not up, and come not Tat have 
 
 smirtifr.f '".^ *'^ P^'^^^ ^^^'^^i^^ ^hl'Lorl shal 
 smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast nf 
 
 tebernacles. This shall be the punihrneft of E^pt and 
 
 weS'Ireft vol.! f "if *^' ''^'°?' ^"^'^ '°""^^^ ' ^"^ t^ere 
 worK Wn ^° ^«f «»^' «ay^ng '' The kingdoms of this 
 ChrL I ^"^t n^^ .^^"gdoms of our Lord, and of his 
 Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever." 
 
 and the sn;^?- 7\«^ *\^ ^oon shall be confounded, 
 
 ?n Mount Zin^r^'^' '?''' ^Y ^"'^ '^ ^''^ «^^1 ^ig" 
 11?.'^!?'""' ^"^^ ^" Jerusalem, and before his ancients 
 
 W 
 
 is th( 
 
 edin 
 
 everh 
 
 origin 
 
 seat ( 
 
 Moun 
 
 dwell, 
 
 who a 
 
 (Hev.; 
 
 or his 
 
 right ]] 
 
 his ene 
 
 And hi 
 
 the boo 
 
 and ha! 
 
 kindred 
 
 us unto I 
 
 EARTH. 
 
 i'ord (k 
 
 dom ^f 
 
 hut Moi 
 
 gloriousi 
 
 it also is 
 
 and puri 
 
 scene of i 
 
 But d. 
 
 is to be a 
 
 iii. 10. 
 
 this : — Tl 
 
 it, by wat 
 
 it must ui 
 
 coming, 
 
 subject; a 
 
 is utterly I 
 
 itants bun 
 
 Crod will tl 
 
 And that, 
 
 sun ashame 
 
 i his glorioi 
 
thine in- 
 
 for thy 
 
 on ; thou 
 
 ^HE MILLENNIUM. 
 . We are thus tauo-ht thni „ r • , 
 
 ed m the earth ; and that Sirin? " '^"^''^ ^ be found- 
 ever acting. That thTs ki Idn^T '^ ^ he universal and 
 
 who a, „,^j and who „X if th"°'i'?°.' ""■ ""e earth 
 (nev, XXI., ixii > Tho e„ • . " ™ ''ght of the nif»- 
 orh« aaints re/gning^ifZCr -'P^"^ "^^^^o^ 
 nghtlmnduowjbat^eisoX ^f ''»' Ae Father's 
 h.a enemies shall hoJXCloZZt'^S'i ""^""g «' 
 And h,s redeemed people sint " t^ ' (^*- '• 12, 13.) 
 the book, and toop^ th! '"?' 1^^"" "' "»■•% to take 
 a?<l hast redeemer", ,0 G?dh":^' ^Sf *°" "^''Wn 
 kmdred and tongue, and pem,^^ ^i''^ ^'"o^- ""t of every' 
 ™ unto our God kiugs Id pS «»<! nation ; and hast made 
 EARTH." Bev. v.f iS fjil? *°''''°^hallreignonTH£ 
 I-ordCin theseoJof tLarf.L^'"??""' '' attributed to our 
 fom *f this world • no se^7h ^'"^ ™'"'^' """ 'he king 
 hut Mount Zion and A T ""^ government is namAf 
 gloriously. The eal 't'""' '" "hioh he wiuS 
 it also is^destlned tot Te t "'7 ."^ ""« ^"ZZ?" 
 and purified bj the Ld„fr„d "•.'"•" f'"'-^ Kenew^ 
 
 It must undergo a change bXa"?^^ '' ^" Jl^e man^nerf 
 coming. The apostJe refers to Z . ^ V^ °"^ lord's 
 subject: and the prophet fLi P'?^^' ^«^^ah on this 
 IS ^«e./y broken d^n Id .7 ' 'J'' '^"' ^^«° ^he earth 
 itants burned, anTthere sh tri^'^'t^^' «"d *he inhrb - 
 
 ?od wiJI then punish thPhf if ^^ ^ •^^"' ^^^ V^• that 
 A°d that, <^ tC ltoo;%\:rK'"' ^1"^^ ^^ *^« ^-^^ 
 
 o our Lord IS subsequent to the dissoJu- 
 
 ^ 
 
 I 
 -I 
 
 if 
 
66 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 Isaiah 
 
 tion of the earth, of which the prophet speaks. 
 
 Nothing is more clearly revealed in Scripture than the 
 
 oa„^„:t be mid."" '''"' ""''' ""» " -'"bli.hod, that it 
 
 that It shall not be moved. 
 
 Ps^ilm civ. 5. "Who laid the foundation, of the earth, 
 tnat It should not be removed for ever " 
 
 for^e'ven'' '"''""' ' ^^' " ^^' ''*'^^' ""^'^^^ ^' ^^*^ established 
 Eccks^i. 4. " But the earth abideth for ever." 
 IJut though the perpetuity of the earth is a revealed 
 truth, yet we are exy. essly informed, that it will not alwavs 
 exist m Its present form ; this will appear from the follow- 
 ing passaojes : — 
 
 Isaiah Txv. 17-25 'For behold, I create new heavens 
 and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered 
 nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever 
 in that which I create :.for behold, I create Jerusalem a 
 rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in 
 Jerusalem, and joy lu my people: and the voice of weeping 
 
 Th! . \°n r'^ ^'^'^ ^" ^"'' "^'^ t^^ ^«ice of crying 
 1 here shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an 
 old man that hath not filled his days : for the child shall 
 
 ZlrTJiTi uJ""^'' ^^^ '.^^^*^" «^"°^'^ b^^"8 a» hundred 
 Si tjl't ^' ^"^'J"'"^- ^°^ ^^^y «1»^U build houses, 
 and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and ea 
 
 Intst^ tf ''ifT,- ?f^ ^^^" °°* build,%nd another 
 inhabit, they shall not plant and another eat; for as the 
 days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect 
 shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not 
 abour in vam, nor bring forth for trouble ; for they are the 
 eed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with 
 them. And it shall come to pass, t!.at bi fore they call I 
 
 ThlZlf' '/;.^ T^"f ^\^y ^'^ y'^ ^'^P^^'^i^g. i will heir. 
 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion 
 Bhall eat straw like the bullock : and dust shall be the ser- 
 pent a meat. The^ shall s-t ' ' 
 holy mountain, saith the Lord."' 
 
