214 PROPHECIES fulfilled concerning the Jews. heavens open, and a flow of glory iffue out, which ftruck me to the ground; when a hand feemed to ra.fe me, and a vce the fame time bid me be strengtheni, and carefully remark the fcene beforehe. couraged by the voice, I fet myfeif to obir.ve the pro'peft. My fight was now fupernaturally A ftrengthened, and i beheld the glory with great attention and pleasure; when in the miot of it I difcovered a cœleftial being, who, with deep concern in his countenance, looked down or our inle, which, with a voice that discovered great compaffion, he thus addressed. "Oh C Bn, more favoured than the nations, once the delight of thy guardian angels B and care of heaven, how nas profperity funk thee! Thou, who once waft fan.ed for thy love of publick virtue, and true regard for region an 4 liberty, fober, laborious, frugal, ouecient to thy laws, juft to thy word, and kind and friendly to the foul oppreft, how haft theu funk thy felf into the depth of flavery, flavery of body and mind to luxury and fenfual delights! How has the deftroying liquor, the fiery draught of hell, been encouraged among you, while publick perjury has been abetted by high and low! Yet pitying heaven had not quite deferted you. One good thing was yet found in you, pity to the afflicted, love to men, and compaffion for the diftreffed of every name and nation, and D even to thofe of a long diftreft and scattered people; fcattered for their faults, for many ages, thro' the habitable world, given up to the reproach and fcern of all the various nations. What has been that people's treatment hiftory informs you; how they ought to be treated, revelation is your best guide; how the predictions of the prophets have been fulfilled on their perfecutors, let the nations that have troubled them declare. Then think, Oh B-n! think what heaven expects from you, and beware, left by an ill judged zeal you draw the worft of ruins on you." The heavenly power withdrew, and with him difappeared the flow of light. A new fcene was now exhibited. In the fame place appeared a fpacious continent, divided into feveral parts, each of which feemed once to have been greatly peopled, andfull of magnificent buildings, which were now only known by their ruins. On one was written Moab, on another Edom, on another Ammon: But there were, among many others, two, which appear E F May each kingdom. in drefs and afpect like an aged matron borne down with grief and years, fat in the most obfcure and defolate part of her dominions, of whom, fome feemed much fuperior to others. Several of the inferior powers rofe up at once, eager to speak; when the genius of Tyre arofe, awful in affliction: With a folema air fhe came forward, then waved her hand, and to the lefier powers the cried, "Retire and leave to me and Babylon, the recital of our woes." Then, with flowing eyes fixt on the Br-fh ifle, the thus began, "Know, B-n, what i was, and what I am : I was the joyous city whofe antiquity was of ancient days; † my merchants were princes, and my traders the honourable of the earth. I governed the ocean, and my fhips were the glory of the feas, and the kings of the nations were enriched by my merchandize. I was lifted up: I faid, I am a god, and am perfect in beauty and wifdom. In the pride of my heart, I infulted Jerufalem in her afflictions. When God for her iniquities had delivered her into the hands of Chaldea, I triumphed I cried, Ah, ah! fhe is broken, and I fhall be replenished now the is laid wafte. Hear, O Bn! the word of the Lord, and be instructed. Therefore, O Tyre ! fhall nations come up against thee; thy walls fhall be deftroyed, and thy towers broke down; thou shalt be made bare as the top of a rock, a place only for the fpreading of nets; nor fhalt thou be built again. How fulfilled, let every spectator fay! Righteous art thou, O Lord, and juft are thy judgments! Take warning, B-n! behold my fall, and shun my fate." She could no more, but funk oppreft with never ceafing woe. No fooner was the power of Tyre withdrawn, but that of Babylon advanced. Slow the came on, ker mein exprest a dignity, and a diftinguished grandeur waited on her fteps. Majeftick, tho' in ruin, the caft her eyes around, with indignation fired; when thus the spoke : "Over-ruled by fuperior force, I here ap pear to tell to Bn my fad doom; doom irrecoverable! and whence the caufe. Hear, or not hear, as you shall chufe. Know then, I ftood the first among the nations, earth's powers trembled at my name, and laid their riches at my feet for tribute; I was called the lady of the kingdoms, and my rule extended over all. I was elated with pride; ed to have been much more fuperb than G I faid in my heart, I will afcend into hear the reft, on whom in larger characters were wrote, on the one Tyre, on the other Babylon. The guardian genius of ven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will be like the Moft High. The * Exck. XXV. + Ezek. xxvi. Ija. xxiii. 7, 8. Ezek. xxviii. 2. 1. Ezek. xxvi, $ Ifa. xiv. 1754. PROPHECIES to be fulfilled concerning them. The Lord of heaven and earth was wroth with his chofen people. • He polluted 215 be kindly treated by the nations among ever. You ftand by faith; be not high minded, but fear; nor die infult the fons of the friend of God. He viats their iniquities, he has chaftifed them for ages, a great example of his righteous difpleasure; and an affecting inftance to teach you to divest your breasts of pride and infolence, and to poffefs you: fouls with love and meeknefs, left with contempt he caft you off for ever. Know farther, to warm your minds with heavenly pity, and make them glow with tenderness to the unhappy race; know, I fay, that your tranquillity fhall not be compleat, till the Deliverer fhall come out of Zion, and turn away ungodlinefs from Jacob. Then fhall thefe wandring caft offs be reftored to favour, and in their converfion all the nations shall know the Lord. O heavenly difpenfation! fupremely