Revealing the Circumstantial and combined Mammon Powers and Principles of the GREAT FOURTH KINGDOM; which should literally appear, and in the Height of its Glory, in the last Age and state of its Worldly ambition and prosperity; then, in its accumulated Imperial Power, as Prefigured in Vision,-by the formidable and terrible Image of the Fourth Kingdom!-And which Kingdom shall be seen, until, by the Almighty Father, and by his Omnipotent Power shall the Living Stone be cut out of the Mountain without hands; which shall smite the Image upon the Feet and break them to pieces; so that then it shall fall, and all its Parts and Powers shall be scattered, and driven as Chaff before the Wind, and no Place be found for them. And the Stone which shall so smite the Image, is ordained to succeed it, and to prosper and increase as a great Mountain or Kingdom, which shall fill the whole Earth. Dan. ii.

Those who have watched the progress of Events of the Year 1807, and particularly since the Memorable occasion before alluded to-of Antichristianism proclaimed in the Law-giving House of the Nation! -may find it,-An all-sufficient Cause and Criterion of Data of the especial commencement of an avowed and open hostility against the Christian Spirit, and Apostolical Doctrine. And moreover, They may find, that, general and approved Apostacy ;-(if at all,) was but, very pusillanimously questioned or contested; And which has therefore been in all probability and to all appearance, the chosen time in the eye and

mind of Providence for commencement, and for an Ostensible and very perceptible Sign of a proceeding from thence,-literally, progressively, and authoritatively, towards the accomplishment of Christ's Prophecies in One, and apparently in this Generation: -Whereof, He, whose every word is truth, hath testified and declared that,―They shall in such short space be fulfilled. Thus he foresaw, and as He foretold; and very apparently comprehended the Character and Principle of the present Race and times, and diffusion of its heterogeneous Dispensations.

Aloof then to all the Prophetic Antedates of Men, and their unauthorised prolongation of Times, and Dates, and premised Events,-and of all their vain surmisings and Falsifications of Hundreds of years of premature commencement, without any due or just Authority? but which are reversely, and heedlessly contrary to Scripture light and testimony. And moreover their irrelevant, obstinate and wilful application of their Self-devisings, to the latter-day Prophecies; especially as to their bearing emphatically on Rome, are all alike rejectable. Besides other instances of former Stress and Bearing, exclusively, on that City and Sovereignty of Rome, without any legitimate sanction of Authority, Test, or Proof. Of such description are also found the special Authorities as contained in the Chronological Chart.

It is truly grievous to read the aggravating Pretentions that are set forth in the Chart; and the jarring

conflict in mixing the two Visions and Prophecies of the 7th and 8th of Daniel: which in the Text are rendered completely separate and distinct, one from the other.

The confusion it appears is of the utmost magnitude and self-condemnatory; and no wonder when "Chronologers" are looked up to for interpretation, instead of resting on the precise Testamentary Authority itself.

It is admitted that the Prophet when he saw the Vision was at Shushan," the capitol of Persia." And it is added," Babylon, being then a subject of History, had no place in this Prophecy." Yet looking down to the next Paragraph in the Chart for explanation,-a continued stress of reference and of application to Rome (or Babylon) is found, sentence after sentence:-All which, in every instance has in very deed, no place in this Prophecy.' Nor has the reference to the Second Chapter, which is dragged in; Any thing, or Ought to do with this Prophecy of the VIIIth The same inconsistency of irrelevancy and admixture of the two Prophecies is likewise found in the Cambridge Publications.

Instead of going to Rome for elucidation and facts,-If Truth be the Object in view, and in lieu of the Fiction and Ignis Fatuus of bewildering Expositors, which are many; We have only to look nearer, and directly at Home; and by the evidence, and ap

preciation of Circumstantial Matters that have happened in these late, and in the last years and days,— might serve unerringly, to clear up the accomplishing, and proceeding to the accomplishment of the Prophecy. And therefore that due estimation might also serve to disperse all the spurious and counterfeit applications which are made to the Three, or to any and every One of the THREE great Prophecies of Daniel, of Christ, and of the Divine Evangelist.

In ousting all the laboured and irrelevant references to Rome, as regarding the very distinct Prophecy of the 8th of Daniel; and excluding the frail and confused Exposition of The Rev. T. R. Birks,— Let the believer look to the plain Testification, and the near and expected DEMONSTRATION of the comparatively, "King of fierce countenance," Standing up at a time when the Transgressors (Idolaters) are come to the full. And moreover looking to the bold countenance of that One of understanding Dark Sentences; And also his standing up against the Prince of Princes!" Yet, and paradoxical, as it might seem,

By Peace destroying Many."-By instilling ruinous and deceiving Idolatrous Popish Doctrines and Principles into the Hearts and Minds of the Millions of his Followers-not instructing or telling any One of them that being and continuing an Idolator,— it is impossible he can enter the Kingdom of God,—be he Pope, Bishop, Protestant, Priest, or Peasant. Nor one or the other can ever bring his Idol,-Popish or

Protestant, Irish or English Tutelary Saint,-any more than himself, considered in fine, as the Representative of his Idol that he bows down to, and serves, and worships. They may boast of their Millions, yet with God and the Scriptures, though The Rebellious shall come up," in the four Quarters of the Earth,"—not -“in even by Millions, but " innumerable as the Sand of the Sea, and shall compass the Camp of the Saints of God about, and of the beloved City :"-Yet then, shall "Fire come down from God out of Heaven, and devour them."-Revelations xx. 1-10.

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Who does not recognise the King of fierce Countenance!' and by his great Forensic Knowledge of the dark sentences of the Law ;-having contested with, and overcome many of the Learned and Highest Authorities of the Land? Who does not also know His long manifested, and open opposition to the Doctrines and Ordinances of the "Prince of Princes?" And of His forcibly inculcating the love of Fatherland and green Erin! In violation, or, of the most glaring strife and contest with the Ordinance, and of the INJUNCTION of the "Prince of Princes :"-Whose expressed Doctrinal teaching and commands were, and which still are,-" Lay up for yourselves Treasures in Heaven, and not upon Earth: for where your treasure is, there will your Heart be also." And, again exhorts the Saviour of Man,-" Love not the World, neither the things that are in the world. If any Man love the World, the love of the Father