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employ of the Miffionary Society
of Connecticut, are the Rev. Wil-
liam Storrs and Mr. Robert Por-
ter in the northern counties of the
flate of Vermont; the Rev. Seth
Williston, the Rev. Jedidiah Bush-
nell, and Mr. Amasa Jerome, in
the western counties of the state
of New-York; and Mr. Jofiah
B. Andrews, upon the head wa-
ters of the rivers Delaware and
Sufquehannah. Appointed and
now going out, the Reverend
David Huntington to Vermont
and the fettlements on the west
fide of Lake Champlain to Can-
ada line, and the Rev. Joseph
Badger to the fettlements on Black
River and the east end of Lake
Ontario, from thence to travel
through the military tract and the
Genefee country to the head wa-
ters of Delaware and Susquehan-
nah-Mr. David Bacon to the
Indian tribes fouth and weft of
Lake Erie.-The feveral Miffion-
ary
Societies in the United States
are requested to tranfmit, month-
ly, to the Editors of this Maga-
zine, for publication, the names
of their Miffionaries and the pla-
ces to which they are fent, that thus
the refpective focieties may not inter--
fere with each other, & that a difpro-

peared a little dawn of an awakening the laft fpring, I found that the fun had rifen. As many as forty perfons in the town of Delhi were hopefully converted; many more were under ferious impreffions. Some of the neighboring towns have shared confiderably in the bleffed effufions of the Holy Spirit. The last Sabbath I preached at Delhi, nineteen perfons were received into the church, moft of whom were youth in the bloom of their days. "When I returned to Otfego county, I found the awakening had much increased the fields did appear really white for the harveft. Laft fpring, foon after the attention began at Otfego Creek, we organized a church in that fettlement, confifting of eighteen perfons; part of them old profeffors from New-England,and part young converts. The firft Sabbath that I preached there, after my laft return from the Delaware, we admitted twenty eight perfons more into that church, baptized twelve adults and twenty children. Probably twenty more perfons living at the Otfego and its vicinity, hope they have of late paffed from death to life; and will foon become members of the church. Laft Sabbath, at Springfield, we ad-portionate number of Miffionaries mitted thirteen perfons into the church in that place,and on the Sabbath and Monday, baptized twenty-fix children. The awakening increases much in that place. It is wonderful to fee the difplay of divine power in this country. The awakening is very folemn and lar. It is like the ftill, fmall voice which made the prophet Elijah wrap his face in his mantle. The truth of that text never appeared more clear than at prefent: not by might, or by power, but by my Spirit faith the Lord of Hofts."

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ORDINATION-Ordained, by the Confociation of the Weftern diftrict of the county of NewHaven, on Tuesday, Sept. 9th, 1800, over the first church of Chrift in Hamden, the Rev. ASA LYMAN. The introductory prayer was made by the Rev. Da| vid Tullar, of Milford; the ferwas preached by the Rev. William Lyman, of Millington, brother to the paftor elect, from Deut. xviii. 6, 7; the confecrating prayer was made by the Rev. THE Miffionaries now in the Noah Willifon, of West Haven;

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How foon will all my days be gone,

And grifly death appear!
Then let me keep their end in view,
And virtue's peaceful path pursue:
Thus to my God be ever true,

And love my Saviour dear.
2. Let finful paffions all fubfide,
My foul be cleans'd from baneful pride,
And fill'd with love divine:
May I ne'er from God's law depart,
But treasure it within my heart;
And thus, by acting well my part,

Prepare in heav'n to fhine.

3. And when the clay-cold hand of death

Shall chill my lungs, and ftop my breath,

And close these mortal eyes; May I to happier climes remove, Where all is friendship, joy and love, There join the glorious choir above,

Where heav'nly anthems rife!

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Before the incarnate God: 2. Thou happy foul, with awe profound,

Shalt hear the trump of Gabriel found,
And view the dead arife;
With joy behold the judge defcend,
And on the wings of love afcend,
To meet him in the fkies.

