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dwell there dragons shall cry in the pleasant places."*bner rodgong zin adı bos bailouan esw : Thus, the lion, in all the untameable majesty of chis savage but noble nature, is the sole sovet reign of the once mighty Babylon. Those heroes, kings, despots, and demigods of fame, symbolized under the hieroglyphics of wild creatures of the forest, and of the mountain, have acted their parts and disappeared. The Cyrus's, the Alexander's the Seleucida have passed away and are forgot, ten. The lion, the bear, and the leopard with all their mystic combinations, have fulfilled the task assigned to them; and the literal denuncia tions of prophecy being now fulfilled, confirm to demonstration the divine inspiration of the pron phets, the prescience and omnipotence of their Al mighty Lord, and the main and desolation, tem

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poral and eternal, which await an unbelieving and disobedient world. The Eden of the earth. theirplain of Shinar-the valley of willows + is now one wide and sterile waste and that spot which was once the magnificent theatre of so -01q diw aleat bas aisq diin b70097 9dt 1970 named list Porter, volejiup.388noitoms bnvol

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many wonders, in which the volume of futurity was unrolled, and the holy prophet read the his tory of time till the consummation of all things; is now a scene which the foot of man seldom traverses, which the wild beasts of the desert make their home, and none but the idoleful ereatures of the earth inhabit. It is probable, however, that the memory of what lit bonce has been will remain imperishable. And ass in the vision of Nebuchadnezzar, a command was given

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leave the stump of the tree roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass in the tendergrass of the field go the record of the past, and those pensive recollections with which mortal beings view the destinies of their fellow men in all ages, will like a band of iron, rivet the remembrance of Babylon in the heart, so long as history has a voice to speak, bor many has power to listen.I dT: low asthedozib · ai-In detailing the final and melancholy destinys of an empires once so powerful, gorgeous and arrogant, as that of Assyria, imaginationwlingere over the record with pain, and feels with profound emotion the qutter vanity of all human

891079M 19ligat baguio it & dire 82nd sepagrandeur and dominion, so far as they stand sepa197 to 9-1979 and rate and unconnected with moral greatness. She stretches also her eagle eye into futurity, and the heart anticipates, with trembling apprehension, that day when mystic Babylon the approach of that day when

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also shall arrive at her impending crisis; when Tot bujt she shall no longer be the subject either of prophecy, or of history, but shall be swallowed up in the completion of all prediction, and the cessation of time itself.

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As Jerusalem, chastened though she was, is u bum alderende tige noor

the acknowledged type of the people of God, and all her rich promises and

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Babylon, opposed to her mystically; as evidently Boom,

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gathered again, with a thousand tender mercies; Manuel bus webst but the exercise of retributive justice is unmixed with mercy; their ruin therefore who fall under sad pede and torte it, must be intense, unmitigated, and final." As those typified by the citizens of Jerusalem shall be everlastingly blessed,-trained and desna dade, pelg tined for a state of beatitude which mortal lanHada oda guage has no words to describe, and the human heart no faculty to conceive. So all others shall be, by their own impenitence, devoted to a state of it to notg2292 unutterable shame, and ever-during contempt-to Molsenal e A misery and ruin equally incomprehensible and irremediable. The God who has confirmed the blessing with an oath, has sealed the antahema to have with the same signet, saying, "surely as T

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these, my beloved young reader,-truths so painful and appalling that the heart flutters while it thinks of them, and the hand trembles while it

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traces them, lead you seriously to ask yourgoa eid self, "Am I an Israelite indeed; or shall my fot be among the fearful and the unbelieving?If the 961 BTW evibniz

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BABYLON DESTROYED.

bitherto you have been "of the world," O come out of it! Drink no more of the turbid pool of its polluted and unsatisfying pleasures, while the pure fountain of life, in all its pellucid and delicious freshness, is offered to your lips. Remember, that whosoever will, may take of the water of life freely; and that now is the accepted time.

If hitherto you have been of the world, O come out of it! Cast in your lot among the citizens of Zion; that at the day of the august and ultimate tribunal, speedily, though silently, approaching, you may find in the Judge of all the earth your own best Advocate,-Surety,-and Saviour. Then, whatever has been the fate of literal Babylon, and whatever may be the fate of mystical Babylon, "Thine eyes shall see Jeru salem a quiet habitation; a tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the stakes whereof shall ever be removed; neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken!"

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