 1 i . ._ . _ 
 
 •iurii nor ucoiroy 
 
 lu ui'i my 
 
 Tl 
 
 thouj 
 
 shall 
 
 the la 
 
 willb 
 
 power 
 
 The f 
 
 text 
 
 1. ] 
 adults 
 archs ^ 
 in case 
 
 2. 1 
 longer 
 of the I 
 of theii 
 
 3. T 
 a fruitf 
 They 8] 
 
 4. T 
 and th( 
 shall be 
 
 5. Tl 
 mediate, 
 not to fa 
 ers are i 
 patience 
 answer ; 
 soon as t 
 words, ar 
 
 6. Tl 
 
 ameliorat 
 
 tive propt 
 
 and the li 
 
 be the ser 
 
 all my hoi 
 
 7. Tht 
 
 and renew 
 
 tiies will b 
 
 and a new 
 
 as the Ugh 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 5^ 
 
 t Juar„i;s: tTit:: '': ir^ "'.'"f •'""• """"« *>«' 
 
 «l'^.ll reign over it pHo J„ .|^„ "'"', '"' 8'»rifi«''i sainU 
 the last aetof jud™,ent a"?.*!';"""' ™urreetion, and 
 "ill be abridgid ; a"d probabl! 1 ™ -.^'i "'"1''"' "^ ^''"'h 
 power, but ,1,0s; JoM^^uTl^A^' '"''>"' •« "» 
 Tbe possibilitj, of doinVthtt ol 1 ! ''^. "•""■'Session. 
 
 text. The paLge co^Uab": rSfnTpa^^^'r ^""^ 
 1- Premature deatlii »ili „/","'"? particulars : — 
 
 "d-lt^. The term of lifeL" "'"'nl''"™ '" '■""""ts or 
 
 ?rchs «ill probably be\h.n !rtI^°"T'' '" "'" l"""" 
 ■n cases of trangreisio,, ^ ^ '" °" mankind, eicept ' 
 
 >o4er?a: i„"r^j'o^t.:: titT:!""- '"r -» -""" - 
 
 and tSlfeX '':r?L*r ,^i?r'''- --^ '^"t'o^, 
 shall be heard no P>ore " ^'"' ™""' "f "^ping 
 
 -dial"^ r~t sri" S't^ p'"-",' -o ■•"- 
 
 not to faint, because they mav wait U ^.^c'^ "'""^^ "nd 
 era are answered. Hut thl^T " '<'"gM°'-'= their pray, 
 patience will be felt „„' ^ '^":r>T'l ^°' ''"^"'^ing 
 answer; and while they are vet s„.?f ' t*'^ "''" ^ «« 
 soon as the desire of tlfe wav.wT l"^' ^.""' '"^••'^•" '^^ 
 words, and sometimes before^ rL"n'-'""' "^ '^^P^'^'d in 
 
 6. The inferi„rcreat„S tm ,7 '? T'^ ^rant it. 
 ameliorated state, andXested „f I '"' ''"'"sht into an 
 tive property. <■ The wolf ar, A/ , 'T '^"6" "nd destruc- 
 and the lion^hall eatZawji tLrn 'Y^ ^''^ ^gether, 
 ho the serpent's »oat. Xy sh'f !•„" '^S' """^ ^'^' ^^aH 
 all my holy mountain, safthfhfwd"' '"' '""'^""^ i» 
 
 "ndrene;ed!Tndtrefrrlti:nTr^%r'''' ^ ^^anged 
 dies will be itered. "p'lT.t .'?.*';'' ■*or heavenly bo- 
 aiid a new eart), " Ti,._ ,. ',^:"r:^^^^ "fa'o new heavens 
 
 '^ " * - ujoon 
 
 as 
 
 iight of the sun, 'and the 1$ 
 
 be 
 
 c2 
 
 fit of the sun shalj be 
 
 I 
 
 "•I 
 
 jaif^j 
 
58 
 
 TUE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 Bovcn-fold as tho light of seven days, in the day that the 
 
 stroke of their wound. " Isaiah xxx. 26. Then « The 
 Wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them • and 
 - the desert ..hall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It shall 
 blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and sindng 
 the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excelSfy 
 of Carmel and Sharon ; they shall see tho gbry of the Lord 
 and the excellency of our God." " For the^ Loyshall com 
 iort Z,on : he shall comfort all her waste places ; and he shSl 
 make her ^viIderness Uke Eden, and her desert like the 
 OARDEN OF THE LoiiD ; joy and gladness shall be founS 
 therein thank sgiying and the voice of melody." 'instead 
 of the thorn^hall come up tho fir tree, and instead of the 
 
 Lord t """^'7 '^' '^^'?' ''''-' ^"d i* «hall be to ho 
 cut off^' 'iTh' "' an everlasting sign, that shall not be 
 
 rru V .^ '^^'^' ^'2; h. 3 ; Iv. 13. 
 
