The Second Advent of Christ CLEVELAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8. 1843. � N%, G. REV. C. FITCH, Enrroit. � [Please Read and Circulate.] 'I'. H. SMEAI), Pt ltt.t~rul:tt. ol. 1. --; - 'The tbice of weeping shall no more be heard • are the only true Jews and children of Jertisa- in her, nor the voice of crying.' Now, this lem; so that there are no promises of testorn- cannot be true if there is death there. � Whet ; lion, or conversion, to the literal deseetidams then does the 'gulls verse meant Let us cx- I of Abraham, more than to any other class of amine it. There is to be new heavens and a sinners. new tarth. The iiiliabitante are to corms- � •Itut,' says the objector, 'the Jews must be pond with such a regeneretion; then there brought in with the fullness of the Geteiles;' :oust be no more heiplemess, or, this would and he adds—ohes Bible language.' 11,u; prodsce both sorrow and crying, which are spake a Doctor of Divinity of this city.— not to exist in that state. But, will not the Wed, Doctor, where in the Bible de you lied helpless infants enter that world who li•ave such language? Please tell us. Ass. No this world in all their helplessness? Y., where! Its not there! Its only in the Doc- But w hen they enter there they sled/ be as tor's Creed! That's all! But is there hos perfecily free from helplessness es though thing that sounds like it in the Bible'! Per- they had died a 'thumbed years old." eThe haps there is; hut when D. D.'s tell us such child shall die a hundred years old:" or, lie words are 'Bible language,' they should be careful that they quote correctly. The por- tion of Scripture, doubtless, referred to. it Rom. 11: 25—'For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this nisstery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits,) that blindness in part is happened to Israel. until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.' Now if this verse proves the return, or con- version of the Jews, it proves also that it will not take place, UNTIL the fullness of Gc,iiilee be cone is.' Of course, there is to be no more of the Gentiles converted after the bringing in of the Jews commences; and as I understand, the aforesaid Doctor thinks the return of the Jews is to commence tins year, his doctrine is as fatal to the Gentiles as ours. Let all of them who are not Jews, be aroused to seek salvation immediately—this year, re- member, 'our enemies themselves being judg- es,' probation is to cease to the Gentiles. As the strength of the whole arguineie, far ns the New Testament is cencerned, lies in the I t th chapter of Romans, I will give that chapter a fu'l examination. proud Jews. arid they ended in rebellion a- not. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Be- � i dred years old shall die as a young rust." � First. Who was the apostle addressing in gainst God's purposes, and blasphemously hold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be I A note in the margin says, "Meaning in this I that chapter? The 13th verse will tell said, they would not be pot on a level with the hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but woLriofyirescoration of the church there shall, Tor i speak to you Gentiles, inuesouch as I Gentiles; and they have labored for 18J91 ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall be no weaRne-s-s—of youth nor infirmities orrani the apostle of the Gentiles, I Inagua's' years to keep up a •wall' of distinction, which rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed. Behold, my age, but all shall be fresh and flourishing: mine office. IVIeit.was his controversy with the purpose of God, was to exist no more servants shall sing for joy of lieno, and shall and this is accomplished in the heavenly the Gentile converts.? It is evidently about after his Son broke it dos n by his death up- howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall on the cross. � leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, The Jews, then. have kept themselves 'a for the Lord God shall SLAV THEE, and distinct people.' and have done it in oppesiaion! call his servants by another name.' to the will of God unto this day, a= really and � What language could more forcibly express as criminally Lis drunkards have kept t hem-Ian utter rejection from the very name of being selves 'a distinct people;' and it may just as God's people than that here employed/ Read well be claimed thus God has kept the drunk-' over these verses again and see how careful- ards a distinct people with the design to con- Iv and clearly God distinguishes between the vert them, as to set up such a claim for the Jews, as such. and kis people. That this re- Jews. I repeat it, 111,, Jews are a distinct jection of them foam being his people was to last till the end of this world, see the following verses, when, we are carried down to the new heavens and the new earth; and then God tells his people, whom be shall call 'by anoth- er name,' Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for behold I create Jeru- salem a rejoicing. and her people a joy.'— Weal krusalesn? See Rev. 21: 1, 2, 'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and them was lei inure sea. And I Julin saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, com- ing down fern God out if heaven, prepared as a bride adorned fur her husband.' I lere is a perfect parallel, and when com- pared together, give to at clear idea cf the language of God by Isa , in the verses .under coestileration. The Lord adds, 191h verse, And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, rind joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.' This exactly corresponds with Rev. 21: 4, 'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and them shall be so more death, hei- a clear statement of what constitutes n real Bier sorrow. nor crying, neither shall there child of Abraham, viz: doing •the works of be any more pain: for the former things are Abraham.' Our Lord tells the Jews, in the passed away.' But some will say, the 20th verse of the 65th chapter of Isaiah shows that it-cannot be speaking of the immortal state. Let us see. 'There *hail lee no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that bath not filled his days: forthe child shall die a hundred years old: but the sinner being a hundred years old shall breaceursed.' Now, what is the instreltion intended to be communicated in the verse? Not that there is dying in tbat state, or in the now earth spo- ken of ; for such an interpretation would con- tradiet the 19th rime, which expressly says, The Return of the Jews. INT GEO ISTORItm. It is said, 'The world cannot come to an end et, for the Jews are to be brought in firs':' added, 'God meet have sonic groat design gain, Rev. 3: 9, 'Them of the synagogue of .1 having kept the Jews a distinct people for Satan, which say they•are Jews, and are not, ie last 1800 years;' and, it is asked,— Ibut do lie.' Can any doubt who are mettle by red! Jews in these verses? Are they nut real Christians? While the natural descen- dants of Abraham. as such, or Christians, who are so only in pretence, 'are of the synagogue as error of our opponents, in regard to the of Satan.' In connection with these texts, laws. I will not deny but that they tire a din- see Ruin. 2: 28, 29, ,For he is NOT a Jew :met people; hut, the question is, who has kept which is one outwardly; neither is that cir- :hem so? Our opponents say Cod has; but, I cumeision which is outward in the flesh.— trey it. God has no more kept the Jews a distinct people then he has kept drunkcrds 'a distinct people:' or than he has kept Mormons. or Mahornedane. or Papists, or lairs, or any other class of wicked or deluded men, 'a dis- tict � fact is, God broke clown the •parti;ion wall' between Jews and Gen- tiles by the (lend) of his Son; and never Mien- led that any distinction should exist after 'the regards wicked apostates as real Christians. seed should come to whom the promise was We are here also given to understand distinct- ly, who are Jews under the gospel dispensa- tion--they nre,real Christians. That the literal descendants of Abraham, as such, arc utterly rejected, except on the same conditions of other sinners. See Isa. 85: 11-15, 'But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that pre- pare a table lor that troop, and that furnish the drinke,Dring unto that number. There- people try their own favIt, sad as criminally us drunkard+, or env other class if sinners I shall now call attentien to a levy ti•xts oY Scripture which show that the vat ural descen- nants of A br ihatn, under the gospel, have no peculiar privileges or promise's. See Mett. :3: 9, 'And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God 14 able of them: stones to raise ap children unto Alirahnm.' Thus John he Baptist ley,' the 'axe unto the rout if the t rees' of Jewish prejudice and pride, and gives them to understand that a dispensation is now opening in which Me being a literal descen- dant of Abraham would mail nothing. This was a dreadful blow to Ju,:aism, and it made the 'dry tree' shake to its very roots. Now let us see if our Onviour did net cut it entirely down. See Julio 8: 39, 'They answered and said unto hiss, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them. I ye were Abraham's chil- dren, ye would do the works of Abraham.'