The
MILLENIAL DOOR THROWN OPEN,
OR, THE MYSTERIES OF THE
LATTER DAY GLORY
UNFOLDED, IN A
DISCOURSE,
Delivered at East-Windsor,
State or Connecticut,
JULY FOURTH, 1799.
The twenty-third year of the declaration of the
INDEPENDENCE
OF THE
UNITED STATES:
which event was laid the CORNER STONE of
the NATIONAL TEMPLE, under whose auspi-
ces all worshippers of God are allowed full 
indulgence: and from which springs the
Temple of the LIVING GOD, into whose
bosom the Nations of the Earth are to bring
their glory and their honor.
By DAVID AUSTIN, junr.
Citizen of the World.
EAST.WINDSOR:
PRlNTED by LUTHER PRATT.
July, 1799.To the Young Gentlemen, Members of the Concilio
Society, of East-Windsor, at whose request the
ensuing Discourse is committed to paper.
SIRS,
A COMPLIANCE with your request, that a Dis-
course might be delivered to you on the 4th Ju-
ly, being followed by the pressing solicitation of
your committee, that the same might be given
them for publication, I cheerfully enter upon
the talk of preparing for you a copy of that dis-
course which otherwise might have died as it fell
from the lip. If any thing now presented you,
shall tend to brighten the prospects of your So-
ciety, by giving keenness to the edge of your
rational enquires after truth, by lighting the
lamp of hope, that the field of enquiry now
opening to your view, shall well repay the la-
bor of the pursuit; and if it may please God
to give you an heart to improve the harvests of in-
struction, you may gather to his own glory, to
the benefit of society, and to the salvation of
your own soul; the reward will be equal to
the expectation which the warmth of your ad-
dress seems to promise, and which our united
prayers may be well employed to secure. THE
MILLENIAL DOOR, &c.
Daniel VII. 26th 27th.
But the judgment shall fit, and they shall take away
his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto
the end. And the kingdom, and the greatness of
the kingdom under the whole Heaven, shall be
given to the people of the saints of the Most
High, whose kingdom  is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
THE sublimity of this language, clothing an
unalterable decree, at once, awful in its aspect
towards the nation in rebellion against GOD,
and most animating to those who bow to the secp-
tre of his magestic sway, is well calculated to ex-
ite in us humble and adoring thoughts of GOD,
proportionate to the solemn and awful subject on
which, in this place, he condescends to speak.
The language falls from the lips of an angel,4
whilst he unfolds to the prophet the mystery of
the four kingly powers which, in succesion were
to arise upon the earth, and of the other kingdom
which should arise after them, that should be di-
verse from the first and who should subdue three
Kings. And he shall speak great words against the
Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most
High and think to change times and laws: and they
shall he given into his hand, until a time, and times,
& the dividing of time. But the judgment shall fit,
and they shall take away his dominion, to cosume
and destroy it unto the end.
UNTIL of late, there has been but one opinion a-
mongst protestant divines, as to the application
of this descriptive branch of this very interesting
prophecy. They have all united in applying it to
the papal power. They have said it pointed,
with precision, at the Bishop of Rome: That his
standing is to be seen in several prophetic features
in the field to which this passage belongs, and that
the same is firmly supported by other correspond-
ent predictions, and prophetic aspects to be found
in other parts of this book of Daniel, and in the
writings of St. Paul and of St. John.
OF late, however, Divines seem less united in
the application of those prophecies to the Bishop
of Rome than they, heretofore, had been accus- 5
tomed to be. Several reasons can be given for this
change of sentiment. First, sympathy in the suffer-
ings of humanity, in the excision of the papal cler-
gy by the national rod: Secondly fear, left the same
fate may approach the border of the protestant
household, so far as we may have exposed our-
selves to the jealousy and fury of the lawful hus-
huband, by commiting fornication with the “ kings
of the earth:” and lastly, the mistake may
have arisen from the very sudden, unexpected
and violent means by which it is pleasing God to
execute the exterminating decree upon the papal
houshold. These things considered, there is little
ground of surprise, that many protestant divines
should have warped from the ancient, acknowledg-
ed and just interpretations of this prophecy, and
have labored to accommodate the prophecies
more to the circumstances of their own safety,
than what the ancient interpretation, in the light
of Heaven's, present awful exposition, seemed to
warrant them to do. But of what avail will
the windings and twistings of mutilated and im-
perfect parts of prophetic testimony be to those,
whom the indignation of Heaven, by its all pen-
etrating eye, is searching out! - Why hath not
the falsify of papal interpretation screened the
papal power? Why hath she not been able to
parry the application of prophetic character from
herself, by placing them to the account of Rome 6
heathen, which hath gone down before her -
Why hath the not been able to keep stedfast her
dominion, and to preserve steadfast the section
of the iron and of the clay, by declaring that
the section of the image against which the stone
was to inpinge was the section of the Roman 
Empire, already carried away?— The answer is,
the last section formed of iron and of clay; of
kingly and of priestly power combined: killed,
by themselves the holy Roman Empire, deriving
its sanctity from the impious infusion of the wa-
ters of the mystical whore into the cup of king-
ly administration. The iron being gone; the
iron and the clay combine, and form the ten toes
of the Babylonisn structure. Against this last
section, the stone is new striking. By its power
the image is shook, and seem likely, soon, to fall
to the ground: As the downfall of mystical
Babylon is reputed to be the counterpart to the
introduction and prosperity of the kingdom of
GOD, according to the spirit and hope of the
latter day glory, it is of very interesting mo-
ment, to settle our minds on this important
question; that our faith, and hope, and practice,
may follow those leadings of mind, which truth,  
and not error shall dictate to the honest en-
ingurer.                                        
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Let it then be the business of the present dis-
course, to shew.
