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the fall of the English nobility, together with the monarchy under Charles the Firft, would not have afforded a more exact catalogue than that produced by Mr. F.

1. archbishop, 2. duke, 3. marquis, 4. earl, 5. viscount, 6. bifhop, 7. baron.

In the French lift Mr. F. has omitted archbishop, which certainly could not be claffed with bifhop as a title of the fame rank and dignity. All this, at the beft, is but trifling. But if Mr. F. had applied the earthquake to the fall of the English monarchy and nobility, his chronology at least would have been the better for it; for the event is nearer, by 140 years, to the treaty of Paffau, than the French revolution.

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Since the great antichrift, according to Mr. F.'s conception, has arisen within the laft eighteen years, it is not to be expected that many of the prophecies can, in fo fhort a space of time, be confidered as already fulfilled in him, yet, during this fhort period Mr. F. fuppofes, that the feventh trumpet has founded, that the third woe has begun, that the harvest of Rev. xii. has taken place and that four of the vials of God's wrath have been poured out. We have already shown upon what flender and inconfiftent evidence he has fixed the commencement of the feventh trumpet and third woe. The harveft of God's judgment on the earth, upon a foundation equally fandy, he affirms to be, the horror of the 2nd part of the French revolution, commencing on the 12th of Auguft 1792. Indeed the arguments he ufes in fupport of this affumption are chiefly fo many fuppofitions. judgment I fuppofe to be the first part of the 3d woe, &c." When a divine prophecy has been fulfilled, however doubtful the femblance of it may have been before, it then appears under no fuch loofe and equivocal characters. When the . events predicted under the third woe, the harvest and the vials fhall have taken place, they will be recognized, and proved beyond a doubt to belong to their refpective prototypes. In this author's application of them, we do not in any degree enjoy this fatisfaction. But he is fatisfied; and indeed fuch is his confidence in this interpretation, that he purfues it through the regions of unfulfilled prophecy, giving us a regular and detailed hiftory of the future warfare of antichrift, his various ftruggles and fucceffes, and his final fall. The war, he fays, is firft to rage in Europe, and then to be carried into Afia. There is to be "a gathering together of fome great confederacy of the infidel popifh powers against the converted Jews, fupported by the arms of a mighty

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a mighty proteftant maritime nation, to the place appointed for their destruction," one great body of the Jews will be converted, and restored, by this " mighty maritime nation of faithful worshippers." Another (but unconverted) will be reftored by land, and by the antichriftian faction. The antichriftian king will be oppofed in his paffage through Turkey, by two kings of the north and fouth, but, "in fpite of all oppofition, he will enter into the countries, overflowing them like a refiftlefs torrent; he will pafs over the narrow channel of the Conftantinopolitan fea; and will force his way into Palestine." Having placed his allies, the unconverted Jews, in Jerufalem and its vicinity, he will attack Egypt, but not Edom and Moab, because they lie out of his way. In the midst of his African conquefts he will be troubled with tidings from the eaft and north. For "the maritime expedition at length reaches Palestine: but the believing Jews, and their naval protectors, find themselves oppofed by the unbelieving Jews, and the troops which antichrift had left behind him to garrifon Jerufalem and other ftrong holds. Apparently, after no Apparently, after no trifling blood-shed and (if I judge rightly from fome prophecies) when the converted Jews had fuffered very confiderably, the eyes of their unconverted brethren will unexpectedly be opened, and throwing off the bafe yoke of antichrift they will cordially join fuch of their nation, as had embraced christianity, and had allied themselves to the faithful maritime power." Antichrift now returns in great fury from Egypt, and "with banners bleffed by the falfe prophet," befieges Jerufalem and takes it. The houfes are rifled, the women ravifhed by the licentious foldiery; half of the inhabitants are made captives." Antichrift now purfues the troops of the maritime power and the converted Jews retreating to their fhips. He overtakes them at Megiddo, where he is about to obtain an easy victory over them; but "the glory of the Lord is fuddenly manifefled in the midft of Jerufalem.-The tremendous vifion halts for a moment on the mount of Olives," which cleaves afunder with an earthquake." It then advances to the valley of Megiddo, and hovers over the heads of the palfied troops of antichiift," whofe overthrow follows of courfe. "The fign of the illuminated "Schekinah" will probably remain fufpended over Jerufalem, and be the means of bringing in the ten fcattered tribes. The refloration of Judah will commence at the end of the 1260 years, viz. in 1866, but it will probably take 75 years more to complete the great work, previous to the commencement of the Millennium; 30 of thefe years will be occupied in the restoration of Judah,

