Dissertation on Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (1844)

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TO THE RERIEADERR E A D E R

HAVINGIIAVWG been frequently solicited by several of myinyrny mendsfriends to publish in

pamphlet form A dissertation on nebuchadnezzarsnebu6badnezzars dream and tiletilotiietlle

kingdom spoken of by daniel and the order of the kingdom of god set

up in the days of the apostles also a brief view of the rise and faith of the most popular orthodox societies of the present day together with the

origin and faith of the church commonly called 11 mormonscormonsMor mons and after ma-

ture reflection I1 have conic to the conclusion to undertake and perform the

task and I1 hereby present the same to the candid and impartial reader

to investigate and peruse the following pages and to makecake allowances for all

incorrect phraseology and ungrammatical composition as it is not my object

to tickle the earcar or 11 please thetlletile fancy but to search ablerafteraflerahterabher eternal truth

and lay jay the same before my fellow men that if they have embraced or be

lievemye erroneous doctrines they may throw them aside and embrace truth if 1I

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should succeed in laying it before them according to the scriptures whichwillV U conduce to their happiness here and also in eternity with these re-

marks I1 submit the same to a discerning and impartial public

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dissertationON nebuchadnezzarsnebuc1e1adnezzars iddreamDEEAMredli

and in the days of these eingskings shall thetiie god of heagenheavenmeagen set up a kinmbinmkingdomadomgdom

taichwinchwincemince shall never iebe destroyed and the kingdom shall never be lentifftleftlepp to other

people duttutbut it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and itshall standforeverllvstand forever DANdax ii 44

VARIOUS and many are the opinions and conjectures of theologians who

have wrote commented and expressed their sentiments in days that are past

and gone and also of the present day concerning nebuchadnezzarsnebuchadnezzies dream

as recorded in the second chapter of the book of daniel and of the king

dom spoken of by the prophet in the fortyfourthforty fourth verse of the same chapterwhich I1 have selected for a text but however much they have varied intracing up the rise and fall of the different empires and kingdoms theyhave universally arrived at the same conclusion that is the kingdom referred

to by daniel was set up in the days of christ and his apostles



A dissertation ON nebuciiadnezzahsneductiamnezzars dreamDHEAMXREAM 3

but I1 shall endeavour to prove from history and holy writ that such was

not the case daniel says expressly that god had made known to the kingwhat should be in the latter days 11 v 28 and let it be distinctly under-

stood that when the prophets or apostles spoke of these

lastdays

11 these last times they had direct reference to the time in which they werethen living but when heythey spoke of a future period they expressed it by

the last daysdayss the latter days &cac see jer jerxxx24xxxaxx 24 micah iviv4444

itisit is by taking the scriptures in their most literal sense and making a rightapplication of them assisted by the spirit of truth that we shall ever bobe

able to understand or comprehend their literal meaning some people are so

overwise that where it is recorded thus saithsailhbaithbalthsaich the lord 19 &cac say they itdoes not mean that it means something else hence thetlletile discords of the

present religious world but if all would take the admonition of the aposties all religious animosities and jealousies would cease and every where

each would meet a brother and a friend paul says whatever was written

aforetime was written for our learninglearninfr hopehopchoac &cac and how can we learnof a thing we cannot understand or how can we hope except we know

what to hope for 7 for my own part I1 prefer peters mode of interpretingscripture so far preferable to all others that I1 here insert it 14 knowknowingingeng

this first that no prophecy of the scroscriscyoscriptureptureiture is of any private interpretation

for the prophecy came not in the old time tyby the gilmilwillgli of man duttutbut holy men of god spake as they were moved upon tyby the holy ghost 11II ep peter i 20

21 here is the rule of the inspired apostle how true and simple it is

the scriptures themselves being the best interpreter for we perceive all theprophecies that have had a fulfillmentfulfilment have been fulfalfuifulfilledfilled to the very letteraccording to the most literal meaning of words and sentences when thelord told noah to build an ark he did not understand him to have refer-

ence to a wagon or moses to go down into egypt liehelleile did not understand

lie should go tojericho

or lot when hebe was warned to flee from sodomintofatofado the mountains suppose he had been as wise as some of the commen-

tators of the present day he would have answered lord I1 am safe

enough and secure here for into means nearlyneaf nearnearbyty close to u round about

and if this is the true definition I1 am not afraid but noah had not bcebeebeen

inducted into this modern scheme of spiritualizingspiritual izing which is BOisotsotio prevalent inthe present day

therefore we must judge the future by the past and take the scriptures as

they are and apply them accordingly in investigating the scriptures I1 find

three kindshinds of teachings i e 11 historical prophetical and metaphorical

when we read the historical part read it the same as we would any other

history and prophecy where thus saith the lord believe it as it is written for recollect peter says u no prophecy is of any private interpretation

i e no spiritualizingspiritual izing and when we read parables or metaphors believe them

as such and apply them to the things they were dcsigr4design to convey and

never let us apply things to ourselves that do not belong to us for in

stance wowe are very apt to apply the epistles of the apostles to our own

situation when they no more belong to us nor apply tor us than the mes-

sage of thetlle president of the united states would apply to a russian theepistles of the apostles were all wrote and directed to the saints of godthat had been brought into the church of christ by the preachingspreacl4gspreach ings of theapostles and been initiated into his kingdom by them and the elders of the church holding the authority the priesthood to administer iniiilrilil the orli



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bancesnances of the same paPaulraulpaultellstellstelis us what order of or thingsthinks they hidembracedhidhadhaa embraced

ivwhichhi wimswinshimswaswab faith rcrepentance babaptismptlmpalm the layinghyingeying on of hands the66 i6suiresur-

rectionreadonrecdon of ththe dead&dad and eternal judg judgmentmerit lieb vi 1 2 to visit thethieibieible

fatherless and the widows intheir

afflictafflictionion and keep themselves unspotted

from the world james i 27 but before they received the initiating ardtordtdidi

nancesriancesbances they were foreigners and aliens to the householdhou schuld of god theteepistles would not apply to the world only those that had obeyed asas

paulsayspaulraul saysbays the form of doctrine that was delivered unto them and if we have not obeyed the same form they will not apply to us but if we

have and have been inducted into the church of god by the same laws

mamesamelamebame authority i e the priesthood then all the blessings and privileges

that are promised to them will apply to us and not without

but lest I1 should intrude too far on the readers patience with prefatoryremarks I1 shall leave them and cndcavourendeavour to investigate the subject matter

I1 have taken in hand

babylon the most ancient and renowned city of the world was pleasantly

situated on the bank of a majestic river a branch of the euphrates that ran

through the city and flowed through the plains of shinar near where thetowerrower of babel once stood it was laid out four square and surrounded with

a wall upwards of three hunhurhundreddred feet high and sixty miles in circumference

having an hundred gates of brass with bars of iron twentyfivetwenty five gates oilonoli

each side which opened to streetsstreet running through the city a distance of fifteen miles thus forming the wholewhoie city into exact squares of ofequalequal size inthe midst of these squares were beautiful gardens adorned with trees andwalk valks diversified with flowers of varied hue whiewhilewhitewhle the houses were builtupon the borders of the squares directly fronting on the street in thenildthenildathe midstst

of this great city sat nebuchadnezzar the king whom the lord by the

mouth of jeremiah calls his servant to execute his judgments upon the

jews for their transgressions jer xxvxiv 9 the jews were reduced to sub

jectionejection by him their city jerusalem was burned together with their templetheir princes nobles and people were carried to babylon together with all

their holy things all the particulars of tillsthis destruction and captivitycap ivityivirty werevir0

distinctly foretold by jeremiah and the time of its continuance vizv i z seventy

years after the conquest of jerusalem this mighty monarch inarchedmarched giskislis113ils

army against tyre the city of merchants subdued that and finally trace

him executing the lords vengeance and anrerahreranger against egypt viz the

kinskingshins odtheoftheof the philistines and askelonaskelin azzali ekron Eedomdom moab ammonaiidlcdanand dedan tema and buz and the kings of arabia and of zimri and pof f

elam and of all the kings of the medesmodes and all the kings of the northhavingpaving subjugated all the kingdoms far and near he returned to the royalcity of babylon there he sat enthroned in royal splendour and magniamagnifi

cence and swaying his sceptresceptry over all tiiethetile then known kingdoms oftfieof the

world he was thinking upon his bed whatmlatulat should come to piss jieicafterhflf0rwhat should be the future success ofhisochisof his family and kingdom and thataccording to the course ornatureofnatureof nature liehelleile must soon resign this mortal coildoil to itsmother dust and his fame and glory be eclipsed by some one that mighttake the spoils which lie by his conquests hadbad already acquired

ilehelleliefell

into a deep sleep he dreamed something to the purpose of his wakingthoughtsthoiijlits which astonished him but he could not rightly understand it methedreadrcaihth a6ctedaflccted him strongly at the time but awaking in confusion hebe hadhidbut an imperfect remembrance ofitmofitof it heilellolio called therefore for the magicians anand



nektc11adnezzarsnebuchadnezzars DREAM S

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astrolkoastroloastrologersgers and imperiously demanded of them upon paipalpainn of death i6inik to makeknown unto himminwin both the dream and the interpretation thereonthereo&thereof they an

swered him that no king had ever required such a thing and that god

alone whose dwelling is not with flesh could disclose it for this causocausehe was angry and commanded to destroy all the wise men of babylon andthey sought daniel and his fellows captives of judah to be slain thendaniel and his fellows prayed to the god of heaven and thothetiletlle dream together

with thetho interpretation was given to daniel in a night vision ilehellelie blessed the

god of heaven ileheilc comes before the kinokingkinahing and tells him there is agod in heaven that revercvealethrevealethaleth secrets and he has made known to thetho kingnebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days thou 0 king sawcst

and behold a great image stood before thee whose head was of fine goldhis breast and arms of silver his belly and his thighs of brass his legs of iron his feelandfeetandreetfeetrect and toes part ofironof iron and part of miry clay thoubeheldtillthou beheld till

a stone wasvas cut out of the mountain without hands which smote the image

upon the feet whichwbichabich were part of iron and part of clay and brake them inia

