Second advent library

or rn smrrs. 23sand years. See Rev. xx. 9:" And they wentup on the breadth ofthe earth, and compassedthe camp of the saints abolrt, and the belovedcity: and fire came down from God out ofheaven, and devoured them." Will that bebumed up? But it is evident that God willcleanse the world by Iire, before he reignswith his saints, or the meek, on earth. SeeMatt. iii. 12 : "Whose fan is in his hand,and he will thoroughly purge his floor, (theearth,) and gather his 'wheat'(children ofthe kingdom) into the garner: (New Jerusalem)but he will burn up -the chaff (thewicked!! with unquenchable fire." This iseviden y the sameburning. day that Peterdescribes as at the coming of Christ. 2 Peteriii. I0-12: " But the day of the Lord willoomeasa thief in the night; in the whichthe heavens shall pass away with a greatnoise, and the elements shall melt with fer~vent heat; the earth also, (ormen of theshall be bumtearth,) and the works therein,upf'Not the globe; for if Peter had meantthe globe, there would have been no proprietin mentioning the works in the globe,age: the globe itself was burnt. "Seeingthen that all these things shall berdissolved,what manner of persons ought ye to be in all,holy conversation and godliness." Themeek are not yet the inheritors of the earth ;,for it is the present inhabitants that are commandedto be" Looking lbr and hastxngIIIIID the eomingof 'the dqr of Gnd, whenetn3