"time of trouble,” this “ day of vengeance," reprefented in Scripture as a day of unequalled terror and defolation, may the antient people of God be delivered from captivity, and be restored to the inheritance of their fathers.

Whoever reflects upon the well-attefted facts which mark the courfe of this gigantic Tyrant, will readily picture to himself a fcene of unexampled horrors. But he will feel that imagination cannot reach the miferies that await the world, when this infuriate Fiend, fwollen with fuccefs, fhall call forth all his various powers of fyftematic wickedness and terror, and hurry on the business of deftruction. Then will the feeds of woe, already fown in every foil, produce their bittereft fruits; and the contending powers will shake the earth," till "the nations fhall be fifted as wheat "

• The rebellion in Ireland will give fome idea of what may be expected from the junction of Jacobin principles with Popish bigotry and fanaticifm; fo that whether thefe Antichriftian powers unite or contend with each other, the profpect is equally formidable to the world.

Still

Still, however, the remnant of the Church who put their trust in God, and obey his commands, will be fecure under the protection of the Almighty. "Seek ye the

Lord all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment, seek righteousness, feek meeknefs: it may be ye fhall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." "Then they that feared the Lord, fpake one to another; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it; and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, faith the Lord of Hofts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man fpareth his own fon that ferveth him. Then fhall ye return, and, difcern between the righteous and the wicked; between him that ferveth God, and him that ferveth him not. For behold, the day cometh, that fhall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea and all that do wickedly, fhall be stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, faith the Lord of Hofts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch","

Zephaniah ii. 3.

Malachi iii. 16-18. iv. I.

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But

But while this "war," incited and upheld by the "three fpirits out of the mouths of the dragon, the beaft, and the falfe Prophet or the Infidel, the Papal, and the Mahometan Powers-under the command of" Satan" himself shall thus " destroy the carth "," the glorious plan of universal happinefs will haften towards its completion.

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In that day there shall be a root of Jeffe, which shall stand for an enfign of the people; to it fhall the Gentiles feek, and his reft fhall be glorious. And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that the Lord fhall fet his hand again, the fecond time, to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Affyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cufh, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the iflands of the fea. And he fhall fet up an enfign for the nations, and shall affemble the outcasts of Ifrael, and gather together the difperfed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth. The envy alfo of Ephraim fhall depart, and the adversaries of Judah fhall be cut off. Ephraim

Rev. xvi. 13.

"Rev. xi. 18.

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shall not envy Judah, and Judah fhall not vex Ephraim. But they fhall fly upon the fhoulders of the Philiftines toward the weft; they shall spoil them of the east tɔgether they fhall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon fhall obey them *. And the Lord fhall utterly deftroy the tongue of the Egyptian fea: and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall fmite it in the feven ftreams, and make men go over dry food. And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which fhall be left from Affyria, like as it was in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. And in that day thou fhalt fay, O Lord, I will praise thee; though thou waft angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my falvation; I will truft, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my fong; he alfo is become my falvation. Therefore

x Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon, were, to" escape out of the hand of the northern king." See Daniel xi.

with joy fhall ye draw water out of the wells of Salvation"."

"For

"When the Lord fhall affemble the outcafts of Ifrael, and gather together the difperfed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth, it shall come to pafs, that as ye were a curfe among the Heathen, O houfe of Judah, and house of Ifrael, fo will I fave you, and ye shall be a bleffing; fear not, but let your hands be strong." I will make you a name, and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn your captivity before your eyes, faith the Lord.' And I will plant them upon their land, and they all no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, faith the Lord." " And "And it fhall come to pass, that whofoever shall call on the name of the Lord, fhall be delivered. For in Mount Zion and in Jerufalem fhall be deliverance, as the Lord hath faid, and in the remnant whom the Lord fhall call. For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I fhall bring again the captivity of

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z Ifaiah xi. 10-16. xii. 1-3. Compare Rev. xvi.

a Amos ix. 15.

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