pieces then was the iron the brass the silver and the gold broken to pieces

together and became as the chaff of the summer threshing floor the wind

carried them away that no place was found for them but the stone whichsmote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth

thisis the dream said daniel and we will tell the king the interpretationinterpretatiolo41 thou 0 king art a king of kings for the god of heaven hathbath given

thee a kingdom power strength and glory and wheresoever the children

of men dwell the beasts of the field the fowls of the heaven hathbath he given

into thy hands and hathbath made thee ruler over them all 11 thou art thisneadheadread of gold 11 and after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior tothee and another third kingdom of brass which shallstallshailshali bear ruierulerole over all theearth and the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much aias

iron breakcthbreakethbrea keth in pieces and subduethsudduethsub dueth all things and as iron breakethbrea keth allthese shall it break in pieces and bruise and whereas thou sawestsiwestcawest the feetand toes part ofpottersof potters clay and partpartofirunofirun the kingdom shall be dividedbut there shall be in it of the strength of the iron for as much as thouthousthousawestawestthe iron mixed with miry clay and as the toes of the feet were part of iron andind part of dayclayoay so the hingKingkingdomdohidohldobi shall be partly strong and partlybroken and whereas thou cawestsawc&tsawest iron mixed with miry clay they shailshallshalimingle themselves with the seed of men but they shall not cleave one toanother even as iron is not mixed with clay

andin

thedays

of thesekings shall the god of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never bebdestroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and itsballit shallshalishail stand forever foras much as thou sawestcawest that thothe stone was cut out of the mountain withouthands and that it break in pieces the iron the brass the clay the silver andthe gold the greitgreat god hathbath made known to the king what shallstallshailshali come topass hereafter and the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof issure

thus we see it pleased the god of heaven to roll back the curtain of futurity and to present before the king in a vision of the night at oneview the history of the world even down to the consummation of all thingsand in this great view of the subject as given by daniel we have presentedbefore us in succession ibl the kingdom of nebuchadnezzar sd212 tiletheliedeswedesmedes and persians who took babylon from belteshazzar anuangmi reigned oteroveroyergyer all

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the earth 3dad tllethetile greeks under alexander who conquered the world andreirelreignedgnedinin the midst of babylon and 4th4lhath thetiietile roman empire which sub-

dued all things 5thath its division into eastern and western empires and itsita

final breaking or subdivision into the various kingdoms of modern euroeuropePCrepresented by tllethetile feet and toes part of iron and part of clay and lastlywe have presented before us an entirely new kingdom organized by thegodoodnod of heaven in the last days or during the reign of llicsethese kings representedby the feet and toes this last kingdom is never to change masters likeall the kingdoms which had gone before itit it was never to be left to otherpeople it was to break in pieces all these kingdoms and stand forever

thou art this head of gold thus the babylonish empire under nebu-chadnezzarchad nezzar was the first kingdom afler his death it fell to his soneongon belkililibililiazzarahazzarazzar and in a few years it was overcome by the medes and persiansfor as the impious belshazzar was drinking himself liim self seif drunk with his wivesand concubines out of thetlletile golden vessels illshisliis fattlerfatherfattier had taken from theiliatiletila tem-ple of jerusalem a writing appeared on the wall of the palace which causedhim to quake and his knees smote together for fear daniel the prophetwas called in to interpret the writing who informed the king that lie wasweighed in a balance and found wanting and that his kingdom waswaa given tothe medes and persians the same night was the thing fulfilled for cyrus

who is termed the

lordsannointed isa sivxiv who was son of cimbysescambyscs

king of persia and soninlawson in law of ofcyaxaresC axaresalares his uncle king of or media whosepowers were united under cyrus who succeeded and united both crowns

by marriage had pitched his camp before the mighty and majestic walls of the renowned city of babylon and by turning the course of the niverriverR yteruter helielleile

and his army marched under the walls of the city in the dry bed of the riverand took possession of the city

having subdued thistills great monarchy liehelleile seated liimirimhimself seif self upon theiliatilatile throneof kingdoms and rulinruling over one hundred and twenty provinces and be-

coming familiar with daniel no doubt and introduced to the jewish recordliehelleile was made acquainted with the mysteries of his triumphs and saw thatgod which lie nor hiahijbiahla fathers knowknew had girded him accordinglyaccordinlyhe heissuesaissues a command for the jews to gather to jerusalem and build their citypity

and temple ezra i 1 2 &cac hencenence this is the second kingdom and will

apply to the heart and armarmsaymaya of silver of the image arteralterafterarleranteranner cyrus andilisillsliishis son cambysesCambycambesesses darius the son of ahasuerus took the kingdom towhich had been added seven more provinces making in all 127 see

esthnath i 1

we now come to the 11

third kingdom it is universally admitted thatalexander the great songonsoneon of philip kingkingofmacedonof macedon subverted thetilctile persianempireenlie the kingdom therefore that succeeded to the persian was the mace-

donian anditanaitand it was fitly represented by hisliisilisills tiitiothithighsho of brass for the greeksgreek

were flamousfamoushamous for their brazen armouralexanderxapderxander having marched easaeas4east weslwest north and south malmaimalungconqueingconquesing conduesconques

wherever he went aat last conquered babbabylony conjlonj put an end to thotheviedledlo persian

empireeqlpirc andmdestalilishedestablished the grecian or macmacedonianedonianadonian ernpirepinataempire on ita ruinsruins

iesins jki11r legs of iron inteinterpretedrprpte d by daniel the fourth kingkingdomdorp shouldphouldrhoy1d

break and destroydestrpdestraypilypllyellallail the normformformerr kingdoms and it isierywellisieis veryrywellwellweilweli knownthatkn6wnthatknown thatthatheiligqinansr9mansramans overcame and subduedpubduedphd aed the macedoniannaekae doniandonlan empireem putepuce carriecarrlecarriedocarriedjdj theintheir

gzpqulonqugstas t4roiigqjjbpthroughouthroughoutthrou ghou 3the then jhenghen known worldrorldandand bebecame as tithe henignhednomanromanan

h5torlanshistorians delightdelighteddtoatoto callcalicail herer tterrarumterrariumterrrrarumorbisarum orbis impeimperimperiunimperiumriunun the empireentire of pj

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nebuchadnezzarsneduciiadnezzars DREAMDHEAMbheambream 7

99 t1w1ctngrdomthkingdomTh Kingdom maswasteas to iebebepartlypartly strong and partly broken and so it was

withveith the roman empire it soon began to be racked and defiled with amixture of barbarous nations goehsgoths and vandals weakened and divided

byliyiky themtilem as jerome justly observes in their cities castles and armiesanandd torn by civil broils and internal disscntionsdisscritions until the empire became

divided into ten kingdoms which ten kingdomsL comprise a part and is to

be found according to bishop lloyd and others in modern europe I1shall give their rise and name in their proper place when I1 come to recapitu-

late on the visions daniel had concerning the same kingdoms 48 yearsyear

after nebuchadnezzar hadbad his dream and johns of the roman empire 700

years after 11 they shall mingle themselves tch the seed of meninen yet they

shall not cliarecleavecleare one to another and have not the roman provinces beensurrurroundedsurrounded by protestant kingdoms &cac and marrying one with another

i e 11 mingling themselves with the seed of men and yet neither union

of church or state has ever ensued

daniel in the vii chapter of liishisillg prophecy gives a description of the

iamalametamesamasame kingdoms that was represented to nebuchadnezzar by a great image

is13 shown to him by four different kinds of beasts the last one was terri

blediverseblebie diverse from all the rest and it had ten horns interpreted by the angelQv 17 11t the four beasts are four kings v 24 11 the ten lornshornscornsiornsbornsforns are ten

kingswires 11 and among the ten horns came up another little hornborn before

whom hrccthreehrca of the ten feilfellfeli this little hombornhorn all commentators admit to be

the pope for liehelleile came up among the ten and the ten were not in existence yuntil the year A D 526 and the throothroethree first kingdoms that fell before thothepopemerePoppoperoperopemerewere the exarchate of ravenna the kingdom of the lombardsbombardsLom bards and

tilcthetile state of rome the same were annexed to the popes dominions andthat samefamebame hornborn was to make war with the saints and prevail against them

until the ancient of days sit but the ancient 6f af days was to sit

and destroy liishisilisills kingdom and his body be given to the burning flame rvll1111 and the kingdom under the whole heaven be given to the saints of the

nostmostmotilligbhigh v 27.27

daniel also in viii ch of his prophecyprop liccy has another vision of the sameexcepting the licadheadhoad of the image or thellietiietile babylonish empire for it wasinwas inthetlletile reign of Beldeldeibelshazzarshaar and it was in such a rapid decline that he does notreemseem to notice it but refersrehersrebers immediately to the mcdo persian empire undercyru which helielleile denominates by a ram having two horns i e the two

eingskingsof medlamediaaledia and Perpersia

siaisial butone hornborn

was higher thanthe other

andthethotie higher carnecame up last v aj3j3 i e cyrus united both crowns by marriageovercame the median and the kingdom went by the name of the persianempire vy 44. ilelielle saw the ram pushing westward &cac so no bcastbeast

mightrnighkgapdsund before him but says liehelleile v 5 A helielleile goat came brornfrorn thathethowestwebwes tq4andend touched not the ground aUalludinguding to alexnderalexander foreuropaforgor europa iswest of asia therefore he came from the gestandwestandstandwewest and his marches bircwircbercwerc eoso

swi449yv5ftyiy mllsmlis of or a day liehelleile was said nothotbot to touch the ground and liehelleile

hwaihwoihwalhloihad a notable hornborn between liishisilisills eyes and lie came vav6v 6 to the ram that

litidlididmdjiaih9rnstxq iornshornslorns whichc iliad seen standstandingirim beforebeford the river and ran unwhimunlohimunwhip

in lile fairyfiiry of f his power 11 v 77. 11 andaridarld I1 saw him close untountotthqralthe ra

fmotjipm444 shakenisshakehisshaheshake his two horns 11 castecastbaste him to thealieaile ground andcampedtampedstarriptd upon him &cac

jcoultliwecotilcovocorc hawahamahavehaye a uttererutterorbetter or more accuratddeswptionaccurate description given of what took

rlrlacaftcrwardsrya rdsads than the prophet of god t has gitentusigivengiten rusitusius the angel tells