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and in the expedition and destruction of antichrift; the remaining 45 in the wanderings of those who, escaped from the rout of the antichriftian army, will carry every where the tidings of God's fupernatural interference," and thus be the means of converting and reftoring the whole houfe of Ifrael. But "I wish this," fays the author, fpeaking of this laft interpretation, "to be understood only as a conjecture; for it would be fully to speak pofitively before the event." Yet very pofitively, we fee, he has fpoken of the future completion of a great body of prophecy, drawn together in an arbitrary manner from many fcattered and ænigmatical predictions. This attempt "to be wife beyond what it is written," may gratify for a time the curiofity of those who are eager to pry into future events, and to penetrate the veil which divine prophecy has purposely caft over them; but it cannot gain the approbation of the judicious, and of the practifed interpreter of facred prophecy. In fhort, we are forry to report, that Mr. F. has, in this part of his work, tranfgreffed the very rules he had at first fo wifely adopted. He has " attempted to fhow the precife mode in which unaccomplished prophecy will be fulfilled *." He has not " refifted the fascinating idea of expecting to find the paffing events of his own day predicted t." He has "not ftrictly followed prophecy, but endeavoured to lead it to his own preconceived fcheme of expofition +."

We had marked feveral paffages in this work, on some of which we were prepared to give our teftimony to the acutenefs, ingenuity, and judgment of the author, in others to have affigned reafons for diffenting from his conclufions. But the article has already exceeded the limits which can fairly be allowed to it, and we conclude by faying, that, in our, opinion, Mr. Faber's work, which has now been confidered, whatever merit it may have in other refpects, cannot fafely be received as a correct and found interpretation of the prophecies now fulfilling, or hereafter to be fulfilled.

• Vol. I. p. 78.

+ Vol. II. p. 277.

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ART. II. Oratio Harveiana, in Honorem Medicine, inque Memoriam corum, qui de Collegio Regali Medicorum Londinenfi bene meriti funt, ex inftituto celeberrimi viri Gulielmi Harveii, habita in theatro Collegii, Die Octobris xviii*• A. D. MDCCCLX, a. Gulielmo Heberden, Georgio tertio et Carlotta, Regi Reginæque Britanniarum, Medico. 4to. 28 pp. T. Payne. 1810.

THE Harveian Oration annually delivered at the affembly of the College of Phyficians in Warwick Lane, has never, we believe, been the fubject of much critical animadverfion. Perhaps there are not many examples of its introduction into a work like the prefent. It is nevertheless hardly to be queftioned, that as in the prefent inftance the native talents and peculiar accomplifhments of the fpeaker have rifen fuperior to the triteness of the occafion, have enlivened the fameness of a way-worn path, and scattered rofes and perfume around them. Many, in our own remembrance, have in this manner diftinguished themselves; but our attention has been peculiarly drawn to the prefent elegant and truly claffical production, as well from the intrinfic merit of the compofition, as because our warmeft feelings have been awakened by the confecration as it were, of friends, long known, revered, and beloved.

It is highly grateful to us to record in our pages the following animated, and not more animated than juft, apostrophe in honour of the names of Baker and of Pitcairn.

