Antipodes, and refolutely kept it there: there were too many brilliant conftel lations in their zenith for this obfcure Georgean*, to be visible: a via lactea of Priesthood outfhone it. The circumftance of its moving, and afterwards becoming stationary, proves it a PLANET,

After recollecting this little circumftance, which ushered in the visit of "the DAY-STAR from on high;" "the LIGHT of the Gentiles and the GLORY of Ifrael;" no candid perfon will demand obtrufive luftre in the figns foretold to be in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars, Luke xxi. 25." fince the least visible star is a fufficient informant for a wife Gentile, and a cometary eclipfe + for three hours, and a rending of the veil of the temple, and a splitting of rocks, infufficient for a foolish Jew. But they were unbelieving Jews, not believing Chriftians, fays fome Priest Philofopher. It is out of doubt, if people are to decide on their own wifdom, that the Jews were as wife in their own conceit as the Christians, and knew just as much about the Meffiah's first coming as the Christians do about his fecond; when they refuse the new lights of his fecond advent, with the fame pertinacity and infolence that the Jews did those of his first.

Obferve farther, that among the Jews was a prophecy, Numbers xxiv. 17, that, " a ftar fhould arife out of Jacob." How much wiser they chose to be for it, or how far warned by the prophecy, and what effect the appearance of its fulfilment had in the maffacre of a multitude of infants, are all very well known. But you will find, that thofe to whom lefs light was entrusted, made a better use of it; for Chalcidius, a Platonic Philofopher, or Aca

Called in fome parts of Germany Uranos, or the Cæleftia!; but I prefer Georgeas, as expreffing at once, the commencement of Heaven on earth, ear h as well as Heaven, and a return to earth.

+ See Beere's Answer to Levi.

demic, cotemporary with Chrift, fays, writing on Plato's Timæus: There is a more HOLY and DIVINE HISTORY, which imports, that, by the late appearing of a certain extraordinary ftar, not difeafes and deaths are forefhewn, but THE VENERABLE DESCENT OF GOD FOR MAN'S SALVATION; which star was observed by the CHALDEANS, who worshipped GOD new-born, and become Man, and OFFERED HIM GIFTS."

Is Chriftianity, then, meafured by Aftrology? IT WAS FIRST RECOGNIZED BY ASTROLOGY. Befides, there is no Christianity without an intimate moral knowledge of the works of GOD; because a Chriftian is his moral work, Rom. i. 20. David, after deducing a knowledge of the ftatutes and judgments of Gon, from the words of the ftars or aftrology, and praifing their excellence, adds, "Moreover, by them is thy fervant warned, and in keeping of them is great reward, Pfalm xix. ii. But does the Chriftian borrow his light from the fame fources as David? I have already anticipated this question, in what I have just faid; but I will enlarge upon it.

In principle, he does: you will find in the 19th Pfalm, these words: “In them (the Heavens) hath he fet a tabernacle for the Sun" and the following is the 16th verfe of the first chapter of Revelations. "He had in his hand feven stars, and out of his mouth went a fharp. two edged fword, and his countenance was as the Sun fhining in his ftrength." Whether David were a Chriftian or not, or whether he were fo fpiritual as this moft excellent, and that most excellent and pious man, who intercept me fo often on every fide, that it feems strange" there is no deliverance wrought in the earth, nor

That is, he operated through their Mi-. niftry.-In the 20th verfe, you will find, "the feven fars are the Angels of the feven churches;" and in the 19th verfe of the rft chap. of Hebrews, it is faid, that the Angels "are all Miniftering Spirits."

