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hi this improved state of society , will be tire lot of the labouring man . Thus the lion shall eat # traw like the ox ; and luxury , the parent of want , being banished from the world , there shall be food enough and to spare , for a larger population than has ever yet existed ; and every man , without fear of famine or the sword , shall sit under his vine and under his figtree ' , and none shall make them afraid .
As religious knowledge will become universal , - and as " all nun , from the least to the greatest , will know the Lord , " those princely religious establishments that , in ages of gross darkness , have dazzled and kept in awe the vulgar , will become useless , and laymen will cease to be the prey of priests . Not only will the lamb be secure from the ferocity
of the wolf , and the kid from the violence of the leopard ; but even the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp , and the weaned child put his hand on the cockatrice * den . Neither military fame nor priestly domination will be wanted ; piety and moral worth will become greatness
and strength ; mercy and truth will meet together ; righteousness and peace will kiss each other . True religion will supersede idolatry ; charity occupy the place of covetousness ; and peace on earth and good-will among men banish war and crime ; and the wisdom of this world will be demonstrated to be foolishness
with God . The knowledge of the Lord , which is to produce all these wonderful effects , after being impeded by a succession of ages of gross darkness , shall , < 4 in the evening time , " flow with a rapid and irresistible current , till it finally cover the earth as completely as the waters cover the bed of the ocean ; overturning all thrones
and principalities and powers that shall attempt to oppose its progress . The ages of gross darkuess that are already past , and those that may yet intervene before " the evening time , when it shall be light , " may lead inconsiderate men to imagine that the arm of Jehovah is weakened , and that he either cannot or will not bring snch mighty things to pass . But let those who doubt bear in
mind that , with Jehovah , a thousand years are as one day , and one day as a thousand years . The old heavens and the old earth—the errors of Judaism and Paganism , may pass away , as will all errors ; but the word of Jehovah , which is truth , cannot fajl of its accomplishment . Every thing predicted concerning the Messiah and hia kingdom , will , at the appointed time , be fulfil led . The prophecies which point , either
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directly or indirectly , to the triumph of the kingdom of the Messiah , are numerous ; but , were there no other than the two particularly alluded to in this letter , we might safely come to the conclusion , that before they can receive their completion , all the existing establishments , civil or religious , must either be
dissolved , or so thoroughly reformed by the divine operation of the knowledge of the Lord , or of Christianity , as to be what Isaiah emphatically calls a new creation . Such a creation partially took place upon the promulgation of Christianity , and during more than two centuries the honourable distinction of Christians was 1
" See how they love each other ! lu them , both as regards war and benevolence the most extensive , these prophecies received a partial accomplishment : but , as predicted , a falling away has taken place , and gross darkness has covered the earth . From this it appears to have been gradually and steadily emerging during the last four or five centuries , so as to afford a reasonable ground of hope , that the knowledge of the Lord , and this new creation , will
cover trie earth . In my next letter I propose cousidering some anticipations of Dr . Hartley , coiitained in his Observations on Man , &c , relating to the period iu which we are now living ; not as matters of curiosity or useless speculation , but as affording , when taken in connexion with prophecy , valuable practical counsel to the present generation . To all , whether nations or individuals , the prophecies
alluded to may be regarded as * ' profitable for doctrine , for reproof , for correction , for instruction in righteousness . ' As the apostle is here speaking of the Jewish Scriptures , or the law and . the prophets , for it was these Timothy had learned in his childhood , it is reasonable to suppose that the prophecies I have quoted , if not specially alluded to , were included in the apostle ' s remark . PHILANTHKOPOS .
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Passages from the Gentleman's Magazine . To the Editor . Sir , The passage which ensues is copied from the number of the Gentleman ' s Magazine published November 1829 . ** We know that many clergymen , good and excellent men , betray in their publications ignorance of the world . I «» no it ^ tancv , and we mean it in no ( H > -
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272 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/56/
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