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dan vY 2020t the ram which thou sawestcawest having two horns arichearellbearilhe klikiikigkingsngsof media and persia vr 21 11 and the rough goat is the king of greciaaridand the great hornborn between his eyes is the first king kingdom and he

came to the ram &cac one can hardly read these words without havingsomesonoe image of dariusdarlus army standing and guarding the river granicusGranicus withabout 150000 men and alexander on the other side with his forcesforceplunging in swimming across the stream his army which only consisted of about 35000 following him attacking the persians routing them and alsodefeating them in pitched battle at isusesus arbellaarbelia in persia and other placesplacesafter conquering the persians and subduing the then known world andrepining there were no more to conquer he retired to babylon where hebegave himself up to intoxication and licentiousness and died of a fever inthe thirtyfourththirty fourth year of his age his natural brother philip succeededhim in the throne and his two sons alexander and hercules but in fifteenyears they were all three murdered dan viii 8 11 then was the greathorn broken ai1ii e the great horn between his eyes or the first kingdomof the greeks in asia 11 and for it came up four notable ones towards thefour winds of fiheavenficavencaven viz t iburfour of alexanders captains prevailed over thetherest first cassander reigned in greece and the mestwestliest lysimachuslysitnachus inthracehrace17 and the north ptolemy in egypt and the south and seleucusseleucusinSe leucus in

syria and the east v 99.

tl11

out of one of them came a little hornsome suppose that this little horn has reference to the pope of rome but I1cannot reconcile the application to mymy mind because the little horn herespoken of came out of one of the foufour kingdoms that the macedonian em-

pire or third kingdom was divided into but the horn that was to persecute and wear out the saints until the ancient of days sit was to come upamong the ten horns kingdoms oftheodtheof the fourth or roman empire and thishorn was to subdue three kings but there is nothing said about the otherhorn subduing three therefore I1 shall apply the little horn out of the four

kingdoms where it will not clash and appear the most reasonable as somecommentators havebave viz to antichusanticousAnti chus epihiphanes who beselbeseigedbeselgedged jerusa-lem defiled the altar in the temple by sprinkling swinesewines blood upon it and setup the statue of jupiter olyolympusmpusapus upon the same sold the office of priesthood

and carried the daily sacrifice away for three and a half years but be didnot cast down the sanctuary meitherneithermelther hadbad the transgressors come to their full

nor did he cast down the prince of the host which certainly must apply to jesus but the romans did they besieged jerusalem cast down the sanc-

tuary destroyed upwards of a million of jews carried thedaily

sacrificecompletely away destroyed the temple and carried the jews that were leftcaptive away to rome &cac and this was to be when the transgressors the

jews had come to their full dan viii 23 and the fulnessfalness of their iniquitysoontoonmoonboon came when they by the consent of the romanshadRomanromansshadhad shed the blood

of him who never sinned

john in the xiii cheh of his revelations gives a description of the last beast

tizviz the roman empire as the other three had long past away before hereceived his revelations which was about the year A D 9966 he saw it with

tenlenenaomsjustashornsbornsforns just as daniel did and power given to it over the saints andover all nations and it blasphemed the god of heaven v 6 7 compacomparero

with dan vii 21212424 25rev xvii weve have a description of the church of rome and alsethals6thalsoaiso thetho

beast the roman empire that carries her vY 3 111 l hohe saw a womanwomalbomal



neduchadnezzar9snebuchadnezzars DREAXDREAM 9

the churchcnurchjsitsit upon a sscarletca riet colouredcolbueed beast &cac habavmging seven headbeaheaheadsandheadbandidssandand

tenn bhorns0rn s jvv 6 isaweisawI1 sawbaw the women drunkendrunlie with the biobloblood0d of rssaintsctin ts ac&c& 4 I1wondered wwithlihith admirationadmi rationnation explainexplainedeg by the anangelgelgei vY 8 Ttheh beastteatleat thou

eawcstwest was andis

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yetis kecacfec&c vY 9 11

theseven heads

icnrcarcare

evenseven mountains on which thetlle women sittah regRef refcringrcferingRc cringferingering no doubt to romromeCwhich is situated on seven hillsbills or to the seven forms of the romromannomanan govern-

mentnicnyc nt v 10107t11 and there aroarcare sevenbeven kings fivenyonye are fallen and one is and

the other is not yet come and when liehelleile cometh he must continue a short

space 11 seven kingskinghing kingdoms for thcrotheretherotharo cannot bebeaboaa king without a

kingRingkingdomdom neither a kingdom without a form of government and I1 shall

here insert the application of the seven eingskingsrings bylylivylivyllvy and tacitus two ro-

man historians in preference to any other 1 the consulate 2 dictatorship

3 decemvirate 4 consular of military tribunes 5 the triumvirate 6

imperial caaCaeceacaesaracaesarscwsarssars the one subsisting at the time of the vision the other five

having fallen and the seventh had not yet come

an end waswastwab put to the imperial name in the year 476 by odoacer kingof ofthcllemlithe ilemli who having taken rome deposed momylus augustulusaugustutusAugus tulus the

last emperor of the west but no new form of government was established

until the year A D 568 when rome was reduced to a dukedom tributaryto the exarch of ravenna by longinus and this I1 consider the other king-

dom it e form of government that makes thestiles evontbwhichevonthwbich in theapostleapostless

day hadbad not come for rome hadllad never experienced this form of governmentbefore but it waswag to 11 continue but a short space which it did for the

city revolted from the eastern emperor to the poperope inin the year 7277 27 having

existed about 159 years which is a short space in comparison to the impe-

rial power which preceded and lasted above 500 years and the papal which

hath now continued upwards of a thousand so we scescoseebcesec that hero are the

seven ringskings v 11 11 and the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth

and is of the seven &cac the beast wagwasteasmag under the heathen emperors was

not under the christian and yet is revived under thothe roman ponronpontiff tifT thebeast therefore upon which the vroman ridethaideth is the roman government inits last form and thistills we must acknowledge is the papal and is the eighth

and of the seventh and goeth into perdition 19 v 12.12lgig and the ten hornhorns&

araree ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet neither did theyinthedinthey in johns day for they were not in existence

I1 will here give a list of the ten kingdoms with their rise according to

bishopdishop lloyd K 1 huns A D 356 2 ostrogroths 377 3 wisigothswisigotbsvisigoths378 4 franks 407 5 vandals 407 6 suevcssuevessheves and alans 407 77 j

BurgundiburgundiansburgundizinsBurgund ianszinslanseins 407 8 heruleshcrulcsgerules and rugiansw476rugians476 9 saxons 476 10

lingobardslingobardoLingobards in hungary in 526 11

thusnus we see that in the year 526596 the roman empire became divided into

tchkingdomstentchteh kingdoms but amid the great disorder and confusion of the times ogeoneone

kingdom falling and another rising and scarce any subsisting for a longwhile together it is very difficult to arrive at present to the particular kingdomidoms that came out of the roman emempirepire but they harehavehavo been taken notice

of at different times and by different authors as about A D 1240124091940 by

deberardeberardEberard bishop of saltsburghsaltsburgbSaltssaitsburgh in the diet at ratisbonRatisbon and mr whistonwho published his essay on dledie revelation of st john in the year 1706observes the number was exactly ten but though there are many more

great kingdoms and domiiidomicidomuronsons in europe besides yet are they out ofaof&of th ebounds of the old roman empire1mpireampire and notoot BOso directly within obrourour presenrrespres cntenttinquiry



10 A dissertation ON

thus candid reader I1 havohave traced in a brief manner by history and

prophecy the rise zndfallandend fallfalifail ofthefourof theourcheour great kingdoms as represented by the

image and the division of the last or roman into ten as represented by thetoes and we have arrived to the year A D 526 and this I1 shall make use

of 64 inin its proper place to prove that daniel was speaking ofaof a kingdom laterthan the days ofchristof christ or his apostles

I1 shall now endeavour in brief to trace out the kingdom of god as set

up in the days of the apostles together with its organization its offiofficerscerrcersordinances laws gifts blessings &cac as recorded in holy writ suffice it to

say that after christ was baptisedbaptizedbapti sed malmathiatblat iii 16116 lie chose twelve apostlesand other seventy and sentcent them forth cx with power over uncleanspirits with this proclamation the kingdom of god is at handband after

three yearsand

a half he was taken by wicked hands and crucified but thegrave could notholdnot holdhoid him deathsicydeathsdeathsicylcyicy cbainscouldchains could not bind him berisesfromhe rises from

the dead ascends to his father john xx 17 gets crowned with all powerin heaven and on earth and returns to his disciples to give them their commis-

sion mat xxxxviiixzviilviii 19 11 go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them

in the name oftheodtheof the father son and holy ghost v 20.20 11 teaching thernthem toobserve all things and on conditions oftheirof their teaching all things that hebe hadcommandedcom inanded them he would be with them alway no nonessentialnon essential hereagain mark xvi 16 11 ilehellelie that belibeliebeilbellebeilebelievethbelietethevethTethveth and is baptisedbaptizedbapti sed shall be saved

and he that beliebelibellebeilebellbeilbelievethbelievelhevethvelhveth not shallshalishail be damned v 1717181718.18.18 with the promiseofsignsof signs following the believer also luke xxiv 47 11 that repentanceand remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations

beginning at jerusalem thus we have a perfect system which is I11

faith 2 repentance 3 baptism for the remission of sins see acts ii18383818.18 do lwiriiwll 16 together with the promise of receiving the holy ghostwith the gifts and blessings thereto attending see lcoracorI1 concor xii c mark xvi

