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    of ¦ lbs pHiiii ^ iw ^ I ^ j ^ iiistiai ^^ ' for' jSp ^ -mL " . * st mdst destructive inject ; htoqe , the lefttfer has ' the name of . Ahaddori ^> -6 r Af > dl ^ i * fl > ci ^ n him , for they both meaft a destroyj

    er ; iudeedv the one i » Bierofy atr »^ isiation of the Other , la Jadge »> chi ^ p . vi . 3 , w * e re&d , that * the Midiaaitesy tire Amalekites , and other e ^^ rmiiatiotis , * L e . the various Arab tribes ;^; came against tile Israelites , encamping on thflfcir territory , ravaging the whofe produce of the

    ground , as far as Gaza , leatiag them neither provisions , flocks nor herds . They came with their cattle and their tents , like a multitude of locusts without number , laying waste the land . * The f * foj > bet Joel ( ii . 3—5 ) speaks of the loCusts , and

    describes the devastation iroy make in the following expressive Migiiage : ' Before them the land is as tfte ^ garden of Eden , and behind them a desdlate wilderness . ' He compares them io ' the appearance of horses ^ and like horsemen they run ; their leap is like the sound of

    chariots on the tops of the mountains , and like the sound of a flame of fire , which devourelh stubble . ' Aftqr giving a further account of them , which , in many respects , resembles those mentioned by John , and of their rapid , irregular , destructive and overwhelming march , he says , Before them the sun and the moon are darkened , and the stars withdraw

    their shining * These locusts are used figuratively to denote the misery , distress and ruin , occasioned by an irresistible attack of a numerous nost of enemies . This king of the locusts and his subjects were not , however , Utterly to destroy Christianity , nor to consign those who embraced it to the eternity of hell

    torments , which , as the king of hell , he would have done had he been the Devil ; but to harass and persecute the Christians for a limited titne—five moriths ; upon the earth , and dot in hell . This period answers to the time that locusts generally make their appearattce arid commit their depredations—from the beghinrng of April to the end of Atigust . r to whatever ,

    therefore , John referred by this deep pit , this abyssj hie couid hot intend to designate by it the future afttxle of the wicked , nor the residence of rife Devil , as must appear ftotn the natnWof the inhabitants of this pit ; who Trere , pidtoefoty , from the descrfjkidh of tf * e locusts , military men > fctapl 6 yed in tfrfe Work eff ftersecuttdti and death .

    ' * Smoke , fn the language of Scripti ! fre , does hot necessfcrfty im ^ ly the preseirfce t > f fire , * es its catosfe , (* ee &em xxix . 30 ; Psalm xviii . 7 9 8 , lxxiv . 1 , civ . 32 , cxliv . 5 ) : nor does John intimate that the tstdoHe -itrtrife froiA a fur-

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    eludes W t ^ ' % ^ WK- < ^ ] ai «;^ oe . ^ ovet * , and it ; had c ) htiflued pply Mvq months ; ^ hiAM . rjL ^ " morefe | ej yet to cftti' f ^ - ^^ M ^ Mptmixi ^ m ^ vf ) lent spirit , aft tjie advocates of the Devil \ te Mm $ i ?* . ^ # ^^ . ^ te ^ ed : % ^ this , . or in ^ m ^ m ^^ Mmi ^ " visions fif * John .-

    -i-rPp- 193 ~^ tf 6 . ^ In concluding this Lector ^ , Mr . Scott exanixh& five passages " of this book in \ vhicb the term JSiabolos or DeHl occurs , iM contends that in all of them none trttt aihuraaa

    adversary upon earth Is toeiiu ; a position which will scarcel y be disputed by any who hafe * inquired into the sense of the Apocalypse and endeavoured to find a clue to guide the mind through this labyrinth of oriental vision and Jewish allegory . [ To be continued . ]

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    Art . II . — The Mutual Relation of the Unity of God and the Humanity of Christy as Doctrines of the Gospel : a Sermon , preached July 9 , 1823 , nt Bristol , before the Society of Unitarian Christians ,

    established in the ff * e $ t of England , for promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue , by the Distribution of Books . By John Kentish . 12 nao . pp . 68 . Birmingham , p rinted and sold by J . Belcher and Scm ; sold also by R . Hunter * London *

    MR . KENTISH has been lon £ distinguished as a learned , able , judiefotis &hd candid advocate of Unit&rifcn Christianity , and . the present difecoufse toys the denomination in Which he occupies an important station tmder new obligations to him . The Uftfty of God and the Humanity

    of Christ have been often Well asserl&l ittni satisfactorily £ rt > ved from the ScVijptiifes *; btit We Hli 6 W of no sermon or treatise in which * ' the nmtiial relatloA" of these principles ife "doctrittes of the gospel ^ 19 6 ° concisely stated and argued , and so clearly established m in the present difccfttifise . ft adds so the merit of thk SerlHon Ifcal thfe Wli ^ le arg um en t ife deduced fr <^ a . and ^ % > ported hy

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 660, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/44/