DEDICATION. ULTIMA CUMAI VENIT JAM CARMINIS ÆTAS : MAGNUS Ab integro SECLORUM NASCITUR ORDO PURSUITS OF LITERATURE, CLASSICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND POLITICAL, EXHIBITING ILLUA. 1 A CONCISE SKETCH, AND FAITHFUL REGISTER THE CURIOUS, VARIOUS, MOTLEY THE AGE OF REASON; TO ALL THAT HAVE EARS TO HEAR, AND EYES TO SEE, 66 AND HEARTS TO UNDERSTAND,” THE AWFUL AND IMPENDING SIGNS OF THE TIMES FORETOLD IN HOLY WRIT, SPEEDILY TO PRECEDE "THE DAYS OF VENGEANCE,” ON REBELLIOUS JEWS AND APOSTATE CHRISTIANS ; USHERING IN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN; OR, THE SECOND APPEARANCE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH THE CRUCIFIED, IN POWER AND GREAT GLORY, HIS FIDUCIARY KINGDOM UPON EARTH, FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS DURING THE AGE OF FAITH: ARE MOST HUMBLY, CHARITABLY, PIOUSLY BY AN IRISH THEOPHILANTROPE. ADVERTISEMENT. THE unconscionable delay of this Publication, now retarded more than twelve months fince it was put to Prefs, requires fome apology on the part of the Author, and much more on the part of the Printer. It has been owing to the Calamities of the Times, and the Avocations of the Prefs; to the strange and unexampled atrocities of the foregoing difaftrous year 1798, which have stained the Annals of Ireland with Treafon, Rebellion and War, ON REBELLIOUS JEWS AND APOSTATE CHRISTIANS; USHERING IN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN;. OR, THE SECOND APPEARANCE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH THE CRUCIFIED, IN POWER AND GREAT GLORY, АТ ફર THE ULTIMATE ERA OF SIBYLLINE PROPHECY," AND ALSO OF EVANGELICAL, TO ESTABLISH "A NEW AND GRAND ORDER OF THINGS,” IN HIS FIDUCIARY KINGDOM UPON EARTH, FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS DURING THE AGE OF FAITH: ARE MOST HUMBLY, CHARITABLY, PIOUSLY BY AN IRISH THEOPHILANTROPE. |