Rom. 1 Cor. Col. 1 Thes. which was kept secret since the world began. 16. 26. But now is made manifest, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. 1. 7. So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8. Who shall confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 4. 5. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come. 5. 5. To deliver such an one unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord. 10. 11. They are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1. 6. The Gospel which is come unto you as it is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you. 23. The Gospel which you have heard, and which hath been preached to every crea ture that is under heaven. 3. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 1. 10. And to wait for his Son from heaven. 3. 10. To the end that he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints. 4. 15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thes. 4. 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 5. 1. But of the times and the seasons, Brethren, 6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but 2 Thes. 1. 7. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed 1 Tim. 2 Tim. from heaven with his mighty angels. 10. When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints. 2. 1. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by your gathering together unto him. 6. 14. I give thee charge that thou keep his commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1. 10. But now is made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death. 3. 1. This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. Titus, James, 2. 11. For the Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 5. 7. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. 8. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 1 Peter, 1. 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 20. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in the last times for you. 4. 13. But rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings: that, when his glory 5. shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 17. For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God. 1. Who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. 4. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 2 Peter, 3. 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers. 2 Peter, 3. 10. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. 11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness. 12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. 13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent; that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 1 John, 2. 18. Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, Jude, even now are there many antichrists; whereby ye know that it is the last time. 28. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confi dence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 3. 2. Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and 4. 3. And this is that spirit of antichrist; whereof Jude, 24. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. I shall leave you, Theophila, to meditate on those quotations, without suggesting any remarks that might influence you. I shall only say that I imagine it will be difficult to you to reconcile them with the pretended traditions that have been, and are still, so much valued among us; and that, were the religious systems of the denominated Christians founded on the truth, I think it would not be attempted to support them by human relations which disagree with it, and evidently are imaginary. It seems to me that those among the ancient Jews, who became acquainted with the New Testament, and who, admiring Christ's doctrine, considered it as being highly superior to that of Moses, and embraced it in preference to the law and to their Jewish notions, ought to have paid the utmost attention to several passages in that Testament, which throw much light on the Old one; and ought to have discussed by them whether till then they had understood the Old correctly; and whether the system which they had followed was consistent with the statutes and ordinances in Moses, become more intelligible to them by the words of Christ, and other instructions contained in the New Testament. For instance, they ought to have remarked and believed what Christ says in Luke, 24. 44. and in John, 5. 39, 46. that it is written of him in Moses, in the Psalms, and in the Prophets; not of material types of him, as it |