— Here is a plain, positive denial that the Jews, as sack, were the children of Abraham; and 44th verse, 'Ye are of your father the devil.' This gives us a clue to the inquiry, who lies kept them a aistinct.peoplet It is their fa- ther. the devil. Let none attribute such a devilish work to God any More. They aro a Mistiest people' because they choose to obey the deed rather than God; and to suppose that their conversion ia to be the result of their serving devils is to suppose that 'God gives to tees a reward for rebellion. Besides, when- ever a Jew is converted, his distinctive char- 'Mee. as a Jew, ceases at once. This allows lialibeir Wag a Ilidibetpeople,bir a work of Jerusalem wheat all sins shell cease and the the nature of that rejection, of which the Jews tears shell be wiped away." On the last were the subjects. It seems, tile Gentiles had clause of the versa. "the sinner being an imbibed the notion that God had utterly re- hundred years old shall be accursed," the jeered the Jews, so that they were pieced be - sante uote says, "Whereby lie showed that yond the reecho'. salvation. Paul undertaktee the Infidels and unrepentant sinners have no to refute that idea, flow does he do it? Let part of this bmediction." � us begin the chapter. 'I say then, bath God Nly explatmti in of this verse has been a di- cast away his people? [That is—has he so gressiou from the main subject; we will now rejected them that there is no salvation for return to that. Sec Rom. 9: 6-8: "Not as them?' God forbid.' But, how do you prove though the word of God bath taken Rene that, Paul? � will tell you,' -ass the epos - effect. For they are riot all Israel, which are Ile. First—'Nor I also am an lsruelite, of of Israel; neither, because they are the seed the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benja- min,' and I have obtained sal% ation. This is my firs: prim!. that God has not cast away the Jews so but that they May have salvation. But, Paul, you are n favored character—have you tiny other proof that God has not put the Jews beyond the reach of his mercy? Yes. says the eostle--.God bath not cast away hie people which he foreknew. 1Vo: ye le t what the Scriptures sattli of Elias'? how lie maketh intercession to God against 1,rael, s :tug, Lord, they have killed thy prophets. and dig- ged down throe altars; and I an) 1,.(t alone, sons to is how � protilines flee made, and not the natural deseend.ints of Abraham. What has become of old Jerusalem and her children? The apostle tells you in the eath verse of this chapter---''For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answeredi the devil and not of God, as God abolishes that distinction when they obey him. Now let us look at Rev. 2: 9, � know the :despite- my of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan.' A- What can the, design les but their conversion o Christianity?' In reply, t rernirk, God has not 'kept the ews a distinct people.' Here is the roil or made.' That 'need is Christ.' See Gal. :el chop. Christ, says Paul to the Ephesians, 2: 14. 'ia our peace, who hash made both one [Jews rind Gentiles] and bath broken down the middle wall cf partition.' To talk about God's keeping 'the Jews n distinct poople,' in the face of such positive declarations of the Bible to the contrary, it seems to me, shows a strong disposition to maintain a theory at all [Ia./Aide The truth fore will I number you to the sword, and ye is, God has abolished all distinction, under the shall all bee' down to the slaughter: because gospel dispensation. between Jews, its the na- when I called, ye did not answer; when tura; descendants of Alealmm, and Gentiles. spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before my That very circumsterice was what enraged the eves, and did choose that wherein l delighted But lie is a Jew which is one inwardly; and shall at once attain to as great perfection as circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, though lie had been at that age when lie left and not in the letter; whose praise is not of this world; and this is given as a reason why men, but of God.' � ..there shall let no more thence an infant of Here inspiration settle: the question, that days," or helpless infants here. They will those whom we call Jews are not Jews: and be at once as capable of taking care of them- God no more regards them as Jews than he selves as though they had left this world 'es regards drunkards as sober men; or, that, he hundred years old." There shall not be there "an old man that bath not filled his days." As there shall he no sorrow from infancy, so there shall be none from age; for, old men whe have �their days, i. e. the righte- ous old men, shall have their "youlk renewed like the eagle," Ps. 103:5, while "the sinner an hundred years old shall be accursed." that is, he shall not enter Met new earth at all: for nothing that is cursed can come there.— This I believe to be the plain sense of this 20th verse. In this interpretation I tam sustained by the reading and notes in some of the oldest Iliblea. Ooe copy, printed before 1380, reads thus. ""'here shall be no inure there it child of years nor tic eld roan that bath not tilled his years; for he that shall be an bun- nom and her sun: fur the son of the bond-wo- man shall not be heir with the free-woman. So then in-edit-en, we are not children of the boridatvoinan, but of the free." Bat where is the Jerusalem to which the promises are made? See 25:1i verse —• 'ant Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the-mother of us all." Thus we learn, that old Jerusalem, or the Jewel, as such, are rejected from the promises of 'God; and. that all the promises pass over wills 'servants' of Geri, who are called 'by another nanis,' iviz: to 'true � 'who of Abraham., arc they all children; but, in Isaac shell thy seed bit called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the ',runtime sire counted fur the seed." Com- pare dint with Gal. 4:28. ••Now we, brethren, [ We. Who? Belierers—whether from a- mime the Jews of l;tilltliaS] as Isaac was, sire the children of promise." Hare the apostle settles the question who are children of promise; and settles it to he those who have foillt in Christ without regard to their previous wither: ity. These are ;lie ter- and they seek my life. Re e � ssiiti answer of God unto him? I have roserved to myself seven thousand man, who hove ni.t bowed the knee to the image of Baal.' The apostle adds—'Even so then at this present time, also, there is a REMNANT according to the election of grace: this is my stowed ar- Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage , gurneot that salvation to the Jews is possible, with her chilldren." Is this old bond-woman I wicked as they are; I rim saved, and a rem- and her children to inherit the promises of next besides are saved.' Paul then proceeds God with real Christians/ See 30 and 31st to say--.And if by grace, then is it no more verses of this chapter—"Neverthelesiw'what of works: otherwise grace is ne more grace. smith the Sur ipiere? Cast out the bond-wo- But if it be of works, then is it no snore grace: oth-,rwise stork is no more work. What then? Israel bath not obtain,,; that which he seeketh fur; but the election lath obtained it, and the rest went blinded. � According as it is wreten, God bath given them the spirit o; slumber, eyes• that they should not see. anti ears that they should not bear;') unto this day: 1Vho were the 'election?' Ans. Paul, and that part of the Jews who embraced the gos- pel: because they 'were obedient to the faith,' (see Acts 6: 7,) the Lord elected, or those them to the enjoyment of • his favor, as his spiritual Israel. Those who did not obey [sec M=111•1111111MIMMIMMEMIN111,1, � changed his purpose of making them the cho- seu vessels through whom he would bless the world. Now let us examine the ORIGINAL PRO. MISES made to the fathers. See Gen. 13: 14, 15, 'And the Lord said unto Abram, af- ter that Lot wns separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, .to thee will 1 give it, and to thy seed for ever.' Now see 17th chapter, 7th and 8th verses, 'And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed niter thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be be grafTed in. Well; because of unbelief a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.