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spiritual and temporal, which are ihn.s.for so long a II
period to assail them, is, becatise they are protected
by GOti, as his sealed property-2. That they arc
composed of " a great. multitude which no man could
rum. cr, rfi ALL'nationS, and lindredr and peoples and
tongues." This was a point by no means well under-
stood, till the scaled parts of DANIEL'S prophecies
were explained—On the contrary, the Jews, instead
of consideriog " the Gentiles as fdlow heirs, and of Ilse
came tody,,and partakers of the promise in the. MENSIA2I,
by tic Gospel"--" a secret w.':ich in other ages was not ,
made hown unto the son: of men" (Et/n4. iii. 3,5), be-
lieved that " people of Me saints of the MOST HIGH"
meant the seed of Israel according to the flesh,
and that every other people should be made their sub-
jects and tributaries.-3. That the Christian religion,
instead of securing to its professors ease, pleasure,
wealth and power, the darling objects of the subjects
of Antichrist, and who yet fancy themselves Christi- 11
ans, shoul .1 expose them to great tribulation.-4. That
notwithstanding all the contempt pOured out upon
them, and the numberless dangers and trials to which
they are exposed, at last they are clothed in white
robes—" robes washed and made white in Me blood of the
Lamb ;" obtain the tahn of victory and a place " before
the throne of Go]) ;" and, therefore,-5. They ascribe
" salvation to our GOD who sitteth upon the throat, and to
the Lamb."

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RECAPITULATIO)T.
The citm then of this truth dechred bF theopen,

ing cf these six s2als amounts briefly to this :
1. That, at the time appointed, THE NiEssiAn was
scut to cstahrtsii a kingdom agreeably to the predic-

tions iNt the scaled book of DANtra.:

2. That the subjects of THE MESSIAH'S kingdom
were to be persecuted and opposed by the world, and
particularly by the rulers and subjects of DANIEL'S
fourth great Empire—a persecution which began as
soon as CHRIST sheaved himself on the earth (for even
the murder of the innocents at Bethlehem was perpe-
trated in enmity to his kingdom,) and will continue
till the Rider on the white horse shall appear as the
Conqueror :
3. That false teachers, from the very commence-
ment of the Chr:stialk dispensation, and particularly
when armed as a Body with the power of the Civil
magistrate, were to oppc...e the progiess of the truth,
convert religion into a trade t, and act a conspicuous
part in the War carried on against THE PRINCE OF THE
HOST :

4. That, in consequence of this, many apostatised
from the truth, ,:ven the whole body of the worship-
pers of the LW& horn, being falsely said to live while
they were in fact dead—so dead to the spirit of Chris-
tianity that they joined their persecuting rulers in
ling those who held fast the word .of Gon, and thought
that they were rendering GOD service—being thus in-
structed by their corrupt teachers, whose policy insura
prosperity to their craft (Dan. viii. 25.)
sth, That notwithstanding the delay of the (I:7 of
retribution for all these murders, the innocent blood
which has been shed shall be avenged ; and that
those who suffer for tlilp truth are made partakers of a
blessed immortality. •
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6th, That at the period appointed for the Great
Earthpake, all these kingdoms shall be overthrown,
in spite of every exertion to prolong their political
existence ; that then the kingdoms of this world will
become what they have never been, though their false
teachers persuade them otherwise, " the iingdom of
our LORD, and of his CHRIST"—and that this takes'
place at " the Great day of the' wrath of the LAME !"
the great and terrible day of nix LORD explessions
which shall be shev:n hereafter to mean the same as
• 44 the last clay !" 44 the clay of Judgment !" 64 the sound
of Me last trumpet !"

According to this view, then, those hypotheses
which make the going forth of the different Riders to
be so many distinct periods, following each other in
order and in succession of time, are supported by

fancy alone.—Ever since the days of MEDE, the fo'
lowing system has been very generally adopted in ex
plaining the Revelation :—Tire Seals are taken is their
order as seven successive periods, the last of which
contains seven Trump's, all of which are subsequent to
the six first seals, and also represent so many distinct
periods in succession. The Seventh Trumpet, in
like manner, is divided into seven distinct periods, for
the pouting out of Seven Vials, all of which are sub-
sequent to the first six trumpets.—. This is laid down
for the sake of method ! and it is held to be a sufticieut
' reason fcr rejecting any explanation, that it would
introduce cowl:ion into this order. In imitation of the
savage policy of Procrustes, whatever in the book is
too short for this bed is stretched to its length, and
every thing too long, is cut down to the standard.
Such is the method, with a few variations, which
has been followed to explain the visions of JOHN, only
because such is the order in which he narrates them.
Let us examine, for a moment, a similar method ap-
t The word tvicf, in the third seal, which In our common
translation, is rendered a pair if tabncet, Mr. Woormonse has
translated by a yake, which is certainly the primary and proper
sense of the word. Had I seen his meta before writing these
strictures, I would have availed myself of the additional lights
ticy offer for explaining die character of the Rider on the bled hirer.
I shall here give the sub*tance in a few words :—The rider—this
me:chant, pkt a yoke open the /red of the cricijia—" unauthorised
inortifications and peuancies, rigorous frotings, vows of eelibacy,
monkish retirement and austerities, the jargon and repetiticin of
/ prayers not understood. tales of purgatory, pious frauds, al. the
worship of saints, relicts, and images"—and; he might have ad-
ded—human crock and confessions, tufa cod by civil penalties.

