The Heavenly and Adamic Blessings minutely investigated in their Extent, Capacity, and Duration, &c., &c. 8vo, pp. 132. 3s. 6d. 1838. Palmer, 18 Paternoster Row.

The Appearance of God to Man in the Gospel, &c. From the MSS. of of PETER STERRY. 4to. 1710.

The Rise, Race, and Royalty of the Kingdom of God in the Soul of Man, &c. By PETER STERRY. 4to. 1683.

A Discourse on the Freedom of the Will, and on the Mediation of Christ. By PETER STERRY. Folio. 1675.

De inferis, rebusque post mortem futuris, &c. Libri duo. FRED. BÖTCHER. Royal 8vo. Dresden. 1846.

ПIvevμaтoλoyia; or, A Discourse of Angels, &c. With Preface by GEO. HAMMOND. 1701.

The long titles of these works are abbreviated; but it is believed they will be useful to build up the saints in their most holy faith.

Extracts.

Figurative grounded on the Literal.

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"SYRO-EGYPTIAN.-Nov. 11.-Mr Bonomi read a paper 'On the Metaphorical Sculptures of Egypt,' illustrated by drawings made from the monuments. The object was, to shew that many metaphorical expressions in the Bible were exactly embodied in some of the sculptures. As, for instance, the well-known relievo on the towers of the gateways to almost all the temples of that country, whether built by a Pharaoh or a Ptolemy, representing the king striking off the heads of a group of supplicants, was not a sacrifice, but a metaphorical sculpture exactly embodying the 40th and 41st verses of the 18th Psalm. So likewise the metaphor contained in the sentence, until I make thine enemies thy footstool,' is constantly embodied in the statues of the Pharaohs, which are usually sculptured in a sitting position, with their feet on a stool or block, on which is engraved a string of captives. But the most speaking evidence of this metaphor, common to both descendants of Heber and Mizraim, is to be found on a mummy in the British Museum, on the soles of whose shoes is painted the figure of a prisoner belonging to a nation the most constant and determined enemy of Egypt.-Dr Bell read a few notes illustrative of the same subject, to the effect that there was at Constantinople the statue of an emperor on horseback trampling on a prisoner, like the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitol, which the doctor thought had at one time a similar statue of a man under the horse's feet. The equestrian statue

at Constantinople had been removed by some conqueror of that city, who imagined that he would thereby secure the city to himself and successors for ever. From this prejudice of olden time (illustrated also by the horsefoot found among the terra-cottas of Tarsus), Dr Bell traces the vulgar belief in the efficacy of a horseshoe, nailed to the door of a house or the mast of a ship, to preserve them and their inmates from peril or misfortune."-Athenæum, Nov. 22, 1856.

The supposed Land of Ophir.

From accounts just received from Natal, we learn that a report was current in the colony of an attempt about to be made on a very large scale to explore "the Land of Ophir," for gold. The following paragraph is copied from the Graaff Reinet Herald of the 19th of June:—

"I have seen a letter from the Transvaal country, which states that 200 waggons were starting for the extensive gold fields known to exist near Sofala. The Portuguese government on the eastern or southeastern coast, not feeling itself sufficiently strong to send an adequate force to the gold regions, have invited the Dutch Boers to join them. Many of us have long known that there exists a country far to the north-east, called by the Kaffir tribes 'Ophura,' which is doubtless the Land of Ophir, from whence King Solomon obtained both gold and ivory for the decoration of the Temple. No man who knows anything of history will deny that much gold has been exported both from the east and west coasts of Africa for ages past. Ivory, gold-dust, and slaves were the principal articles for export from Delagoa Bay, Inhambane, and Quillimane, long before I was born, and are so still. The Boers, with their 200 waggons, are expected back in September or October next, and hope that some portion of their heavy loads of golden ore, or pure metal, will find its way to the Graaf Reinet Bank, where it may be useful. Elephants are known to be very numerous towards Sofala; and should time not allow the farmers to complete their loads of gold, they have resolved to fill up their waggons with ivory. The climate will not permit the Boers to remain in the Land of Ophir beyond September."

