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The following Works are printed in the following cheap periodical form, with paper covers, so that they can be sent to any part of the country, or to Europe, by mail.

The following Nos. comprise the Library.

1. Miller's Life and Views.-37 1-2 cts.

2. Lectures on the Second Coming of Christ.—37 1-2cts.

3. Exposition of 24th of Matt. and Hosea vi. 1-3. 18 3-4 cts.

4. Spaulding's Lectures on the Second Coming of Christ.-37 1-2 cts.

5. Litch's Address to the clergy on the Second Advent.-18 1-4 cts.

6. Miller on the true inheritance of the saints, and the twelve hund 3d and sixty days of Daniel and John.-12 1-2 cts.

7. Fitch's Letter, on the Advent in 1843.-12 1-2 cts.

8. The present Crisis, by Rev. John Hooper, of England

10 cts.

9. Miller on the cleansing of the sanctuary.-6 cts. 10. Letter to every body, by an English author, "Behold I come quickly."-6 cts.

11. Refutation of "Dowling's Reply to Miller," by I. Litch.-15 cts.

12. The “Midnight Cry.” By L.D. Fleming. 12 1-2 13. Miller's review of Dimmick's discourse, "The End noi Yet."-10 cts.

14. Miller on the Typical Sabbaths, and great Jubilee.-10 cts.

15. The glory of God in the Earth. By C. Fitch.

10 cts.

16. A Wonderful and Horrible Thing. By Charles Fitch. 6 1-4 cts.

17. Cox's Letters on the Second Coming of Christ. -18 3-4 cts.

18. The Appearing and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. By J. Sabine. 12 1-2 cts.

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ZECHARIAH XIV.

BY S. BLISS.

BOSTON:

J. V. HIMES, 14 DEVONSHIRE ST.

DOW & JACKSON'S PRESS.

1843.

PRINTED BY DOW AND JACKSON,

Exposition of the 14th Chapter of

Zechariah.

We

We have been repeatedly requested to give an exposition of this chapter, but till now, a press of other matter has prevented us. are of the opinion that it is susceptible of a literal interpretation, without conflicting in any respect, with any other portion of God's holy word.

The chapter begins with a prediction, "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee," 1st verse; without showing the distance of time to that event. Then in the 2d and 3d verses is predicted first the warring of all nations against Jerusalem; and after that the Lord is to " go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle." "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against

those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle." The time which is to intervene between the fulfillment of these two events is not given, but the time of the last event is given; for it is said in the 4th verse, when the Lord shall go forth and fight against those nations, "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." This, therefore, is connected with the second coming of Christ. Parallel portions of scripture show us when the other. prediction-the fighting of all nations against Jerusalem-was to be accomplished.

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According to the 25th chapter of the prophecy of Jeremiah, that prophet was commanded to take the wine cup of God's fury at the Lord's hand, and make all nations drink of it. "To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse, as it is this day," v. 18: "and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth,” verse 26.

This was to be their final overthrow as nations, for, "Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and

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