After an eulogium upon Dr. Warren, which must have the fanction of univerfal affent, the orator thus proceeds:

"Puto vos, Auditores, animis veftris præcurrere meæ orationi, dum Bakeri nomen venerandum fubjicio. En cathedra, qua tot annis confedit! En fceptrum, quod manus ejus toties tractavit! En hæc frequentia et confeffus fociorum, quem autoritate fua tam fæpe continuit! Etenim ufu venit, ut acrius aliquanto et attentius de claris viris locorum admonitu cogitemus. Meminiftis iph quanta effet in illo veteris doctrinæ perceptio, quanta vis me. moriæ, quam fubtile judicium; qua fcribendi laude emineret, quo ingenio floreret, quam fplendide apud vos magiftratum gereret. Neque enim confuetudine tantummodo jucunda, et multorum offi. ciorum conjunctione nos privatos videmus; fed et interitu talium fociorum dignitatem noftri Collegii aliquo modo diminutam de. lemus. Manent immo vero, et manfuræ funt virtutes ejus, cum noftris omnium mentibus non fine reverentia quadam infixæ, tum

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præclaris facrata operibus. De Dyfenteria, deque Catarrho fic fcripfit, ut nihil poffit perfpicacius elegantiufve. Tum quoque Acta Collegii Medica quot tractationibus, quam excellentibus or Bavit? Multa quidem prætereo, ut ad ea, quæ de plumbi facul tatibus diligentius protulit, paulifper animum advertamus; quæ non modo doctrina admirabili fcripta funt, et exquifitis rationibus confirmata; fed, quod majus eft, exitu quoque memorabili prædita. Damnonii enim, inviti licet, veritatem monitorum tandem agnoverunt, et proinde Colica et Refolutione brachiorum, morbis regionis iftius olim frequentiffimis, nunc parum abeft quin omnino liberati fint. Quòd fi unum civem qui fervaflet, corona quondam civili effet donandus; quid ille meruit, qui totam provinciam in falutem vindicavit? Quinetiam alii operi arduo ac falutari fumme incubuit Bakerus, ut obfoletam magna ex parte et antiquam redintegraret ornaretque Pharmacopoeiam. In quo libro cum fingula accuratius fimpliciufque præcepta funt; tum univerfa fermonis brevitate quadam et nitore, raro aliàs confpectis, defcripta. Nec finos in hoc genere novare aliquid nuper voluerimus, id Bakero objiciendum erit; neque ipfi repugnabimus noftros labores fi proxima ætas delebit. Cupimus enimvero et fperamus, ut, quemadmodum aliæ artes, quæ ad medicinam pertinent, adolefcunt ætate et amplificantur; fic quoque medicamentorum natura, vires. que, et misturæ in annos fingulos melius perfectiufque comprehen. dantur.

"Bakerum vero amifimus, cum ætas jam perfuncta rebus am. pliffimis, et fapientiæ laude perfructa, in morte, tanquam in portu, conquiefcere videretur. Quibus autem lamentis, quo luctu Te, Huntere, et Te, Pitcairne, profequemur; quos vigentes adhuc mors occupavit, atque ambos unus annus nobis eripuit? Cognitione, pru dentia, moderatione animi prope æquales fuerunt. Fama quoque utrique par, fed alia alii. Alter militiæ, domi alter clarus factus eft. Hunterus cum in Infulas Occidentales cum exercitu profectus effet, ita militum curam agebat, ut ejus operam et fedu. litatem fatis laudare non poffim. Nihil quidem, quod ad fanitatem tuendam ullo modo pertinebat, videtur neglexiffe; fed et tempeftates cœli accuratiffime obfervavit; et locorum opportunitates providentiffime monftravit; morborumque caufas, et figna, curationemque fedulo inveftigavit; poftremo, quod noftra præ. cipue intereft, omnia, ut fcitis, libro perutili comprehenfa edidit.

"Quòd fi Hunteres in caftris, et infamibus India occidentalis locis, magna medendi diligentia celebritatem confecutus fit; non minas Pitcairnus de patria bene meritus eft, qui valetudinario San&ti Bartholomæi plures annos fingulari laude præfuit: in quo pauperes pene innumerabiles cura fublevavit, multofque difcipulo, præceptis ex re natis, ad medicinam faciendam optime inftituit. Nam fuit in illo gravitas et autoritas, quanta magiftrum decet ;. fimul gratia et probitas, quibus difcentium animos mire ad fe allexit. Poftea, relictis publicis muneribus, cum ad privatą (otum

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