 These beautiful passages, with many others which mitrht 
 be cited teach us that the curse, pLuncedupor^he 
 fharth/ '^ir^Tvf^ Adam's fall, will be so far Removed 
 that the earth will be restored to nearlv its mridisiV »♦ „* 
 Beauty will take the place of deformu/; an J" rX'ld 
 teeming abundance, will be the sub <titutes for bSne^ 
 
 the plowman Bhah overtake the reaper, and the treader of 
 grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains hdl drop 
 sweet wme and all the hills shall melt." Amos ix 13^ 
 Then will be fulfilled the divine predictions, '!\hey;han 
 
 tTem^r hTtl'irV m"''" ^'^^ ^^^ heat'nor stTsS 
 ■ u .1, f^""* ¥^^ ^^^«y on them shall lead them 
 even by the springs of water shall he guide them " S' 
 the redeemed of the Lord shall RETiiBN,\nd come with i"' 
 
 In S^^^^^'mT'-'u^^^' ^"^ «^'«^ and mournb^ 
 shall flee away." Isaiah xlix. 10 • li H "^uxuq 
 
 mnZ nf^'' ^'''''^^! ""/ Scripture, 'it is foretold, that tho 
 
 to that which was divinely established among the Jews. 
 
 I Kings IV. 25. "AndJudahand Israel dwelt Tfplv 
 every man under his vine and fi^-tree. Zt Zf ff"^^' 
 I5ew8heba, ail the days of Solomon." ' — —- 
 
 i-^ 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 55 
 
 met ; and these like Judah andLacl i„ T. J° ""; 
 SolomoD, shall dwell in peace and safotv Z ^'^' "^ 
 shall sit under his own vi„A ,„,i « , ^ ' • ?" °™^> """» 
 
 §ivhlod aJong r,n inl'^fna t^ • td' tf '^''""" 
 
 prayed the fashionVhi. coun.^nn^Xtiterfd tn'd' ht 
 raiment was white and Blistering An^ S I'j ., 
 talked with him two monfS S'ere^l^„\»"' "j"" 
 who appeared in glory. „„i spake of hisdelse wMeh h^ 
 diould accomplish at .' rasalem. Bnt V.^'^a 7u.*v^! 
 
 TwaL^.t '''"' T'" 'J'""^ "'* '■''^P^ aVd when tfeTwere 
 awake they saw h,s glory, and the two men that sto^d w'S 
 
 I 
 
60 
 
 THE MlLLENmUM, 
 
 Peter stlf.l^i T' * V' ^ ^^'y *^«Parted f«,m him 
 for Moses, and one for RUn«. ««* • , ®' ^"^ °°® 
 
 loved Son: hear him " '"^' "'^"'«- '"^ '« "'ybe- 
 
 The Apostle Peter expressly informs us thnt «, ,i • ,■ 
 
 viouil^^V^dtuh'&JlnTpr IV: a'"dT P^^ 
 Sr^H^K rhTllfttl ^?«-»'nThe 
 glory and thTh"„o'uH 'fo t."' xt ^dstf the"l '""f 
 are clear and decisive. " For we ha^ „^, f » "^P™"" 
 mngl, devised fables, when we Tade k„owi f ° T" 
 power and coming of our Urd W ri, "? ? ° y°" *''° 
 witnesses of his ma^estv F„r if ^.'>™'. >>"' were eje 
 Father honour anTSv JZ }C '"'^""^ ^""^ ^°^ '^e 
 
 aea.n.heaj;£--witer£^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 h'^^.?^?"^-'"^"? together, we see something of 
 
 ir Urd's millennial reign with 
 
 greatly abridged; r™^dis^t,Tnr„al'X:i"l ■" 
 more; intercourse with God will li direct .n.I.t "" 
 
 of mercy immediate; the cr"at on w ImL ^ ,• ^^PT" 
 the bondage of corrnDtion«„?! 1 "* .^''"""^d from 
 
 and settS 14 shT™ n'iVX^f knh ITt ''""'' 
 
 o:rrdriithf»''„^.^"'^ '-'-i^^- X-^iilts 
 
 of^el^at;^^— P^dTC^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 -u.jcc« or rm« kingdom. This last fact is taught cKar^ 
 
 byth 
 upon 
 sembl 
 flamiii 
 fence.' 
 Thi 
 tinue 
 will be 
 the na 
 ernmei 
 howevc 
 denly j 
 out of 
 given— 
 volence, 
 malevol 
 warfare 
 This 
 rection 
 ;' And ] 
 it, from 
 and ther 
 dead, sm 
 were ope 
 book of i 
 which we 
 And the 
 and hell < 
 they were 
 death and 
 second de 
 the book 
 11-15. 
 A final 
 m the ea: 
 being remc 
 his Sod, fo 
 self, and n 
 degree of gl 
 uum giory 
 character. 
 
■w 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. gj 
 
 f mblies, a cloud and smollTS ^"'"', °?^ '"P»" ''«■• <«- 
 flamine fire bv mVlV. f ^ ''''^' '"'<' 'he ehinine of a 
 
 fence/ itiariv t '"' "•"" "" «■» SW ^h"" be^ L 
 
 This blessed state, the Aoosflp TnT,« * i 
 tinue a thousand years Then ^-^ ''•' "'' ''"^ «°"- 
 
 will be loosed for aCson. Ho wift ^''''°"'^^ ^^"'^^^ 
 the nations most remote from Z 1 ^^'^.P^^^^^^ deceive 
 ornment, and rouse Them bo rlmon'' ^tT'^^'I'^.?^^- 
 however, will not be permitforl fn ^ x"^ rebellion, 
 
 denly raised, and asSl ,^ T^'f' ^^ ^^" be sud- 
 
 out of heaven;wm Lvour hem^"''^^^;, ^''' ^^^"^ ^od, 
 g^ven^That i'f the ZIZ ^'eZ^ oLjecS T^' "^^^ H 
 volence, they are no longer suscontiK "^^ .^'^^'^ "^ale- 
 malevolence, nor are thev reonfrnl/ ""{'^J^^y from that 
 warfare will be past ^ ^ ''^ *° '°"^^^' ^^'h it. Their 
 
