1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

wicked, lustful flatterers of mankind, are ready, with a
host of learned commentaries, to show that it wns applied
to the Jews, and to them only ; and then taunt me with
this witty saying-" What! you, an unlearned man,
think to teach us, contrary to our great and learned
commentators!" This, my friende, rs the only argument
that has ever been produced a-oainst my warnings,
and proofs of God's near approach to judge the world in
righteousness. And here, too, I pledge myself to show
that many, and perhaps that, in many cases, a major part,
of these commentatora are on my side of the question.
I know that, in the subject now about to be presented,
this argument will be used - 0 ! that had reference to
the Jews only ;" and you will, llke the wicked Jews,
put far off the evil day, until you are caught in the snare,
and perish in the pit. .The Jews in the days of the
prophets sai* Ezek. xii. !27, ''The vision that he seeth
is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the
times that are far OK" You see, in this sample given
us of the Jews, that the same ungodly, wicked perverting,
putting off on to others what belongs to us ill the
visions and threatenings of God against sin, waa manifestly
the character of the Jews in that day, as it is
in ours. The difference is only cimumstanbal.
They put it off a great wliile to come ; we, a great while
hack. They cast it forward on to the backs of the Gentiles;
we throw it back into the faces of the Jews.
This is the wicked disposition of ,man In his natural
state -self-righteous and self-justificatory. Therefore,
use this weapon if you please; it will only discover to
angels and men your true character, and God's justice
In our condemnation "He that covereth h~s sins
shai not prosper; but whoso confesseth and for~aketh
them shall have mercy," Prov. wviii 13. Yet we shall
find some thing^, at least, true,- that the law of God
and punijhment for sin are the same in all a es, and
rill be the same in all eternity. If the sins of the old
world brought the flood and destruction upon the ungodly,
so will tl~e sins of the present world, if committed
tbe same ungodly spirit, bring down similar jtldpente