-- they were broken off, and thou standest by And I will give unto thee: and to thy seed nf- faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: fur if ter thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, God spared not the natural binnches, take all the land'of Canaan, for an everlasting, pos- heed lest lie also spare not thee. � Behold session; and I will be their God.' therefore the goodness and severity of Ged; on Been which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.' it. � See Rom. 4: 13-16. "For the promise, that he should be the HEIR OF THF: WORLD, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the kw be heirs. faith is made void, and the premiss made of notie elf ct. Because the law work. telt wrath: for where no law is, there is ne transgressiwe � Therefore it is of faith, that; it might be by grace; to the end the promis. might be sure to all the seed; not to that mil:. which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, *Ito is the father nj us all." Now we have found what the inheritance is--who the heirs are—and who the children are to whom the promises are made; not the literal descendants of Abraham. but all who are •of faith.' The world belongs to Christ and his people; they have been persecuted and destroyed out cf the earth; but our Lord is coming to glorify his saints and to destroy his and their enemies, and take possession of the inheritance, after purifying it by fire, and renewing it in glory. But let us examine the subject still further ns to who aro the heirs, and to whom the promises belong. See Gal. 3: 6-9. ..Even as Abraham believed God, and it was ac- counted to him for righteousness; know ye therefore that they which nre of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scrip- ture. foreseeing that God would justly tee heathen through faith, prenclied before the gospel unto Abraham. saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." Now see the 15th to 19th verse. same chap: ''Brethien. I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He snith not. And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, That the covenann that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was lour hun- dred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none ef- fect. For if the inheritance lie of the law, it is no more of promise. Wherefore then ser- vest the law? It was added because of trans- gressions, till the reed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a Mediator.'. See also 26th to 29th verse, same chapter. "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Fur as many of you as have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is (milkc male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then arc ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." If this does not settle the question, as to whom the promises belong, it is impossible to settle any question, it seems to me. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, neither received nor looked for a temporal inheritance. They understood the promises in n higher sense.— They will be "brought in," and all the true "seed" with there; but, it is into an eternal inheritance, in the "new heavens and new earth." When God brought Israel into literal Canaan, he directed all the wicked inhabit- ants to bo destroyed out of it; so when he is about to bring his true Israel -'.to the promis- ed inheritance, and give them "the world" for' their "everlasting possession," he will destroy all the wicked out of the earth. Sc', Prove 2: 22.—"But the wicked shall be cut off free the earth, and the trasg,ressore abaft be rooted oat of it. See also MaInchi 4: 1-3. "For, behold. the day cornett) that shall burn as an even; and all the proud, yea, and nil that do wick- edly, shall be stubble: and the day that com- eth shall burn them up. smith the Lord of hests, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Bit unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth. and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, said) the Lord of hosts."' Look at Roy. 11: 12-18. "And the sev- enth angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever 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 thesis. 0 Lord God Almighty, which art and watt, and art to .;hap. 10: 16 and !1st verses.] *were blind- salvation of the Jews; but, at the same time, qt.' The apostle then goes op is say, verses shows that the apostle had doubts whether ma- ll and 10. that David prophecied of this thing ny of them would be saved, though he hoped —•.%nd David said), Let their table be made to save some of then.' � snare and to trap. and a stumbling-block, � lie now proceeds to caution the Gentile Ind a reconvene° unto them: Let their eyes lw darkened, that they may not see, and bow dowikitheir back always. Why were their eyes darkened? Because 17 to 22. Ile says: 'And if some of the they rejected 'the true light'--the Lord Jesus branches be broken off, and thou. being a wild Christ. But the apostle adds, I lth verse, � olive tree, wort graffed in among them, and -ay then, !lave they stumbled that they should with -them partakest of the root and fatness fell,' beyond the possibility of salvation)-- of the olive tree; boast not against the branch• 'God forbid;' or. by no means, as the phrase es. But if thou boast, thou Nearest not the signifies; 'but through their fall salvation is root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, came unto the Gentiles. for to provoke them The branches were broken off, that 1 might to jealousy; —that is, the Jews were provok- ed to jeuhusy by the salvation of the gospel being preached to the Gentiles. See Acts 13: 45, 46, 'But when tho Jews saw the multi- tudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against these things which were spoken by Paul. contradicting and blaspheming. Then Peel and Barnabas waxed bold, and Enid, It WWI tweessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unwor- thy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gen- tile,. The middle wall was now broken down— belief. Here the apostle carefully sets his the Jews fell from the peculiarity they had sentinel. !t is a small word, it is true, but it ejeyeil, end terreigh, or be totems of that is of tremendous import, showing that the salvation eerieo to the Gentiles on the apostle never designed to he understood as . amt. terms that it flowed to to Jew; viz: by teaching the certainly of the Jews' cortrer- t'etli in Jesus Christ. •Now,' says the epos- situ': if he had intended to teach it, he would Ile. 12th verse, 'it' the fell of them lei the not hive set the unbending wor I 'if' to stand ruches of the world.' fur, be the means � sentinel to keep n11 carnal Jews and Gentiles rwhing the world, be snit:mem flowing to all out of the church of God. men with eve: freedom,] and the diminishing � The apostle now proceeds to argue this if them [or as the margin rends 'loss' of case still further, and says, verse 24,—.For them, or their .lost.'] the riches of the Gen- tiles. [or. has been the means of riches to the Gentiles.] how much more their feline's.' As though the apostle had said---.Salvation has richly flowed to you Gentiles through the loss to the Jews or their peculiarity, but if they could be induced, generally, to embrace the gospel, there would be a still greater blessing flow to the world.' And surely the unbelief of the Jews has prevented thousands and millions, probably. from embracing Chris- tianity; nod what a work of enriching the world they might have accomplished had they espoused the cause of Christ, instead of em- ploying all their influence against it. The apostle now proceeds to say, verses 13 and 14, � speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch na I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I meg- tory mine office; IF BY ANY MEANS I may provoke to emulation, them which are my flesh, and might save SOME OF THEM.' Surely this langlinge does not look much as if the apostle thought that the Jews were all to be converted. Ile even expresses is doubt as to the salvation of any of them; hut says, lie labors. 