 -S atdtal ti^dilLrX'i ^^1, ^^"-^ -- 
 " And I saw a trreat wh.^f! fi ^ ^P°'*' J<^J»» says— 
 
 it,from whose C the tth'nd'tt'l,''^'" 't' ''' ^- 
 and there w,s found no pk for Ihtm T, t'^ ^^^'^^^ 
 dead, smal and great stan^ w n\ ^^^ ^ »aw the 
 were opened: Lfanotht bnnl ^'^' '""^ *'^^ ^^oks 
 book of life: and the d^^^ ^ -T T°"^' ^^ich is the 
 which were VrTt?enTn tl H f •'"^^'^ "^* ^^ *bose things 
 And the searavTl the d-^ i'-T''^'"S '' *beir worlfs 
 and hell delivS VtL d-d" w^^^^^^ ^" ^' ' ^^ ^^^'^ 
 they were jud-ed everv mnn ol -i- ""V '"^ ^^em ; and 
 death and LlutSTntr 1 J"^ ^.^'' ''''^'- And 
 second death. And w W^^^^ f^°-. This is the 
 
 the_^b.k of life waa^:^ir jt^oft::^^ t!::\i" 
 
 in Ihe'lr^thtaJ^ X ^elo^ "^r^?.^^^ ^^ ^atan 
 being removed, God who hadnf • ' P'"""'' displeasure 
 bis «0D, for the sp^o of a thl ^'""T^'^y ^^^S^^d through 
 self, and renew the earth «n.?'"^ ^'"''' ^''"" ^«°^« bim- 
 d^ree ofglory and birS;r^y?-i.._^« ,« stili higher 
 
 iiie Apostle thus describes the final state of 
 
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 i 
 
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62 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away 
 
 nrl' 7 »^er"saleni, coming down from God out of heaven 
 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I 
 heard a great voice out of heaven, saying Behold the 
 tabernacle of God is with men, and He wilfdweS among 
 beTifhl*^'^ «tall be his people, and God himsel?3 
 be with them, and be their God. And God shall wine 
 
 TeTlT '"" *'^^^ '^'^ '. ^"^ ^^-^ «^^" be no iZ 
 aeatn, neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there bp 
 
 any more pain : for the forme/ thfn'gs are passed away Ind 
 He that sat upon the throne said-Behold, I make all 
 things new And He said unto me, Write, fo; therwords 
 are true and faithful." Rev. xxi 1—5 
 
 id r^'^T/r"' ^" ^**^°^P''' *^ ^^PJai« OT to paraphrase 
 this beautiful passage, or the remaining part of this book 
 n which the subject is contin:ied. All attempte to do 
 S- "17 °P^°T' ""^"^^ only obscure the light which the 
 reading ot these chapters imparts to the mindfand dhn the 
 glory which IS here so cKarly and so strikingly regaled 
 The happiest attempts which I have seen to embody these 
 fhl f'?^ of heavenly felicity in human composition are 
 
 Mw Creatton," works, vol. vi, p. 288: and the noet 
 Cowper, m his " Winter Walk at Mon." ^ 
 
 r^ow the Son will deliver up the kingdom to tho Pathpr 
 and reign in visible subordinaLn to hi^m, That God may be 
 all in all ; and now the saints, who shall have reigned with 
 tor Lord for a thousand years, shall enter upon^an intlr 
 
 toSeFa'ur Vt'^T''^ .S^^^^' ^'^^ ^^ s^ubordinatron 
 ™ !n? .; *^? ^^"' '^'^ ^' ^^"g« ^"d priests for 
 EVER and EVER. I Cor. xv. 24— 28- Rev xxii ft 
 Now they wiU enjoy the full reward of theh 'd 4nce 
 and sufferings m the cause of Christ; and be disti uished 
 bygloryandfe city from -the nations of them that are 
 
 buTnot I ° v'" ""'^^ >^ '^ ''^^' «^ *h« ^^^^venly city! 
 inhln^ . . "'^r\?{'^' It is true that these last^shal 
 
 ^ilZ^ •"•'°/^? ^^'"^ "^*^ ^^*^ »«* «een nor ear heard; 
 but to be lomt heirs with r.y,^ia^^^^^ ^u _.vi. i •_"".' 
 
 throne-to eat and driniTaiHis tabic- tol "S^^LZ 
 
 of hi 
 
 light 
 
 ligen 
 
 we b( 
 
 Chris 
 
 First- 
 
 hame, 
 
 Th 
 
 steadi! 
 
 durin« 
 
 in per; 
 
 men; 
 
 that ar 
 
 shall bi 
 
 shall hi 
 
 We ma 
 
 Rev. 
 in the t 
 I yfiW y^ 
 of the 
 Cometh 
 upon hii 
 John 
 sions: if 
 prepare i 
 for you, ; 
 where I 
 Apostle <: 
 Rev. X 
 salem, coi 
 bride ado: 
 Rev. X2 
 be in it : 
 
 These j 
 preparing 
 and placed 
 the Son, ai 
 ineffable g 
 renewed, n 
 We now 
 
*HE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 }!s^t%tmtiyUZt fAtf^ "fhfa high behests of 
 I'gont creatures, andThe !,„ f^t'"'' '° "" "^ers of intel 
 we believe to be' Sd tHw^^ 't^'""' "^^'^ 4iS. 
 Chnst, shall also reigr with Wm ' ^"T^ '"^"^^ ^i* 
 First-born, whoso names are wrta;„T\"" ^^""''^ "f'te 
 hame. ■"'" ""'ten m heaven.— C„„.-«^. 
 
