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pn|us'r's alcoxm comma. 118But the last si ,"the scatteri ofthe hol le;"apart of the pergtdus times. Hclf are they tg Plrpscatfered? I answer, By the errors of the anti-Christianabomination, and the lo heres and lo theres, by dividingthe people of God into parties, divisions and subdivisions.And methinks I hear you say, "Surely these thingsarealready accomplished." Yes, you are ri ht., in part,but not to its ext/ent; the sects are all dividegl now, butnot crumbled to pieces; some are subdivided, but notscattered. The time is sooncoming when father willbe against the son, and son °nst the father. Yea, thesects are all divided now. a$Jresbyteris.nsare dividedinto Old and New School, and t.hen 'n into Perfectionists.Con gationalists are divtigxl between Orthodoxand IFdiFt.aria.n, old and new measures, Unionists,&.c. Methodists are divided between Episcopaland Protestant. Baptists are divided between old andnew measures, Antimasons, Campbellites, open andclose communion, &c. dac. Quakers are divided betweenOrthodox and Hicksites; and thus might we goon and name the divisions and subdivisions of all sectswho have taken Christ for their captain.And now let me siun up in short what we havein this discourse.|lirovedAndto you first, I showed theof time our history en?would take up, viz., 45 years. ythe numbers given in Daniel xii. 11-13, his 1290 days,beginning when the ten kings, represented by the tentoe in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, and ten horns in Dan~iel's vision, should be converted to the Christian faith,and the dail sacrilice abomination taken out of theway, viz., A. 508, which would end us in 1798, whenthe Pope lost his power to reign over the kings andtramlple on the ho y md the abomination ofdeso ation ceased his civi peoyvle, reign, by being deprived ofhis civil power by Bonaparte. I then showed you thatthe number 1335 days, beginningat the same time asthe 1290 days, viz. A. D. 508, would end in 1843, at theresurrection, for Daniel would stand in his lot at the endof these days. .And you havenoticed thatthis brou ht us to the undoubtedly same year that a.me1's wholenumber, &30053)ro,ught us, which is forty-ive years, the