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urrnonnc-noir. 7'ls divided intothree parts; when the power ofthe holy peoplehscattered, and the kings of the east come up to battle; when thereis a time of trouble, such as never was before, and the church inher Laodicean state ; when the seventh seal opens, the seventh vialis poured out, the last woe pronounced by the angel llying throughthe midst of heaven, and the seventh and last trumpet sounds 5-then will the mystery of God be finished, and the door of mercyboclosed forever; then shall we be brought to the last point, his seeondcoming.Again, prophecy is sometimes typical ; that is, partly fulilled inthe type, but completely only in t.he antitype. Such was theprophecy conceming Isaac, partly fulfilled in him, wholly so inChrist ; likewise conceming Israel, partly fulfilled in them as a nation,but never fully accomplished until the final redemption ofspiritual Israel. Likewise the prophecies concerning the Jewishcaptivity inBa.bylon, and their retum, are only partly accomplishedin the history of past events. The description of those things inthe prophets is so august and magnilicent, that if only applicableto the literal captivity ol' the Jews and their rctum, the expositionwould be weak and barren; therefore I humbly believe that theexact fulfilment can only belooked for in the captivity ofthe churchin the wilderness, under the anti-Christian beast, destruction ofmystical Babylon, and gloriication of the saints in the New Jemlalemstate.There are also m the 24th chapter ol' Matthew many things prophesiedol, which were not fulfilled at the destruction ol' Jerusalem;such as the coming of the Son of Man in the clouds, the gatheringhis elect from the four winds ol' heaven, his taking one and leavingmother. This shows a typical meaning in this prophecy, and thatitwill not all be fulfilled until the end of the world. Also,thetransliguration of Christ on the mount, prophesied of by himselfeight days before, is noticed by Peter, M Epistle, i. 16-18, asbeing a type or figure of his second coming.Who, that has read the prophecies with any degree`of attention,will not acknowledge the great agreement between the Old Testamentprophecies and the Newl Almost every prophecy givenby Christ and his apostles may he found, in the Old Testamentprophets, represented by tigures, which were familiar to the writersand readers of those times. The foregoing rules are some of theprincipal ones which I have observed in attempting to explain theprophecies of Daniel and John, and to give the time when the