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the inhabitants of the world fallen," Ifaiah, xxvi. 18.; yet, when he faid, that by the JUDGMENTS of GOD, deduced from the Sun and Stars, he was warned, he feems to have paid a very wife attention to the circumftance of a two-edged fword, "introduced in the apocalyptical defcription of the Sun and the Stars; and thus, his defcription of the natural Manifestation of GOD, in the fyftem and economy of creation, correfponds exactly with the MOST SPIRITUAL view of CHRIST on record, or to be recorded. And here, David ftands remarkably oppofed to those with whom the Powers of HEAVEN are fhaken, and the stars fallen;" and to thofe "wicked," of whom he fays, "the Judgments of GoD are far above out of their fight." He alfo fays, Pfalm xxviii. 5. "because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his HANDS, he fhall deftroy them." Now let us refer to the Mef fage to the Church of Sardis, which begins the 3d chap. of Revelations, delivered from Chrift, as "having the Seven Spirits of GOD and the Seven Stars," and we shall find David's eftimate of the fate of thofe, who pay no attention to the operation of the HANDS of God, viz. deftruction, to be accurate. There is but one of the feven churches, who is condemned in the aggregate, and whereof only repenting individuals escape; and that one is Sardis, or the Methodists: it is told her," thou haft a name, that thou liveft, and art DEAD.' Again, "I have not found thy works perfect before GOD?" Again, "I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." How should they, when they contumaciously refuse the " figns in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars," even when their meaning and application is pointed out, and though in the 32d verfe of Matthew, xxiv. and the 20, 30, and 31, of the 21ft chap. of Luke, they might have been taught, (had they come under the defcription of thofe, to whom it was given to

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know the myfteries of the kingdom of Heaven *;" or thofe," with whom the fecret of the LORD was, and to whom he fhewed his Covenant +," Pfalm xxv, 14) from the parable of the fig-tree, and all trees putting forth leaves when fummer is nigh, that the figns of the Heaven, on which a dependence was directed to be placed, were ordinary, and those of the moral feafon. Finally, they are furprised by the day of GoD, because, with them, "the Sun, intellectually, is darkened, and the Moon doth not give her light,” Matthew xxiv. 29.

But fays fome purblind owly caviller, thefe prophecies were relative to the Jews. They related to those, who were offered the love and the wisdom of GOD and refused them, because they loved themselves, and chose to "walk by the light of their fire and by the fparks they had kindled"--Ifaiah v. 11. to thofe, who "loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil---THis being the condemnation."-John iii. 19. Jerufalem is Jerufalem--A temple built with hands is a temple built with hands---Life through Alpha and Omega is life through Alpha and Omega---and death through fin is death through fin---whether predicated of jew or gentile. And does your Apostle Paul, make any distinction of punishment for jew or gentile, between the figurative temple prophaned in Europe, and that prophaned in old Jerufalem? No. Know ye not, that ye are the Temple of GOD, that the fpirit of COD dwelleth in you? If any man defile the Temple of GOD, him shall GOD deftroy," 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. To the Romans more pointedly..." The wrath of GOD IS revealed from Heaven

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against all ungodliness and unrighteDafness of men, who held the truth in unrighteoufnefs; because that, which may be known of GOD is manifeft IN them; for GOD bath fhewn it unto them, (Pfalm xix.) for the INVISIBLE things of Him from the creation of the world are CLEARLY SEEN, being underfood by the things that ARE MADE*, even his eternal power and godhead... fo, that they are without excufe," Rom. i. 18, 19, 20. "Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every foul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew FIRST, and ALSO of the Gentile, for there is no respect of persons with GOD," "Rom, ii. 8, 9, 11.

Now I hear fome pfeudo philofopher or fprig, more or lefs fturdy, of academic philofophy, who has been imbibing Sir Ifaac Newton's lies and abfurdities, have the puny infolence to fay, that David, who wrote the 19th Pfalm was no philofopher, because he fays, "That the fun rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race, that his going forth is from the end of the Heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it."

David's theofophy taught him with Ifaiah, chap. xxvi. 12---that it was "GOD who wrought all his works in him," and with Paul, that “it was GOD who worked in him both to will and to do of his good pleasure," and "it is GOD who worketh all in all He knew, that the Sun of the natural world was an accurate, though dim, outbeaming and correfpondent of the Sun of righteousness: and he knew ale fo, that man as well as the planets appeared to have life, i. e. primary life and motion within themfelves; while, in fact, both in their proper Sun "liv. ed and moved and had their being.' Acts xvii. 28.

Hence he came to a pofitive conclu. fion, that there was no revolution in human events, which had not its proto

netary revolution, which did not borrow its form and direction as well as original motion in the constituents of motion, life and heat, from the Sun. Every motion, therefore, in the planets, has its rife in the Sun, though in the magnitude of that majeftic orb, and from the want of bodies fufficiently near and independent of the fyftem to prefent a fcale of diftances, almoft imper ceptible. Sir I. N. may keep his nonfente of vacuum and attraction out of the way, for we are not indebted to mythology and fuperftition for life and prefiding genii in the fun, planets, and all creation, but to found reason, genu. ine theofophy, and the oracles of GOD.

