materially departed from in the occasion which is now before us, the induction which reason is bound to draw is this: that it is probable a general proportion holds between the two occasions*; and consequently, as the latter has already reached, and somewhat exceeded, the rule or measure of the former, that an increased probability thence arises, that it has advanced exceedingly near to its termination.

But we are not left to the method of general inference alone, on this momentous question. The prophecies, which were provided to warn and prepare the generation that should be coetaneous with the conclusion of the Christian dispensation, abound with indications so minute and particular, and so plainly connected in all their course and order, as to show to all Christians of the present day, who apply their attention to the subject with

This argument I purpose to consider more at large on a future occasion.

a concern and earnestness proportioned to the magnitude of its importance, that events have occurred, und are now under actual occurrence, which distinctly testify, that the period of time, in which we are now living, is that of the closing and winding up of this present dispensation. If the Hebrew people were moved by an unceasing and increasing persuasion of the commencement of THE MESSIAH's kingdom, for eighty years before IIE first appeared; Christians, for more than two centuries past, have been moved by a persuasion equally constant, and as continually increasing, that the period of that MESSIAH'S concealment of HIS DIVINE PERSON from HIS CHURCH, was drawing towards its end; and that a revolution of the universe, no less than that to be produced by His second coming, was impending over the world.

But we, of this PRESENT GENERATION, have attained a period, when all who proportionately address their minds to the occasion, are compelled

to receive a complete and settled conviction, that this stupendous fact is certified and confirmed, by all the demonstration that can be supplied from the experimental occurrence of the circumstances divinely foretold to attest it. The visitations which have befallen most of the principal agencies whose operations fill up the annals of the Christian world, from the time of the general establishment of the Gospel upon the pagan ruins of Rome, have marked out a period of consummation and fulfilment too manifest to be either overlooked or misunderstood. And the peculiar character of the circumstances producing and accompanying those visitations, displays so exact and entire a correspondence with the prophetical notices imparted; that it needs only to survey them with alacrity of reason and reverence of faith, to yield ourselves unreservedly to their authority.

To draw the attention and concern of the present generation to this momentous truth, in a clear yet compendious manner, was the intention of the

Manual, entitled, "A CHRISTIAN'S SURVEY of all

the PRIMARY EVENTS and PERIODS of the "WORLD, from the Commencement of HISTORY to "the Conclusion of PROPHECY;" which little Work was designed to serve, as Institutes of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, chiefly with a view to THE PRESENT AGE. But, since that Work has been printed, New Events, of the most amazing cha racter, have burst upon the world; tending to throw a new and marvellous light upon the object therein investigated, and, at the same time, corroborating all the conclusions which were there deduced. These NEW EVENTS Constitute the Subject of this present Tract; which comes in supplement of that former Work, and in enlargement of its awful evidences. To that Work I therefore refer the reader, for all the elements and principles upon which this present discourse proceeds.

But, in referring the reader to that Work, I find ́myself placed under a necessity to say a few words

in its defence, against the recent attacks of a very zealous writer; who, in treating upon the same lofty subject, has deemed it requisite to prepare his readers for his own discourse, by making a preliminary assault upon mine. The writer to whom I allude, is the author of "A Dissertation on the -Seals and Trumpets of the Apocalypse;" which Work

he has deemed it necessary to shield with a Preface, consisting principally of Strictures upon The Christian's Survey. This measure, therefore, imposes upon me a real obligation to examine and reply to his several remarks; for, although it was my wish rather to sustain my arguments by their own strength, than by pointing out the weakness of those brought against them, yet these digested Strictures impose it as a duty on me, to depart so far from my general design as to give a summary answer to the objections which they contain.

The author of "The Dissertation" states, that after he had composed his Work, he "met with "The Christian's Survey ;' in which certain posi