17.181718but he commands them to tarry at jerusalem until they have received

their endowment i e the priesthood attended with the second comforterthe holy ghost which he hadbad promised to send unto them to bring all thingsto their remembrance and show them things to come god sent christwith the melchizedeck afelchizedeck melchisedeck Melchimeichi zedeck priesthood see heblieb v 5 6 and christ sent Ushiahlahisapostles with thetho same priesthood see john xvii 18 accordingly the

apostles retire to jerusalem into anau upper room acts i 13 there indevout prayer waiting for the holy ghost which according to promise came

upon them like a mighty rushing wind that caused them to rejoice and speak

in other tongues which when the people saw and heard were amazed andbaidbaldeaidealdsaideaid they were drunk &cac butbat peter soon silenced them by preaching and

reasoning from the scriptures and they were forced to exclaim 1 117hatvptwt shall

wevieuieule do 7 hear his answer how literally hebe obeyed the commission given

him by his saviour then peter said unto them repent and iebe baptizedbaptisedbapti sed

every one of you in the name ofjesusof jesus christferchristforchrist for the remission of sins and yeshall receive the gift of the ildy ghost 9 11 for the promise is unto you andyourdoursour children and to all that are afar of off even as many as the lord burgodourgodour godshall call acts ii 38 39 and god calls all men every where to repent

Methereforemereforerefore the promise is for uswe also find that the laying on of the handsbands is an ordinance of tthehe doc-

trinetrine of christ hebneblieb vivl 2 for the sealingscaling of members in the church and

for the gift of thetho holy ghost by those holding the priestpriesthoodhood Aacts viii 17



nebuchadnezzars DREAMDREABI 11

is181919 also acts xixsix 66.16161gi 1 ep tim i1 4 &cac thus we see that allaliailalitheI1 the

ordinances are essential but some in this our day have grown so wisewise

they say they are of no use for instance water baptism but we find

wherever the apostles preached the first thing after the people believed wawahwaas

to baptise them and not take them on months probations as they do nowlook at the jailor acts xvi 33 who was baptisedbaptizedbapti sed the same hour of thenight he believed again lydia the first sermon she heard v 15 same

ch also the eunuch riding along the roadread was convinced by philipsphillespreaching and was baptisedbaptizedbapti sed in the first water they came to acts viii 35 to

38 and christ has said except a man be born of eaterwater and oftheodtheof tiethe spiritliehelleile cannot enter into the kingdom of god john iii 5

and again let us inquire what were the officers that composed thiskingdom to preach the words

of lifelire to administer in those holy laws

and to initiate subjects in

let the inspired apostle paul answer when christ ascended upuponontoft

high &cac he gave gifts unto men and he gave some apostles and

some prophets and some evangelists and somecome pastors and teachersephe iv 8 and 11 what were they given for ans v 12.12iqlq for the per

feeling oftheodtheof the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the

body church of christ how long were they to continue ans v 13.1311 till we all come in the unity of ofthea&athe faithpaith and of the knowledge of the son

of god unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the falnessfulness of christ v 14.14 11 that we henceforth be no more children tossed to andfro and carried about by every wind of doctrineofdoctrine by the sleight of men and

cunning craf craftinessliness whereby they lie in wait to deceive 11

again 1I ep cor xii 28 and god hath set some in the churchEfirstirstarst apostles secondly prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles

then gifts of healing helps governments and diversities of tongues

thus we see the organization offices laws and order of the kingdom of god as set up in the days of the apostles and god set those officers inthe church to perfect the saints yorforportheforthethe work of the ministry and that we

should not be carried about by every wind of doctrine andandwberehashewhere has heever said liehelleile would take them away until perfection arrivesarrives and then theywill be no longer needed except in cases of transgression and disobediencedisobedfence

on account of which men hath forfeited their rights to them and christhas only promised to be with his disciples 11 on condition of their teaching

all things which hebe commanded them but in this day and age of theworld there is scarce a vestige of the ancient order remaining nonessennon esbenessen

tialsbials say theytlley thercrorewetherefore we cannot expect christ to be with such butwithout these officers in the church we see that we are liable to be carriedabout by every false doctrine hence the multifarious clashing jarringdiscord and divisondivision of the present day

thus kind reader I1 have presented you with the order of the kingdom of god as set up in the days of the apostles and I1 will prove to you positively

I1 trust that this was not the kingdom daniel hadbad reference to in thewords of my text in the days of these kings i e the ten kingdoms of the roman empire siaushaushall the god of heaven set up a kingdom which shall

never iehe destroyed and the kingdom shall not iebe left to other people but itshall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and shall standforeverstand forever

first thetlletile kingdom of god set up in the days of christ or hishiibitbis apostlesdid not brcak break in pieces any of the kingdoms of the world it was itself




warred against and overcome in fulfillmentfulfilment of the words of danieliel chapchapallhiihllTH

mtv2tv2 IT 1 l I1 beheld and the same horn made war with ththee saisalsaintsla

and prevailedagainstPi ansinsi ahemihemthem 11 v 22.22 untiltheuntil the ancient of days camecamia and judgil judgii judgmentcntentwas given totothethetho saints of themostthemistthe most high and the time came that the saintspossessed the

kingdom v 27.27qt and the kingdom and dodominionm inion1 9 andthe greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to thepeople of the saints of the most high whose kingdom is an everlastingkingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey him

john records rev xiilkiil 7 and it was given unto him to make warwithwathwjth the saints and to overcome them and power was given him overover allkiakidkhakindredsreds tonguetongues and nations and in fulfillmentfulfilment of these sayings powerliashasilas been given to the authorities of the earth to kill the apostles and inspiredmen until if any remained they were banished from among men or forced

to retire to the desolate islands or the dens and caves of the mountains of the earth being men of whom the world was not worthy while at thesame time many false prophets and teacherswereteachers werewero introduced in their placeswhom men heaped to themselves because they would not endure sounddoctrine in this way the kingdom of god became disorganiseddisorganized and losolostlotfrom among men and doctrine and churches of men instituted in its stead

isaiah in the xxiv c of his prophecies gives a description of the destruc-tions that is to take place with priest peeplepeople earthly kingdoms and allu

and thatthe

inhabitants arearcaro to be burned and few men lenledleftienlennienn and heassignsassign the reason of this dire calamity viz vav5y 55. because tlleytiley bavehaveharebauebarehape

transgressed the latoslaws changed the ordinance broken the everlasting cotecovecorecouecorrnantanant1nantynontyant

the apostles lik ilk likswiselikswisclikewiseswise have propheciedprophcclcdprophesied oftheodtheof the disorganization of the kingdomsetact up in their day hear paul acts xx 29 for I1 know this th atafter mydemy de-

parting shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock vY

30.30 also ofyourof your ownselvesown selves shall men arise speaking perverse things tto drawaway disciples after them alsoltimiv1alsoaiso I1 tim iv 1 now tiiethetile spirit speak spealspcaketheth

expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith givingheed to seducing spirits and to doctrines of devils 11II tim iii 5 thoytheyIllcyilcylicyshallahallshailshali have a form of godliness denying the pomerpower thereof v 77. everlearning and never able to come to the knowledge of tilcthetilo truth chap ivir 34

for the time will come whonwhen they will not endure sound doctrine but aflerafterafierafienarnerarrer

their own lusts shall theyteathey heupheapietlettea to themselves teapteaLteacherschers having itching ears

and they shall tumturn away their cars from the truth unto fables also ii

3 11 let no mandeceiveman deceive you by any means for that day shall not come i e

the coming of christ except there comecomb a falling awayfirstaudyawayamdygirstfirstginst

and that manof sin be revealed the son of perdition

after all these testimonies of the prophets and apostles who can say luttutut

that the kingdom set up in the days of christ was overcome but I1 have

more testimony to prove positively that daniel had reference to a kingdomlater than the days of christ or hisbis apostles

first daniels kingdom was to be set up in the days of the ten eingskings 0or

kingdoms of the roman empire which was not in existence in the days of christ neither was until upwards of five hundred years after as

jI1 have here-

tofore proven1 seconddanievssecond daniels kingdom is never to be leatleftlefa given to other people butabutatut

thekingdomtbekingdomthe Kingdom in the days of christ was first given to the jews afatjiivmath xv

24iaUN 11 jamogamo1 I am onlyplysentuntosent unto thothetilc lost sheepcheep of the llouseof house of isrisraeliagi j jj3utbutbat inin



nebuchadnezzarsnebuchadinezzars DREAM 13

a few years they ceased to bring forth the fruits of the kingdom andchrist tells them categorically 11ll that the kingdom of god shall be takenfrom them and given to a nation bringing forthfirth the fruits thereof see mathxxl43xxiaxi 43 which was fulfilled in about ten years after paul tells them also

acts xiii 4466 11 seeing ye judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life lo1014

we turn to the gentiles

therefore here is plain positive testimony that the Iringkingdomdwa set up in thetho

days of christ was not the oneono daniel hadbad allusion to because that was

given first to the jews afterwards taken from them and given to the gen-

tiles and finally overcame but this last kingdom is never to change

hands it is never to be left to other people but it is a kingdom to be organi

zed in the last days by the god of heaven himself without the aid of human institutions or the precepts of men and when oncoonce organized itwill never cease to roll all the powers of earth and hellbellheilheii will not impede its

progress until at length the ancient of days shall isitsit and thetho lord jesuswill come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory as the kingof kings and lord of lords and destroy all these kingdoms and give the

kingdom and the greatness of thetho kingdom under the whole heaven to

the saisalsaintsits of the most high then there will be but one form of worship

one lord and his namenamo one and hohe shall be king over all the earththus wowe see this last kingdom will stand foforeverreter and as the kingdom

organized in the days of the apostles has beenbeeribeell overcome according to thetestimony already adduced from the prophets we will now refer to ecclesias-

tical history and see if it bears testimony to I1 he same and in so doing I1 shall

havellave reference to dr I1moshcimmosbeimmosheimMoshMosheimbeimhelmcim gahan milner and joness church historytho order the church was established on I1 have made manifest in the

preceding pages and it appears that schismsschisma commenced very early in the

church for persecution raged and many for fear of death no doubt denied

the faith rome was travailing in birth and soon the man oasinofsinof sinbin showed

hisbisbeshes hydra head paul said in his day 11 that the mystery of iniquity doth

already work 11 thes ii 7about the year one hundred all thothe apostles it is said were killed ottoff oftofm

except john thetlletile beloved disciple and he returned from the isle of patmos

about the year 98 to ephesus where hobe wrote his gospel and therethore is

where ancient historians leave him and where modem historians think he

died peter and paul were the two last who summeredsuffered martyrdom undernero emperor of rome but the church flourished with the exceptions of afew schismsjschismschi smssj under the apostles successors till near the close of the second

century when they commenced sprinkling for baptism instead of immerlonionsionslon gahangaban says the first time that sprinkling was performed was on a maniman

who was very sick upon his bed and so low he did not expect to live he was

sprinkled in his bed the man recovered but he was not received into the church

because hebe hadbad not been baptisedbaptizedbapti sed in thothe legal way and we know the wordXv