'if by any means' he 'might save some qj them.' lie must linen been peculiar- ly unfortunate in his expressions if he intend- ed to teach that the Je,sys were certainly to be converted. But. says the apostle, verse 15, 'if the casting away of them [viz: the believ- ing Jews] be the reconciling .if the world [i. e. the cause of the gospel of reconciliation being preached to the world; or, perhaps, more strictly, the means of destroying the cause of enmity between Jews and Gentiles, bringing all on to the same ground in rela- tion to God and one another, thus destroying the enmity' which hail existed, 'by his cross,' see Eph. � 15-19,--if this casting away of them resulted in glorieusly fir the world,] what shall the receiving of them be ['if by any means I might save some of them'] but life from the �That is—if the Jews could 'by any means' be brought to give up their unbelief, nail embrace Christianity, it would give new life awl power to the gospel itself. But Paul is very far from teaching that they should actually do so. All the spas- tic's language shows a doubt about the Jews. many of them, ever embracing the religion of Jesus. But he says, verse 10th, •If the firs; fruit be holy. the luinim also,' [may be holy ] Is net thet the *solo.? The verb 'is.' is not in the original. What is the apostle's argu- ment! Is it not Ws? 'Though I have my doubts whether many of the Jews will be say- yet their indention is possible; for if the fruit [eis: the anomie, himself, and the remnant of whom he had spoken in the 8th vessel 4 nosy ;or !nee been made holy] the lumo for body of the Jews may be made holy] also: and if the root [Christ. see Is,. 11: 10,] he holy, so ale the branches.' That is--if these who are now unbelieving, would be. liees as Christ, the root, they would become holy. es well as we who are the 'first fruits,' sad so they might be saved. The whole •r- gmaisot goes to prove the possibility of the converts against being puffed up because they had been brought into exalted privileges: and he does this with tremendous etfect, in verses ' here shall come mit of Zion the Deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: fur this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.' Where is this written? Sce lea. 59: 20, 21. "And the Redeemer shall. come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, eaith the Lord. As for ice, itus is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in my mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the [comb of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever." Here the prophet helps us to understand the apostle; and he tenches us that the prem- ise is that the Redeemer shall come unto them that tarn from transgression in Jacob; and that the covenant relates to an eternal inheri- tance, and nut to to mere conversien of any clefts of wicked men. The apostle next proceeds to say, verse 29, that, "Am concerning the gospel, they [the unbelieving Jews] are enemies for your sakes. [or, on your account, � e. they were enemies because the partition wall was bro- ken down, and the Gentiles were admitted to the same favor of God ns themselves. and on the same terms—see Acts 13: 42-46;] but, ns touching the election, [that is, the believing Jews--see verse 7,] they are beloved f,,t- the fathers' sakes." God has a special love to a believing Jew for the fathers' sake on the principle that he '•keepeth covenant and merry with them that lore him, to n thousand genera- tions." See Deut. 7: 9. Thus, the Gentile converts were made to understand, that though God had rejected the unbelieving Jews from his favor, yet, when they believed, as they all might if they were regarded with special favor for the fathers' sake; for, God had not forgotten the faith of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob; and his ..gifts and calling" to the ..fathers,'' he had never repented of, er Now compare these promises with Acts 7: 4, 5, 'Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran; and from thence, when his father was dead, he remov• The apostle goes on to say, verses 13 to 16, "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mind- ful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned: but now they desire a better coun- try, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to bo called their God, fur he ?wilt prepared for them a city." The apostle continues to discourse, and enumerates "David, Samuel and all the The apostle then goes on to any, verse 23, ed them into this land. wherein ye cow dwell. 'They also, i I' they abide not sell in unbelieef. And he gave him none inheritance in it. no, shall be grntred in: for God is able to gruff not so much as to set his foot on; yet he pro- them in again,' IF' they abide not still in un- wised that he would give it to him for a pos- session, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had, no child.' Now, if the promise to Abraham related to literal Canaan. then the promise of God utterly failed. But it did not relate to that; and Abraham never so understood it. In proof of this, see Hob. 11: 7-10, "By faith Abraham, when 'he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance. obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he so- if thou wert cut out or the olive tree which is journed in the land of promise, as in n strange wild by nature, and went graffed contrary to i country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac nature into a good olive tree; how much more and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same shall these, which be the natural branches, promise: for lie looked for a city which hat h be grafted into theirown olive treer—iif they I foundations, whose builder and maker is abide not still in unbelief.' He then goes on God." to fray, 25th verse, 'For 1 would not have you to be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel (or to a part of Israel, viz. those who believed not, and this blindness will continue) until the ,fulness of the Gentiles be come in;' that is, till the end of the world; for, till then, we have no rea- son to suppose the fulness of the Gentiles will be came in. The apostle saw that a part of the Jews would continue to reject Christ till the end of the world; but that was no evidence of the impossibility of their salvation, .if,' they would give up their 'unbelief.' Paul then adds, verse 26, 'And so all hotel shrill be saved--r:if they abide not still in unbe• lief:'---for, the apostle speaks constantly in prophets," who dwelt in the literal Canaan, reference to the trusty sentinel he has set to and vet he tells us. verses 39, 40, "And these ward against intruders) as it is written,— all, having obtained a good report thruugh faith, received not the promise; God having provided some better thing for us, that they witlinut us should not be made perfect." If the promise !elated to the possession of literal Canaan, they did receive it; but Paul declares they did not receive the promise; which shows that the promise related to a different inheritance; even an heavenly, or the acne earth; for "the meek shall inherit the earth." Let us now examine the original promises as made to Isaac and Jacob. See Gen. 26: 3, 4. "Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and Leap thy seed, I will give all these coun- tries; and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father and I will make thy seed to multiply es the; stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries: and its thy seed shell all the nations of the earth be blessed." See also Gen. 28: 13„ 14. "And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God or Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will t give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall bet as the dust of :he earth; arid shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee, end in thy seed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed." Now let us inquire, who —thy seed" is, to whom those promises are made. See Gal. 3: 16, "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. Ile saith not. And to seeds. as or many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." "Thy seed," then, "is Christ." Did Christ ever possess a foot of old Canaan? No. He had 'not where to lay his head'—so he testi- fies himself. The promise, thee, was not fulfilled to Abraham, Isaac, nor our blessed Lord; and hence remains to be fulfilled. Let us now see if we can determine to what the promise related, and who are the heirs of 11111PPOISWIRIIIIMWPW. _ and punishment of the little horn. 