I. WHOSE dominion it is, that is to be tak-
ken away, to be consumed, and to be destroyed
unto to the end.
II. By what means, this power shall be re-
moved: and
III. WHAT are the happy consequences, imm-
ediately to follow.
And the kingdom and dominion and the great-
ness of the kingdom under the whole Heaven shall
be given to the people of the saints of the Most
High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
all dominions shall serve and obey him.
I. The subject enquires, whose dominion it
is that is to be taken away, to be consumed, and
to be destroyed until the end.
Let a fair interpretation of the vision of
Daniel, contained in this chapter and expounded
upon by the Angel, afford to us an answer to
this enquiry.
In the visions of GOD, Daniel saw, and behold
from the sea, a tempestuous estate, four great
beasts came up, diverse one from another. The
first was like a lion and had eagles wings. This 8
undoubtedly presents an image of the Baby-
lonish empire extending its sceptre, like the
wings of an eagle, over one hundred and twen-
ty seven provinces. The wings were plucked.
The reins of governmnet were taken from the
hands of Nebuchadnezer. He was driven
from men until seven times passed over him.—
He was lifted up from the earth, and made
to stand upon his feet as a man, and a man's heart
was given unto him. Like a man, changed from
the character he once wore whilst in a state
of enstrangment from God, he exemplifies his con-
version in the public consession he makes. And
at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzer lifted up
mine eyes unto Heaven and mine understanding re-
turned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and
praised and honored him that liveth forever,
whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and
his kingdom is from generation to generation.
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed
as nothing: And he doth according to his will
in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants
of the earth, and none can stay his hand or
say unto him what doest thou?
The head of gold, the crown of the Baby-
ionish empire, was removed in the excision
of Belsheszer according to the interpreta-
tion of the writing by Daniels- GOD hath9
numbered thy kingdom and finished it: thou art
weighed in the ballances and art found wanting:
thy kingdom is divided and given to the
Medes and Persians. In that night was Belsha-
zar, the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius
the Median took the kingdom.
The Medes and Persians; the kings of the
east, forming the two arms and the breast of Ne-
buchadnezar's Image succeeded to the order and
kingdom of the head of gold. And behold ano-
ther beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up
itself on one side; and it has three ribs in the mouth
of it between the teeth of it, and they said thus un-
to it arise, devour much flesh!
This kingdom is likened unto a bear because
of the voraciouseness of the animal; its embracing
its prey as the Medes and Persians encompassed
Babylon — it rose on one side of the Assyrian Em-
pire, or from a state of connection with it: — it
had three ribs between its teeth, denoting three
eminent warriors in the Medes and Persian ar-
mies; three presidents to whom the government 
was committed; or to three kingdoms which
including itself, it held in its succession, as is
were between its teeth: and the command to de-
vour, presents the rapacity of its dominion and
succession.10
After this I looked, and lo, another, like a Leop-
ard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a
foul, the breast had also four heads, and dominion
was given to it.                    
This language paints to us the person, rapid
strides and support of the Grecian warrior, Al-
exander the Great. Like a leopard, spotted,
sleek, and rapid in its movements, so was Alex-
ander. The four wings upon the back doubly
express the rapidity of his movements: the four
pillars of his armies, on which he rested, are also
represented by the four heads which this beast is
said to carry: and to whom the dominion was
eventually left.
After this I saw in the night visions and behold a
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong ex-
ceedingly; and it had great iron teeth, it devour-
ed and break in pieces, and stamped the residue
with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the
beasts, that were before it and it had ten horns.