11 Bapbaptisetiso in greek means immerse in latin and dip or plungeorplunge in inenglishenglishunenglish

I1in the third century they began the sprinkling of infants see mosheim

vol 1 p 69 gahan 93 an abomination in the sight of godandgodanagod and trifling

with the atonement for faith and repentance precedes baptism and infants

cannot believe nor repent he that belilelibeildelidellbelierethlelievetheretheveth and is baptisedshallbaptisedbaptizedbapti sed shallthallthail behavedbesavedbefsavedrbe savedbaystsaystsayslayskays theh saviouresaviour i

ininthethe year A D 323 constantine the emperortook emperor took the reins of church

into hisbis hands amalgamated church and statetook state took upon himself the title of S




universal bishop heaped large salarisalariisupons upon thetiietile clergy and from that timfueuie anetfnetschisma became more numerous and tilethetiietlle gifts of the liolyspiritholy spirit began to re-

cede more and more from the churchin A D 325 the celebrated council ofnicoof nice was held consisting of 318

bishops presbyteriesPresby teries and deacons amounting in all to 2048 here waswhere lethe famouss nicene creedwasCreed was first concocted and adopted that causedmany no doubt to mourn especially if they did not embrace it and by theyear 570 says mosheim all the spiritual gifts hadbad fled all this time theroman church was endeavouring to augment the power and have the holyseesee1seeybeebedseea popery finally established which she boonsoonhoon attained for in the year AD 606 the witloof titloof titletitie of pope was conferred upon boniface the 3dad and in 608mahomet came forth from a cave near mecca and began to propagate his re-

ligion and from this time up to the days of martin luther all kinds of licen-tiousness crept into the churchChur clicil for the church of christ was overcome bythe latin or romish church such as the worshipingworthipingwori5hipingworthlworthi ping of images relicsreliesrelles said tobe ofsomeorsomeof some saint and in fact nearly all manner of absurditiesofabsurdities were practisedpracticedthe faggot the fire and rack were the general means employed to makeadherents to their faith

in the ninth century the greek church separated from the latin and es-

tablishedtablished its seat at new rome or constantinople thus with the latin orromish church on the one handband and the greek

on theother

therewas no

toleration for those who desired to worship in the name of the son of thethvirgin and not believe in the infallibility of the pope

thus they continued hand in hand for tilethetlle greek church was merely abranch of the latin to persecute and put down all others

in the 12th12lh century a merchant near lyonelyons by tilethe name of peter Wwaldowaidoaldoaidocommenced a reformation and gathered a few followers around him calledthe waldenses and in the sas3sameme century the albigenesalbigensesAlbi genes arose from onearnoldarnolda a citizen ofalbi near toulouse but they were of short duration for

pope pius III111 sent a crusade against them and murdered them in the mostcruelmannercruel manner who can read the history oftheodtheof the crucltiescrueltiescrucicruel ties inflicted upon themin the vallies of piedmont without shuddering at the wickedness and dopravity of the romish church 7

thus I1 have briefly traced up the church for the space of 1200 yearsand we find that the historians agree with the prophets viz that the kingdom of god set up in the days of christ and his Apoapotlesapoatlesapostlesatiesatles was overcomeand antichrist erected upon its ruins now I1 shall trace the reformation

commencing with martin luther and take a passing notice of the originand faith of the most notable orthodox societies down to the present daydeducing my information from the sainesamesaune ecclesiastical historians beforequoted also from bucksducks theological dictionary 11 cobbettscobbcttscorbettsCobbetts legacy toparsons and from their own disciplines and let us see if any of thosesocieties that arose at the beginning of the reformation or down to the 18th18acentury will apply to the 11 kingdom daniel speaks of for recollect we are

in search of that kingdom if not we mustroustmoust reject them as being set upbyudbyup by

the god of heaven

martin luther the great reformer was born at eisleboneislebenEislebon in upper saxonyendiriemd A Dd14831483 he was a monk of the order of the augustin friarsfriar and amanroanroenmoen of learning in 1517 pope leo sentfentsenttetzeltetzel as legate over to germanygermanjrgermantto procure sales for the popes notorious indulgencies luther protested againstthepopesthe Popes absurdities and those licentious indulgenceindulgences in strong terms severalsereni

joined him and here the reformation commentcommencedvd but not without o0ositiontipposltioa



nebuctiadnezzarsnebvciiadnezzaus DREAMDHEAM 15

abouttheabout the bamesame time melancthon zuinglius and john calvin began

preaching in favour of the reformation their doctrine varying somewhat

from lutherluthers and calvinscalvina in particular who was a real predestinarian and a

zealous bigot or elseekeeheeise he would not have had poorservetuspoor servetus burnt at the stake

in the mean time luther waslwashwas gathering around him his followers kinghenry VIIIyiliylli who belonged to the roman church was busily employed in

writing a book against luther and his doctrindoctrineeq and advocating the creeds

and doctrines of the church of rome and he so ably defended the same

that the pope conferred upon him the title oftheodtheof the 11 defenderDefendtr of the faithbut the scene soon changes henrynenry being married to catharinecathCalh adinearine his deceased

brothers wife yet falls in love with anne boylendoylenBoydoyboylenonelenoneone of the queens maids

of honor and makes application to pope clement for a divorce that behe

might marry anncanneanre bateatlutbut his holiness would not grant henrynenry his requestrequestjand for this reason he protested against the church of rome took the affairs

into his own hand and proclaimed himself headbead of the church hereliere we

may date the rise of the church of england for it was soon after organized

and established by law and thomas cranmer formerly a romish priest

and carrying a woman about in a clandestine manner when he was sworn

to thetho vows of the celibacy was appointed archbishop of the churchsoon after he divorced henrynenry from his wife and hebe obtained the object hobe

was seeking after viz anncanne boylen

itnow became necessary to compose a

form of prayer accordingly a day was appointed by bishop cranmer for the

officers of the church to assemnleassemble together and compose the same accord-

ingly says the account which I1 extract from 11 codCobcorbettscobbeifscobbettsbetts legacy to parsons

and hefieilelle has taken it from the records of parliament they assembled to-

gether by the laws of the land assisted by the tl11 notyholyhotyholgroty ghost and composed

a form of prayers &cac which was soon after published in a book called ththecprayer book for the use of the church and the fire branding of the

cheekschecks cropping of the ears am&&&m were the general means employed tomakotomaketo makemahe

the people subsubmitmirtoto it no wonder says cobbett it afflecaffectedted mens consciencesclenceencien cescea EOto it took such an affectafflect upon their ears

after henrys death his soneonbon edward VI at twelve years old became the

head of the church during his reign a special act of parliament was

passed to regulate the church hence it was established by the laws of the

land and notrot by the law of god and the kingsrings and queens of england to

the present day at their coronation are sworn to protect the church asa lyby

law established

after edwardsedward3Edwardedwarda3 decease

a nevaspect

of things presented themselves

mary a bigoted papist ascended the throne she overthrew the churchand pronounced all its followers heretics they signed recantations asked

forgiveness of the pope and pronounced the prayer book a heresy thusthe church was silenced through her reign

on the death of maryalary elizabeth an illegitimate daughter of henry byanne boylen ascended lleliethe throne the church of england was again

revived the prayer book underwent a revision and so the church has

flourished till the present day

in A D 1536 the baptists arose and were organized under simongimonsimonmennomennoa native of friesland who had formerly been a roman priest although

the waldenses and aibigenesimbigenesiMbi genes baptisedbaptizedbapti sed and the baptists claim their originfromthemgromfrom them yet they cannot with any propriety trace their origin further back

than 41mcnhomcnnocahocnho at first they were called mcnnoitesalennoitesMcnno ites but since changed their name

to baptist yet there are someEOMOsomofomo tliatretaiuthalretaiu theoriginalthe original scebuckaseebuckitsce bucksBucka T dp 35



16 A dix8ertati0n0ndhsehtation ON

inthanthin the e16th jgth jath century the presbyteriansPresbyterians arose from john xnoxziknox ia discipleoesof ofcalvinCalvincalrin who founded the first presbyterian church in scotlndiscotland therefore perfectlyspeakingperfectly speaking calvin is thoihothe founder of their churchClicil urch r

in the 17th century the quakers arose from george fox theirfoundertheirthein founder

theyralledthey called themselves at first meiersseekersselers arterafterarner the society was formed theycalled themselves friends tt quaker is an epithet of reproach by theirenemies penn and barclay gave their principles a more regular forniform thinthanwhat they were in the days offoxoffosof fox

in 1729 the methodist arose from john wesley a dissenter and formerlya presbyter in the church of england francis asbury andthomasand thomascoke were ordained in england and sent over here where they arrivedat baltimoreatbaltimore in A D 178491784 to proclaim the methodist doctrine and buildbuddup churches and to preside

as bishops over the same they like wesleywere both presbyterypresbytersPresby ters in the church of englandgerman reformed descended from a calvinistic church in germany

they remained in a scattered state till 1746 when one michaelschlatterblichaelschlatterMichaelmichaei Schlattercollected them together and formed a society

the origin and rise of orthoofthothe universalistsuniversalistaUniver salista is very uncertain origenorigeninithein thead3d3d4 century it is said embraced the sentiments but the great advocates of more modern times were ramsey dr cheyne hartly dr huntingdon &cac

thus kind reader I1 have laid before you the origin and rise of the popular

orthodox societies of the present day and now I1 shall cndeavourtoendeavour to makea recapitulation and an exposition of some of their most prominent itemsof faith commencing first with the lutheransLuth erans whose doctrines are substan-

