said of God, that with him a day is as a thousand years, or a thousand years a day. With this view, in reference to his saying a thousand years is as a day, I have concluded, that seven thousand years are but seven days, and that the seventh is the Sabbath, which is the Millennium.

From the beginning, and through all the sacred book, the number seven appears to be a perfect number, and is used to denote a perfection belonging to whatever it illustrates, or which it symbolizes.

In the beginning, seven days was a perfect week.' God added seven days to his promised patience toward the old world. Clean beasts were taken into the ark by sevens. The years of plenty and famine in Egypt, and their emblems, were marked by sevens. The days of feasting, or feast of tabernacles, of unleavened bread, was observed by sevens. The number of beasts, in sundry of their oblations, were offered by sevens. The golden candlesticks had seven branches. Seven priests, with seven trumpets, went round the wall of Jericho seven days, and seven times, on the seventh day. Wisdom had her seven pillars.

In Revelations, there were seven churches, seven candlesticks, seven spirits, seven stars, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven thunders, seven vials, seven plagues, and seven angels to pour them out on the seven headed

monster.

Seven often signifies many, as sevenfold, and is complete in whatever it refers to. And as the first week of time was not complete nor perfect, without its seventh day of rest, which was, and is now, emphatically the glory

of the week, so neither shall the great week of seven thousand years be perfect without its seventh day of Millennial rest, which will be the glory of the great week of time.

Seven days for a week, and the seventh a Sabbath; seven weeks for a week, and the seventh a Sabbath; seven years for a week, and the seventh for a Sabbath; seven times seven years for a week, containing seven Sabbatic years, and the fiftieth for a Sabbath; seven thousand years for a week, and the seventh a Sabbath, appear to be analagous to each other, and bear the marks of design, in reference to the Millennium, or the great Sabbath of rest to a weary world.

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Having presented the evidence of sacred chronology to prove that time has been rightly measured, and having made a comparison of Sabbaths, I now, in the third place, proceed to notice the recurrences of re markable events, as promised in the Seventh Division of this book, and will, in a certain sense, corroborate the two former statements, viz. of chronology, and a comparison of Sabbaths-as follows:

When the recurrence of the same thing is observed to transpire, from age to age, in a periodical way, it is natural to expect a return of the same thing, unless nature be changed in her laws.

The recurrences which I shall notice, and are obvi- . ous to all, are, first, The ebb and flow of the tide waters every twelve hours-the revolution of the earth on her axis every twenty-four hours-the change of the moon from full to full every lunar month-the blowing of the trade winds six months from north to south, and

six months from south to north-the annual revolution of the earth round the sun, producing all the varieties of the seasons within the compass of twelve monthsand the migration of fowls and fishes from one clime to another at certain periods of the year. From a knowledge, therefore, that these things recur periodically, it is safely calculated that they will continue to transpire in their order, till the order of nature which produces them is changed.

If we view the planets, we shall find them exact in their periods of return: Mercury travels round the sun in some time less than three months-Mars in some time less than two years-Saturn in nearly thirty years, and Herschel in eighty-three years. And on the account of their faithful return to the same point in the heavens in exact periods, have, therefore, become waymarks to the astronomer.

Now as these things in the natural world are certain to return at definite periods, and never disappoint expectation, so neither will the periods that have produ ced some supernatural event, disappoint the expectation of a return; or the return of such a period will be expected to produce some great and supernatural event, but not of the same kind, though originated by the same cause, which is God.

The events to which I allude, are, first, that series of events, which took place from the era of the great deluge, till the remarkable appearance of the everlasting God to Abraham, to whom the important promise was made, that of his seed the Messiah should come, and on that account all the families of the earth were in him

to be blessed. The flood, the destruction of all mankind except eight, the repeopling of the earth from Noah's family, the confusion of language at the building of Babel, the calling of Abraham from his father's house to go to an unknown land, and the revelation, God made to him there concerning his seed and posterity are the grand events which transpired about the year of the world 2000, and are considered altogether supernatural.

A second series of events, which were also supernatural, was the advent of Christ, the incarnation of the Word-He who was and is the Mighty Counsellor, the Everlasting Father, the Ancient of days, Creator and Upholder of universal nature, who then revealed Himself in a stable at Jerusalem, to become a sacrifice for the redemption of men. Thirty-three years of sorrows, which marked the humble life of God incarnate. and his final crucifixion on Mount Calvary, his resurrection from the dead on the third day after his death, and glorious ascension, from earth to heaven forty days after, in full view of above five hundred witnesses, all of which were accomplished about the year of the world 4000.

A third series of supernatural events may be expected to be unfolded, when the third great period of time shall be accomplished, which is now within one hundred and seventy-three years of that time. The events which will then take place are, a destruction of all sinners from among the living righteous-a resurrection of all the righteous dead at the sound of the archangel's voice, "for the trump shall sound, and

the dead in Christ shall rise first"-the real appear ance of the Son of Man in his own glory, and that of his Father and the holy angels, will then take place. A restoration of all living saints, who have not tasted death, to the paradistical state, may then be expected -all natural and moral evil banished from the earth, and Satan shut up in the bottomless pit for a thousand

years.

There have been two thousand years from the creation, without any written law from God-this is called the patriarchal dispensation till Abraham. 2. There have been two thousand years under the law, where there has been a written revelation, a succession of prophets, and a divine ecclesiastical establishment. This was the dispensation of the law, given to Moses and the Jews at Horeb, which includes from Abraham till Christ.

3. Nearly two thousand years have now elapsed since the era of the nativity of our Lord, when the Christian dispensation commenced, and will, at the close of the next century, arrive at the zenith of its splendour and victories on the earth.

Thus far having presented the recurrences of nature as analagous to the main point, which, as it relates to the unfolding of supernatural events at almost given periods since the world began, amount to a moral certainty, in connexion with the typical Sabbaths, that at the end of the next century the Christian Millennium will cominence.

We shall next, and fourthly, attempt, from a view of the prophet Daniel's prophecy, to show when the Mil