 «toadif/™lrn'lirtltv'''",°? "^'"^ -'H and 
 dwingthe period in whTehS'„''?''T'^'' ""^ "» ofGod: 
 «■ person from the emh and i^°5'' "^f™? Christ is absen 
 men; shall be distingShed ^^^Tl ""-^ ejected of ' 
 that are saved,^' not oSlybvthpdl.-- ''^"''°' "ftem 
 «ha be invested, but afso bt the TT ««"">!* they 
 shall be entitled. On this subfeet tl.. « •'"^ ** "'''* «"=y 
 We may notiee a few pasLger ^""P'"''-* "^e explicit. 
 
 J^ev. iii. 12 " Vfim *i, i. 
 in the temple of my God anSTTlt^ ^"' ^ ^^ke a pillar 
 I wm wri£ upon hXlJ:'^'^ ^^.^ ^^'^ ^^*^-«d 
 «^ the city of my God, wS j^ ^ ^?^' "'^^ ^^^ "«»»« 
 Cometh down out of heLn from' f p""/''"'"^'™' ^^^°h 
 upon him my new name '' ""^^ ^''^•' ^nd I wili write 
 
 John xiv. 2 -J " Tr, * ^ i 
 
 «ions: if itweVe'not so7w!!u'l^""'' «^^ niany man- 
 prepare a place for ;ou''' iTdlriZ" 'f ^^"- ^ -^« "<> 
 for you I wiJI come aijain and r J.? ^''^ P^'P"'" ^ P^^^o 
 where I am, there ye^'Cy "be S '' ^OP ^,?»^«f^^i that 
 Apostle John says, "^ ^f this place the 
 
 -!em,Y.Sn| dr,^"t"God Z ojh™ '^ ""^' "^^ J''™- 
 bride adorned for her husband" ^"'"'™''' P'^Pared as a 
 
 PT^j^g^-s, ::isfe: z b?rt ''-'"■"=". - 
 
 and placed upon the earth Lk^.1,^^ ^^r^^S^* from heaven 
 
 ' renewing change takes place in the 
 
 I i 
 
 
64 
 
 THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 hL kintal ''^ ^^ *^' ^""'^ J^«"« C^ri«^ to establish 
 his kingdom among men, at the commencement of the Mil- 
 lennium; and that a>r^Aer change takes place after tht 
 general resurrection and judgment.^ After tKst of be e 
 
 • aSSon 'r ^■'''' \* ""^ ' ^ «*^" P-«^bl^ for ind viS 
 and nations to sm, and to suffer in consequence of sin The 
 
 i^fr/riq*'"^ fr i^p'^^^^^^ Isaiah u; 20' 
 
 takes' n/'Llr •,?."* ^''' *^" '^'^"^ «*"^hese changes 
 
 oftransgressir;;^ll.'owrdeL,'e'd^^ 
 
 inh^lnrfarT^I" '^ ''''''''' >^' *^^ -- "«^^^^^^^ 
 be fSfilled ' F uTT'f^ ^.""^^ ^^^^ ^^^a^am will 
 will T tf. •. ^i""".^ J^^ ^^'^'^ ^^^°^ t^ou seest, to thee 
 wiU I g ve It, and to thy seed for ever." During h^ 
 
 fi?l T ^fn °f ^^^«.t«"«e' Abraham did not rec^e £?ful 
 
 a^e ?n t no "T"'' V'^^ «^ ^ave him none hher! . 
 
 roiL"ed\LVhi::^^^^^^^^^ i>r ^"^ ^^^- '^ 
 
 now Shan L f'lfin i^l '"'"i"' ^' *^"* ^^^* ^^ "^^ fulfilled 
 
 ^od Behold n ^^^ l^ereafter " Thus saith the Lord 
 
 ^od Jiehold, my people, I will open your grates and 
 
 Tthe Lord -h? ?\^',?f ' ^"'^ y^ «^^" ^"ow that ! 
 am tne J.ord when I shall have opened your graves O mv 
 
 people, and brought you up out of yourVrlves and sh^i^ 
 
 put my spirit in you', and'ye shall Ze, SdTshaH place 
 
 you m your own land; then shall ye know that T th! 
 
 "Ld'rvT^r/Sf'?*^ P^^^°^"^^^ il saitrtfelor ' ' 
 And they shaU dwell m the land that I have given un o 
 
 «r «n «f ^^fS^herein your fathers have bweIt Ind 
 chifd^i ^M '^'''^"' '^'y ^«d th^^ir childrerand the" r 
 
 ~tr.t^7^" ^"^"" ^''^' ^--- 1^-1^ 2! 
 
 eye^thl'ILv H?'r^7-*r^^^^"*^^ P«t^^^^^^^ had an 
 
 be 'stTanlrl /nf 'V°- ^'"^' ^".^ °^"^«^^««^ themselves to 
 De strangers and pilgrims on the earth. And bv th^Z 
 
 promises we are kught the reason why ^ht pious jZl 
 
 expect a perpetuity of happiness in ihJo^n C'-JT 
 
 --.UU-.TCU earta, while the suffering believer in Christ looks 
 
 Tl 
 
 is to 
 does 
 for a 
 good 
 liverei 
 its Cr 
 witJi ^ 
 and g] 
 the ea 
 with a 
 satisfm 
 goodne 
 VI. 
 