I may also observe, that the fame Being who is called the SUN OF RIGHTE. OUSNESS is alfo called THE WORD; and, as all the planets receive their virtues with their light from the Sun, they are properly confidered by David as being, or delivering, words alfo. I have faid, they derive virtues as well as light; perhaps, it may not be generally known in the prefent opaque days, that light is a medium of conveying phyfical infection: it is fo, however, and has been known to be fo, for centuries.

Concerning what I have afferted on the figns preceding the confummation of the Judaico-Gentile church, namely, that they are ordinary and SEASONABLE, it may be observed, on the authority of history, that very prodigious figns preceded the deftruction of Jerufalem. Here my track will be fhortened, as it is pretty generally acknowledged that meteors and all vapoury ignitions in the atmosphere have an immediate phyfical connexion with this planet, or, generally with the terraqueous fyftem, if above the atmosphere.

How, then can a man prefume to call himfelf" crea ed in Chrift Jefus," without this understanding?

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THE Spring Afcendant of 1788, was M 13o, now it is 'm 8o. Mercury, then, lord of the fign intercepted in the roth, was retiring retrograde from nearly the of, and was combuft: but let it be remembered, in * of 2. Mercury is in both lord of the house of death, and Mars lord of the afcendant and fixth, the house of fickness: is in the prefent lord of the 11th, viz. of friends, of the treasury, of fifth fifters or brothers, of hopes, of great men, &c. &c. His pofition at prefent is oppofition to mutually applying, in combuftion, on the cufp or the 5th, in fall and detriment, no of 24 nor of any one else. The cufp of 11th house at that new moon from whence I drew my notices in No. VII, now afcends: that houfe was afflicted then, as I fully expreffed; it is reduplicatively and continuously afflicted now. I fay nei ther blood nor treasure is spared, and there is pilfering as well as fquandering in the public cheft: the first fix degrees of m have more ARBITRARY power than any part of the zodiac; they afcended on England's treafure, and now they afcend on England's people. The last conjunction of 24 and D was in them:

lord by exaltation of 12th and pofited in the 6th, is lord of the hour of this ingrefs is under the earth, ♂ above the earth on the cusp of the 11th: 2 has just withdrawn his beams from the eastern horizon or afcendant, and is entering the house of labour and forrow, but in A and D from 4th, and on the other hand, in little more. than feven weeks fuftains oppofitions from and in cardinal and

And if Mr. PITT will refer to my letters in that year, he will find that did refrain from the last vehemence of attack on the King. W. G.

violent figns, and is retrograde to meet

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and was refrained from in 1788, and afterwards prevented by the * 4, as was alfo the of and d) this return with decifion I say, to the pofitions of 1788, naturally produces reflexion: Before I write my reflexion, I fhall premife, that the mischief is, by a fmall difference in the pofition of the figns, transferrred from the king whom in 1788* it threatened, to the ariftocracy +, while I fee nothing to prevent the blow! has given his oppofition to already and fucceeds: Dfollow rapidly and take a quincunx, called a bad afpect by Kepler, in their way and an oppofite zodiacal parallel, which has already touched.

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Having premifed all that is neceffary to point the direction of events, my reflexion is, Luke xiii. 7, 8, 9. "Thefe THREE years I come feeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none; cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering faid, Lord, let it alone this year alfo, till I fhall dig about and dung it---and if it bear FRUIT well! and IF NOT--after that (the FOURTH year) THOU SHALT CUT IT DOWN!"

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By ariftocracy, I mean, not only great men; for if I did, my view would either be limited indeed, or I thould flide into a horrible catachrefis; but I also mean those great principles, things, NOTHINGS, that enflave a people; whether perfonified, incorporated, or titled, or not.

N B. The King of Pruffia must now be reduced to great humiliation. He has proceeded too far for France not to chaftife him foundly; Catherine the m......r must be whipt too: The extinction of the house of Auftria is at hand: In a word, all the oppofers of France thall perish, and perish foon. I am explicit. With refpect to indivħtual fate, I have not the Nativity of any King out of England.

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