'whose mouth !peaked] great things? secondly, in vs. 21, '22, as already quoted: and thirdly. in vs: 24-.26, which are part of the expla- nations given by thin angel. Now the writer in question, as many others have done, ap- pears to have mistaken the judgment men- tioned in vs. 10, 22, and the dominion given to the saints [5: 22,] for the last judgment and millennial dominion of the church. How palpably erroneous this is, may be seen by consulting than. 7: 13, 14, where the latter coming of the Son of Milli, and the domin- ion which is given him, are plainly rcpre- , stetted as subsequent to the judgment and punishment of Antiochus, as described in the preceding context. This decisive! circum- stance, the writer in the periodical to whom I have adverted, in his haste and in his zeal for favorite opinions, seems to have wholly ores- looked. One who feels as much confidence us he appears to possess, ought at least to look more carefully on what sort of ground Ire is treading. "Whatever there is of obscurity or uncer- tainty in respect to the fourth beast with his ten horns, as represented in chap. 7, it is made quite plain and palpable by chap. M. In Dan. 8: 8 seq., the dominion of Alexans der the Great, its division among his four chieftains, and the rise of the little horn from one of these, are so pla're as to be altogether undeniable. Then the characteristics of this 'little horn,' as given in chapter 8: 9-12, are plainly the same for substance as those given in chap. 7: 8, 11, 20, 21. 24, 25. All is rendered still more certain by the repetition of the same characteristics in 8: 22--25, which, in connection with 5: 21, shows very plainly, that the 'little horn' end 'king of fierce countenance' is of Grecian descent, and rules over one of the four kingdoms into which the empire of Alexander was uivided. "All the real difficulty of the case arises from the fact, that the Messianic dominion described in 7: 13, 14, and again in chap. 7: 27, is mentionea as if it were an imme- diate sequent of the destruction of the little horn, or Antiochus. So far as the manner of the description is concerned. one might judge this to be the case; for no interval of time is designated, and none is necessarily implied by the Use of appropriate particles. But in cases very numerous, both in the Old Testa- ment tend in the New, the mariner of announ- cing the Messianic kingdom is the same. No interval between it and earlier events is spe- cifically designated. Yet nothing can be more erroneous than the conclusion that no interval of time, in such cases, is to be sup- posed. It is impossible not to allow such nn interval. So lime, no one could err more than to suppose that the Messianic kingdom is to follow immediately alter the destruction of the kingdom of Antiochus. The simple truth is, that the writer passes from one king, dour, restored to the ancient Jewish saints, to the description of another_ and greater one still future. lie makes no account of the in- terval of time, since he is not at all concerned, fur his present purpose with chronology. "He who does not understand this common usage of the Hebrew prophets, must have made but little progress as it respects the study and knowledge of them. Ile who does understand it, can find no serious difficulties in the curse before us." LITTER FROM WM. MILLER.. Dear Bro. Rimes,-The second edition of "Stuart's Hints" has just come to hand. I have perused his appendix, and see nothing worthy of notice except a dry pun on p. 173, concerning the men of April 3d. A. D. 18.13. It is suggested that the first of April would have been a better day to have fixed upon tor Christ to have come. I have no doubt but that he is honest in this suggestion, arid if he could have altered the day of Christ's death from April 3d to April 1st, his suggestion would be freely given. Ile invenis or res iterates a lie, awl then repeats a stale child- ish joke, and shows his heart to be any thing but pious and devotional on a subject so bles- sed as the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Sayionr Jesus Christ. His piece against Duffield is full of low stile wit ieism, yet it is evident that the writer thinks he has given his brother a real drub- bing; but I think be has exposed himself to a severe chastisement which he will be likely to receive, if his brother Duffield should see fit to use the rod which Brother 5, has put into his hand. Both of these champions, in my opinion, are wrong, the one is too literal in a carnal sense, the other is too carnal in a spiritual sense; the truth lies between them both; and while the D. Doi disagree, the common minds will get the truth. These men both are put- come; because thou hest taken to thee thy great power, and host reigned. And the na- tions were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouliteet give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the semis, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy 1 lysit which destroy the earth." In view of the fact Ott the heirs of the promises are Abraham's children by faith. and not by natural descent. read the follow- ing Scriptures: Isaiah 33: 15-17. 20-22. "He that walketh righteously, and apeeketh uprightly; he that despiseth the pain of op- pressions. that Minket!) his hands from hold• ing of bribes. that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood. and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; he shell dwell on high; his place of defence shell be the munitions of rocks: obread shall be gitew him; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off. Look upon Zion, the city of our sol- emnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be takes down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed. neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no gal- ley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. For the Lord is our judge. the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; he will save us." Isainh 35: 3-6, 9, 10, "Strengthen yo the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of n fearful heart, be strong, fear not; behold. your God will come with vengeance, even Gud with a recompense; ho will crone and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be un- stopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. No lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there; and the raesonwsi of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs rind everlasting joy open their heads; they sholl obtain joy and gladness, and sor- row and sighing shall flee away." Ise. 55: 12, 13, "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the bills shall break forth before you int., singing. and all the trues of the field shall clap their hands. � Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shrill be to the Lord for a name, for an eve, lasting sign that shall nut be cut ofT." lea. ea. 110: 18- '22, "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy bar. ders; but thee shalt call thy walls salvation, and thy gates praise. The sun shall be no more thy light by dny; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, ?mil thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no noire go down; Wei her shell the moon with• draw itself; for the Lord shall be thine ever- lasting light, and the days of thy mourning ended. Thy people also shall be al: righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my 'blaming. the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation- 1 the Lord will hasten it in his time." See also Ezekiel, 31: 23-29, "And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and lie slisll he their shepherd. And I the Lord will he their God, and my servant David a prince among them; 1 the Lord have spelt. rt it. And I will make with them a covenant or peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cense out of the land-and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. And I will make thorn and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause Oat shower to come down in his season-there