 PROPH 
 
 CHRON( 
 
 It h 
 
 phecies 
 plexity 
 fact she 
 at the sa 
 ligjsnce. 
 
 understa 
 do." j 
 
 proved I 
 
 pivine t] 
 
 in the he 
 
 and the < 
 
 coming ; 
 
 Lord," , 
 
 rebuked I 
 
 ye hypocr 
 
 ye not disc 
 
 passages t< 
 
 eye upon 
 
 logical prei 
 
fVit 
 
 fooks 
 
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 A DO 
 
 lor a still higher r^lorv wiM, i,- t , 
 heavenly JefusalerV;' 'f, L"/ ""^ f-'"" i" the 
 butthe faithful servants of rtit "■''''"' »« ^^mnts; 
 fjo, and join. hei^^-fh^X? Sf-_%Vr 
 
 does for ever-his work isleZZt^ ^^^ ,^7«' ^oes, he 
 for a season to desolate the works "fr i" u^ ^' P'™^^*^'^ 
 pod will be brought out of I Th! ^^'-^"'^ everlasting 
 jvered from the bondage of ctrrunHo '''''!,"" .'^^" ^' ^^- 
 its Creator's glorj. The sun nf'T ' ^''^ ^^«^"ed with 
 With greater splendour tlU^^^^^^^ «I^all shine 
 
 and gladden the ejes and hearts nT. ^'l l'-""^^'^ ^^^^h, 
 the earth, delivered from theTurs^^^^^ inhabitants. And 
 with abundance and abounr? S\v ^^''■^""^»^''' sh«" teem 
 satisfaction of mankind andTth^!^ ^ *^^ j«^ ^«d 
 goodness. ' ""^ *^ "»e glorj of its Maker's 
 
 PHl/HEcfEf CwsTeaI'Ih^ ^'^LEIL.ENT OE THE 
 CHRONOLOGISTS AND Tnt «mv« ^"^ H^CKONING OF 
 
 , It ha« been alread v s li *.. .^\ ^°^ ^'^^s. 
 Phecies are the lefs utd tooVa:'. '''' ^l-^^olegical pro- 
 Plexity and diversity amonfthp f ^ ""^'"'^^^ ^^' "^'^«*P«r- 
 fact should teach uVrutfoll °^'^P'''P'^^«3^- This 
 
 at the same time, it should „" h '^^P'."''^^"^' '^' «"bject 
 ^•S^nce. We rekd '7 he child' r'^."? " '''''^ ^^'W 
 understanding of the times It" «^ J^sachar, that had 
 ^0." I Chron. xn 32 ' W.^"r ^«^^* ^^''^^^ ^"g^t to 
 Proved bj the prophet JeremTaht' .?°? -'^^ J«^« ^e- 
 J^ivine things, i„ the followL i ^°' *^''^'' inattention to 
 
 m the heaveTknoweth ST^^^^^^^^ '^' ^^ork 
 
 and the crane, and tL sw.E " K *'^1 ' ""^ *^« ^"'•tle 
 ;oni'ng ; but my peonle\' 1 ' ^'V ^'^« <^"»e of their 
 ^ff ' Jer. vifi.r7nd tTe T '^'' J?^^'"^"^ ^^ ^'"e 
 rebuked by our Lord, ^uteouentlv T ^^^ ''''*' ''''''^^^ 
 ye hypocrites, ye cai dis^eJ^tft^^' *^.''"^^ ^^"J*- " 
 ye not discern^he signs orthet^i^^^^ ^«t «an 
 
 passages teach us th"e plrLtv «n 1 '"' ^"^- ^- T»^^«« 
 
 eye UDon thp «;„«„ ...^v P"^^y ani necessity of kp^nln^o. 
 %ical predic'tionrn? w^Lr '^f/ ^'^^ also upc- -'--"-'-" 
 
 predictions Of Holy Writ. 
 
 upon 
 
 ^hro 
 
 no- 
 
66 
 
 THE MlLtmmVM. 
 
 author bad -kBdoned,,^ ^ "' '''^^i-a" vifc^^o™ 
 
 *;^^TtS)TEn TKT o '^^'^^^"AL USES OF TwrsT^«, 
 
 cSe?X to'"' ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 working whereby he i, «l>i " ^ ^^y- aocordine to tfc! 
 h.maelf." "^ "» " "We even to subdae ail Z^J^l 
 
 •Matt. xxJT. 42 44 „m i , 
 
 Man eom^eth.^' '" '"* ■«■ "<- - ye 'Mnt^Jottst^f 
 
 " Let your Joins be 
 
 
 UD 
 
 the 
 
 say 
 
 sit 
 
 ifh 
 
 and 
 
 J 
 
 the I 
 
 for t 
 
 for ii 
 
 aJso 
 
 Lord 
 
 breth 
 
 befor 
 
 Re 
 
 which 
 
 Rei 
 
 rewan 
 
 shall h 
 
 Col. 
 
 those i 
 
 right h 
 
 not on 
 
 life is ] 
 
 life, shi 
 glory." 
 
 Such 
 
 apostles, 
 
 of holin 
 
 tept the 
 
 upon the 
 
 of their 
 
 were zeal 
 
 for mart^ 
 
 and a plj 
 
 ^ife itself 
 
 the ancien 
 
 •-his subje( 
 
interpreters, 
 d assume as 
 le term day 
 
 'Pa«y is the 
 Man nf gjn 
 
 ^^ trrh oi 
 
 ^aj k to h: 
 
 ; thattl. 
 
 oh, ,vlio .>;5! 
 
 tile latter 
 ews of the 
 
 se view.,; 
 
 '^>jh our 
 
 *INE, AS 
 
 2 TO DO 
 THE Se- 
 
 lie great 
 
 3 only a 
 ' taught 
 
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 Javen 
 
 itt '^v-,' ^^-d a:;t or^ar,^^ *^^^^ -«' 
 
 the coming of the Lord ^R!r.S ^^^'^^^'^' brethren unto 
 for the precious fru^? of th^ ^^?i ^^" ^"«^«ndman wS 
 
 £i8o patient ; establish your hearts f T' '^^"- ^^ ye 
 ■L<ord draweth nieh rJrL ' ^^^ ^^e comin^^ of f ho 
 
 ^oi. 111. 1 4 " Tf L 
 
 ►5uch IS the WAV ,•«!.•, • 
 
 apostles, pressed uTon°th:';:ti: jf "'^^^ ^^^^^'^ and his 
 of^ holiness, watchfulness ^1? *^^^ ^"S^* ^he iecessitv 
 tept the attention of /h!?\P*^'^"°^' ^^^ fidelity tT^ 
 
