This is but a faint view of its value; yet how many perishing souls treat it with neglect, or, what is equally as bad, treat it as a hidden mystery which cannot be known. Oh, my dear reader, make it your chief study. Try it well, and you will find it to be all I have said. Yes, like the Queen of Sheba, you will say the half was not told you.

The divinity taught in our schools is always founded on some sectarian creed. It may do to take a blank mind and impress it with this kind, but it will always end in bigotry. A free mind will never be satisfied with the views of others. Were I a teacher of youth in divinity, I would first learn their capacity and mind. If these were good, I would make them study the Bible for themselves, and send them out free to do the world good. But if they had no mind, I would stamp them with another's mind, write bigot on their forehead, and send them out as slaves

EXPLANATION OF

PROPHETIC FIGURES.

ADULTERY. Idolatry. Jer. iii. 9. Eze. xxiii. 37. AIR. Spirit of piety-false theories. Eph. ii. 2. ALTAR. Christ. Ps. xliii. 4. Heb. xiii. 10.

AMON. A people, or son of my people.

ANCIENT OF DAYS. God. Dan. vii. 9.

ANGEL. Christ, or messenger of God. Ex. xxiii. 20. Rev. i. 1. xx. 1.

ARK. Christ. Ps. cxxxii. 8.

Num. x. 33.

ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN. Dignity and honor. John vi. 62. Isa. xiv. 13, 14. Rev. xi. 12.

ASLEEP. Death. Acts vii. 60. 2 Pet. iii. 4. 1 Cor. xv. 18.

AWAKE. Resurrection. Job xiv. 12. Ps. xvii. 15.
John xi. 11. Dan. xii. 2.

BABYLON. Confusion, mixture, worldly.
BALAAM. Their destruction without the prophet.
BALANCE. Justice. Daniel v. 27. Worldly mind.
Rev. vi. 5.

BANNER. Gospel ensign, love. Cant. ii. 4.

BEASTS. Kingdoms, or powers. Dan. vii. 3, 17. Rev. iv. 6-8.

v. 8, 9.

BEHELD OF BEHOLDING. Joy, or grief, according to the circumstances. Ps. cxix. 158. Rev. xi. 12. BED. A place of confinement. Rev. ii. 22. Isa. xxviii. 20.

BELLY. Practical part. Rom. xvi. 18. Job xv. 35.
Rev. x. 9, 10. Luke xv. 16. John vii. 38.
BIND. To judge and condemn. Matt. xiii. 30. xxii.

13.

BIRD or FOWL. Warriors and conquerors. Isa. xlvi. 11. Jer. xii. 9. Rev. xviii. 2.

BIRTH. Deliverance from heavy judgments. Isa. xxxvii. 3-20. lxvi. 9.

BLACK. Error, cruelty, death. Jer. iv. 28. Rev. vi. 5-12.

BLASPHEMY. Idolatry. Isa. lxv. 7. Eze. xx. 24-27. BLESS or BLESSED, Saved from sin and from death.

Ps. xxviii. 9. xxxvii. 22. Isa. lxi. 9. Rev. xiv. 13. BLIND. Those who are wilfully ignorant and prejudiced. Isa. lvi. 10-12. xlii. 18-20. Matt. xxiii. 16. xv. 14. 2 Cor. iv. 4. 1 John ii. 11. BLIND. Self-righteousness. Matt. xv. 14. xxiii. 16 to 26.

BLOOD. Death, war and slaughter. Matt. xxvii. 24. Isa. xv. 9. xxxiv. 3. Rev. vi. 10. viii. 8. xi. 6. xiv. 20.

BLOWING OF THE WIND. The Holy Spirit doing its office in regeneration. Cant. iv. 16. John iii. 8. Rev. vii. 1.

Book. God's designs, knowledge and counsel. Ps. cxxxix. 16. Is. xxxiv. 16. Reading, is to make his designs known. To Seal, is to shut up, or make sure.

BOW AND ARROws. Victory over enemies. Isa. xli. 2. Rev. vi. 2.

BRASS, is used for impudence and sin, warlike. Isa. xlviii. 4. Jer. vi. 28. Mic. iv. 13.

BRANCH. A descendant, or offspring. Isa. xi. 1. Jer. xxiii. 5. Dan. xi. 7.

BREAD. Doctrine of life. Amos viii. 11. Matt. iv. 4. BREAST-PLATE. Defence, or armor.

Rev. ix. 9.

BREASTS. Consolation, word of God.

Isa. lix. 17.

Isa. lxvi. 11.

BRIDLE. The restraining power of God. Isa. xxx.

28.

BRIMSTONE. Curse of God. Isa. xxx. 33. xi. 4. BURNING WITH FIRE, is to destroy, or change their state completely. Mal. iv. 1-3. 2 Pet. iii. 10, 11. Rev. xx. 9.