shall be showers of blessing. And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be sere in their land; and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken :he bands of thi it yoke, and delivered them nut of the bond of three that served them- selves of them. And they shall no more be it prey to the heathen, neither shall the beasts of the land deveur them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid." Thus we have "given onto us exceeding free, and vrecions promises." But take those promises and give them to carnal Jews, and you "take the children's bread and cast it auto doge." Such is the work, I think, those are doing who apply such promises to any but Abraham's children by faith; to them -the promises are made," and to them alone. The true Israel shall all be gathered when Christ appears in the elands of heaven-then "Ile shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet; and shell gather together his elect front the four wind. from one end of the heaven to the other." Wherever they have been scattered, they shall now all be gathered; yea, into ,their men 1,0." and shall be "IIEIRS IF THE WORLD;" then will '*the saints" have taken "the kingdom," and they shall "possess the kingdom for crer, even for EVER AND EVER." That plosion.; day is now ,nigh, even at the doors." Let the children of God "lift up" their "heads for" their "redemption" is to bend; now ready to be revealed. Let us wait, watch, and keep ready for that dny. In conclusion, I wish my readers to look nt the following texts: 2 Cor. 1: 19, 20, "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and' Sylynnus, and 'rirnotheus, was not yea and nay. but in hint was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." Compare this with 1 John 5: 12. "Ile that heal the Sun bath life; and he that hath not the Son of God, bath not life." Can it be plainer, that ALL THE PROMISES of God are re Cintisr? and therefore they are not to any soul OUT of him; whether car- nal Jews or any other class of wicked men. May the Lord give us understanding in all things, and guide us untd his eternal king- dom. raor. STUART. THE FAMOUS LITTLE HORN OF DAN. VII. When Prof. Stuart's book first came out, Bro. Fitch addressed the following letter to him. The only re- ply the Professor made was in a note to the second edition. We here copy it entire, together with an answer by Bro. Altlier. It is exceedingly painrul to see a learned man running into all these absurdities. Much wonder has been ex-pressed, even by opponents, at the strange position the Protegee assumes, but he and Mr. Hatfield, who adopts most of his views, well understand that they must wholly depart from the of t landmarks at the very cornmeneeinent of the track, or be le.l to the point they so much dread-the conclu- sion at Shish Mr. Miller has arrived-Mid. Cry. LETTER TO MOSES STUART. Rev. MOSES STUART: Dear Sir-I have read your hints on the interpretation of prophecy. According to your request 1 have heard vou through. Will you pleuse look :it Daniel 7: 21, 22, '1 beheld the same horn inn& war with the saints, and pre railed against them. until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints; possessed the kingdom.' This horn ou tell us, is Antiochus Epi- phnnes. You also show that Scripture has :to occult or hidden meaning. New, my dear sir, as you are a learned man and I tire an ignorant one, will you please inform us from the plain and obvious import of the Scripture language, how it was, or is to be, that Antiechus Epiphanes, who died a hundred and sixty•four years before Christ Was born, either did, or does, or will make war with the saints and prevail against them, until the Ancient of Pays comes, and judg- ment is given to the saints of the Most Flight, and tho nine come that the saints possess the kingdom. Yours, 'looking for that blessed hope. and the glorious nppenring of the great God and our Saviour Jest]: Christ.' CHARLES FITCH. Albany, August 13, 1841. [ensile STUART'S NOTE] "A writer in one of tine periodicals of the day, who is wont to speak with unusual con- fidence in regard to the meaning of many prophecies, quotes Dm. 7: 21, 22, as suffi cient of itself to refute all that is said here, in respect to npplying the verses specified above to Antiochus Epipleines. The sum of these verses is, that the .little horn' [beyond all doubt Antiochus] 'made war upon the saints and prevailed agnitist them,' and 'the Ancient of Days came, and rendered judg- ment to the saints' [vindicated the cause of the pious] 'and reetmed to them the kingdom' which had been taken sway by Antiochus. In other words: God appears as the vindi- cator of the Opus persecuted Jews, and re- stores to them the rightiul dominion of their country. This idea is thrice repeated in chap. 7: first, in the account of the vision as com- prised in vs. 2-12, where vs. 9-11 are appropriated to &signals the condemnation ping too much dependence on the wisdom of this world. Prof. S. shows plainly by tees writings and arguments, that lie has muee pride of opinion, and puts morn dependence on his Hebrew and Greet, than in comparieg scripture with scripture. or in trying to mind", - stand the mind and will of the Spirit. o inspired the holy men who wrote the several books of the Old and New Testament. Their is a vein of scepticism which runs throtigh all his writings, as though the writers of the sacred books were governed by selfish nei tines, such as worldly hopes and fears; les instance, Daniel saw nothing, wrote nothing, nod knew nothing only what concerned the carnal Jew, his people after the flesh. And John in the Revelation saw nothing but Joe. And he seems to represent John as hiding the plain truth, for fear of persecution from the bloody Nero, and caution. the reader to be- ware how lie puts any trust in the natural interpretation of the Bible, remembering that it is poetry: as though the writers of Goer.: holy book used great latitude, and colored high, the things therein :stymied, and were men of bigoted and earrow minds. I think he would do well to remember what God says by David, Psalm, I, 21, 'These things bet thou done, and I kept silence; thou thought- est that I was altogether awl a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.' I am truly astonished, to read from the pen of the Professor such scepticism. If Vol- taire, or Tom Paine, had wrote thus, it would have been called blasphemous by the Chris. !Han world. Have our readers become mad. or has God given them eyes of slumbering, that they should stumble and fall and bit snared nud taken? His note on page 87 needs a passing re- mark. He says, 'A writer in one of the pe- riodictils of the dny, who is wont to speak with unusual confidence in regard to the meaning of many prophecies, quotes Daniel 7: 21, 22. 'I beheld, and the seine horn made war with the saints, and prevailed ngninst them until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the king- dom'-as sufficient of itself to refute all that is said here, in respect to applying the verses specified above to atitiochus Fpiphanes. The sum of these verses is, that the little horn (beyond all doubt Antiochus,) made war up- on the saints and prevailed against them, 'and the Ancient of Days came and tendered judg- ment to the saints, (virdicated the cause of the pious,) and restored to them the kingdom which had been taken by Antiochus.' A more barefaced misrepresentation of facts never was put together in so sunall a compass as is given in this sentence. � In the first place. he dare not name the writer to whom be alludes, for the good reason that he could not in tiny case exceed the writer of this note in presumpinous.confidence; and therefore, could not with any propriety, talk about 'vet. usual confidence.' Again, -the little hotn, [beyond all doubt Antiochus ]" Hardly a man of common sense can be found, who believes the little horn, in the text referred to, is Antiochns. I/an. 7: 7, 8, "After this I saw in the night visions. and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terns ble, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and break in pieces. and stamped the residue with the feet of i:: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I con• sidered the hems, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before when, there were three of the first horns plucked up by the raids: and behold, in tine horn were eyes like the eye,' of man, and a mouth speak- ing great things." Who does not see that this little horn arise; among the ten horns of the fourth kingdom upon earth? How the Prieesser can call the Grecian, or third kingdom, the fourth, is be- yond the comprehension of a sane mint See verses 16, 17, 18. "1 came near unto one of them that stood by. and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the thing, These great beams, which are four, are fou: kings, which shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of the Most High shall take tke kingdom, arid possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.' I ask, did the saints in the days of Antiochus, take the Greci in Kingdom, and possess it forever, even fore, - er and ever? Why then the question in Acts 1: 6, 'When they therefore were come to gether, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wi thou at this time restore again the kingdom ha Israel?' Rend. again. Daniel 7: 19 to 21 'Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast. which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, wheat teeth were of iron. PRAYER OF THE CHURCH. � : 7--.7- --A ----1 - - --!k--:— � --i--- S •-11 � —1/ �a � • _i_tae__•-- . I a.. long, 0 Lori our Saw - for, Wilt then re • main a - wayt � Our Isearts are grew s leg wear ry � Of thy se Meg de - lay. '''i.be-=--4i1:.