Second advent library

'¢`28'mx 'nun ntmzarnucsination of this subject until it will be forevertoo late? I asadjure you, you love myMaster, as you love souls, as you love truth,examine these precious promises. If l amcorrect, you certainly must see that the doctrineof a .temporal millennium,or of theJews' return, are and- will be the cause oflinking thousands to endless ruin. I knowyou preach immediate repentance, and Ithank you; may God bless you in sodoing:bitt you know the human heart is as proneto put off repentance,'as it is death; and youare well aware that some of ourneighborsand friends reject every motive you canplace before them concerning duty,or death.I'heymean to repent before they die; theyexpect to die, but not now. Therefore theyare not ready to repent'or die. Now, sayyou, preach as Paul did, a judgment to come.Poh! say they; you need not try to alarm uswith that stale doctrine: you say that wemust have a thousand years yet, before thejudgment; or the Jews must return, and buildold Jerusalem again;or Christ must comeand live on earth a thousand years before hedestroys the wicked.These are somany shields to ward offbecome to thepresent necessity, and theypoor, blind sinner, peace and safety, althoughyou design it not. Yet if it should be false,think, my dear brethren, do think, whatawful consequences will actually follow. Itfan do youno harm to examine; truth is9