make—Isaiah's day, when the light is to be seven-fold, when the ensign of the root of Jesse shall rest in glory;-Zachariah's day, when living waters will go out from Jerusalem, that day in which there is to be no evening or night;-and Christ's third day of perfection, are the same period of time mentioned by the apostle John, which he calls a thousand years; and this thousand years again I take to be symbolical of a larger period of time, probably about 360,000 years, that the reign or dominion of the Prince of peace, the Messiah, shall continue on this world; and this may be inferred from the announcement of the angels at his birth, who said, "Glory to God in the Highest; peace on earth, and good will toward men." From this it would appear, that peace on earth, and good will toward men, were to be of such long duration, that the two days, or two thousand years, were not taken into account by them; that the sword was to be against the Shepherd, against the sheep, and against the little ones: see Zachariah xiii. 7; and, agreeably to the apostle Peter, who spoke of the glory that would follow: 1 Peter, Chap. i. 11, "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." Christ said, Matt. x. 34, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace but a sword." Now this was truly the case, because the kingdom of Christ which He established on earth, consisted of "Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost," which was in opposition

to the unrighteousness and the wickedness of the world, which brought the carnal sword against Himself and his followers; and which has continued and will continue against them, in some part of the world, until that sharp two-edged sword that proceeded out of the mouth of the Redeemer will prevail, and establish righteousness and peace over the whole world. See Rev. xix. 15. It appears the apostle Peter required considerable instruction from his Divine Master, before he was prevailed upon to abstain from the use of the carnal sword; and he that was most forward in using this sword, was next in crime to Judas, and acted the most cowardly in denying his Master. After he was restored to the divine favour of his Master, he was instructed that the only sword that a true follower of Christ could use, either for himself or for others, was the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; a sharp two-edged sword which will never be sheathed as long as unrighteousness continues in the world; and those whom the Lord will instruct to use it best for the purpose of turning many to righteousness, they are they that will shine as the stars for ever and ever.

The apostle Peter was nigh losing life eternal, because he was aware of what his Master said, "He that saveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall save it." The same as if Christ had said, he that saveth his life by denying me, and also trying to save it by the use of the carnal sword, shall lose life eternal; but he that loseth his life by acknow

ledging me, and refusing to save himself by the carnal sword, shall gain life eternal.

Isaiah wrote during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: Isaiah i. 1. Now calculating agreeably to the chronology of the Septuagint; or, as it is explained and calculated by William Cunninghame, in his Synopsis of Chronology to the year A. D. 1837, the reigns of the above mentioned kings are there stated to have taken place in the years of the world between 4669 and 4753. The question put to the watchman, shows that the question was put and answered during the night; but according to the chronology of the Septuagint, the urgent question put to, and the answer made by, the watchman of Isaiah, are made by the Septuagint chronology to contradict both the question and answer, by making it to appear as if the question and answer were made in the morning of the Fifth day, instead of the night of the Fourth day. This is another decisive proof that the chronology of the Septuagint has been corrupted; and by an extract I shall make farther on, the reader will observe from it, that other good and honest well meaning men like William Cunninghame, who calculated by the chronology of the Septuagint, were deceived by it, and led into erroneous calculations, which made them to imagine that the end of the world was at hand. I think there is proof that the corruptions of the chronology of the Septuagint did not exist in the days of the Apostles; yet the belief of the near approach of the end of the world was strongly impressed on the minds of the

first Christians, till the Apostles corrected their mistake; this mistake they were led into by not clearly understanding the prophecies relating to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the end of the Jewish dispensation; and some of them not clearly observing that the coming of the Lord Jesus was spiritually, and unto themselves individually; and that their own day of having a share in the first resurrection from sin, and their day of judgment, as well as the rest of the human family, generally takes place in the very short period of threescore and ten, or fourscore years. The saints of old, who were cut off before the end of their natural lives, earnestly prayed in their tribulation that the Lord Jesus would come quickly and transfer them from this world of tribulation; and quickly come to enlighten and save a dark and wicked world from its abominations; and the souls of those murdered saints under the altar, who were crying for vengeance, were directed in wisdom to wait a little season till the time of vengeance arrived.

Writers at the present day, when they observe any act done, or language expressed, that appears to them to belong to the dark ages, they express their astonishment that such ignorance and stupidity should appear in the light of the 19th century; and the probability is, that this idea is as old as the narrative of the prophetic days of the creation. And on account of this ancient prophecy of the Six days' creation, and Seventh day's rest, the whole ancient world was imbued with the expectation of a coming golden age, wherein men would act righteously; and also a

coming conflagration, although they did not retain an accurate knowledge of the true God, but fell from it, as described by the apostle Paul, in the 1st Chap. of his epistle to the Romans; and on account of this ancient prophecy, which prevailed through antiquity more or less concerning the regeneration of the world by the Sun of Righteousness: infidels take advantage of it and say that the christian religion was cunningly devised from it; for proof of which I quote from the following authors:-Bellamy's translation of the bible, page 8, "The Persians who are descendants of Shem, do not agree with us as to the time which elapsed when God created the world; they are taught to believe that, instead of six natural days, six seasons or states are to be understood." Burnet's Theory of the Earth, page 122, "They supposed (that is the ancients,) this perpetual spring in the golden age; so they did also in their particular elysiums, as I could show largely from their authors. 'Tis true their elysiums respected the New Heavens and New Earth to come, rather than the past." Again, in page 189, "We are told of a vast library of books of all arts and sciences in China, burnt by the command or caprice of one of their kings, wherein the Chinese, according to their vanity, were used to say, Greater riches were lost than will be in the last conflagration." Again, in page 22 of third book, he says, "As to the resolution of our problem, How long the world will last? I do not remember any prophecies* of this nature, except the Sibylline Oracles, as they are

Amongst the Heathens.