108 THE Christian naturalist, 



and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the 

 Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth 

 to shake terribly the earth." At that period also it seems 

 highly probable that the terrible events of the sixth 

 seal shall receive either a literal or symbol ical accom- 

 plishment. (Rev. vi.)* And as in the day when the 

 flood came, and the waters were eveiy where rising, 

 men rushed in consternation to the tops of the lofty 

 hills for security, so in that day of terror and doom the 

 mountains shall again be resorted to, not indeed with 

 the hope of salvation ; for the l8.nguage of despairing 

 guilt will cry to the mountains and rocks, *' Fall on us, 

 and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the 

 throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb ; for the great 

 day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to 

 stand?" 



What sublimer and more solemn thoughts, then, can 

 any part of the universe suggest, than those which are 

 stirred up within us, as we look on the rocky scenery 



* Verses 12 — 17. Bishop Newton and others makes this 

 Seal refer to the revolutions which took place in the Roman 

 world, at the time Christianity was introduced by Constantine ; 

 but I adopt the hypothesis of the learned Vitringa in the above 

 interpretation, and prefer his Treatise on the Apocalypse to 

 every other that I have met with on that subj ect. 