tially those of the confession of augsburghofaugsburghaugsburge viz the doctrine of the trinitytria juncta juncla junita in uno i e three joined in one a vicarious atonement

made by the passion and death of jesus christ the depravity of humannature conversion produced by the holy spirit the resurrection of the body

a future state of rewards and punishments &cac which are the cardinalarticles of their creed buck duck appendix no vY

they deny the gifts of the holy ghost immediate revelation baptism by jimmersion and believe in the sprinkling of infants but deny the testimonyofjesusof jesus which is the spirit of prophecy rev xix 10 and except ye have

that spirit ye are none of his rom viii 9second church of england 11 prayer book p 316 there is but one

truetrne and living god everlasting without dodytodybody parts or passionsorpassionsq maker of all things &cac in unity of this godhead three person of one substance

power and eternity the father son and holy ghost the son who is the

begotten of the father and of one substance with the father took mansnature in the womb of the blessed virgin and the godhead and manhood

were joined together whereof is christ god and man who suffered

was crucified dead and buriedburled to reconcile the father to us arose from thedead took again his body with all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature wherewith behe ascended into heaven and there sittcth ununtiltiitil hereturns to judge all men at the last day

let us examine the above and see if it is rationable and reasonable

ist A godwiaoutbodygod without bodydody parts or passions consisting of three ppersonscrsoarso ns 4

iand2nd one of these persons who is very god was crucified dead andndburied without dodytodybody parts or passions

ad3d3jaj to reconcile his father to us instead as paul says IIlicorqCoroii20igouilylily 20

ofteconcilinof reconciling9 us to the father thus conveying the idea that his fatherfmustkaffi6intit



nfbuchadnezzarsnfuchadnezzars DREAM 17

beba eldruchangeded about and made a nemnewew creature in order to be redireconciledad&d to poor

tunfultlnfulsin fuiful mortals who are unchanged J av9v

4thath thistinstius god without body parts or passions arose from the deadanddeodanddeadeaddandandaand5

took upon him his tododybodydy when he had none but to cap the climaxcilellcli max he has conegoneconccdeto heaven theretothere to remain till ilehellelie comes to judge the world at the last day

thus contradicontradacontcontradictingradiradlding acts iii 20020 21 v where peter promises that god willsendend him again at the times of restitution of all things spoken by the pro-

phets0

this restitution will be a long time before the last day see rev xxxxs and zach xiv c I1

5thath if he took all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature hebemust have taken blood and flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdonkingdonof eingking don of ilcavenseelcorxv50heaven see I1 cor xv50 and if without passions he is without love for

love is the strongest passion existing and we read that 16 god is angargangryry with thewicked every day therefore the god set forth in the 11 prayer book I1 cannotbe the god of israel for he is a godgrod of love see 1I ep john iv 8 the foregoingwill equally apply to all who believe in a god without body parts or passions

also p 159 sprinkling of infants is observed which is nowhere men-

tioned in scripture and sprinkling adults for baptism instead of immersionbesides their vain repetitions in their litany with their rounds of senselessscnselcsaforms and ceremonies denying prophets the spiritual gifts &cac

thirdbaptist discipline chap iifi p 17 11 one

true and living godwithout body parts or passionspassion8 believe in baptism of adults by immersionimmersionbut not for the remission of sins in the lords supper second coming of

christ resurrection of the dead judgment and future rewards and punish-

ments some of their doctrine is strongly tinctured with calvinistic theydeny immediate revelation the spiritual gifts prophets apostles the impo

itionaition of hands for the gift of the holy ghost according to acts hiirviirvm 118and xixzirzix 6

fourth presbyterian confession of faith chap lipbipiip 9 one living and

true god everlasting without dodytodybody parts or passions p 16by the decree of god some men and angels are predcstinatedpredestinated unto everlastoverlastever last

ing destruction othersothera to everlasting life without any foresight of faith goodworks or any other thing in the creature as conditions and the number is BOsocertain and definite that it cannot either be increased or diminished ac-cording to thistilistills faith where is the use of their preaching to convert souls tbecause if I1 am an elect I1 will be saved any how and if not I1 shall be 10lostsf let me strive till the day I1 die this is universal salvation with vengeance

they also believe in sprinkling or pouring adults and infantsyet notessential to salvation p 123.123 the lords supper in sanctification thethatilg

second coming of christ the resuresurectionresurcctionresurrectionrection from the dead a general judgmentand in future reward only for the elect and condemnation for all others butdeny revelation remission of sins by being buried with jesus christ by bapiadladcismtism prophets apostles the spiritual gifts the imposition of ofhandoffhandhandhands a literalapplication of the prophecies the second resurrection ac&&&c neither do theyteach to observe all things in obedience to the commands of the saviourand cursed is he that continued not in all things written in the lamlawlallat to

do them galcalgai iii 10fuuFVU quakers or Fricfriendsads faithfalth called ancient stimontestimontestimonyTetestimonyyo pagep2gepa geI1

12object to the personality of god 13 three bear record which wee 0ownY Pdiscmrdwatcidiscard water baptismbaptisnputhopun0 dependahcdepcndancedependahleinelnin outward ordiniordinancesacespces bfcelieve I1 leyoICTOleye

I1

water bdptismwasfinishebaptism wagwas finishedd6hcnwhen christ wiwa v cluff crucifiedciuficdciuficd ih1nwin inwarddriidili67arevciatiobQ SV tifrfj1




andandjthatthespiritmustth atthe spiritmustspirit must move them to speak or remain silentthatsilent that womenhave authority to preach that the gospel is preached in everyeverycriat6idcreature by thespirit 37 and to be careful of hearing or readreadingirwirm any thing that wultendwill tendtiaw us from the faith 41 that the scripturescripturesscrip tureaturcaturess give no rule&cruleruie ac&c yet

any thing contrary to them is a delusion &cac p 50 they deny the lit-

eral application of the prophecies the gathering of jews all outward ordi-nances laid down in the scriptures the visible advent of christ a literal resur rection of the body the MilAlilmiinillmillenialalillenialmillenniallenial reign &cac but take them spiritual butis this according to the scriptures 11 show me thy faith without morkswortsworks and I1will show thee myroymoy faith by my works 11 for as the body without the spiritis dead so faith without works is dead also james ii ji 18 and 26 neitherwhen we come together are we to remain silent hearilear paul on the subjectW how

latis

itthen brethren 7 whenw lienllenilen ye

come together every one of you hath apsalmhathadoclrinehatuapsalm hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a revelation hath an interpretation

let all things bobe done unto edifying 1I cor xivsivsiy 26 and women hohe sayssayamust keep silence and not speak in the churches for it is a shame do 34& 35 vY objection says one paul says there were women that labourlaboureded wiwithalthlthhimliim in the gospel but how did they labour hear him titus ii 4 566 teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands and chilchiichildrendrengdrentaandnd tobeto be didiscreediscreetdiscretescree and chaste keepers at homehoine &cac to wash thetlletile saints beitfeetgeethekt

odyelodgeodre strangers relievorelieve the afflicted &cac I1 tim v 10 neithercanneither can I1 find

inin scripture any thing said concerning a female priesthoodserthsixth methodists discipline article ii p 8 11 there is but one living

and true god everlasting without body orpartsor parnspartspants &cac same as the church of Engenglandrlandriand exceptpassionsexcept passions believe in repentance conversion baptism ofinfintsoflnfantsand adults and that of three kinds sprinkling pouring or immersion p 7711

in class meetings in mourning benches taking their converts on trial inbishops elders and deacons in sanctification the coming of christ theresurrection from the dead and in future rewardrewardssi and punishments

butbat deny revelationpropbecyrevelation prophecy the literal application of the prophecies 4.4

andthe reign of the saints on thetiietile earth but believe in a heaven 4 beyond thebounds of time and space deny the literal gathering of the jews topalestine the building of jerusalem the second resurrection theth gifts christpromisedliforbised &cac

seventh german reformed their faith is calvinistic election andPOpredestinationdestination their church government and all are essentially the same as

the presbyterianspresbyterispresbyterioPresbytePresby riansteris which we havellave noted their highest judicaturebeing judicature being a synodeighth universaluniversaUniunivcrsallstsversa lists faith by asher moore 18411841 believe in one

god the father in the son and in holy ghost not triune but separateand distinct in free salvation to all that christ died for all and that he will

have all to be saved they teach faith and repentance toward god and in

the atonement of jesus christ and peace meek meehmeeknessness candour and universal

love to all men that the wicked will receive a punishment in this life accord jingag to their crimes the punishment itself is a mediatorial work and founded

upon mercy that it is the means of 0 humbling subduing and finally reconciling

the sinner to god

they do not believe that any of thethatho outward forms except a few for church

membership has anythingany thing to do towards our salvation neither in a literalheukeu hereafter that christ came at thothe destruction of jerusalem and that heiis never going to come personal again and deny the gifts of the holy spirit&1npoiitionthe impositionimposilionimpo silion of hands the literal gathering of the jews the milennial31ilennialmillennialMilen nial reignbtlof the saints on earth and a literal resurrection of the body from the tomb aa&c&a



nebuchadnezzarsxebvc11adnmzzalisza1iszadis DREAMDHEAM 1910

thus we have before us a synopsis of the faith of the orthodox sects

catholics omitted for they are not considered orthodox butbut that ththee rropepopeope isis

the man of sin and if either one is the kingdom daniel spokeofwhichspoke of which 0oneonoe

is it and is either one the church of christ and here let me inquire can-

didly is god the author of all these conflicting opinions divisions and confusions certainly not for we read he is not the author of confusion buibutbutof of peace in all churches of the saints 1 cor xivsirsiv 3333

we here see that they are worshippingwor shipping a god that they have no just con-

ception of one without body parts or passionsorpassions a nonentity a phantom butsays one is helielleile not a spirit certainly hebe is a personage of spirit power andglory paul says there is a spiritual body I1 cor XTxv 44 and if a body theremust bsbe parts for we all know that the whole is composed of parts manalan

was made in the imageinage of god gen i 27 christ was the expressimage of his person heblieb i 3 moses talked with him face to zacc jaccacezace exxxxiii 11 the seventy elders of 11 israel saw himhintbinlem exdead xxiv 10 jacobsaw god face to face and his life was preserved gen xxxii 30 and he

