And of the Times the Mystic Signs discern. THE PROPHETIC ALMANACK; Or, Annual Abstract of Celestial Lore: Calculated, from the Era of Human Redemption, for the Year 1825: BEING THE FIRST AFTER LEAP-YEAR, And the Sixth of the Reign of His Majesty George IV : WHICH, BESIDES REGISTERING AND EXPLAINING THE PERIODICAL PHENOMENA OF THE HEAVENS, AND THE OMINOUS TENDENCY OF Particular Configurations of the Planets,.. CONTAINS Salutary Precepts and Comments on the same ; WITH Prognostications of the Weather throughout the whole Year: INCLUDING ALSO NEW TABLES OF MEMORABLE EVENTS, AND AN IMPROVED TIDE-TABLE; A BATCH OF RECREATIONS IN ASTRONOMY FOR THE YEAR; : AND A Poetic Vagary on the Way of the World: To all which is prefixed A COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL'S LAMENTATION OVER TYRE: The whole being calculated to prepare Mankind fo AND THREE The Coming of Christ's Bingdom upon Earth FROM THE MSS. OF SIR WILLON BRACHM, KT... HUMANIST. CHRIST'S ANSWER.. And there shall be Signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars; and upon the Earth distress of Nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear; and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth. (St. Luke, xxi. 25, 26.) London: Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, FOR WILLIAM CHARLTON WRIGHT, 65, PATERNOSTER-ROW: AND SOLD BY EVERY BOOKSELLER IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. THE PROPHETIC ALMANACK; Or, Annual Abstract of Celestial Lore: Calculated, from the Era of Human Redemption, for the Year 1825: BEING THE FIRST AFTER LEAP-YEAR, And the Sixth of the Reign of His Majesty George IV : WHICH, BESIDES REGISTERING AND EXPLAINING THE PERIODICAL PHENOMENA OF THE HEAVENS, NEW TABLES OF MEMORABLE EVENTS, AND AN IMPROVED TIDE-TABLE; The Coming of Christ's Kingdom upon Earth. FROM THE MSS. OF SIR WILLON BRACHM, KTT.R. HUMANIST. "What Sign shall there be?" CHRIST'S ANSWER.-And there shall be Signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars; and upon the Earth distress of Nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear; and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth. (St. Luke, xxi. 25, 26.) London: Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, FOR WILLIAM CHARLTON WRIGHT, 65, PATERNOSTER-ROW: AND SOLD BY EVERY BOOKSELLER IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. I. DESCANT ON THE LAMENT OF EZEKIEL OVER TYRE. VII. TWELVE CALENDAR PAGES, SHOWING THE LUNATIONS; : VIII. TWELVE EXTRA MONTHLY PAGES, CONTAINING A TABLET IX. A VERY GENERAL, COPIOUS AND CORRECT TIDE-TABLE. Entered at Stationer's Hall. Nosce teipsum was the leading maxim of the Spartan Sage; and the Seriptures emphatically exhort us to examine, prove, and know our own. selves. Nations, as well as individuals, from their infancy to their decay, are ever under the influence of some reigning virtues and vices; those moral precepts, therefore, which are good for one member of society are equally so for society itself. A nation ready, then, to act on this wise and good maxim, know thyself, will set to work to faithfully examine into its own moral condition. National prosperity, like individual affluence, has too often led to corruption of morals; and corruption of morals to the ruin of every state which has heretofore sunk into contempt, or been swept off from the face of the earth. Which way soever the eye is turned, confirmations crowd upon confirmations, vouching for this sorrowful fact. Palatable or unpalatable, pray do not let such serious truths be taken for mere flashes of censure, The future is depending much on the present; and it is to a fair and candid insight into the state of virtue and vice among us, as a people, and the consequences which, according to all former example, impend, that I would fain work up general attention. Nothing, I am persuaded, is more dangerous to the stability of a nation, than shutting its eyes to its own degeneracy, and to the peril that comes sneaking behind habitual vices, which manage to familiarise themselves with all ranks of society. Corruption of national manners, when the foul infection has been thoroughly caught, is a plague not easily got rid of; and if left to run its length, the existence of the state is not worth a farthing. Let, however, the examples afforded by the thousands of kingdoms which have prematurely perished from this cause, operate as they ought; and, perhaps, in our case, it is not too late to apply a remedy. "Scornful men bring a city into a snare;"† and this is the fatal snare of which we have to take heed. Time is hurrying us on towards those extraordinary scenes of which, through the mirror of prophecy, we have caught a distant glimpse. Christians of every class, who have been watchful of its career, must be deeply desirous to learn how much longer the Church is destined to continue militant. St. John, upon this question, is the oracle to be consulted. Under his Visions of the Seven Seals-the Seven Trumpets-and the Seven Vials, he has set before us the entire period of its warfare. From this mystical representation, it may be inferred, that the term signified by the Seven Seals, together with that included under Six of the Trumpets, bas |