THIS power is undoubtedly the power of
Heathen Rome. It had the dominion in the
days of the crucifixion of our LORD. At the
hands of this power the LORD of life was put to
death; moved thereto by the implacable enmi-
ty of the Jewish Rulers. Over the whole world
this dreadful and terrible beast maintained its 11
dominion, until incorporating something of the
Christian doctrine and administrations in its Im-
perial texture; it was overturned: by the Goths
and Vandals, between the fifth and sixth centu-
ry of the Christian era. It had ten horns, de-
noting ten kings, who in succession sat upon the
imperial throne; or ten kingdoms over whom
its sceptre primarily extended. These horns
were broken; these kingdoms were overturned;
and the convulsive heavings of the political
seas gave birth to an Empire; known in this
prophecy under the stile and title of a little horn
which had eyes like a man, and before whom
three of the first horns were pluched up by the
roots; and a mouth speaking great things.
THE properties of the little horn are, by all,
imputable to the papal power. His empire, at
first, was very small. He brought the province
and city of Rome under his pontifical jurisdic-
tion. He next was helped to tear up the empire
of Lombardy and of Ravenna by the roots, and
thus subdued three horns of the ten from among
which he sprang up. In the possession of the
total jurisdiction of these three kingdoms or pro-
vinces: in connection with an assumed, acknow-
ledged, yet disputed ecclesiastical jurisdiction over
the other seven; this papal power hath, in an
higher or less degree, been enabled to maintain
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its jurisdiction until the day in which we have
seen its body given, thus far; to the burning flames
Not all the pontifical airs assumed; nor the uni-
versal jurisdiction claimed; nor the thunders of
its power sent abroad; nor the great words it
spake have availed to hinder that its foundation
should not be shaken — its authority had in con-
tempt, and its thunders trampled under foot. I
behold then because of the voice of the great works
which the horn spake, I beheld even till the beast
was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the
burning flame.
THIS exploit we now live to see performed.
The convulsive scenes of European conflict are
loosening the stones of this papal fabric; and
more and more sapping the foundation of this
antichristian structure.
The ten kings are loosing their dominion.
The subjects of these papal branches are uniting
in the common enmity, and with comnon con-
sent, seen willing that this antichristian power
should be consumed by the breath of that irri-
sistable flame in which GOD is breathing forth
his indignation upon it; waiting for the fatal
and deadly blow this power is to receive at the
brightness of his coming.13
The place will not admit of so much as a
glance at the many and variegated, and re-
peated prophetic characters in which this papal
power, that is now falling, is spoken of, and re-
presented as to fall in these days. Few can be
ignorant that the Old Testament and the New,
are full of declarations to this point. The sins
of this mystical Babylon are recounted. Her
persecutions and bloodshed, her wearying of the
saints is of the Most High, and the universal mer-
chandise of her ungodly traffic; and the circulation
of the filthiness of her Balylonish cup, throughout
all the regions of the mystical family, are repre-
sented as abominations which call aloud for the
perdition to be poured forth, to which she is ap-
pointed in GOD's great decree. Rejoice over her
thou Heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, for
GOD hath avenged you of her. And a mighty An-
gel took up a stone like a great mill stone, and cast
it into the sea, saying, thus with violence shall that
great city of Babylon be thrown down, and shall be
found no more at all. And the voice of harpers
and musicians, and of pipers and trumpeters shall
be heard no more at all in thee, and no crafstman of
whatever craft he be shall be found any more in 
thee, and the sound of a mill stone shall be heard no
more at all in thee. And the light of a candle shall
shine no more at all in thee, an the voice of the
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bride groom and of the bride shall be heard no more
at all in these: for thy merchants were the great
men of the earth: for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived. Perfectly, in concord with these
declarations the text declares: But the judgment
shall fit, and they shall take away his dominion to
consume and to destroy it unto the end.
The subject leads our thoughts
II. To enquire by what means this apostate, 
papal, antichristian power is to be removed?
For information on the subject we must make
our appeal to the word of GOD; and to the e-
vents of providence which are now passing before
us. In doing this we not only justify ourselves
as following the best sources of instruction we
can be favored with, but avoid the weight of
the curse which lies at the door of those who
consider not the work of the LORD, nor regard
the operations of his hands.
The information to be obtained from
the oracles of GOD is general; reserving the
fuller manifestation to the day in which the
mighty seat of antichristian desolation shall be
wrought. In fact, some part of every predic-
tion is kept in the dark! It was never the de-
sign of Heaven that its predictions should be15
fully understood until they were accomplished.-
Men might combine to defeat them, and thus
wage an unnccessary war with GOD. Men are
left to the freedom of their own will, and un-
constrained, seem left to fulfill the will of GOD
by the thoughts they entertain, by the words
they speak, and by the actions they perform.