---"4— _.—.T.IP •i_te+----i-r--4: , _,_44-_, ,—k-------, i-- • _ j � ---1-1- — 1 � % • � 0 when shall collie the menient Wham, brighter tar than mere, � 'The sunshine of thy gto - ry I ,kit;i:,.--1,-1--•• •--P-•-p r ...1, -L � -_-_--,-_._--qr-4 , -, Shall on thy peo � dawnt • • 2 How long, 0 gracious Master. Wilt thou thy household leave' So long hut thou now tarried, Few thy return believe Immers'd in sloth and folly, Thy servants Lord, we tee: And few of us stand ready With joy to welcome thee. 3 How tong, 0 heav'nly Bridegroom. 'low long wilt thou delay! And yet how few are grieving That thou dos( absent stay ! Thy very Bride her portion And calling bath forgot, And seeks for ease and glory Where thou, her Lord, art nee 4 0 wake thy slumbering virgins: Send forth the solemn cry, Let all thy saints repeat it, "The Bridegroom draweth night" May all our lamps be burning, Our loins well girded be, � • Each longing heart preparing With joy thy lace to see. • � r- � � and his rails of brass, which devoured, braise! to the church.' Second,—.Anciend of days before spoken of in verses 14 and 18. And in piece+, and stamped the residue with his did tale See Ise. tx 7, 'Of the increase of j yet the Professor says, it is the kingdom giv- feet; aid ei the ten horns that was in his his governmeint and pence shall bo no end, en to the Jews in the days of Judas Mecca- head, ar.ri of the other which came up, and upon the throne of David, and upon his kingslIteus. � • The kingdom,' definite, showing before whom three fell; even of that horn that dom, to order it, and to establish it with-judg- i clearly, that speaker and hearer would under- bed eves, and a mouth that spako very great inent and with justice from henceforth even j stand, that it was a kingdom before under- things. whose look was more stout titan his j for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will j stood by both. If so, then his writer, of whom fellows. I beheld, and the sante horn made perform this, Compare Rev. 20: 12, 'And 1 he speaks, is not so erroneous as the Profes- sesr was the saints, and prevailed against saw the dead, small and great, stand before*, sor, nor so palpably ignorant as the Professor these; entil the Ancient of days came, and God; and the ROOM write oeitscii: and an- would try to make us believe. But justice judgn.ent was given to the saints of the Most other book was opened, which is the book of I would require the fool's cap on the other head. 1110: and the time came that the saints pos- life: and the dead were judged out of these I am certain the Professor must, or ought to s •eseil the kingdom.' Is there not a complete I things which were written in the 'rooks, ac- I have been born on the very day lie so affection connection in these verses, with the fourth cording to their works.' And also Rev. 5:lately and anxiously recommended to other:, kingdom upon earth? And how can this be the 9-11, •And they sung a new song, saying, I Let me give one more quotation from his third, which was the Leopard with four heads! Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open note, page 88. `The simple truth is, that the This, vou see, is the 'fourth beast,' not the j the seals thereof, for thou wrist slain, and hest writer passes from one kingdom, -restored to fourth head. Now, let us look at the answer redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every the ancient Jewish saints, to the description which the heavenly messenger gave Daniel, kindred, and tongue, and people and nation. of another and greater one, still future.' in verses 23 to 27, 'Thus he snits, The fourth And hest made us unto our God kings and beast shall be the fourth kingdom•upon earth, priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And which shall be diverse from all kiegdorns, and I beheld and heard the voice of many angels shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread round [thee the throne, and the beasts, and wicked, whom he shall destroy by the bright- of their own at the time he specifies; they ness of his coming. Danle17: 11,12, 13, 14, only changed masters, as all history will .1 beheld then because of the voice of the testify. Not more than one year front Ju- great words which the horn spake: I beheld das's success, the Jews were under the yoke even till the beast was slain, and his body of Demetrius, and continued in bondage to destroyed, and given to the burning flame.-- Grecia and Rome, until their temple, nation, As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had and city were destroyed by the Romans. their dominion taken away: yet their lives This is the true account of this mighty king- were prolonged far a season and time. I saw dom,which our Professor thinks he has found in the night visions, and behold, one like the • in Daniel 7th. Agent he says, "He [Daniel] Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, makes no account of the inlet vale of time, and came to the Ancient of days, and they since he is not at all concerned, for his pres- brought him near before hint. � And there ent purpose, with chronology.' I wonder was given him dominion, and glory, and a what the Professor will advance next in plain kingdom, that all people, nations arid langua- contradiction to the word of God. Surely a gee, should serve him: his dominion is an ev- child would know, that Daniel in his vision, erlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, had a prophetic history of the worlds No and his kingdom that which shall not he writer, who might be called Christian, has fal- len under my observation, who has not ad- mitted, and believed that Daniel has given us an outline of the most important kingdoms, and events, from his own day down to the coming of the Son of man, to receive and set up his gloried and eternal kingdom,. which shall occupy under the whole heaven. And that cannot be true which says Daniel had no concern with chronology. He has plainly told us the history of Babylon, and proclaim- ed the night it would fall, by means of the writing of a man's fingers on the wa'l. � He then in plainly related the history of Media and Persia, and named the kingdom which would micceed Babylon. He has called Ore- cia by name. and showed its power, acts and fall., by the fourth kingdom. It has decayed and fallen by that kingdom which was towel exceeding greed, and trample all nations un- der its feet. The Roman has come and per- formed the acts assigned to it by this wonder- ful prophet. The ten horns arse in due tithe, the little horn arose after them, plucked up three of them, and has sought to change times and laws, 1200 years, or gime, tithes, and e half.' lie has given -us 1300 days as the length of one of his visious. He has graphi- cally described tine judgment day, and given us the time of the end. • 410 'has declared the resurrection of those Woo sleep is the dust, and retarded the day truisms Ile will stand in the greatcongregation of the righteous; Re less the kingdom for ever andever. Let the reader examine what kingdom; the Professor has not answered, lie dare not answer. If he says it is the kingdom to the Jews in the days of Judas Mlaccabeus, he well knows that the Jews had no kingdom under Juda.s.and if they had, it