wonderful degree of plenty and prosperity. Since by the mention of Ephraim it is evident that this prediction yet remains to be accomplished, for

"into this snare of hell, we presume not to predict. We hope, "that the great majority of the race will have too much di "cretion to be duped. This at least we know, that ultimately "the whole race of Israel, of the natural Israel, will return “and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king. They shall "return, and, sitting under his shadow, they will flourish. The "head of the faction leagued against us and them, against our "God and theirs, is the devil. If I am not much mistaken, "he is more than once named in Scripture pwn; the parti"ciple Benoni Kal being used as an appellative in the singular "number, to denote The rebel, The apostate. And the same

participle in the plural, which is the word here, denotes the "followers of that chief, Rebels, Revolters." Bp. Horsley in loc.

Let the reader, keeping in his mind this criticism of Bp. Horsley, compare what I say relative to the revolters here spoken of, with the apocalyptic account of the instigator of the revived Roman beast, the secret promoters of the Antichristian confederacy, and the avowed object of that confederacy when formed: with St. Paul's description of the man of sin; with Ezekiel's representation of the mystic prince of Tyre; with Daniel's relation of the fate which is about to befall the feet of the image and the Roman beast with his little horn, and with his strongly drawn character of the wilful king; and lastly with St, John's concise, though pointed, definition of Antichrist. He will then, I think, have but little reason to doubt, who are intended by these notorious revolters at the era of the restoration of the Jews. See Rev. xii. 3, 9, 17.--xiii. 1, 2, 4, 6.—xvi. 13—16. xix. 11-21-2 Thessal. ii. 3-12.-Ezek. xxviii. 2—10.--Dan. ii. 34, 35, 44, 45.-vii. 8-11, 20-27.-xi. 36-45.xii. 1, 7, 10.and 1 John ii. 22,

Ephraim has never yet been restored, we must necessarily conclude, that the Assyrian, here mentioned, is the antitypical Assyrian, or Antichrist now become the last head of the mystic Babylon. Here then we have an oblique, but sufficiently plain, allusion to the attempt which certain unconverted Jews will make to effect their return by the assistance of the Antichristian confederacy, and to their subsequent penitence and conversion.

In the last verse Hosea observes, that, plain as the ways of the Lord are, revolters will stumble in them, but that the justified shall proceed in them. By these revolters I understand those incorrigible enemies of God, who, falling from the apostasy of Popery to the yet blacker apostasy of Infidelity, and afterwards for mere ambitiously political purposes restoring the form of a corrupt religion which in their hearts they disbelieve*, shall at length league

Mr. Yorke finishes his description of the farcical celebration of the re-establishment of Popery by General Buonapartè, in the following remarkable words. "These are the principal inci"dents which occurred at Notre Dame. I leave you to form

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a just idea of the emotions of those present, whether they be "considered as Christians or not. The far greater part of the "Senate, the Legislative Body, the Tribunate, and the Generals, "being avowed atheists, and notorious for the murders, thefts, "and atrocities, which they had perpetrated; with their Chief "Magistrate, who had worshipped at the altar of atheism some years before in Paris, who afterwards knelt down before the Pope at Rome, and embraced the religion of Mohammed in

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league themselves in a misnamed religious war with the Romish man of sin, and attain the summit of deliberate impiety by openly opposing the counsels of the Most High respecting his ancient people the Jews.

PROPHECY XXXI.

Irruption of Antichrist into Palestine His destruction there-General effusion of the Holy Spirit-A description of the overthrow of the confederated nations at the period of the resto ration of Judah.

Joel i. 1. The word of the Lord that came unto Joel, the son of Pethuel. 2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.

"Africa; assembled together in one place to adore a god in "whom they had no faith, and to profess a religion which they "despised, merely that they might be enabled to preserve their

usurped authority over the people, and to retain their places; "is an occurrence in the history of pious fraud, not to be met "with since the days of Judas Iscariot. I may safely venture "to affirm, that, with the exception of the Bishops (if they 66 may be excepted), there was not a single person in the ca"thedral, who quitted this religious mockery with a sentiment "of piety excited in his breast, nor one, who did not perfectly see through the whole object of the ceremony." Letters from France in 1802. Vol. I. p. 269, 270.

Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4. That, which the palmer-worm hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that, which the locust hath left, hath the cankerworm eaten; and that, which the canker-worm hath left, hath the caterpiller eaten-6. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion. 7. He bath laid my vine waste, and barked my figtree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white

14. Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly; gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord. 15. Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come

ii. 1. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong: there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them

them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5. Like the noise of the chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7. They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks. 8. Neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his path: and, when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run to and fro upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble:' the sun and the moon shall be dark; and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 11. And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great; for the strong One executeth his word for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

12. Therefore also now saith the Lord, Turn ye eyen to me with all your heart, and with fasting,

and