When the event predicted is performed then
we behold with admiration the perfect coincidence
of the event with the prediction it was or-
dained to fulfil.
In the interpretation of Daniel respecting the
Babylonish image, pointing to the section re-
presenting the papal power, in the feet and toes
which were part of iron and part of clay; thou
showest said be still that stone was cut out with-
out hands, which smote the image upon his feet
that were of iron and of clay and break them to
pieces: then was the iron, the clay, the brass,
the silver and the gold broken to pieces together
and became like the chaff of the summer threshing
floor: and the wind carried them, that
no place was found for them, and the stone that
smote the images became a great mountain and
filled the whole earth.
And, whereas, thou sawest iron mixed with
miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the16
seed of men a union being formed between
the sons of GOD and the sons of men: but
they shall not cleave one to another, no particular
attachments, more than ministers to private
accomodation between the things of GOD and
of men; even as iron is not mixed with clay. 
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was
cut out of the mountain without hands and that
it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the
silver and the gold, the great GOD hath made known
to the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the
dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof is 
sure.
And in the text, the declaration is: But the
judgment shall fit, and they shall take away his do-
minion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.-
In Thes. II. 2nd — it is written respecting the
man of sin, the son of perdition; who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called GOD, or
that is worshipped; so that he as GOD sitteth in the
temple of GOD, shewing himself that he is God;
and then shall that wicked be revealed; whom the
LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
The antichristian power, falling in the char-
acter of mystical Babylon, affords constant ground
of exulatation, on the part of those who have17
been made to feel the weight of her rod. Re-
ward her even as she rewarded you, and double un-
to her double, according to her works, in the cup
which she hath filled, fill to her double.  
MANY exultations, are recorded, as springing
out of the event of the downfall of mystical
Babylon of which there is not now time fully to
speak.
SUFFER me, in this place, to read in your hear-
ing a brief sketch of the sentiments of the lear-
ned of the day, on this subject. It is taken from
the body of a discourse preached by Doct. Liv-
ingston, before the members of the New-York
missionary Society, coven'd on the 23d. of April
in that City. The pamphlet I hold in my hand
page 45.
“ THE dispensations of providence, in connnect-
“ ion with the sure word of prophecy, justly
“ raise our expectations, and may be considered
“ as unequivocal tokens of signal success.—
“ What ever may be the period from which
“ the rise of antichrist is to be dated, it is evi-
“ dent his usurpations and tyranny are draw-
“ ing to a close. That wicked power which
“ has to long resisted the progress of the gospel,
“ but which for some time has been gradually
“ consuming, will soon be destroyed by the bright- 
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“ nefs of the Redeemer's coming. The last strug-
“ gles of the monster may be violent, and his
“ expiring agonies protracted, but he is cer-
“ tainly dying. The western and eastern an-
“ tichrist, which with their combined influence,
“ are perhaps considered in scripture as one, arose
“ nearly at the same time and will fall to-
“ gether.” 
“ The vials of wrath, now pouring upon
“ those nations which gave their aid and sup-
“ port to the man of sin: the desolations of
“ war, the revolutions, terrors, and convulsions,
“ unrecorded, before in history, announce the
“ approach of some period new and interesting.
“ The REDEEMER is shaking the nations, and
“ his people hope, it is to prepare the way for
“ his coming. We presume not, with confi-
“ dence, to ascertain “ the times or the
“ seasons which the father hath put in his
“ own power ” but as we know that when the
“ fig-tree putteth forth leaves the summer is
“ nigh: so when we see all these things, we
“ know that the coming of the son of man is near,
“ even at the door.”
“ TAKE, my brethren, a deliberate view of
“ all these events. Collect them in a point,
“ and feel the encouragement which they are
“ calculated to inspire. Whatever may be the
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“ immediate consequence of your efforts, it will	
“ be accepted of the LORD, that it was in
“ your hearts to build him an house. Whatever
“ may be the issue of the individual or joint ex-
“ ertions in this good work; it will not be long
“ before the morning, will break, and with its ri-
“ sing lustre dispel the shades of night. Another
“ season of refreshing is at hand. Another
“ Pentecost will awaken the churches and amaze
“ the world. The cruel conflict which must
“ terminate in killing the witnesses, can afford the
“ adversary but a short triumph. The spirit of
“ life from GOD will again enter into them: or-
“ der will speedily arise out of confusion: light
“ succeed to darkness, and the REDEEMER take
“ to himself his great power and reign. His
“ breath will shake the slain multitudes, and na-
“ tions be born in a day. The Jews are ready to
“ hail their own Messiah, and all the ends of the
“ earth, will see the salvation of GOD.”