68 
 
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 so, it must follow iLv\,M "^"l"" "'""' "'"' ''• And if 
 
 sent time islrTdrdSti ^ ''1*^'?^ f "^^ 
 not made promioent r «„ ' "''"''' ""' ''«""''« " 
 
 able with innovation Z? """"'"'" "««e f'ews are cliar«- 
 
 charKeable with forsa'k^.. th. „U T.T''" ?PP"'" "'^'» »■•'' 
 declare the whole eounS nf P /""•.'' ''.'"' "'"'""'"g «» 
 doctriuo whioh haaS^n held 1 'fr'^^-i^^i-^the 
 all age.. Let us trv tht vi^^ ',,: !ll T ''j'' 9'"'"'h '" 
 
 J^etustr,th„vi;ws,.ere.UJ^h;Stt, 
 
 SifSt1he^at<^7r^^^^^ 
 
 and adds that of the Gre^fcXt,^' "k"* '•'"' .""''''' M^"""'' 
 
 rni;or^;rr^re^i:i-^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 last judgment- the r;.r • j *'"?"'■"' '■<>s''--™tion and 
 Christ; aCdthc'eitlTno'^"?-'"'' ?f ''^^'''■'"ion of Anti- 
 were not ltwbrth:rasC."f „'""•'•'" T'*"' ''''«- 
 trines of divine revelaUon "^ ""°''' *>"' «^ '»'"=■ 
 
 tui&nd'Cta'I'tiurwhrV' ""' ^""" ^"'hors, Ter- 
 Tn H,J ^*^^*"""s, whom he quotes, and acids V 
 
 increa r/c^rp^^rdilineV'"" "' .^-""-■.>'y and 
 the latter davsTh^ distinotlj recognized as a fbatire of 
 
 miUenntl advent Th« fiS"""^ "'^ "" """ °^ ='". *''« P"--^ 
 sUto, the kintdom of o */rT^™^ J'™"'^'" 
 
 rene;al ofSe earth and Hk"""^ *''"'*=" ^''"». *« ' 
 who^ world', rit "plSd rut""""' "^^«'"- "^'"^ 
 
 anitf^^t ttrs:^r3:l^r-^^ «^ ^^- 
 
 d^tSl ^S%T °""l™»« «' f«»»d^in the «rm.n. 
 
 nnn nA?¥i 
 
 ;i: ^ x>. : " _ """° «*« Auuna m tne sermons 
 
 -»c= ui ^isuop Lratimer, in the writings of the 
 
 niartyi 
 
 Tynda 
 
 they \^ 
 
 Noncot 
 
 abunda 
 
 Anaba] 
 
 with H 
 
 were er 
 
 in his : 
 
 rated i 
 
 Jici). Ji 
 
 Witl 
 
 greater 
 
 about S( 
 
 in the 1 
 
 ministr 
 
 Rev. R 
 
 Cox, W 
 
 and tau 
 
 dred mi 
 
 tion to 
 
 Europe^ 
 
 ;• Behol( 
 
 indepeni 
 
 views an 
 
 of God, 
 
 present i 
 
 if we tui 
 
 jects, w( 
 
 pervertiri 
 
 in which 
 
 It is g 
 
 ofprophc 
 
 learn. I 
 
 and plaii 
 
 and alleg 
 
 necessary 
 
 ing of tl 
 
 Scripture 
 
 uumparati 
 
 the stude; 
 
THE JIILLENNIUM. 
 
 69 
 
 martyr Bradford, and, in an indistinct form in tho^p of 
 Tyndal, Luther, and Calvin. In the contTiVy follow nj 
 they were more widely entertained by the Puri ana and 
 Nonconform 8ta, as their works, which o now extant 
 abundantly Wy. Owing, however, to the errl of the 
 
 with many still there were some who hold them. Thev 
 were embodied by the Rev. John Fletcher, Vicar of Madel/ 
 in his admirable "Ze/^er on M6 Prophecies r and incorho- 
 
 ReiKJohi Wesley, m Notes on Rev. xx. 4—6 
 
 Withm the last twenty years the subject has had a 
 greater share of attention than formerly. lam tdd tlr t 
 tt.Tl ^"J^r^^/l-gy-- of the itablished hu c 
 m the United Kingdom, zealously teach it in their public 
 
 European eontment, in different places, the cry i, rLnn- 
 
 ;• Behold, the bridegroom cometh." Yoi will now see tTaT 
 
 independently of Sciptural tqstimony, we can tLe S 
 
 views among the more pious and intelligent of the Church 
 
 nL.n?' "" fven hundred years before Christ to the 
 
 present moment. They are therefore, no novelties. And 
 
 If we turn to the testimony of Holy Scripture on thesetub 
 
 jects, we find no means of evading their truth exccnt bv 
 
 perverting or rejecting the plain literal meaning of Xwords 
 
 m which these testimonies are given 
 
 It is generally found by thosS who commence the study 
 of prophecy that they have not so much to learn as toTn^ 
 learn. Misled by interpreters, who depart from the lite al 
 and p ain meann.g of the sacred writeVs, they spiHtSe 
 and allegorize th< ,r words until a second Revelation is made 
 
 l^TfTh *r?^^V'T.*« ^^"^^^«*^"d and fix th ran! 
 mg of they^;..^ By this unhappy means the prophetic 
 Scriptures are made of no effect, and half th. muXJl'^ 
 cumparatively, useless to the Christian Church. But^whrn 
 the student reads the predictions of the second advent and 
 
 i 
 i 
 
 it 
 
70 
 
 THF. MILLENNIUM. 
 
