by One to whom all glory, praise, and thanks are due from all men for the knowledge of "what shall be in the last end of the indignation of God;" and, as a careful watch on the battlements, I give timely notice of the enemy's approach, who is even at the gates. The high priests and the low priests, all too well paid to watch, have fallen into such deep sleeps of apostacy or selfishness, that we behold not one has breath to sound God's holy trumpet of alarm, viz. " Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish." The kingdom of heaven is at hand!!! I care not if I be accused as a madman, or even as a traitor, knowing that I am neither, and that God is able to deliver me, as he did Daniel from the lion's den. A gentleman was once arrested as a traitor by the Secretary of State, but Lord Chancellor Loughborough declared it was not treasonable to expound the Bible, but that the expounder might be a lunatic; consequently the first warrant was dropped, and a private jury found to condemn the expounder to a private mad-house during eleven years. Sunday Morn. 6 June, 1830. There are the most awful imports attached to the number forty days and years throughout the Bible: the deluge descended 40 days; Moses fasted 40 days in the Mount, when he received the law; Christ fasted and was tempted 40 days by the devil, and ascended into heaven 40 days after his resurrection; Nineveh was threatened after forty days!! Moses led the Jews 40 years through the wilderness; Jerusalem was destroyed after 40 years' notice!!! 40 years have nearly expired since the French Revolution showered divine judgments and warnings over Christendom, hurled the proudest priests, monarchs, and monarchies into dust, shook every throne, and solemnly called upon all men “ to do unto others as they would be done unto." 66 An ark, which floats for ever, is thereby as plainly offered by the Saviour, Christ the Lord, to the whole world, as he once offered to Noah; but the world is stone blind, deaf, and dead to the alarm. May we embrace the eternal ark and the Cross, to-day, for the loud roaring and raging waves of perdition may to-morrow overwhelm every unbeliever. "When the day of trouble and heaviness cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but thou [O Christian] shalt be merry and have abundance; the heathen shall envy thee, but shall be able to do nothing against thee, saith the Lord." O readers, may we search and find this comforter in our hearts, and show it by our lives and conversation. “ Our conversation is in heaven;" let us prepare, or we shall rue and repent for ever our "neglect of so great salvation." "Escape for your life." After the year The sanctuary must be cleansed soon. 1847 much is promised, in my humble opinion, but 1947 promises to be most glorious to all the world, if the dates of Daniel's prophecies be correct; that century promises, accordingly, to be the most glorious and blessed of all upon earth: there will be no murderers, no adulterers, no thieves, no misers, no gluttons, no drunkards, no warriors, no prisons, for God "will write his laws in all their hearts." Now a million diseases and accidents render our lives most wretched, and place us in "jeopardy every hour." I cannot attempt to describe the beauties, pleasures, and perfection of paradise restored. There will be little or no need of doctors, lawyers, or parsons, for "they shall [all] be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him one thousand years." Rev.xx. In this blessed hope and prospect I feel a peace, which the world can neither give nor take away!!! Now, reader, I hope you are prepared to explore the unfathomable mine of the Creator, Saviour, and Governor of all things, and to follow the divine plough with a contrite, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart. PREFACE INTRODUCTION CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Symptoms of the Times. Signs in the Sun, Moon, &c. - List of Earthquakes confirming the Gospel.- Christ's Prophecy of Universal War CHAP. II. Page iii vii 1 A Chain Chapter of the Bible compressed. The New Jeru- CHAP. III. The Restor 17 Jerusalem as it is, or London proved to be part of Great Babylon. - Comments upon the preceding Chain Chapter. - A remarkable Vision 23 CHAP. IV. Particular Predictions and Signs of Christendom's Destruction, and End of the Gentile Reign CHAP. V. Babylon the Great, or Christendom analyzed and compared. CHAP. VI. Babylon the Great, and the Builders 36 Observations on the Restoration of the Jews. -The Jews' and Christians' Pedigrees, &c. CHAP. IX. 137 Daniel and John's Visions unsealed, relative to "the Great Image and the Great Tree," erect, and now visible all over the Universe, &c. - The Conclusion of the Exposition, which has been sealed up 2588 and 1734 Years APPENDIX: Curious Correspondence, News, &c. . 148 181 ERRATA. Page 41. line 30. for accomplished read unaccomplished. 136. 4. for FRIENDSHIP read RELIGION. The Budget of Truth. CHAPTER I. The Symptoms of the Times.-Signs in the SUN, MOON, &c.List of Earthquakes confirming the Gospel.-Christ's Prophecy of Universal War. ALL the solemn preparatory warning signs, in heaven and earth* already appear, upon serious search of the Bible, quite accomplished, announcing "the NEW JERUSALEM coming down from heaven," according to the revelations of the Lord and Master, Christ; who declares, that "when Christians see all these signs above and events below, then they shall know that a blessed UNIVERSAL RESTORATION of paradise is near, even at the doors."+ *On 20 Sept. 1829, at Villanueva del Campo, in Spain, at half-past four o'clock, afternoon, and after a serene atmosphere, the sun was suddenly obscured by a white cloud, and soon afterwards two concentric circles were seen round the sun, and exhibited all the rainbow colours. Six minutes afterwards the circles disappeared. A cold came on in the evening like January; the vines were frozen, and the leaves and stems appeared burnt the next day." Ex Spanish Papers. A most beautiful Cross, resembling the colour of the rainbow, was lately seen by a whole congregation in France, and appears to have been verified by clergymen expressly appointed to examine the matter, if credence be due to Monthly Magazines. On Saturday evening, 27 March, 1830, I observed two moons together, and gazed several times before I ventured to notice the matter to several gentlemen, who did not condescend to stop, but passed on, and doubtless suspected I was a lunatic or a pickpocket. Afterwards I prevailed on two men and a boy to look steadily at it. At first one or two did not see it; but, on gazing more steadily, they all agreed with me that there were two new moons, half divided asunder, apparently to human sight, about one inch apart. On Sunday evening several friends saw the same, upon my calling their attention: it portends more than mortals can conceive at hand. The April new moon also bore a similar appearance. In the Appendix another far greater novel sign in the moon is described, which occurred between York and Leeds 20 Aug. 1829, and appears verified by a clergyman. 66 +" I saw a new heaven and a new earth, and new Jerusalem [the Spirit of God] coming down from heaven. I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God and the Lamb [Christ] are the temple of it." Rev. xxi "I beheld the thrones of the four beasts [Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America] thrown down, and the judgment did sit." Dan. * B |