left off talking with him and god went up from abraham gen xvii 22

but says one is hohe not every where present yesye his power and influence

is every where present and we behold it manifest wherever we look but hlahiahishik

dwelling place is in heaven hear david the lord is inin his holy templethe lordslorda throne is in heaven pis xi 4 and stephen when

helashewashe wagwaa

about to be martymartyredred saw 11 heaven opened and jesus standing on the rightlighthand of god actsactsviiviivil 55

we see also three kinds of baptism when the scripture teaches but one

that is to be administered by man seosecsee eph ivi7ia 5 some believing onone

thing and some another some preaching up election others free salvation

sornesomesoine a literal hell fire others preaching against it some preaching bap-

tism by immersion others sprinkling or pouring and some not believingbelievingtin uintinineither one some spsprinklinsprinklingspranklinrinklin infants others condemning it some preaching a

literal resurrection of thetiietile body others that it is spiritualspiritaalspirittialspirispirl tualtaaltuai how do all thesedivisions accord with the scriptures when they say one faithfabipheth and by one

spirit arearc we all baptized into one body I1 cor xii 13yet there is one thing in which they universally agree viz disbelieving

in prophets apostles immediate revelation from god only inward theministerinministeringministeringY of angels prophecy gift of tongues &cac and in fact theyt4eitaeireject nearly all the ancient order of the church in thedaysthedansthe days of the apostlestherefore they have a 11 form of Godgodlinesslineas but deny therthepomcrpomerpower

they also deny the literal gathering of the jews godsgoda covenant people

to jerusalem in fulfillmentfulfilmentfulfflment of the prophecies see jer axxsxxxxx and xxxi alsoisatsaisaxlllxi 11 to 16 also ixv1x7icv 19 tolo25ezetat5 eze xx 33 to 38 amos ix 141415itzach viii 20 to 23 &cac the building up of zion as a place of refugefor the saints of the most high when judgments are poured out upon thewicked see joel ii 32 isa ixIs psiysl xlviiiz1viii 2 to Q Pspsi cilcli 13 to 21 &eaealso thetlletile first resurrection which will bobe the saintssaint and the reign with

christ on earth a thousand years called the sabbath of creation or milullulimillsniumgium refer to those passages of scripture which arcare positive and literal upon

thothe same thus rev xx I11 to 88.18181 1 thes iv 15151717 to prove the reign willbo on the earth refer to job xix 23 to 27517 psipslasl xxxvii 99112211 22 29 mathr 9 rev v 9 10 also xx 9 and the resurrection of the wicked whichwill take place after the thousand years when deathandleathanddeathDeathandbandand ifelkandI1 feltfellfeit and the seagive up their dead and they all stand before god and arejudgedprejudgedare judged according tothe things written in the book secsee rev xxxrar 11 to 15



tols201120 A dissertation ON

thus we see those glorious truths are not lelibeildeilbelievedeved in by anhof anpof any of the forgforerorebore

going sects I1 have mentioned and what is the reason 1 they aretireurebire scripturetruths kind reader I1 will inform you they have all sprung directly orindirectly with few exceptiousexceptions from that impure fountain viz the churchof rome and had their origin in man built up and conducted by the tenetsof meninen without the aid of ReTrevrevelationelation or the holy priesthood the authorityfrom god because if they were in possession of that they would certainlypreach the same doctrine that the apostles preached and contend for thetbsamecamebame blessings for it is not reasonable to suppose that god would send men1800 years ago to preach one doctrine and now send men without revela-

tion to preach another yet lie and hisliisilisills law unchangeable and paul has pro-

nounced a curse on an angel from heaven if he should preach any doctrinediserentdifferent

ferentfrom what he taught see gal i 8 9

who gave those reformers authority to build apup churches or to adminis-

ter in the ordinance of the gospel do you suppose men called of godwould ever harehavehuse his fellow man burnt because he diffiedifferedred asomfomfsomgombom him in sen-

timent like calvin had servetus and king henry VIII17111 the originatoroftheodtheof the church of england who hadllad tyndall the first translator of shenewthenewthe newtestament burnt at the stakeslake and was divorced and married three differentwives during his ilfelifelire

but do not understand me that I1 wish or have a desire to undervalue the

good that has arisen from the effects of the reformation I11 believe there argarearhundreds and thousands moek meek mock humble hearted souls in all the societies I1have named who are living up to the best light and knowledge they have john wesley in his day sought after truth speaking of the sspiritualp iritualgifts set in the church he says they fled not because they were not wanted

in the church but the whole world had turned to heathenism and hadbadhaa nothingduttutbut a deadjormdead pormformporn left of the priesthood he says there cannot be shown

an unbroken chain of priesthood from thetilctile apostles down to his day buthe nor any of the rest ever said that god liadgivcnllad given them a special revela-

tion to build up a church they have a part of the gospel but not thithfullness of it but as I1 said belorebefore they bahaveve been the means ofdoingof doing muehmuch

good and they will bobe rewarded for itit it has paved thetiietile way for theestablishing of the kingdom daniel had reference to that was to be set up

in the latter days by the god of heaven and not by man and to standforever

we llavehave traced the kingdom set up in thetilctile days of christ until we found

it in fulfillmentfulfilmentfalfilment of the Proprophetspheb disorganized its officers marmartyredmartyreamartytyreared over-

thrown and popery erected in itsita stead and newe have traced down through

the reformation and we have not found any yet that has scarcely a resem-

blance to thetlletile one overcome or the one spoken of by daniel which we arsarin search after and if we do findfindigfinditit we shall know it furfor it will be organized

after the ancient order with all its officers gifts blessings beauty and glorybuilt upon the rock revelationrelationre and to stand forever

now let us investigate some of prophecies and seesec if the prophets hatehavhavehaye

not spoken concerning the church fleeing into the wilderness how long sheah&h

was totb stay there and bywhatby what means bheeheshe was to be broughtbrou glit forth johnthe revelatorRevereye lalor who was banished to the isle of patmos by DumiDomdomidumitiandomidindomidiontianidinidan

abutabout

A 11D 96 there his prison became to him a palace&palace and there godgaiegod gaisgavegaiegavhim rerevelationclation tliatthateliat should elcerdicereleer and comfort the church through the daysdayi f her mourning the first three chapters are taken up with charges cconcerning0nccrn

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at the fourth chapter he says A door was opened in heaven and I1was shown things that were to tebe hereafter

recollect this was about 62 years after the church was first established

in the days of thothe apostles

whilewraptwhile wraptwrape in the visions of god various

scenes of futurity passes before him in chap xii 1 he gives a description

of the church represented by a woman 11 clothed with the sun the moonunder her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars representing

perhaps the twelve apostles the moon the changeable things of the world

and the sun the glory of christ which adorned her v 66. heilellelie sees herflee into the wilderness i ci overcome by antichrist and persecution where

a place is prepared of god where she is nourished for a thousand twohundredbundred and three score days v 14 or time times and half alimeatimea time and

her child alluding to the priesthood perhaps was caught up to god and hlahiahishlf throne vav5v 55.

now if we can find out when she fled and how long those days and times

are wewo can know something of the time when she will come out or bobereorganized

we will all admit as long as the priesthood was upon earth the gifts

andblcssingsand blessings christ promised see mark zvixvi 17171818 and 1I cor xii 8 to10 were in the church and when these ceased she fled

drMoslimosheimcimeimelm tells us that they began to decline in the days of constan

tine and about the year A D 570 they were all flednow by referring to num xiv 34 and eze iv 6 the lord gives a day

in each instance for a year therefore at thatmat rate a thousand two hundredand three scoredaysscore days are 1260 years and a time is 360 times 720 half haf hulf atimelimelinetine 180 making the 1260 years thus by addIaddingeignyznJg the 570 to the 1260

we have 1830 which is the year she must be organized according to this john yet continues while wraptwrape in his heavenly vision and contemplating

things transpiring down through the vista of future ages heesteessees the timotime

and the manner when ilmethatime church should be again organized by the godof godif god of heaven and says rev xiv 6 7 and I1 saw another angelflyangel jigfly iniralralna the miditmidstliditof heaven having the everlastingereece lasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell en tinthetimtietisearth and to every witionnitianaition and kindred and tonguetong ue andpeoplellandend people v 77. 14 savisayiing mithwithmeth a loud doicevoicedolcevoicedvoicev yearfear jear jmaryeay cori and give glory to him for the hour of hlf hisbis

judgment is come and worship him that made heaven and earth the seaand the fountains of eaterswaters As I1 before observed john received hisrevelation about 62 years anterafteraflerannerannen the kingdom was set up in the days of christ therefore he could not have had reference to that because it would bsbesuperfluous for an angel to commit the gospel unto man when they had

it already which they had in johns day

and has ever one of the sects that has arose from the days of christ ordown through the reformation had the order that was established inthein thachurch of christ in the days of the apostles f or ever declared that anangel had committed the gospel unto them certainly not and recollectthe proclamation of the angel that the hourhouf bour of gods judgment is comecommercornerwhich was not the proclamation in the days of christ but 11 on earth peace

good will towards man so now we havohave found how this kingdom was tobe established and let us proceed further and see if we can find one thatwill answer the description that has been setupset up in thetiietile 11 latter days

joseph smith the hounderfounderbounder of the church rof rot jesus christ of latter daysainteaccotsaints accoiaccod ding to the commands of almighty god was born december A



