The commonest mind is full of thoughts; some worthy of the rarest;
And could it see them fairly writ, would wonder at its wealth,

TUPPER.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY J. VAN COURT,

No. 93 ARCH STREET.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

JOHN G. WILSON,

In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

VOL. I.

DISCOURSES ON PROPHECY.

It was our intention to have published this first volume of our Writings some years ago, and a large part was then printed; but we were prevented by circumstances which we believe were wisely ordered by Providence, even in this connection, from accomplishing our purpose. We have waited patiently and confidently for Divine direction, and we have been recently aided in a manner which seems to us just as providentially to bid us proceed in publishing, as we were previously commanded to stand still. The times and circumstances appear as favorable now, as they were unpropitious then. In all, we acknowledge the hand of God and thankfully adore him.

In all departments of science new discoveries are considered practicable, and are commonly hailed with delight. Why should not new discoveries in Biblical truth be deemed equally so, and welcomed accordingly? The Bible, as a record of God's thoughts and purposes in relation to the moral government of his creatures, while shedding the dews