i eousness, he is faithful and just to forgive you your sins. Why not take warning by the past? Is there no example for you? Look at the antedeluvian world, Sodom and Gomorrah, Nineveh, Babylon, Jerusalem, and the once enlightened Asia, now worse than in heathenish darkness. Will God punish nations and not individuals? This cannot be, for nations are composed of individuals, and God is just, for he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness. "Can ye not discern the signs of the times? Will God's word fail of being accomplished? Can you show a single instance? Why not listen, then, to the warnings and admonitions, to the calls and invitations, to the examples and precepts contained therein ? "Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" Will God cut off the unbelieving pharisee for not discerning the signs of the times, and let you, with twofold more light, go free? No, how can ye escape, if you neglect this great salvation? Watch, then," the signs of the times." I say, watch. INDEX. Introduction. The second appearing of Christ. ing for that blessed hope, and glorious appearing of the great LECTURE I. Titus ii. 13. "Look- LECTURE II. se novo LECTURE VIII. & IX. The epistles to the seven churches of Asia, considered as The new song. LECTURE X. Rev. v. 9. "And they sung a new song, saying, thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us The seven seals, as representing events to the end of hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals The two witnesses, as having been slain in the French revolution. Rev. xi. 3. “And I will give power unto my "And the The woman in the wilderness. Rev. xii. 6. LECTURE XIV. The seven last plagues, or seven vials. Rev. xvi. 17. "And the seventh Angel poured out his vial into the air; The parable of the ten virgins. Matt. xxv. 1. "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, LECTURE XVI. Signs of the present times. Matt. xxvi. 3. "But can |