“ HEAR the decree which ensures the final
“ success of the Gospel, and the glory of the
“ REDEEMER: He must reign until he hath put
“ all enemies under his feet; then cometh the
“ end, when he shall have delivered up the king-
“ dom to God, even the father: that GOD may
“ all in all.”
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SUFFICE it, that the predictions of God are
sure and certain, and so powerfully opperative
as to ascertain the event announced. The event
we now behold, of consequence are better capa-
ble to designate the means by which this over-
throw seems likely to be accomplished than to be
totally dependant on the prophetic description.
On the subject of our own experience, of
the evidence arising from matters of fact, some-
thing may be, with safety said.
Is it not evident, that the political stone which
is now giving the deadly shock to the last section
of the Babylonish Image, took its origin in these 
western climes? was it not cut out without hands
from the Mountain of GOD's universal provi-
dence in these United State? was it not the
weighty stone which we all helped to lift, during
the introduction and progress of that political
revolution through which we have just now pas-
sed? did it not get its birth, at the moment
whilst the alarm of British usurpation, and threat-
ned devastation was founded in our ears? How
like electric fire did the animating principle of
liberty, and determined opposition pervade the
abodes of our collonial realms? how, in rapture,
did Columbia's sons start from their fires, seize
their arms, and march to the tune of Victory
or Death! Boston harbor received the tea, ren-
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tered poisonous, thro' the potion infused, by
North's insidious hand. The Gaspee schooner
was in flames; the king's authority was defied;
and with arms in hand an appeal was made to
Heaven for the justice of our cause. Twenty
years expired, and these United States found
themselves independent. Their standards were
planted, where just now the proud insignia of the
enemy braved the winds; threating never to
leave our coasts until the keys of our graine-
ries and of our commerce were laid at their feet!
Delusive hope! — impotent wish! despotic thirst,
for gold and for power, which the arm of proud
despotism itself could not secure!
AT this moment the stone cut out without
hands, may be said to have ripened into form.
But previous to the twenty years of American
growth, like the winds of Eolus, impatient
to be gone, it stretches its way across the Atlan-
tic. As a cloud of political glory it accompanies
Washington's son. Against the throne of Papal
despotism it lets off its fire. At the door of the
first born of Babylon's sons it gently knock; but
that the decree of Heaven may be fulfilled, an
iron, rod demolishes the incrustation, strikes down
the door posts, and lays this branch of the mysti-
cal family level with the dust. Provoked at this
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event, like Balak and Balaam of old, the despots
of Europe, the civil and ecclesiastical luminaries
of the Papal firmament, seek to find enchant-
ments against God's irresistable decree. None
can be found. The stone braves all opposition
and advances and strikes with redoubled strength,
the feet of the mighty image: It trembles, it
reels to and fro, and threatens to fall.      
IN this appeal to facts, an answer is found, as
to the means by which this Papal power is to be
removed. GOD hath carved out an irresistable
stone; He hath brought a strong westerly wind
from these western climes which threatens totally
to dismantle the tabernacles of the mystical wo-
woman; who in her doctrine, communion and
government fits upon the shoulders of the kings
of the earth.
THIS same event and operation may be seen
in the dispensation of the white horse, seen by
St. John in the Revelations. In a political pre-
paratory and pioniering sense, George Washing-
ton mounted this prophetic horse in the opening
of the American revolution. The Marquis La
Fayette was borne through the tempest of the 
French Revolution by the same figure, as far as
he succceded; being dismounted, to take a walk
in the dreary regions of Austrian Castles, prisons
and dungeons, to illustrate the fate of Sons of
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Liberty in the hands of eartly despots: Buo-
aparte leaped upon the horse left by the Mar-
quis; and, on his back, proudly pranced through
the states of Italy, put his hand into the pockets
of his: holiness, dried up the waters of the mystical
Euphrates, and left the navigation of St. Peter's
successor, at high water mark. To enforce this
prophetic idea, already accomplished by many it
is known, that in a literal and absolute sense
Washington, La Fayette and Bounaparte per-
formed their exploits, mounted upon a white
horse, a figure, with all leaders of victory, and
of triumph.
CONTINUING to illustrate this prophetic doct-
rine: Buonaparte is now smiting the River of
Egypt in its seven streams. This was necessary
to fulfill the scripture — to give liberty to the
Jews — to open the door of communication thro'
all Countries where they reside, and to enter the
wedge, which eventually may produce a structure
upon the Mahometan empire. Should the arms
of France penetrate to Syria weaken the Ma-
hometan power on the east, and the same power
bear upon this empire in the north the scriptures
will be fulfilled also in the event. But tidings
out of the east and out of the north shall trouble
him, therefore he shall go forth with great fury
to destroy and utterly to make away many, and he
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shall plant the tabernacle of his palaces in the
glorious holy mountains, yet he shall come to his
end and none shall help him.