has not been possessed by them forev- er even forever and ever, And this kingdom he must know is at the end of the 4th king- dom; therefore he sac passed over this verse in silence, and shows.conclesively. either his consummate ignorance, or his wilful dishon- esty. It is impossible for me to have charity for earth.' l Cor. 15: 24, 25, 'Then comets the such reprehensible conduct; as much as I love end. when lie shall have delivered up the ed him for his rules, so notch must I detest k egdom to. God, even the Father; when be him for his application of those rules, because shall bare put down all rule, and all authority, it leads to deceive souls to oodles* ruia. Now, tied power. Fur he must reign, till he bath verse 12, 'The time came that tbeesials per- -pot all enemies ender hie feet: And Eph. 1, seared die Alvan.' What kingdom? -Re- VS. rAed herb put all things under his feet. cry honest. intelligent man sad woman in and pee him to be the head over al! thiggs Christendom would answer, why that kingdom SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE. Those who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is about to make his Second Advent to this earth are invited to attem. a Conference at the Congregational Church in Cleveland, Oa Iltursdag, March 9, 1843. It is hoped and expected that there will be a fell attendance of brethren from all parte.-- The Conference will undessbtedly be one of deep interest. To commence at 10 o'clock, A. M.; and continue two days if it is thought advisable. The price of unbocription has beet redwood to 25 cents for the twelve Nos. As our object is simply to defray expenses, we have thought that quite as amok nosey may be raised at dais price as at 50 sta. We intend hereafter to publish regularly every wesh. on Wednesday. Recollect, we need donations, for we inteud to Wee 4000 copies of each No. at all events—more if the swans will warrant. flabeenlien is Cleveland or Ohio City can receive their papers at say,peblic place that they may desig- nate. Papers will be left lathe Congregational chutes in this city, when suiessisers one get them. Extra sops of MIAs numbers me be bad at $2 pee beadle& Friies&s..esiee amid tabs them. The time is short. �v Printed by T. f 1. thine, No. 16, Crated lbatithapi Olareitip‘. it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten the elders, and the number of them was ten languages should serve him,' not to Jews on- vested part of community. Yet "straws lions out of this kingdom are ten kings that thousand times ten thousand, and thousands ly, but unto ALL PEOPLE. And that is ev- show which way the wind blows." May God seed arise: and another shall rise after them; of thousands.' Hero we have the same num- and lie shall be diverse from the first, and he her, the same saints, the same Judgment, and s'iall subdue three kings. And he shall speak i the same reign on the oarth. Judo 14: 15, pest words against the Most High, and shall I 'And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, err out the saints of the Most High, end prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord think to change times and laws: and they shall I com itli with ten thousand of his saints, to ex- be given new his hand until a time and times acute judgment upon ail, and to convince all and the dividing of time. But the judgment that arc ungodly among them of their en- shall sit, and they spell take away his dentin- godly deeds, which they have ungodly com• ion to consume and to destroy it unto the end. mined. and of all their hard speeches which And the kingdom and dominion, and the ungodly sinners have spoken against him.' greatness of the kingdom under the whole � Then he will take vengeance on the Heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Must High whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdoM, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.' � Then Daniel says., 'Hitherto is the end of the matter,' showing that the vision and instruction did not end un- til the cad of the 27th verse. Can n man of n sound mind construe this scripture as does the Professor? I say, No. And I say the friends of the Andover Institution had better report the Professor insane, take away his bishoprick, and give it to another, who at least can read and ucderstand common language. Ile says, •Now the writer in question, as ma- ny others have done, (we thank him for this one truth) appear to have mistaken the judg- ment mentioned in verses 10, 22, and the do- minion given to the saints, verse 22, fir the last judgment.' What a mistake! Is it even destroyed.' fhe last two verses he acknowl- possible to be mistaken op this point/ I an- edges are the coming of the Son of Man; but seer. No. lf this is set 4 description of the the others are Antiochue. The kingdom of last judgment, where can the Professor prove the saints is no where mentioned in the vision one! Here is the glorious appearing of the of Daniel until we come to the 14th verse; great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; see that this verse describes the millennial king- Daniel 7: 9, 10, '1 behold till the thrones were mom of the saints, the Professor concedes.— cast doe-a, and the Ancient of days did sit, Then let me ask what kingdom is that des- whose garment was white as snow, and the crated in verse IV 'But the saints of the Lair of his head like the pure wool: his throne Most High shall take the kingdom, and pe- wits like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth front before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the rum-Neer WAS SET, and the ROOKS WERE OPENRD.'-- First—. Thrones were cast doss.' Compare Dmiel 2: 23, 'Tian was the iron, the clay, the tress, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together. and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain. and filled the whole erlasting, never to pass away, nor be destroy- show him his error, before he leads many ed: this proves too much. Next is the 18th more souls to delay it preparation for an eter- verse. This cannot be the Jewiuh, for they nity at hand. � Yours, dec. are to take it and possess it for ever: this � 1YM. MILLER. proves too much. The next place mentioned � Low Hampton, Dec. 12, 1842. is the 22d verse. This refers us to the same possessions and kingdom, as in the 18th verse. � EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. The 27th verse he gave up. Where, then, � MONDAY, Feb. 20, 1843. is there a kingdom restored to the Jews? No double meaning, brother S., remember. " If Christ does come many will be ashnm- Neither can history help this Professor out ed of their incredulity and prejudices. If lie of his difficulty; for the Jews had no kingdom does not come, as we expect, no one need be ashamed of yielding too ready belief to the precious promise of his coming the second time unto salvation. Since Bro. Fitch lectured here the work of conversion to this glorious truth has steadily gone forward, and we have daily delight in seeing the honesty and docility of God's peo- ple; some that were not only ignorant but indifferent and even prejudiced, are now yield- ing to the evidence, and searching the scrip- tures with prayer, and coming out boldly. willing to be called fools for Christ's sake." has set up monuments, and marked the divi- sions of times and seasons, that the wise may understand ihe time of their deliverance. Anil yet we see a Professor of divinity denying him to have given us a prophetic chart, a chro- nology of past and future events. Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of our cities, lest you make the wicked to rejoice, and the uncircumcised to boast over us. Let me say one thing in honor to the church and clergy with whom I have associated since the Professor's 'Hints' came out, there has not been one among them all, who has mention- ed his writings favorably, or used them as ar- guments against me: while on the other hand I have not seen or conversed with a Univer- salist, Deist, drunkard, gambler, swearer, or infidel, but what is ready to use his weapons, and is rejoicing over me because the Proles- what verse has the writer given us a kingdom sor has demolished the Second Advent doc- restored to Jewish saints? It cannot be in the trine. It is enough to chill the heart of any 14th verse, for that is a 'dominion, and glory, pious man, to see the effects his doctrine has and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and on the worshippers of Baal, and the uncon-