A Railway to India.

Mr Macdonald Stephenson's plan for a railway to India is again before the public. He proposes a railroad from London to Calcutta direct, without any interruption, save at the Straits of Dover and the Bosphorus, the distance being accomplished in about a week. This is the ultimate development of the scheme, which he undertakes to execute within ten years; but in its simplest form it resolves itself into the completion of the European railways to Constantinople, and the making of a railroad from Scutari to Bussora, at the head of the Persian Gulf. The route indicated is from Scutari to Ismid-the Brighton of the Constantinopo

litans; thence, by the valley of the Sakaria river, to Sevri-hissar, and so on to Ak-serai and the Kerin Mountains. Emerging from one of the mountain passes, the line would come upon the head of the Euphrates, and would proceed by the valley of this river to the Persian Gulf, passing to the west of the Sinjar Hills, and on by Bagdad to Bussora. There can be little doubt as to the possibility of constructing the line; a surveyor has actually been sent to Bussora to take flying levels.

Christ's Kingdom.

"The outward appearance of his kingdom was as the 'the smoking flax and bruised reed;' and he taught them never to look for it in any other appearance until his second coming, for which he taught them to hope and pray. Of this coming of his kingdom the prophet foretold— see Daniel vii. 27, and downward. And the Lord frequently speaks of it to his disciples. The exhortations of the apostles are full of it; whereby they are encouraged in their state of conformity to their Lord on this earth, and assured that if they 'suffer with Him, they shall also reign with Him.' His reign, commencing at the second coming of the Lord, is to be upon earth, and to continue a thousand years, as is evident from Rev. xx. 4. . . . At this time, his despised, humbled people, shall be exalted to reign over the restored creation-the new heavens and the new earth-and to inherit all things made new, and to reign for ever and ever. The general mistake of reigning Christianity, in the world, before the second coming of Christ and the first resurrection, is one notable effect of this ancient mistake, so congenial to our natural bias" [the mistake of supposing Messiah's kingdom to be earthly power].-Essay on Prayer, by John Handasyde, a follower of Sandeman.

The Joy of the Resurrection Morning.

"You shall be raised out of your graves, in which you have had so sound and long a sleep, and shall stand upon the earth, and be caught up, together with the rest of the holy ones, into the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and 'so shall you ever be with the Lord.' And Othe joys that will be at that meeting! The meeting of the bridegroom with the bride is not to be compared with it. The meeting of the father with his penitent and returning prodigal falls short of it. O the smiles, the inward satisfactions, the dear embraces, the loud triumphs, the hosannahs, and hallelujahs, that will be at that meeting! All this will arise from the condition you meet together in, freed from sin, and from imperfections; delivered from all your enemies, having got the last of them conquered, and now under your feet; yourselves being in a state of safety, peace, and acceptance with God. And, also, it will arise from the thoughts and considerations of that which you then meet together for. It is for the greatest of purposes and most glorious of

ends that can be. You meet to receive the reward of all your services and of all your sufferings; the answer of all your prayers; the accomplishment of all your desires; the fulfilling of all your hopes. You shall meet the Bridegroom, whom, though you had not seen, yet, believing, you chose and loved, and were espoused to; and between Him and you there shall be everlasting nuptials. You shall meet together to take possession of that incorruptible, undefiled inheritance which fadeth not away, but is reserved in heaven, of which you were newborn heirs. You shall meet to see, and together enjoy, that God in heaven whom you served on earth; to sun yourselves in his beams; to solace yourselves in his arms; to delight yourselves in that fulness of joy which is in his presence; and to bathe yourselves in that river, or rather ocean, of pleasures which is at his right hand for evermore. You that have mourned together, and together mingled your groans and tears, and poured out bitter complaints against your sins and yourselves, shall then rejoice together, and that with exceeding joy, because of your own and of each other's thorough cure and perfect health; you that have prayed together upon earth, and with all the power of your souls besieged the throne of grace, shall in heaven sing praises together, even eternal hallelujahs, &c. To make the concert complete, and that melodious harmony the more ravishing, you shall be joined with an innumerable company of angels, and all the saints that were redeemed unto God by the blood of the Lamb."-Earnest Call to Family Religion, by Samuel Slater, 1694.