How far the dispensation of the political
stone shall be permitted to advance, calling down
the buildings of the old world; before the ad-
vent of the Kingdom of GOD shall speak peace to
the troubled nations is a question of no small mo-
ment. The sorrows of present scenes — the ex-
pectation of many, and the testimony of Holy
Writ all unite in teaching that the Great Day is
at hand: the long expected jubilee trump is a-
bout to found.— The illustration of this point
falls under the last head of our discourse;
was to shew,
III. What were the happy consequences, im-
mediately to follow at the overthrow of the em.
pire of mystical Babylon.
THE text declares; And the kingdom and do-
minion and the greatness of the kingdom under the
whole heaven shall be given to the people of the
saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an ever-
lasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and
obey him.”
Other, passages of scripture confirm this doct-
rine: the nature of the two contending powers25
establishes it. As error recedes, truth advances.
As the night withdraws, the day dawns and the
day star arises. As old Babylon fell, the city,
temple and service of the Jewish nation was re-
stored. In these days, on the same principles of
action, and of re-action, as the kingdoms of this
world fall, the kingdom of GOD most arise.
This kingdom is so near, in fact and in reality,
that its counterfeit is already manifest. The em-
pire of darkness hath exerted itself to forge, in
the inferior realms, the plan of the millennial day,
and is now attempting to play off this game;
and to palm this counterfeit millennium upon
the sons of men, as tho' it was formed in the
counsels of eternal truth, and had the sanction
of eternal power. But where sir! can this ma-
gic scene be discovered, you may be ready to say.
we have heard of Jannes and Jambres who with-
stood Moses, and of Satan who labored, by fair
promises, counterfeit application of scripture,
and, by vain and pompous shews to gain the hom-
age of the Savior of mankind to himself, in the
gospel section; but we have never heard that
any one had attempted to counterfeit the millen-
nial section: the work most be too great! none
could attempt to seize the reins of the milleni-
al adminstration but such as God should appoint- 
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LAVATER, a celebrated Phisyognomist of Swit-
zerland, after the reduction of that country by
the French arms, writes to the Directory
of France of the greivances which the people 
suffer: and in a masterly manner demands re- 
dress.— "You have" says he "sent us Liberty,
but it is the LIBERTY OF HELL!" — Never did
words fall, with more truth and precision, from
the lips of man. The Liberty which the gov-
ernment of France, now gives to conquered coun-
tries is indeed the Liberty of Hell. It is a plan of
liberty, specious in words and appearance, like the
charmings of the serpent, whose writhings and
twistings and whole field of enchantments labour
but for the moment, when with the utmost cer-
tainty, the prey may be swallowed alive. How
many families, villages, towns, cities and king-
doms have gone down to satisfy the insatiable
maw of these destroyers! The thousand lives, the
numberless possessions, the immensity of wealth
which this vortex hath swallowed up, are
fearcely sufficient to form an observeable trait
in the back ground of this Terrible Republic. —
Their file is ONE & INDIVISIBLE; that is UNI-
TY and UNIVERSALITY. They design to form
one universal Republic, at the head of which
the voracious Directory is seated: and whilst on
the principles of the sun-fish, extending con-                       3727
tracting, these men devour the riches of the earth,
they would sain teach the poor sufferers, that it is
Liberty they are giving; and that the Mil-
lenial estate is fast advancing! well might La-
vater reply, it is the millennium of Hell! so it
is! it is the attempt of Satan to mount the mil-
lennial saddle thro' the instrumentality of the
Directory. This seat secured, and the Directory
supported; it would not be within the reach of
Michael and of his host, to introduce the peace-
ful and prosperous reign of the Prince of Peace.
This is the object and such the hope entertained,
within the walls of perdition's palace!
But such object shall never be fulfilled; such
hopes never realized! all my wish this; many
pray for it; and to some it appertains to know
it. The inspiration of GOD presents, in five
different places, the five headed monster of
France. They always hold the dark side of the
picture. They stand an off-set, and counter-
part to the administration of the Deity himself,
in the latter day. This doctrine can be illustra-
ted and proved to a degree of exactness and pre-
cision of which the world, with all its improve-
ments, at present has no idea. Time will not ad-
mit even if it were proper, to enter on this inter-
esting and solemn scene on the present occasion.