3. Then fhalt thou hear his just impartial fentence,

"Depart accurs'd ye who deny repentance,

And did my grace despise; Bat come, ye bleffed, whom my grace elected,

Ere time began, with me by faith connected,

To heav'n and glory rife.

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When I recall the tender fcenes Of early childhood, mercy came, And ftor'd my mind with gofpel themes.

2. 'Twas thou didst give that parent dear,

Who, ere my birth, pronounc'd me thine;

She early taught me whom to fear,

And bade me know thy love divine. 3. Oft on her knees the holy faint

Implor'd thy bleffing on my head ; Oft fhe impos'd the kind reftraint,

While precious tears were on me shed. 4. Her lovely name I scarce could fpeak, Ere I was taught to pray and praife, Was fent in fecret thee to feek,

And daily told thy wondrous ways. 5. Grant, gracious God, that she may fee The fruits of all her pious cares; Let not her fon thy rebel be; Blefs me, O Lord, & grant her prayers.

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Jewish Nation. (Continued from p. 127. N the xxxviii and xxxixth, chapters of Ezekiel, is foretold a formidable invafion of the Jews by the army of Gog, and the overthrow of that army. This great host is "in the latter days," to come into the land that is brought back from the fword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Ifrael which have been always wafte." The arrival of this hoft is compared to a cloud which covers the land.* The deftruction of the army of Gog, is particularly defcribed in chapt. xxxix. 9-12. "And they that dwell in the cities of Ifrael fhall go forth, and fhall fet on fire and burn the weapons, both the fhields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand-ftaves, and the fpears, and they shall burn them with fire feven years; fo that they fhall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forefts: for they fhall burn the weapons with fire; and they fhall fpoil thofe that

Chap. xxxviii. 8, 9, 16. VOL. I. No. 5.

robbed them, faith the Lord God. And it fhall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Ifrael, the valley of the paffengers on the east of the fea; and it fhall ftop the nofes of the paffengers: and there they fhall bury Gog, and all his multitude; and they shall call it, The valley of Hamon-gog. And feven months fhall the house of Ifrael be burying of them, that they may cleanfe the land." The deftruction of Gog, or of the enemies of Ifrael, here defcribed, is a great deftruction. It follows a formidable affault made upon the Jews, at fome period which fuc

ceeds their return to their own land. The oppofition which they endured from the Samaritans, and the few that were leagued with them, in the time of rebuilding their city under the Perfian monarchs, falls very far below the invafion here predicted. Some have fuppofed that this prophecy was fulfilled, in the perfecution and flaughter of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, which began about 170 years before Chrift, and in the defeat of the W

Syrians by the Maccabees a few | gathering, it follows, from the date of the invafion, that they are again to return to their own land.

years after. The fufferings of the Jews were indeed very great at that time, and their deliverance highly proclaimed the power and grace of Jehovah. But though this prophecy may include the invalion under Antiochus, and the defeat of the Syrians; it is to receive a full accomplishment. The Syrian army was not fo numerous as the army of Gog; nor was the overthrow of the former fo compleat as to answer to the defcription of the overthrow of the latter. Befides, the army of Gog is reprefented as coming against the mountains of Ifrael, which have been always wafle. Thefe words imply an invafion of the Jews in their own land, fubfequent to a period in which it had long been defolate. The period between the deftruction of Jerufalem and the Temple, in the reign of Zedekiah, and the return of the Jews under Cyrus, was but about fifty years. Since the Roman conqueft, more than 1700 years have clapfed. It is much more natural to apply the words always wafle to the defolation which has followed this, than to the one which followed the deftruction of the Jewish city and temple by the Babylonians.

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It is further to be obferved, that Gog is to come up against the land of Ifrael in the latter days.* phrafe the latter days, or the laft days, in the fcriptures, is, in almost every inftance, as has been before obferved, to be applied to the time of the New Teftament difpenfation in general, or to fome period of it. Since Gog is to come up against the Jews at a time which is fubfequent to their in

*Chapt. xxxviii. 16.