22 A disseirrationdissektationdissertationbisserDISSEK rationTATION ON

D 1805 in the state of vermont sometime arteralterafterafleratteranner his father removed intoontario county NY cultivating the earth was his emplempiemploymentiymentdyment while younk youniyoungstwo of the family belonged to the methodist church I1 believe his brotherhiram and another to the presbyterian about the year 1822 a great

rerevivalvivalvivai took place in the churches in that neighbourhoodneighbour hood accordingly mrsmiths mind who was now in hishiablabis seventeenth year jear was considerablywrought upon he attended their meetings methodist in particular oneona saidbaidsald

join our church we are right theiliatiiatiie others are wrong another they are wrongand we are right in this situation not knowing which was rightrights and torisk his souls salvation on 11 hope so or guess to was more than liehelleile couldendure lieheife commenced reading his bible but his education was vcryveryseryerylimited liehelleile could just read and scarce write his name believing what beheread until he came to the following passage

if any lack wisdom ktlet him

jak wak esk rak of god andend it shall iebe given bimhim james jamealamesiames i 5

this was joy to his soul it was peace to hisliisilisillshig troubtroubleded spirit he saw thatit was his privilege to aak ark ask k god and according to his faith to receive accord

inglyangly he retired to a secret grove not far fromfroin his fathers house and there

day after day did this youthpouryouth pour out his soul to god to know which ofsheofthttofihesects was ahthightright6ht and had the true doctrine that holielleile might obey the same andbecome a member oftleoftbeof the church

one day while praying a glorious light encirlcdencirledencircled him his minawasminawaymind was caught

away from the things of the world and liehelleile was immediately wraptwrape in aheavenly vision ilehellelie saw two angelic beings whose cotinten3neescountenancescountenancer wereglorious beyond expression stand before him they declared themselves tobe anelsAncancisancasaneangelsanclsls sent dromfromtrornbrorn the courts of or glory to communicate to him that hishiehibhig

sinssinstins were forgiven that meilia prayers were heard and he was told not to goafter any oftheodtheof the sects foror the whole world saidsaldlitheythey aruarcare believing in inincorrectcorrectdocwocdoctrinesdoctrlscsdoctrivestrives that the authority of the priesthood had long since been takenfrom the earth and they iminformedformed him if he waiiwaswait faithful the true plan of salvationkationhatlona should be revealed to him hereafter after which they disappeared

leaving liishisilisills mind in peace and tranquiliytranquilllytranquiltranquiliailyllyliy ilehe reported what hebe had receivedandaiidrriestspriests and people with few exceptions said liehelleile waswar deluded that there

waswa no such thing as the ministering ef of angelsangela in these days and not to

believe a word of it but hee was not to be overovercomecoinecolne hohe trusted in thethapromises of god one night while laying on his bed praying to god for

omesome kind messenger to inform him of tw right and true way suddenly alight above the brightness of day buretburst into hlahiahis room and immediately habe

was wraptwrape in a heavenly vision lie saw a personage about the ordinary pizesize

of man in the middle of the room before him liehoife was dressed in a white

flowing robe made fast at thailiatilatild wrists and anclesanclcsaccles and appeared to be withoutscam ilehellelie dedeclaredcared himself to bello an angel ofgcdof god sent forth to inform him

that tiletheiliatilc timetinie hadbad nearly anivcdarflved for the gospel to be preached in power inall the world as a witness of the coming ofcbrisf of chrisichrist which was near at hand

also that thistills continent had been inhabited by two distinct races of people

the first was called jareditesJared ites and came dirccdyriircclly from the tower of babeltheth second was called nephitesnepbitesNep hitesbites the descendants of joseph who came to

this land in the days of zedikiah kinghing of judah about six hundred yearsyeara

before christ that they brought with them the scriptures of the old testament engraved upon brass plates down to the days of or jeremiah that theyibby

prospered in arts and agriculture had their prophets among them who kepta history oftheirof their proceedings engraved on plates that christ after his ciucrucici

freonfruonfqion visited them chose twelve apostles ordained them and gave unto themfficin



nedvc11adnezzar9snebuchadnezzars DREAM 23

hishi law and that the church of christ was established here with prophets

apostles and the spiritual glnngiftgifts &cac that in the fourth century after christthey were nearly all destroyed on account of their wickedness and what

remained fell into idolatry the last prophet moroni was commanded by

the lord to make an abridgementabridge ment of all their records which he did on goldplates and scaled it up by the prayer of faith with a promise from god thatit should be preserved and in the last daysduysdags be brought forth and go to the

remnant of their seed the indians said heof beof he of whom are a remnant and thatthis record was deposited in a hill called by the nephitesNep hites cumorahCumo rahrab not far

from this place that the record was wrote in the reformed egyptian and

that they could not be translated by thothe wisdom of this generation but if hebewas faifalfaithfulthrul he should be the honored instrument in bringing it forth and

translating the same by theM

urimarim and 7umriinetauitikiini that was deposited withthe records and that this record contained thothehe falnessfulness of the gospel of jesus christ in its purity that the knowledge it contained should go to

every nation kindred tongue and people and that the indian and the jaw jow jew should be brought to a knowledge of christ by believing and obeying

the same and when it comes forth persecution shall rage your life shallbobe sosoughtughtaught after &cac after which the mcssenermcsmessengersener left him

mr smith having been shown in the vision the place where the recordwas deposited accordingly the next morninmorninggr 93d33d day of september A D

1823 visited the place and from that timtimec he received more and more information concerningwhatconcerning what he had to do until the year 13127ls27when13127whenwhen he obtainedheolitained

the recodsrccodsrecobs A hole of sufficientofsufficicnt depth had been dug and a flat stone laid in thothe

bottom then there were four set erect at the outer edges of the bottom stone

joined together with some kind of cement so as to form a boxcoxdox on the bottom

stoneetoneatone was laid a shield or breastplate from that arose three pillars made of or

cement on the top of or these pillars laid the record togtogethersethergether with the 11 urimarimandind thummimThum mim the whole not to extend quite even with the top of the side

stonesatones over the whole was placeda

crowning stone a small part of which

was visible when liehelleile first visited the spot each plate was about six by

eight inches and as thick as common tin and on each side beautifully en-

graved and filled with black cement the whole being about six inches inthickness and put together with three rings runninrunningtr through the whole apart of which was sealedscaled the unsealed part has been translated and con-

tains the book of mormon and living witnesses who saw the plates and hefted

them have borne testimony to the same in the year 1830 after the book was translated and published the angel of god according to promise con-

ferred the holy priesthood upon mr smith and gave unto him command-ments to baptize withnith water in the name of jesus and build up the churchof christ which accordingly was organized april gth6thath A D 1830 withsix members

we believe in one true and living god not without body parts or pasionssionslonsgions but a personage of spirit and glory in jesus christ his son and inu

the holy ghost which bears record of the father and son in humble repentance in baptism by immersion by those holding the authority for the temisremisremigrenufenusionliongiongeon of sins the imposition of hands and in the gipgifts of the holy ghostbut discard infant baptism and sprinkling as an invention of man believe

inia apostles prophets evangelists pastors priests teachers and deaconsdeacon

in revelations visions and administering of angels tongues the interpre-

tations and ilcaflealicahealingslings according to our faith in fact all the gifts christ hasha

promised for we are to ilvolitelive by every word that proceedethproccedethproceprocce edethdeth from hisbigbis mouth



24 A dissertationdisstrtatiox ON nebttciiadnezzansneduchadnezzaies dreamDHEAMDMIM

inrn the literal gathering of thetho jews thetlletile building up of jerusalem the

gathering of the saint the building of zion the second coming of christthe restoration the destruction of the wicked the first and second resurrec-tion the Milmiimlllenialmillenialmillenniallenial reign of the saints on earth one thousand years after that

the judgment of the wicked we are firm believers in the bible fromgenesis to revelations and that it is godsgoda law written to judah and in thebook of mormon aaas gods law written to ephraim see hosea viii 12 alsoeze xxxvii 16 to 27 we alahoawoalsoaloaisoaizoo believe ininvirtueunvirtuevirtue knowledge temperancepatience godliness brotherly kindnesskindhind nes charity to visit the widow and thefatherless in their affliction to feed clothe and lodge our enemies when they

stand in need to search after truth and embrace the nametamecamegame that the judg-

ments of god as earthquakes hailstormshailstorksHail storms pestilences wars &cac are

hanging over the nations that the signs of the times bespeak the speedy

comingcomino of the sonsen of man thatchat it is a day of warning and not of manywords that there are people on the globe that will livaliveilseilsallvailva to see the fulfillmentfulfilment

of these thingslingsti

thus candid reader I1 have given you a synopsis of the faith and organi-

zation of the church of the people called mormonscormonsMor mons and is it not according

to the ancient pattern and have wewo not found the kingdom spoken of by

daniel that we have been so long in search after 7 I1 think we have for ithas been set up by the god of heaven and organized in thetho year 1830

according to computation herctolbreherctoloreheroherc tolore made and john says when he saw

thothe angel havingbaying the gospel the proclamation was that the bour7our70ur of gods judgment was come

says one how long isthatisthanis thalthat let us investigate peter says one day withthe lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years asto one day andthere aroarcare 24 hours in a day and 3424 divided into 100010 0 0 makes about 414 iyears to the hour and 14 years has passed since the gospel was committed

take 14 from 41 leaves 27 years for thethevyindingwinding up scene

and forforthesethese glorious truths which we firmly believe yea verily know have

manysealedscaled their testimony with

theirblood which has crimsonedcrim soned the ame

rican soil andarid many a widow been left to mourn and many a helpless orphan

shedthed a tear many has been the mother that has hadbad to flee from a burning

house and a savago mob through the snow over the burnt praricsprariesphariesPr arlesaries leaving

their footsteps marked with the blood of their lacerated feet and wberimearlywhenuearlyexhausted sat down and gazed upon the livid lips of her Ffatherlessatherless infant

pressing it to her bosom trying to warm its freezing limbs as it was sinking

under thetho cold handband of death while her crystal tears ran freely and freezing

perhaps as they fell these are some of the scenes this church liashasilas waded

through in noted missouri and illinois for the testimony ofjesusof jesusz

but all the combined powers of earth and hellbellheliheii will never be able to over-

come itit it is never to be left to otherpccpleotierother people but to stand forever in theshortthort space of fourteen years with everything to contend against has it

gathered in its train about two hundred thousand souls

the elders have been over the united states and canada in Engenglandlandilande

ireland scotland wales germany turkey jerusalem egypt east indies

australasiasandwichaustralasiaaustralasianAustralasia sandwich islands and prince albert and queen victoria

together with the poor indian in the forest have heard the sound anlita

course isstillinstillis still onward and it will continue I1to0 roll until the kingdoms of thisworld become the kingdoms of our god and his christ AMEN

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Dissertation on Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (1844)

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