Suffice it, for the purpose of proving the approach 
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of the administration of the latter day glory,
that it be understood that its counterfeit is now
upon the earth: that urged by the fury of the
bottomless pit, this fallacious picture labors with a
fierceness and perseverance unequalled, to secure
its object; to execute its plan, and to seize upon
its prey. And it will cost no high degree of
faith to believe, if things are so, that nothing
will be able fully to restrain the impetuosity of
these agents of infernal enterprize; but the ap-
pearance and advance of that power to which
all other powers shall yield obeisance, as unto
GOD. To Him the dominion appertains. He
is capable to resume it, and to give it unto
his son. In the character of the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, shall our Immanuel presently
roar for his prey. He shall strike the sceptre
from the hand of his enemies, and cause that the
prey be delivered from the hand of the mighty.
From design to bring this country into submis-
sion to their all conquering power it is, that no
reasonable terms of pacification have been ac-
cepted by them. Our commerce has opened
the door for maritime depredation; at the reins,
of our government they have wishfully locked;
and in more ways than one, have thrown the
harpoon at our national bag.— Yet we live!—
Though the tempest threaten our federal ship, 
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and at times, the pumps can scarce keep her
clear, yet, under auspicious Heaven, we may hope
to ride out the storm, until the all spreading hand
of the coming dominion shall touch our helm.
THIS day commemorates the event, the joy-
ful event, in which our federal ship was hove
from the stocks, and launched upon the ocean of
Independence. During her progress, for the
first twenty years, she performed wonders; she
failed under the special eye of prophetic aspects;
she brought our tribes from Babylon; she bra-
ved the tempests of complaint, excited by the
Tobiases and the Sanballetts of the day; she
she wed her flag, and ever carried a good side in
moments of expectation. The whole scene ac-
complished, her prime navigator stepped on shore,
and left the concern to them that should follow.
The tempests have of late beat high; but dan-
gers passed, shall but sweeten the felicities which
are to follow. If Heaven first visit our land, in
the spirit of the second revolution, as it hath in
the order of the first, if it adopt the mountain
of our administration, as the first mountain on
which the kingdom, of glory shall be established,
it will easy to see that the Constellation shall
always set her compass for the Insurgente.
On this subject, to the mind of the writer,
there appears little doubt. Much may depend30
on the faith of our political ark, acknowledg-
ing God, as the chief pilot, in all her con-
cerns. Nothing is lost to our government,
that it hath left the concerns of religion and
of another world to the teachings of every
man's own conscience, as unto GOD. It is a
slander against the Heavens, to pretend
to say that the things of God are indebted
to the things of men for their support. Let
God be true and every man a liar in this
concern! 
No sooner had the twenty years of our
political operation built for us this political
temple; than wisdom fell from GOD in re-
spect to the millennial temple; from the bo-
tom of this federal edifice it was to break
forth. Under its canopy it shall be nursed:
and whilst European nations behold on these
western shores of the Atlantic, the temple of
freedom, over which our confederation spreads
its wings; they shall see how delightful a pic-
ture of the approaching millenial confedera-
tion it presents. For three years hath the
wisdom of God been occupied in training to
knowledge the instrument, appointed as the or-
gan of divine communication. Such is the
course of that divine teaching, and so multiplied
and universal its forms of instruction, that no31
event can happen, no place can be named where
instruction cannot be found.
The mountain of the LORD's house, now
forming, will ultimately establish itself in the
tops of the mountains, and exalt itself above
the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. Unto
the mountain of the LORD, soon to be established
in these United States, all nations, by their deli-
gates, shall flow. They shall come to worship
before GOD in Zion. It shall set, thro' this
mode, GOD's compass upon the earth, and stretch
his line under the whole Heavens. Ethiopia
and Seba shall come and bow down: and upon
the distant mountains to the ends of the earth,
the mount of the LORD shall be acknowledged.
Through the instrumentality of this organ, the
Prince of Peace shall speak peace to the nations,
and they shall beat their swords into plow shears,
and their spears into pruning hooks and they shall
learn war no more. I have raised him up in
righteousness, and I will direct all his ways, and he
shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives;
not for price nor reward saith the LORD of Hosts; 
for lo! the labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of
Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature shall
come over unto thee: and they shall be thine: in
chains shall they come over and bow down, and
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make supplication; saying, surely GOD is in thee
and beside, there is none else; there is no GOD.
Surely thou art a GOD that hideth thyself O GOD
of Israel the Saviour!
LEAVING prophetic illustrations, and waiting
farther demonstration in support of what hath
been said, either in view of illucidating the cha-
racter of mystical Babylon, or the means by which
she is overthrown, or the happy consequences
which shall follow, it may now be proper to re-
vert to the consideration of a few things anal-
ogus to the events of the day; of the present
fourth of July 1799, which we are assembled to
celebrate. This day commemorates the event
of the declaration of our National Independence.