 believes that they will bo i<« Ii*/»,.«ii„ i 
 filled as those hav^e bl wWch fon ol tit t."^^«% ^"1- 
 and death of the Lord lTurrhr[«/ [ ^' ^''^b "''''^^H 
 a new book, Those mrfr'vr' ^^ ""'^^^ ^^« ^^'ble as 
 telligible before now r^tnl''' "PP^'"'*^ "^^'^ «"^^ ""i"- 
 to a°great rxtent fiTon tht'' T"^ ?? '^^"^ understood 
 than refer -- second ^l'"^''/i^'"""^ ^" ^^"^^ 
 
 ;^raotin. ,.. ^ Strops '' ^f" ^'^^^^^^'^ 
 digest tun t!.apter vou will Ko , ^^ ^^^ ^^'«<^ and 
 
 notice a few difficulties which'you hlvetu "'' """^ 
 
 It H objected that our Lord savs'^T.nL- .-, 
 oometh not with obier ^U ^\^;}'S^om ofGod 
 
 here I or lo, there I foT behnhl ,1 Z^^f ^^"^y ""^ ^^^ 
 within you." The auestlon ' "" ^'"f *'"^ ^^' ^"^ is 
 'vaa whJn should the "S^Z TZVl f\ ^^^'^"^^^'^ 
 our Lord teaches them tW if oiT i^ T ^ ^" ''°'^^''' 
 cealed or doubtfn Znrer L^l^ "'^ '"•"" "' * ««"* 
 those who said see }ZT7' 1 '^^ ™"«* "^^^ Relieve 
 God is witWn Vou hidLrat?' '" *he kingdom of 
 to follow thoseUo said the .^^^^^^ they were not 
 
 desert, or in the^ecrefc itmh/ ^^^ ^^'^'=^^ ^« '" the 
 shone from one pa of H 'fvert^ t^rf. '' '^' t'«^^*"^"« 
 publisso glorio'us s^l7^:tonVZ\T^^'^^^^^^ 
 'Every eye shall see him." -X /). Tr/V/ '"'a^^' 
 '''^oc., and AhdieVs Essays. ^^'''''' ' ^^^'' 
 
 We are also reminded of our Lord's worrl« » m i 
 dom IS nof of this world " Tk;. • ' ^^^ ^"»g- 
 
 The baptism of John wt from H?''' "' "^difficulty. 
 
 origin, yet it wiH be estah 1J\ t.u' /^ ^^ ^'^^°*^ 
 
 jes., a^^ peace X^i^l V^tth Jt^-£-- 
 partakers of the kingdoi of od '' Knf, L ^"^ ^^ 
 
 -•, auv* jojf m the H - ( 
 
 lae^. 
 
 3t, do make m fit to be 
 
THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 71 
 
 partakers of that kingdom. I C vi. 9, 11. Col. iv. ll.~ 
 Aff Koppe (.11 the Kingdom of i avert. 
 
 I have now given you a nketch (if the views of your 
 tollow Christians, who believe in the speedy coining and 
 personalreignofour Lord Jesus Christ in the earth. In 
 doing this I have drawn your attention to those Divine 
 testimonies which we bf^lieve must be rejected or perverted 
 It these views are not admitted. 
 
 Let me then, in conclusion, urge upon you the necessity 
 ot taking heed to the sure word of prophecy. You will feel 
 the want of it in the dark time of trouble which lies before 
 us, and which already is gathering around us, and in con- 
 sequence of which men's hearts are failing them for fear 
 1 hat blessed word will inspire you with holy fortitude, and 
 teacli you, m your patience, to possess your soul. It will 
 show you that, after a short tempestuous season of fiery 
 trial to saints then living, and of judgments upon corrupt 
 churches and a guilty wor the- Saviour will appear to 
 establish his kingdom in the world. And not only so, but 
 It will admonish you to watch and pray always, that you 
 mav be accounted worthy to escape all these things that 
 ahall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man 
 I hat you my dear friend, may be found by your Lord in 
 peace, without spot and blameless, is the desire and prayer 
 ofyour faithful friend, ^ ^ 
 
 \\ 
 
 OMICRON. 
 
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 II 
 
 i«~*S°'^ spojiks road 8|)enk. 
 
 24 p'^n t?'^* ''''' *"^ 2^''' i '■^* ''^ 20th and 2l8t 
 
 3lZL^^r«:'rrd'^J?::r'^'-^*''^"''^^- here foretold. 
 
 3G-.Forj..gment, read judgment. 
 i7— For Psalm 1, rend Psalm I. 
 38— Displacement of letters 
 T.,„ '*^r^'''' P«&« 14, read page 16. 
 
 ptT- "" """""""= "'"' ""■er-s„bj.ct5 : Partridge- 
 
 fu,^Ttrsrs':c""t'rar„ rr' 'ir '"-«^«""n, ,„, 
 
 valuable. They b,Z ou ™n„ .k"""" ""'"'P"" °"'«l' «"'«» i> 
 aud condition duriSg tho .CLe of the Lord ' "'' '"" •""" 
 
 even in faTo^e i taXf4^?be?ner^J^; '""'»" "fP-P-lation, 
 lieentiousnes, incrcakin, i„ r„,irZ„,/T«'';j'''-''K'=°'™- 
 po,u,latio„_haale„i„; ,* L" HchlE'" !?"° '^.V^T "' 
 formitjr of Christians to the worid «„d t^^-, »eolth-and con- 
 
 are said, many of them, no^ to beTeve th^^^^^^^^ -- ^ Missionaries 
 conversion is not to be effected bv the n?pVonf o^th. world's 
 
 i»".her j'norrearre;;;i;rn't calfCor 'r"h'"-'"/-" "™''"''' 
 everjrwhere the gospel o'f tt^ gr.° of God?''™"''"V'.°„':T'' 
 
nt out 
 
 
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 Daries 
 'Othi's 
 
 
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 facts 
 
 
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 hs-Ies. 
 
 
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