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plied to interpret that viNions of DAwat peat ; . .
S.Sft d t5:011:ii:Oti.
attention to the treatment ot certain Complaints,.o
image, composed of four metals, represents so many
in an unguarded hour, and that Debility witichis caused'
kingdoms in succession. Another kirgdom—the ful habits. Mr. 1.1 te,ti' Laving been engaged in this
• branch for the last eleven years in this houtv, it is preiw
kingdom of the Gon of Heaven, • represented by a stone
the a•lvantage of such experience gives the utmost slimes
cut out without hands, is then to be established, which is assiduity with which they devote themselves to the Cure
Compiaints.—lti all rases of recent occurrence the cure i
to destmy all other kingdoms, and endure for ever, But
and paZa and a;Ter :Ire equal!). /voided in every et
here, by kingdoms, we must not understand kihdoms, case:, and in those di,tro,,ing deet-arwies, which are
but the rule and dominion cf the pagan priests ; for we ••
find subsequently to this period, four other kingdoms mid permanent testi.: ition to vieoroes heath. The t
bst..“;:dnui,iirht fir!t or LI 441aVVVII: ICtlCri, Col
mentioned by DANIEL, and which he represents 1 every cis,- the must inviOnble E,:cr
by four great beasts, the last of which has ten horns, stn t d u..2ll,Arundel-street, Mar Tennie.l;al
'1 R: re: is an aa.litimial exurahev in Water-stre.n
which signify ten kingdoms more in succession:—
These are followed by a little horn, or king, who per-
forms prodigies of wickedness, till at length the
judgment sirs, and sovereignty is given to the people
of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an
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everlasting kingdom. But order and method requires that
we here limit the import a the word "everlasting ;"
for we find, after this period, two empires represented
by a Ram and a he• Goat--the latter of which is fol-
lowed by four other kingdoms, out of one of which
comes another little hornt, no way inferior in wickedness
to the one before mentioned. This new little horn must
be explained, (no matter how, for order and method re-
quire it), by the prophecy of the seventy weeks ; and
in the last of these weeks we must expect the Kings of
the North and South to appear, the last of whom
will be destroyed when Michael shall stand up for
Daniel's people ! This is Daniel's order of narration,
and therefore, such must be the method followed to
explain him.—What Would be thought of the expo-
sitor, who shoold propose such a stries of absurdities!
However plausible and ingenious any exposition of
the Revelation may appear, if it proposes any thing
that has not a direct reference to the contents of the
sealed book of DANmo, as the plain and obv:cr!s sense,
of what w shut up and closed till the time if the end,
it must be rejected by those who wish to hear the
words of this prophecy ; for only by attervion to the
voice of at THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE Wit NE..is,"
opposition to the comments and glosses of those whe
substitute darkness for light, can a right understand-
ing of the look that he has opened, and of the Revela-
tion by which IIE has °relied it, be obtained. Nor is it
surprising that those who so little understand the na-1
tore of Cuitts-r's kingdom, as .o mistake that of An-
tichrist, in one or other of its forms, for his, should
still consider the vision " as the wends el a look that is
sealed, which son deliver to one that is learned, .1.70 17g
Read this, I limy thee ; and hosaith, I cannot, for IT Is
st:ALED : and the look is •delivered ;0 hint that is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee ; and he saith I am NOT
LEARNED." But when "the reatainu. ONE is trough/
t 7 nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch
for iniquity are cut of : that make a man an offineler for
a word, and lay a snare for him that reprovetle"—" in
that day shall the deaf herr the words of the took, and the
eyes of the blind shallsee out of obscurity, and cut of dark-
ness : the meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD,
and the f. 00r among men shall rejoice in Tim HOLY ONE or
IsRAEL," (lsai. xxix.) " Mary shall run foamed fro, and
knowledge shall be increased none of the wicked shall
understand, Int the wise :hall understaad." (Dan. xii.)
All the Riders commence their course, nearly at
the same period, though, in the natural order of
things, THE 141EssiAlt must shew himself before he can
be opposed ; the truth must be proclaimed before
error and falsehood can impeach it ; and false doc-
trine must be preached Irefbre it can bring forth it,:
baneful fruit—which is the very order given to the
Riders. Allowing only a short time, then, fur this
natural order, the Riders synchronise with each other
through their whole course ;—the conquering king is
still upon his whit: horse—the persecutor, who began
his Work with the death of the MEsSIAIi (if not NI ith
the murder of the innocents), is still upon hisered
horse—the rider cn the black horse, who commenced
his career in the days of the Apostles, still carries on
his traflicitl, and death and hull still have their prey.—
And so it will be, till the great earthquake hurls the
kings of the earl from their thrones, as a righteous 1
judgment upon them for giving their power and strength.
to the ecclesiastical horn, which, ever since its erec-
tion, has " cast eiccon the truth to the ground, and prac-
tised" iniquity, "ihrough polity causing craft to frosfer '
in his hand"—for the least and the. false brothel that
wrought miracles before him, shall Lah be cast aliv: into a
lake of fee (Rev. xix. 20), in THE GREAT DAY of the
wrath of THE LAMB, agreeably to the prediction
(Dan. vii. 11) contained in the Boot from which the
seals have been removed by TILE LION OF THE TRIBE
or JUDAH ! BIBLICUS.
Some late Expositors have absolutely maintained, that in these
two passages in DANIEL, by the term little horn, twat ye: y different
powers are predicted ; litcause, among other reasons, the opi-
nion that they are one, "renders DANIEL liible to the charge of
unvarying repetition !"
The leading sealed truths in DAttit 1,, and open truths in the
Revelation, have respect only to two facts—the reign of CIIRIBT
an of Astichilit—tbe punishment and destruction of the latter,
and the triumph of th- former. Both DANsar. and Joust are
chargeable with an " unvarying repetition" of the-se Lies ; but
often as they have repeated them, they will never appear plain to
those who indulge in fancy, and hunt for variety.
Still be keeps his followers wafer the yoke of the doctrines and
-"setts of men.

