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" Praise is in all her gates : upon her walls, 

 And in her streets, and in her spacious courts, 

 Is heard Salvation !" Cowpek. 



Having, by the Divine blessing, been favoured with health and 

 leisure to pursue my allotted task, and finish the selection from the 

 manuscripts and drawings mentioned in the preface, I now take 

 leave of my readers, in a concluding chapter; which 1 hope will 

 not be deemed obtrusive, or irrelevant to the general tenor of these 

 volumes. 



At this eventful period, every reflecting mind must be con- 

 vinced, whether in a political or religious point of view, that some- 

 thing extraordinary is carrying on in the counsels of that Omnipo- 

 tent Being, " whose way is in the sea, and his paths in the great 

 waters, and whose footsteps are not known." I have neither talents 

 nor inclination to venture on such an interesting topic: in the 

 awful events now taking place, some prophecies are doubtless ful- 

 filling, from which time will withdraw the veil. Many attempts 

 have been made to develope those ancient predictions; not always 

 satisfactorily; and the mind is still left in uncertainty and conjecture. 

 In this state of precocity I should deem it presumptuous to enter 

 the field; but there is a subject connected with this important 

 epocha, in which I am warmly interested, and my mind is so 

 deeply impressed with the necessity of avowing my sentiments, 

 (feeble as may be my endeavours) that I cannot remain in a state 

 of neutrality. It has been pronounced by the highest authority, 

 " He that is not with me, is against me! whosoever shall be ashamed 

 of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation* 



