phecy, to the present possessions of Great Britain in the east and south of Asia: when Gog enters upon his expedition against restored Israel, certain parties are introduced as expressing their astonishment at his design; and as seeming to question the success of the daring enterprise :

Ezek. xxxviii. 13. "Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all the lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? Hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil!"

Sheba and Dedan seem to have been the ancient marts of the Indian commerce as it flowed towards Tyre and Palestime; and "the merchants of Tarshish and the lions thereof" designate most pointedly the nature of our possessions in the east, which have been acquired in so extraordinary a manner! The world has seen with astonishment, a company of the merchants of Tarshish transporting warriors in their ships, at first merely to guard their factories; but, in the pursuit of the objects of their trade, compelled as it were by necessity, to engage in one military contest after another, with the native powers, and to have so prevailed that in no very long period of years, they have acquired the possession of many extensive kingdoms, established an empire containing nearly a hundred millions of population, and strange to say, still retaining their character of merchants!* Nor is it improbable that our countrymen in those parts, and such of the natives as have been enlightened by their intercourse with them, may at a future day read and * Second Advent, vol. i. p. 542.

UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES.

Sect. 3

Egypt into Palestine. The counsels of conflicting princes not many years ago, at the treaty of Tilsit, menaced conbination not very dissimilar to this, in respect to some of the chief parties. But the

time was not come!

It is much to be remarked also that Egypt is
the ect of attack to the enemy. This reveals
Egypt to have been in the possession of a power
be to him: and Egypt we know, conveys to its
possessor, in Scripture, the title of "the king of the
A king of the south is described at the
commencement of the conflict as "pushing at" the
emphatic king, the leader of the western or Latin
emre. Egypt is no more to exalt herself among
the nations; but great and powerful strangers have
more than once had command over her treasures
and resources; we saw in the last revolutionary war
which in my apprehension, has done so much to dis-
cover the relative situation of the nations which are
to engage in the last conflict-we saw a nation, at that
time hostile to the great power of the west, which,
in union with an expedition from its own shores,
could transport an army from the east across the
southern or Indian ocean, in order to wrest Egypt
out of the hand of the successful invader.
Britain at that period had certainly won the title of
the king of the south:" and, in the view of a future
conflict, how easily, should God in mercy spare our
nation, may the restoration of the same rel
between the two countries be supposed.

I have in a former publication

seems to me a most eviden

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phecy, to the present possessions of Great Britain in the east and south of Asia: when Gog enters upon his expedition against restored Israel, certain parties are introduced as expressing their astonishment at his design; and as seeming to question the success of the daring enterprise :

Ezek. xxxviii. 13. "Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all the lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? Hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil!"

Sheba and Dedan seem to have been the ancient marts of the Indian commerce as it flowed towards Tyre and Palestime; and "the merchants of Tarshish and the lions thereof" designate most pointedly the nature of our possessions in the east, which have been acquired in so extraordinary a manner! The world has seen with astonishment, a company of the merchants of Tarshish transporting warriors in their ships, at first merely to guard their factories; but, in the pursuit of the objects of their trade, compelled as it were by necessity, to engage in one military contest after another, with the native powers, and to have so prevailed that in no very long period of years, they have acquired the possession of any extensive kingdoms, established an erire

ing nearly a hundred millions of ange to say, still retaining their ats!* Nor is it improbable that

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ed by their interture day read and

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er. shorit seem, the the scument of an net, aut the swart n his hand is the rod of God's mizzTHE DI • St predows in Tighteousness" si the abomination that maketi desale" era mai the consummation, and that determmed, shall be poured unor the desolate," then he comes u is end, and none can help him." He perishes, as we shall set bereuer in a siege of Jerusalem, which he a but caries; and it is at this particular crisis that Jehovah Sabaoth is himself manifested in judgment.

SECTION THE FOURTH.

SIGNS OF THE APPROACHING DAY OF THE LORD.

These wars and commotions among the nations, &c.-The abounding of religious impostors-A more extensive preaching of the Gospel among the Heathen nations-The depression and spoliation of the Papal see-The sixth vial considered-Kings of the East-The three unclean Spirits like frogs-The invasion of Palestine-A siege of Jerusalem pointed out as the grand crisis of the Divine interposition.

IN these conflicts and predicted movements among the nations upon earth, we are taught by the word of prophecy to trace the near approach of "the great day of the Lord." The dreadful judgments of that day, as executed by the immediate hand of God, will hereafter engage much of our attention. The sufferings however, of mankind during these bloody wars, and these contests of the nations which we have been tracing, I do not reckon among the judgments of "the great day:" they are only a prelude to it; but when they begin to come to pass, they may certainly be contemplated as signs of its approach. These conflicts produce not, immediately, any other effects, than such as we may term the common calamities of mankind; the vanquished