"No words can be '_more explicit_' than these of OUR BLESSED LORD: viz. 'THIS GOSPEL _of the Kingdom shall be preached in_ ALL the EARTH, _for a Witness to_ ALL NATIONS; AND THEN, _shall the_ END COME.' The '_next 18 years_' must therefore supply the interval of the '_special Episcopal forerunners_.'
"See the 'JEWISH INTELLIGENCER' of the present month (_April_), p. 153, for the '_Debates in Parliament_,' respecting { 352} the BISHOP OF JERUSALEM, _viz._ Dr. Bowring,[731] Mr. Hume,[732] Sir R. Inglis,[733] Sir R. Peel,[734] Viscount Palmerston.[735]"
I have quoted this at length, to show the awful threats which were published at a time of some little excitement about the phenomenon, under the name of the _London Society_. The assumption of a corporate appearance is a very unfair trick: and there are junctures at which harm might be done by it.
_Wealth_ the name and number of the Beast, 666, in the Book of Revelation. [by John Taylor.[736]] London, 1844, 8vo.
Whether Junius or the Beast be the more difficult to identify, must be referred to Mr. Taylor, the only person who has attempted both. His cogent argument on the political secret is not unworthily matched in his treatment of the theological riddle. He sees the solution in [Greek: euporia], which occurs in the Acts of the Apostles as the word for wealth in one of its most disgusting forms, and makes 666 in the most straightforward way. This explanation has as good a chance as any other. The work contains a general { 353} attempt at explanation of the Apocalypse, and some history of opinion on the subject. It has not the prolixity which is so common a fault of apocalyptic commentators.
A practical Treatise on Eclipses ... with remarks on the anomalies of the present Theory of the Tides. By T. Kerigan,[737] F.R.S. 1844, 8vo.
Containing also a refutation of the theory of the tides, and afterwards increased by a supplement, "Additional facts and arguments against the theory of the tides," in answer to a short notice in the _Athenæum_ journal. Mr. Kerigan was a lieutenant in the Navy: he obtained admission to the Royal Society just before the publication of his book.
A new theory of Gravitation. By Joseph Denison,[738] Esq. London, 1844, 12mo.