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ii. 17. I Tim. iv. I. 2 Tim. iii. I. Heb. i. 2, 2 Pet, iii, 3.

It also appears that the invafion of the Jews by the army of Gog, is the laft invafion which they are to endure, and that after the overthrow of this enemy, they are to remain in a ftate of uninterrupted profperity-chap. xxxix. ver. 21, 22. "And I will fet my glory among the Heathen, and all the Heathen fhall fee my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. So the house of Ifrael fhall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day and forward." By the deftruction of the army of Gog, the houfe of Ifrael are to know that Jehovah is their God. They are to know this from that day and forward; implying that the Jews are no more to be given up into the hands of their enemies, After the promise of their full ingathering, mentioned in verfe 28, already cited, the chapter closes with the gracious words, " Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my fpirit upon the house of Ifrael, faith the Lord God." The time in which the Lord will not hide his face from the houfe of Ifrael any more, is not yet come. They now feel the tokens of his wrath.

The army of Gog feems to be a part of the army, which is to be gathered to the battle of the great day of God Almighty,* which precedes the pouring out of the feventh vial; when the anti-chriftian powers are to be destroyed, and the latter day glory of the church is to commence.t mong the events of the highest im

*Rev. xvi. 14.

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Compare Ezekiel xxxix. 17, 18, with Rev. xix. 17, 18.

portance which are to usher in this, no more to be removed from it.day, are the return of the Jews to their own land, and the deAtruction of the army which fhall come up against them. In effecting thefe, the Lord "will magnify himself, and fanctify himself; and will be known in the eyes of many nations.”

That the Jews are again to in. habit the land of Palestine, may be argued from feveral other paffages in the Old Testament. I will mention but two more. The firft of these is recorded in Amos ix. 14, 15. "And I will bring again the captivity of my people ifrael, and they fhall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they fhall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they fhall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they fhall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them faith the Lord thy God." The other paffage is found in Zechariah xiv. 9, 10, 11. "And the Lord fhall be King over all the earth: in that day there fhall be one Lord, and his name All the land fhall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon fouth of Jerufalem and it fhall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate,

It is likewife obvious from the prediction of Zechariah, that in a period yet future, when Jehovah fhall be acknowledged as King by all the inhabitants of the earth, Jerufalem is to be inhabited by the Jews without being any more deftroyed, and that they are to dwell in it in fafety.

The reader is now requested to attend to the words of Jefus Chrift, in Luke xxi. 24. "And they fhall fall by the edge of the fword, and fhall be led away captive into all nations and Jerufalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." In this text there are four things predicted concerning the Jews; 1. That they fhall fall by the edge of the fword.-2. That they fhall be led away captive into all nations.-3. That Jerufalem fhall be trodden down of the Gentiles.-4. That the Jews and the land fhall continue in this state, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. The three first of these prophecies have been fulfilled, in the flaughter and captivity of the Jews by the Romans, and in the low and depreffed state of the land of Palestine; which, after paffing from one conqueror to another, is now under the dominion of the Turks. Thefe three prophecies the corner-gate, and from the tow- have been fulfilled literally. It is er of Hananeel unto the king's therefore natural to expect that the wine-preffes. And men fhall dwell fourth, or laft prophecy, will have in it, and there fhall be no more a literal accomplishment. The atter deftruction; but Jerufalem enquiry now is, how we are to infhall be fafely inhabited." It is terpret the laft claufe of the text fuppofed that it will be unneceffary under confideration, until the times to go into particular obfervations of the Gentiles be fulfilled. On on the texts laft quoted, after what this we may remark, 1. That has been remarked on thofe taken when the times of the Gentiles fhall from the prophecy of Ezekiel. It be fulfilled, the state of the Jews is plain from the words of Amos, will be reverfed, or be oppofite to that there is to be a return of the what it was whilft the times of the Jews to their land, when they areGentiles, continued. Hence it fol

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