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bates, would be of far more benefit than raising within them expectations of an outward bodily appearance of Christ, that is not likely to be realized to the generality of mankind in this world, especially as Christ has said, “It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing."

It does appear to me, from the calculations I have made on the prophetical numbers, as well as from the Scripture import of other passages, that a very great change indeed must take place in both the moral and spiritual conditions of mankind, before the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of our Lord; and after this happy period has arrived, I am warranted to think it will be of much longer duration than is commonly imagined. I am of opinion, instead of a thousand years, or Millenium, as is very generally supposed, that Christ's reign on earth in the souls of the successive races of mankind, will comprise a period of no less than about 360,000 years, at the close of which period, Satan again will be loosed a little season, as mentioned in Rev. 20, and will again deceive the nations of the earth, after which probably the general judgment will take place, "when the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; when the earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up."

At the present time the blessings of peace seem to be nearly general throughout the nations of the earth. This I deem a very favourable sign. War, however, with its train of abominations, may not finally terminate till about A. D. 1914, or perhaps A. D. 1956; neither do I think that the seventh thousand years, or great Sab

bath of the world, or the beginning of Christ's third day, will commence before A. D. 2046; and this belief or conclusion I take to be no less deducible from a variety of the prophetic numbers, than from the figurative language employed by Christ concerning the three days, and the three measures of meal, during the time of which the whole world shall be gradually leavened by the kingdom of God. As I have calculated the prophetical numbers, it will be 206 years from A. D. 1840, before the beginning of the seventh thousand years, or the great Sabbath of the world, when God's rest shall begin to be glorious, and when Christ, that glorious Sun of Righteousness, by the brightness of His coming into those temples, where he has promised to appear on earth—that is, in the souls of the sons and the daughters of the human race-shall turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to serve God; raising them by Himself, who is the Resurrection, to an endless life, to the high dignity and glorious immortality of sons and daughters of the Most High.

I have endeavoured to make the calculations as plain as possible; yet I am aware, however, that those who have not been in the habit of thinking much about such parts of the Revelation of God, may feel a difficulty in following me throughout the various calculations of the chronology, and the prophetical numbers of the Bible. These calculations, I am aware, would require to be considered and reconsidered before they may be fully comprehended by the generality of readers, but from thy extensive knowledge of Scripture chronology, and the prophetical numbers, I am fully

sensible that thou must be an able judge, and I hope to find thee an unprejudiced one; and if I have submitted any part of truth to thy understanding, or if I have done anything which may be useful to future writers on the same subject, I have my design.

In conclusion, I would request of thee to consider the computations contained in these pages, as well as the remarks consequent upon them, to have been called forth, not from a spirit of literary envy or opposition, but from an earnest desire to promote the cause of truth. If, in the warmth of my anxiety to do So, any uncourteous expression should have inadvertently been written by me, I hope it will be viewed as the effect of accident, not of design.

That the Sovereign Disposer of all things may, in his kind providence, overrule this attempt, at separating truth from error, for his own glory and the good of mankind, is the prayer of thy present correspondent and well wisher; and I sign with my hand every printed copy of this edition of my letter, as a mark of respect to thee, and to the rest of my readers, and as a warrant that it is correct as far as I have been enabled to judge by the understanding that God, my creator, has been pleased to give to me.

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Since writing the foregoing letter, I have perused thy Synopsis of Chronology, from the era of creation, according to the Septuagint, to the year 1837. I find the calculations therein contained to be nothing more than a reiteration of those already made use of bythee in thy treatise, entitled "Fulness of the times." I consider it, therefore, unnecessary to make any further remarks on the calculations therein contained, because I have, in the preceding letter, shown, by a variety of incontestible proofs, that chronology, as conveyed to us through the medium of the Hebrew text, carries along with it in every particular the impress of truth.

I have also, I trust, shown, to the conviction of every unprejudiced mind, that the chronology of the Greek text bears on its very front the most unequivocal marks of corruption.

I have annexed to the end of this work a compendium of chronology, from the era of the creation of Adam to the year of the Beast 666, or the year when the Apostle John wrote the Revelation-being the fifth of Domitian-by the reading of which thou wilt perceive that not only does the historical and prophetical time, as conveyed to us through the channel of the Hebrew text, most pleasingly harmonize, but that these again, when fairly and legitimately applied as the

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test, prove, in a manner the most convincing, the accuracy of the dates, as well as their accordance with the prophetical time mentioned in the New Testament; and still further, thou wilt notice, from a perusal of this compendium, that the historical department of Scripture chronology, by admitting the Hebrew text as our guide, most happily unites with, nay, in my judgment, receives the highest confirmation possible, as to the undoubted nature of its authenticity, from the prophetic time, as we have it embodied in the first chapter of Genesis, and as explained by me fully, and I trust satisfactorily, in the following Appendix.

Since writing the above, I have read thy Scientific Chronology of the year 1839, and Supplement, and Arithmetical Solution of the number 666, and to them, also, the foregoing observations are, I think, applicable.

My attention has also been directed to the following extract concerning the Book of Jasher, lately found, which affords another proof in favour of the chronology of the Hebrew text.-" A literary, or rather a biblical curiosity, will soon be published, which we feel confident in predicting will excite great interest among those who take pleasure in reading and studying the Scriptures. It is the Book of Jasher, referred to in the Bible, in Joshua, and in the second Book of Samuel, and which has been in the progress of translation from the Hebrew for several years in England, and is now completed, and will be soon published. There have been several simulated Books of Jasher, a notice of which we find in the Rev. Mr. Horne's Commentaries on the study of the Scriptures; but they bear no

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