That was an important day, both in relation
to the benefits which it brought in its train, in
a national point of view and in reference to the
foundation of that national edifice from which is
yet to beam forth, the light and glory of the
world. Let, then, the day be celebrated as the
hour which gave birth to the mighty events
which of necessity, were needful to prepare the
way for the peaceful empire of the Prince of
Peace. Be astonished at the event which in the
kingdom of providence, the hand of our GOD 
carved out thro' the instrumentality of such un-
promising means! what could equal the enter-
prize of the sons of July fourth, 1776, but the 
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unequalled enterprize, perseverence and toil of
those who first braved the tempest that they
might plant the empire of civilization and of re-
ligion in these western climes! had they foreseen
what was to spring from their loins, with what
additional fervor of spirit might they have fol-
lowed up the noble enterprize their thoughts had
achieved! But the fire of soul which was in
them to possess, and to hand down to us, this fer-
tile and extensive habitation, seems, by inherit-
ance to have descended to us their sons! Hail ye
departed souls! Hail ye slumbering fathers!
Arise from the dead and behold the wonders
GOD hath wrought!
IF the benevolence of the Deity hath marked
out for us such a possession, how loud the argu-
ment that the same sentiment of benevolence
should meet a joyful welcome to our own breasts!
that we may be the children of our father
which is in Heaven, who maketh his sun to
shine on the evil and on the good, and send-
eth his rain on the just, and on the unjust!
How can we so well improve the blessings of
civil, of social, of rational, and of religious
life, as to employ them in the purposes of a
diffusive good will to all around I Doth inde-
pendence of character - enterprize abroad, lit-
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erature and religion at home, grace the histo-
ry of our nation, thus far, let us see it, that
none of these characters are forfeited by a cold,
an inanimate attention to the duties now before
us; or to the enchanting prospects which now
ravish the intellectual eye!
To the young Gentlemen, the members of the
Concilio Society of this town, at whose request
this Discourse is delivered, some attention
may justly be paid.
Young Gentlemen,
If there were nothing else by which your
private or public virtues might be known, it
seems a sufficient exemplification of your char-
acter, that you have formed yourselves into a so-
ciety for the promotion of the intereset of litera-
ture, of the social virtues, and of religion. —
What objects can be more worthy the attention
of American geuius, than objects such as these?
They enlarge the mind, increase the empire of
thought, and dignify the soul. May your num-
bers increase, the very worthy objects of pursuit
still enflame your minds with that noble ardour,
which hath urged you to enter upon this happy
course, and given you success, thus far! - Let
others, from your example dare to step forth, and
with you, pursue the same path to dignity and to 
honor. 
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To encourage the emulous spirit of your
rising society, let a very few brief inferences,
from what hath been said, strike afresh, the
spark of intellectual zeal into your animated minds!
I. ARE we Americans, by birth, let us learn
to appreciate our origin, our present possessions
and our advancing duties. Let us love our
country — love our laws and our religion — love
literature, love GOD, and love one-another.
2. Hath the political needle seemed to shake
in the compass, and to puzzle the wisest to
determine, when it should find its star; or whith-
er the path of duty should lead, let the
exemplification of the birth of civil and reli-
gious liberty in the United States, the building
of the temple of freedom, here, as the base of the
approaching building of GOD, determine our
minds that primary respect is due to our own coun-
try, to our own constitution, and to own our laws.
3. HAVE any, in our country, seemed, by the
shakings of the needle, to have been led into a
spirit of dissention from the spirit of our federal
administration; let all such receive a gentle hint
to be ware of the waters of Talleyrand! If a
vortex is in motion, its waters very extensive,
and its end, political perdition; with what tender-
ness of thought may such be cautioned not to
take the counterfeit millenial aspect, for the more 36
substantial good yet to be revealed! — A few
months more and our brethren shall find that
Americans need not look across the Atlantic for
the blessings they, from the signs of the times, are
led to expect and to pursue.
4. In the protection of these United States
from the desires and designs both of Great
Britain and of France, behold how truly the
GOD of our fathers hath continued to be our
GOD, in moments when the wisdom of our wi-
sest men, hath been closely pressed to discern
what was the path of political duty, best promis-
ing permanent peace, and social felicity to the
inhabitants of these United States. The LORD 
JEHOVAH hath brought the political ark to the
door of safety, and from her present convulsions,
she shall soon reach the port of her permanent
destiny.
5. LET us learn to excuse all false expositions
of the prophecies, or of the signs of the times
seeing the door of just exposition hath not, be-
fore now, been truly thrown open. Let mysti-
cal Babylon fall! Let Talleyrand and his asso-
ciates pursue her to extermination: never for-
getting, that when the wrath of men hath ful-
filled the will of GOD, the remainder he is able to
restrain - Amen.