WHICH IS PROMISED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND IS RELIEV:
ED TO BE NIGH IT'S COMMENCEMENT, AND MUST

TRANSPIRE BEFORE THE CONFLAGRATION

OF THE HEAVENS AND THE

EARTH

EMBELLISHED WITH A CHART, OF TH
DISPENSATIONS FROM ABRAHAM

TO THE END OF TIME.

And they lived and reign’d with Christ a thousand years. -Rey. XL

“The time of rest, the promis'd Sabbath comes--
Six thousand years of sorrow have well vigh
Fulfil'd their tardy and lisastrons course.”-Coupes

BY JOSIAH PRIEST.

Second Edition.

ALBANY :
PUBLISHED FOR SUBSCRIRERS.

Loomis' Press.

1827.

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, TO WIT:

BE it remembered, that on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1827, Josiah Priest of the said district, hath deposited. in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit : « A view of the expected

Christian Millenium, which is promised in the Holy Scriptures, and is believed to be nigh its commencement, and mnst transpire before the conflagration of the heavens and the earth ; embellished with a chart of the dispensations from Abraham to the end of time. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.--Rev. xx. 4.

* The time of rest, the promis'd Sabbath comes
Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh
Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course.'

-Cowper

By Josiah PRIEST." In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled “ An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also, to the act entitled “ An act supplementary to an act entitled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." !

R. R. LANSING, Clerk of the district court of the United States for the northern district of New-York.

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Page ist. An account of the term Millennium, its import and meaning,

13 2d. Shall show that such a period was expected, by the pro

phets, the Jewish Rabbins, and doctors, as the grand ultimo
of the Messiah's reign on earth and is now in expectan-

cy, by the churches, according to the scripture promises,
3d. Shall give a view of the wonderful signs of the times

which preceded the great deluge and the birth of Christ :
a curious and interesting account of Herod the Great, who
put to death the infants of Jerusalem. Also a minute de-
scription of the Ark, and of the animals saved in it-prov-

ing it amply sufficient to contain all the scriptures state it did, 53 4th, Shall exhibit the signs of our own times which clearly

indicate the Millennium nigh at hand, but must be preceded, by one of its effects, of the power of the great God;

such as man has not witnessed since the world began, 79 5th. Shall represent the probable state of the wicked part of

mankind, just previous to the Millennium ; in which division will be given an account of Rome pagan and Rome papal, which subjects are signified in the 13th and 17th chapters of Revelations,

87 6th. The way and manner considered, in which God will pro

bably remove the wicked from the earth, that the Millenni-
um may commence, for they shall not see that glorious sun
arise, nor enter that land of promise,

162 7th. Will show when the Millennium will come, by a view of

the ancient Jewish Sabbaths, an exhibition of which is ex-
ceedingly interesting, in reference to chat day. And as
analagous to the same point, shall present a view of natural
and supernatural periodical recurrences. And shall give an
illustration of the three visions in the book of Daniel as far
as they refer to the time when the sanctuary shall be clean-
fed, or when the Millennium shall arrive,

tiers

Page
atli, An account of the first resurrection, and the subsequent

happiness of all people ; with which will be connected ar-
guments to prove that all moral and natural evil shall cease
a thousand years from the earth; and that it was the origi-
nal intention of the Creator to clothe our first parents,
whether they stood or fell,

250
oth Division embraces a position that man when he fell, lost

his extraordinary power or government over the animal
kingdom, and became exposed to their natural fury, but in
the Millennium shall recover his government again,

287
100h Division contains arguments to prove, that neither the

disposition nor death of the animal creation was affected
by man's fall into sin, as is believed by many, but the true
rcason of their death is assigned,

299
11th. The sentiment which embraces the opinion, that all the

animal creation shall arise from the dead, to be remunera-
ted for their suffernigs, which by some is said to be occa-
sioned by the sin of man, refuted,

305
12th Division exhibits a view of the vast multiplication of

inankind during the Millennium, and of their political state:
also who they are who will attempt to make war upon the
camp of the saints, called Gog and Magog; and why Sa-
tan must be loosed for a little season after the Millennium
is passed by: and in what manner it is likely they will at-,
tempt their attack of the saints,

316
13th Division embraces a view of the resurrection of the

wicked dead after the Millennium, and their miserable con-
dition; and endeavours a description of the earth's dissolu-
tion, and in what manner the elements will operate on
each other, so that a general conflagration may take place,
and what shall be its final end,

343
14th Division embraces a view of the promised new creation,

which is to succeed the destruction of this system.
he that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things
new." Rev. xxi. 5,

366

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