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9-.0 Parents, GuardiAns, and others who
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\Vvrins area di,case few children es,
destroy the ap;tctitc weak^a the ori,:rt:i of ais,:itior,pr,
In th:• stomach and how;ls, Jeprivw the bosky of its m.
occasion emaciation and paleness, stop the prozress of gri
are the cause of the must alarming convulsions, whirl-
terminate in death. Nor are thulr effects le's severe on
sons; by ulcerating the stoma ..lt and bowels, they at
cause of lingering complaints, which prove fatal at Lit
the patient to the most excruciating tits of agony and
childhood, every di, ease with which a child is afflicted 1,.
ly exasperated by them. The certainty and safety both
prevention and cure, by the dhow medicine, is so fully -
to the satisfaction of the Public, by the testimony of
mast leading cliac.cters of the Nobility, and of othrr:
spectabitity, who have witnessed its rentarkAle effects'
fa :links, that it is only necessary t:, observe, this is tl
the s,-assn when such a medicine ought to be gi yen to
others, to prevent arty attack of this complaint.
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Corner of Patelmoster-row ; Baxter, Edinburgh an.
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opfut:kthetaleollleskite,and Piot In be . ~ded
L by its etim, has been the favourite oblen. of mankind though
in this they have here too often t' :net: 4iappily f,-r the go: dof
(witty. the baneful I M.-eliof flitch inrercturfe are eafi:y retnevel,
if application is nia,*.e to that invaluable preparation of Dr. l'seas
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with fate y to cliil2.rett of the molt tend::: age, in tuceefsril arc its
plwcti as to et:Oh:ate frAn the habit in a ilo:rt tilne the fetch o!
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,e,"11.)o. '1 he ninft ohfliuste ts, fors of hone and lA-'e, and,
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[HE Advantage the Pttblic Msltst alwayt derive
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esclosivily their :Indies to oei• s;:eees rf intiatly, was mi.., r mow
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CUltit ix and Co. Surgeons, formerly in his Majesty's service, have
made the Venereal Disease the particular object of their Meet&
gallon, and are happy in having discovered a medicine superioits
mercury in the cure of that complaint; it is sufficient to observe
that the alerts of this remedy are diametrically opposite to those
of mercury, for though it completely eradicates every CeStige of
the virus, in its most confirmed stages, yet it does not in the least
injure the constitution ; on the contrary, it renovates the systesa
1 in all its natural functions, promotes appetite, and faciii:ates di-
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medicine, its inherent and specific virtues arting as a perpetual
corrective to bodily debility, whether proceeding from an excels
11 of conjugal or illicit phastire, or front the more insidious, thougk
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in a certain pernicious habit. Amidst the melancholy variety sf
disorders which are the ouia;equence of this solitary vire, there ate
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i have the necessary medicine and advice sent to any part of the
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TO THOMAS TAVLOR, ESQ.
No. 9, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, LONDON.
SIR-1 consider it but an act of justice due to die
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. orders arising therefrom) was reduced almost to a skeleton, and
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it pussible for him to recover. He was advised at last to try yoe
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We hear that Madame COTTIN'S " Claire," and
Madame DE GENUS' " Comte de Co:4c," also her
charming work, entitled " Les Srmveuirs de Felitie
L***," which lately appeared at Paris, are repub-
lished this day, by CoustraN, of Conduit-street, the )
publisher of her two new works " Le Siege de la Ro-
chelle" and Sainclair"—the Public will thus have be- , LoNpoN: Priutua and_pubbslted by LEVEL KEN 1, of t.-,
tea-bury Place., Lambeth) at the S rtu-01-t ICE, 'AY, i, CV't
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