Christ's Kingdom come, the true Establishment of the Church.

"The Church will receive no establishment on earth till the resurrection of the just, when the whole redeemed company shall reign with Christ a thousand years on the earth-after which, they shall inherit the new heavens and the new earth for ever. . . . The members of the Church who are yet in this mortal state, are strangers and pilgrims on the earth, having here no continuing city or establishment, as the Jews had before the destruction of Jerusalem; but having (in opposition to those Judaizers who 'minded earthly things') their establishment (TOλITEVμa) in heaven, whence they look for the Saviour to change their bodies. Whatever alterations may happen in the course of the world, depressing one religious party and raising another, they expect no revolution in their favour till Christ come the second time."--Sandeman. Letter IV., 1759.

"And is that day so great? Then let us prepare for it before it come; finish our work, be clothed, and not found naked or idle. For blessed shall that servant be whom his Master shall find so, and so doing. Say not with the fool That there is no God.' Make not a league with hell, and a covenant with death. Believe not Hymeneus or Philetus that

the resurrection is past already; neither cry with the scoffers and mockers, Where is the promise of his coming?' Doubt not of the day, and the certainty of its approaching. For doth not the drowning of the old world declare it? The devouring of Sodom by fire and brimstone prove it? The destruction of Jerusalem confirm it? The curse upon the Jew at this day ratify it? The hot plagues, inundations of waters, earthquakes, extraordinary pests, the blazing star, and many petty judgments that hourly have, and do befall the wicked, seal it? Oh, therefore, as thou dost believe it, so prepare for it! Now time is present, means at hand, the Lord allures thee: but will it be, shall He do so, ever? No, no; remember the foolish virgins; get oil in thy lamp, grace in thy heart, righteousness in thy person, and a good conscience to thy companion; or else it had been good for thee thou hadst never been bred or born. For without these, the Judge shall frown, bend his brow, and be a consuming fire.". Exposition of 1st Chapter of 2 Timothy, by John Barlow, minister at Plymouth, 1625.

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Prophecy.

SIR,-You have already noticed the first and second editions of a recently published work on the Apocalypse,* in which the author maintains "that the destruction of Jerusalem was the second coming of Christ, and that there is no other advent of Christ to be expected."-Lecture xvi.

I have elsewhere attempted to discuss briefly the subject of the Domitianie date of the Apocalypse, and beg to offer one or two remarks here on this question.

The writer of the book alluded to above has, in one of our periodicals, said:" If Arethas, the third commentator, whose commentary has descended to us, explains the sixth seal of the destruction of Jerusalem, and as Sir Isaac Newton says, declares that former commentators had explained it of the same event, this, to my mind, would outweigh all that Irenæus ever said."

Irenæus was made bishop of Lyons cir. A.D. 177, having previously been a presbyter of that church. Eusebius positively states, that Irenæus asserted in writing as follows:-" The revelation (Apocalypse) was seen not long since, but almost in our own times, at the close of Domitian's reign."

Let us now read the testimony, or rather assertion, of Arethas, who is believed to have flourished nearly five hundred years after Irenæus, cir. A.D. 540. The apparently rash and careless character of his exposition will make us hesitate to admit his testimony. In expounding Rev. vii. 4, 8, "And there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel," &c., Arethas thus treats the subject:

"For there were many, yea, a countless multitude from among the Jews, who believed in Christ; as even they testify, who said to Paul on his arrival at Jerusalem, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are

"The Apocalypse Fulfilled in the Consummation of the Mosaic Economy, and the Coming of the Son of Man."-See Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, January 1836, pp. 98, 99.