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    heaven ; nor to excite so ludicrous an idea as that the Almighty would cause the dead to rise to the sound of any musical instrument . But the trumpet being peculiarly an instrument of war ,

    is used figuratively in the Apocalypse to denote seven fatal wars , which were destined to make important changes in the civil governments of the western part of the then known world . To the seventh or last of these wars Paul

    evidently alludes , in his explanation of the Christian doctrine of the resurrection . His literal meaning in these last concluding words is , for the seventh predicted war shall assuredly take

    place ; at which period those faithful followers of Christ , who are dead , will be raised , as foretold by John , with bodies incorruptible ; and they who are alive will be so changed , as to fit them to live for ever with the Lord ,

    " Jerusalem being the city where the Jewish tribes were ordered to assemble for the celebration of the festivals prescribed by the Mosaic law , and the temple there being the only place in which the religious rites and ceremonies of that law were allowed to be performed , * the city , Jerusalem , '

    became a very proper figure of speech to denote the religion of the Jews under the old covenant . Paul , therefore , in his Epistle to the Galatians , comparing the difference between the religions of the two covenants to the difference between Hagar and Sarah , denominates that of the Mosaic

    covenant by the figurative phrase , * Jerusalem that now is , ' and that of the gospel covenant by * Jerusalem which is from above , * in evident allusion to Apoc . xxi . 9 ,, where the prophet

    describes the final complete establishment of the religion of the Christian covenant throughout the world , by his vision of * the holy city , new Jerusalem , coming down from God out of heaven . '

    " In 1 Thess . iv . I 6 f Paul also plainly refers to the prophetic vision of Apoc . x ., when he tells them , that the coining of the Lord Jesus as Christ , and the resurrection of those who have died for their faith in him , will take place

    with , or rather as it is in the original , 4 in the trump of God , ' in that period of the seventh predicted war , which is there said to be proclaimed by the loud voice ? f a mighty angel , to be the time destined for the consumma-

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    tion of all these prophetic mysteries ; And to prevent the Thessalonians from supposing that important day of Christ to be then near at hand , he informs them in his subsequent epistle , that , before that period , there would

    be a general apostacy of professed Christians from the truths of the gospel-covenant to a false , unrighteous superstition , which , when unrestrained by the circumstances that then prevented its taking place , would prevail for a considerable time , and continue

    even to the distant period of Christ ' s coming 3 meaning most assuredly the Catholic prevalence of that impious system of religion so long established and supported by the civil powers of Christendom , which the prophet of the Apocalypse , in contrast to ' the

    holy city , Jerusalem , ' the figurative denomination of the true religion of the new covenant , calls * the great city Babylon / &c . Apoc * xvii . 16 and IS ; and xviii . 2 . This same deplorable apostacy Paul admonishes Timothy of , and most pathetically laments

    both in his first and second espistles . It is plain , therefore , that the propliecies of the Apocalypse preceded these epistles of Paul , which consequently bear a testimony to its antiquity and authenticity , infinitely stronger than can be produced in favour of any other book of the received canon /*

    Evanson ' s " Reflections upon the State of Religion in Christendom , at the Commencement of the 19 th Century of the Christian Era , " pp . 39—42 .

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    4 J } 2 Mr . HovOt on Bvanson ' s Observations > on the Apocalypse . —The Union *

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    i—Sir , August 5 f 1818 . WILL thank you to preserve in I your Repository of curious and valuable documents , a passage from The Weekly Freeman ' s Journal * Dublin , July 25 , 1818 , relating to the pledge given by the Administration to the Irish Catholics and their

    friends , in order to secure the measure of the Union . HIBERNICUS . The Union . The following is an extract from a speech spoken by the Knight of Kerry at the late Election for that County . The statement relative to the Union

    is curious and important . As to its truth there cannot be a shadow of doubt : — « He thanked his friend , Mr . O'Conne . II , for giving him an opportunitjrbf explaining his conduct on the Union

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/20/