Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-08-09
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AN AMERICAN FALSE PROPHET.

i AN AMERICAN FALSE PROPHET.
M In every age and patton there have ex-
listed individuals who, with scottish self
suficiency and imagined plenitude Of
wisdom, and ambitious to acquire an i'm
& mortality of name, have said, Wisdom
shall die with me; have understanding
as well as you; l am not inferior to You;
yea, who knoweth not such things as
these.'-Job xii, 2, 3. In the annals of
time, another of this class of recent date,
Rev. Ira Faacher, of Sandy Hill. N. Y,
in published discourse from Acts iii,
80, FL, declares that the advent of "the
Son of man in the clouds of heaven, with
power and great glory" to reward every
man according to his works, viii be on
April Sd, 1850.
Here is another illustration of the pre-
diction of the Saviour's words, and in
them is contained bis admenitory advice
Take heed that no man deceive you,
for many shall come in my name, saying,
/ am Christ, and shall deceive many"
"lf any man shall say unto You, Lo here
is Christ, or there, believe it not. For
there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall show great signs and
wonders, insomneh that if itwere possible
they shall deceive the very elect. Be-
h old. Ihaye told you, Wherefore if they
hail say, Behold, he is in the desert;
go not forth: behold, he is in the secret
chambers believe it not" St. Mathew
xiv, 4, 5; 2S-27.
Said Plato, the Athenian philosopher,
in his Epinomis, and guided by the dim
light of nature only: g Let no nam pre-
sumo to teach, if God do not lead the
way" But 10, under the last and brigh-
test revelation of the mind and will of the
Deity, this calculator has, in his own
imagined knowledge of the Holy Scrip.
lures, arrived to a final conclusion
These are his words:
~'Let us sum up the whole matter.
and l think that the Sd of April, 1850,
\ is the farthest any one can carry the pro-
phetic periods, and keep them in the
language of the Bible. So we will then
turn to Daniel viii, IA:
4 The whole vision is $500 yrs.
Dan. tx, %. SO weeks, or 48S "to the
III Crucifxion, leaving lSl7after the
NJ Cruci6xion, on April Sd, SO, which
being added to 1917 makesls50, Apr. 3.
"a Amen, and amen"
This time of the restitution of all
Ehings," this last day Of the end of the
world, has never been communicated in
She scriptures to any son or daughter Of
Adam, any more than the day of their
death. ''But Of that day and hour know
eth no man, no not the angels of heaven,
neither the Son. but the Father" Mark
XIII SO. What neither an angel Of
heaven, nor the Son of God in his human
nature, knew of the last day of the
end of the world, '.but the Father only"
how came this bold presumptuous NOR
tai to know? Who communicated the
Intelligence TO him
How many, through misconception Of
their mental powers. have attempted to
be the messengers Of grace to guilty
men! How many have been. and how
many more will be, the confessions Of
learned ignorance, in relation to the end
Of the world. time only will disclose
Whstever is considered rs new in divin-
ity, is, for that very reason, false. The
religion of christianity, like its Author,
il ''the same yesterday. to-day, and for
ever" These inventions of theology,
like their advocates and authors, will have
an ephemeral existence. and the struc-
turs they have attempted to raise, hav-
ing no foundation for its support, will
fan to the ground. and 'tlike the baseless
fabric Of vision fee away, and leave
not wreck behind"
ISAAC JoxEs.
Litch6eld, Ct, Aug. 1, iS4s.