BUY, or BUYING, is used as an act of giving or receiving religious instruction. Isa. lv. 1. Rev. iii. 18. xiii. 17.

CANDLE, is light. Jer. xxv. 10. Matt. v. 15. Luke xi. 36. xv. 8.

CANDLESTICKS. The means of light; as the kingdom of Christ, the two witnesses, and seven churches, are called candlesticks. Dan. v. 5. Zech. iv. 2, 11. Rev. ii. 5. xi. 4.

CARMEL. The vineyard of God. Mich. vii. 14.
CHAIN, signifies the laws of God; or man, in pro-
phecy. Ps. cxlix. 8. Acts xxviii. 20. Jude 6.
CHITTEM. Those that bruise. Dan. xi. 30.

CITY OF GOD. New Jerusalem. Heb. xii. 22. Rev. iii. 12.

CITY OF NATIONS. Antichrist, or Babylon. Rev. xvi. 19. xvii. 18.

The streets of the great city are the ten kings" Rev. xi. 3, 13.

CLOUD, or TO RIDE ON A CLOUD, is an emblem of power and great glory. Matt. xxiv. 30. Sometimes it means heavy judgments, as in Joel ii. 2. Zeph. i. 15.

CROWN. Dignity and honor. Prov. xvi. 31. Isa. xxviii. 1-5. lxii. 3.

CRY or CRIED. To be sensible of want. Prayers and petitions for relief; or forerunner of war. 2 Kings iv. 40. Ps. xxx. 2-8. Rev. xiv. 18.

DARKNESS. Ignorance, unbelief, and every evil work, confusion and horror. Prov. iv. 19. Isa. lx. 2. Eph. v. 11.

DAY, is one year-revolution of the earth in its orbit. Num. xiv. 34. Eze. iv. 5, 6. Dan. ix. 24. DAY OF THE LORD. Judgment day, or 1000 years. 1

Thes. v. 2. 2 Pet. iii. 8-10. Rev. xx. 4-7. DEATH. Separation from body, from holiness, from God; inactive, separate from former state. This is the proper sense.

DESERT, or WILDERNESS. Paganism, or away from the force of the laws of the Romish Church. Isa. xl. 3. Eze. xlvii. 8. Rev. xii. 6.

DEVIL. Roman government; pagan and papal, when used as a symbol. Rev. ii. 10. xii. 9. xx. 2. DEW AND RAIN, signify the pouring out of the Spirit

and heavenly blessing. Ps. cxxxiii. 3. Prov. xix. 12. Hosea xiv. 5.

DOGS. Wicked men and teachers. Isa. lvi. 10. Rev. xxii. 15. Phil. iii. 2. Ps. lix. 6-14. DRAGON. Rome pagan. Rev. xvii. 8. Afterwards papal. Persecuting governments.

DRUNKENNESS. Intoxicated with worldly riches, pleasures and honors. Isa. xxix. 9. Matt. xxiv. 49. Luke xxi. 34.

EAGLE, denotes a people hid, or out of sight. Rev. xii. 14. iv. 7. Matt. xxiv. 28.

EARTH. The Roman kingdom. Rev. xiii. 12, and xix. 2.

EARTHQUAKE. Revolutions. Hag. ii. 21, 22. Rev. vi. 12. xvi. 18.

EAT. To consume or destroy. Rev. xvii. 16. James v. 3. Rev. xix. 18.

ELDERS, TWENTY-FOUR, denote the whole priesthood, taken from twenty-four courses. 1 Chron. xxiv. FIRE, is used to denote destruction, and justice of God. Ps. lxviii. 2. Heb. xii. 29. Word of God. Jer. v. 14.

FLESH. Riches and honors of the world. 2 Pet. ii. 10-18. 1 John ii. 15, 16. Rev. xix. 18.

FLOOD. Great numbers. Isa. lix. 19. Dan. ix. 26. Rev. xii. 15, 16.

FOREHEAD. Public profession, or character. Jer. iii. 3. Eze. ix. 4. Rev. vii. 3. xiii. 16.

FROGS. The symbolic meaning of frogs (say some) is flatterers or impostors. See Rev. xvi. 13. GARMENTS, denote the character, as white denotes

purity or righteousness; rags, filthy; sackcloth, mourning. Dan. vii. 9. Zec. iii. 3, 4. Rev. xvi.15. GOD, when used as a symbol, denotes a prince, ruler, or magistrate. 1 Cor. viii. 5. Gal. iv. 8. GRAVE. To hide in secret; put out of memory. Job

xiv. 13.

GRASS, means people, as green the righteous, dry or stubble the wicked. Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8. 1 Pet. i. 24. Rev. viii. 7. ix. 4.

HAIL, denotes wars, slaughter and desolation, by