THE CONCLUSION.

If we now reflect upon the various scattered truths which are drawn into one focus in the preceding pages, and if we contemplate the luminous and multiplex force of truth which their converging rays produce, we can hardly withstand the conviction, that at "this day is THIS SCRIPTURE fulfilled "in our ears," in almost all its circumstances.

We have seen HIM, whom the style of "GOGUE of the land of MAGOGUE" most intelligibly and distinctly describes, go forth from his Empire for his own destruction. We have seem him "ascend as A STORM, " and go up as A CLOUD, to cover the land of "Ros, Mosc, and ToвL." We have looked on, and have watched the workings of "his "evil thoughts." We have beheld him penetrate "into THE MIDDLE OF THAT LAND,

"to take a spoil and to divide a prey." There, we have seen "his bow smitten out of his left "hand, and his arrows fall out of his right "hand." We have seen "the bones of MA

GOGUE, GOMER, and TOGARMAH, and of "his MANY NATIONS with him," scattered in retreat over the whole track by which his INVASION had advanced; and their carcasses accumulating in loathsome and unexampled masses, upon the surface of the land. We have seen all the "RENOWNED" actors of this slaughter looking up to HEAVEN, for the author of " THE JUDGMENT which "their arms were made to EXECUTE;" and. yielding all "THE GLORY to GOD." We

have seen 66 A SWORD called forth, at length, "against THE INVADER, throughout all the regions of THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH." And now, at last, we behold "A FIRE sent

upon MAGOGUE;" and we are actually engaged in marking its progress, and in expecting its event. If, therefore, something yet remains to try the sceptic or the waverer, enough has been effected to satisfy and animate the humble believer,

who will now "stand still, and see the salva"tion of THE LORD."

The GREAT CIRCUMSTANCE, which renders the ultimate fulfilment of the prophecy of GOGUE a matter of such vast concernment to the Christian Church and to the world, cannot be better stated than in the words of Clarius: "HÆC est ULTIMA PRO"PHETIA; quam nulla sequitur alia nisi quæ "de ÆTERNI TEMPLI INSTAURANDI imagine loquitur*.-THIS is the LAST PROPHECY; "which is succeeded by no other than that "which treats of the figurative building of THE

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ETERNAL TEMPLE."

In fact, THIS is the last, in the entire series of the prophecies, which respects earthly affairs and the secular interests of the Church. We plainly see, in Ezekiel and in St. John, that THIS is the prophecy of THE CONSUMMATION; to be succeeded only by that state, which both those prophets were directed to describe as the opening of ETERNAL TEMPLE of GOD: that

THE

* See "Critici Sacri," tom. v. col. 207,

GREAT RESULT and issue of the PRESENT DISPENSATION, towards which the generations of mankind have been advancing through a flux of very many ages; which ages will then find their end, and Time subsist no longer.

In this one point of prophecy meet, both the prediction of GOGUE, expressly so denominated, and that of the unnamed LAST TYRANT, to whom the Church in all ages has agreed to assign the designation of ANTICHRIST, as descriptive of the nature and end of his hideous Empire. Here, both are identified with each other; and GOGUE, and ANTICHRIST, are found to be but ONE and the SAME INDIVIDUAL.

This truth was discernible to all, who compared and examined the collective purport of the prophecies with attention, and with a judgment free from every prepossession of system. That the actions of both were to have place in the same concluding period of time, was obviously manifest. Hence St. Augustine speaks of ANTICHRIST and of GOGUE, indiscriminately,