wife and good, that makes the prefervation of a faulty race, to be the means of inDriching the whole world. Have mercy then upon them, ye Chriftians among the Gentiles, receive them with tenderness, and foften their diftrefs by friendly actions; whereby you will call down bieffings from above; the heavens will fmile on you, and peace and profperity fhall crown your land. O hear before it be too late." Struck with horror, I turned my eyes to the ground; but recovering myself, I raised them again to the fame place; but the whole profpect was vanished, and where the former fcene had appeared, there broke forth a mild and lambent flame, whofe gentle rays restored my peace, and diffipated all the gloom that had poffeft my breaft. A radiant perfon appeared in the midst of the glory, whom I had not feen before; ardent love and E friendly zeal fhone in his face, and a fervent defire to make mankind happy feemed to influence all his actions: He fixed his eyes on the Br-th ifle, and with a figh, which breathed compaffion, he thus began. "Hear me, thou favoured land, more bleft than the nations round thee: Let the Apoftle of the Gentiles awake thee to love of truth, and durable fe. licity. Oh fuffer not a falfe and fiery zeal for what you call Chriftianity to make you offend against the Christian laws, where love, and goodness, and fweet compaffion reign. The Jews are fcattered for their crimes; the fons of Judah have rejected their Meffiah; they have loft their ftation, are driven from G their land, and are difperfed amid the nations. God hath taken their punishmentinto his own hands, he invifibly leads them in the hour of their diftrefs, till the time of refreshment fhall come. In the mean time heaven expects that they should * Ifa. xlvii. + Zech. ii. 7, 8. Ija. li. 22, 23. Ifa. xiii. 19 to the end. Fer. li, throughout. Rom, xi. 11, to the end, F He ceafed, when o'er his head fuperior glory flowed, the heavens were all illuminated, and awe, love, fear, and reverence filled the foul; all nature seemed enobled; when thus a mild but piercing voice was heard. "My friends muft have their breafts poffeffed with love; far from their hearts be anger or revenge; what farther punishment awaits on Judah belongs to heaven, not you. Your part is affectionately to restore a brother loft; and know my eye is on the treatment Abraham's race hall find. For them I wept, when they, by rejecting me, had ruined themselves. For them I pray'd when thro' their guilt, I hung expiring on the crofs; nor thall those tears or prayers be loft. The day draws near, when gathered from the nations they once again thall fee their land, when they, from Zion, fhall with humble hearts receive my law; whom, cleanfed from all pollution, I will cwn, and as 1 Fer. 1. 6 to 20. Ifa. xiv. 23. Jer. xxv. 12. 216 Efficacy of LIME-WATER in the STONE. my bride receive * while in her blifs, the Gentile world fhall find their joy compleat, and be received as welcome guests at the great marriage of the lamb. Therefore in her abafement pity fhew, as you expect the favour of your Lord." O'erpowered with glory all my powers fail'd, I feemed to fink beneath the mighty weight, when struggling with the load, I awaked. A To confirm auhat we have before mentioned of Cure for the Stone, &c. By WIL- A NGUS McPherson, aged above 40, came to the Royal Infirmary about the beginning of February, 1753; and, becaufe he feemed to have a tone in his bladder, I immediately admitted him into my ward, as one of my clinical patients. He had been in great diftrefs for above 4 years; and commonly paffed bloody urine, especially after exercife: So that he was now greatly emaciated by pain, fickness, and lots of blood. He had made his journey from the Highlands to town in great agony; and, upon his arrival, complained of exquifite pain about the neck of his bladder, had a frequent defire to make water, and what he paffed was deeply tinged with blood. I did not therefore think it adviseable to found him at this time, becaufe of the inflammation and conftriction of the parts; but prefcribed the arabic emulfion, clyiters, a dofe of manna, &c. whereby, in fome days, thefe fymptoms were fo much aba- E ted, that he could now bear the founding with a catheter, by which a stone was diftinctly felt; and it seemed to be a large one. D But, tho' lithotomy had often been practited with fuccefs in the infirmary, and tho' the patient himself seemed willing to undergo that operation, yet I would not allow him to be cut, chufing rather to F make a fair trial of the power of lithontripticks. And, because remedies of this kind, when taken by the mouth, and mixed with the mafs of blood, and afterwards with the urine, muft neceffarily lofe a great part of their efficacy before they can reach the bladder, I had, for fome time, G willed for fuch an opportunity of trying, if a flone may not be more speedily and fuccefsfully diffolved by injecting the folvent liquor immediately into the bladder. I was the more encouraged to push this experiment, as Mr. Butter, clerk of the • Rev. xix. 7, 8, 9. May Royal Infirmary, had very ingeniously invented a machine, by which almost any one can easily throw a liquor into his own bladder; and with lefs trouble than it can be done by the hand of another person. 1 therefore ordered the patient, by the help of that inftrument, and according to Mr. Butter's directions, to inject four or five ounces of lime-water, every morning and evening, into his bladder; while, at the fame time, I prescribed the internal ufe of foap and lime-water. For the first four or five weeks that he followed this method, little alteration could be obferved upon his urine; but afterwards, when the quantity of the injected liquor was increased, and when he could retain it longer, both his urine and the lime-water when rendered, began to drop a copious chalky fediment, which plainly showed that the tone was now in a state of diffolution. His fymptoms, which, from the first, had been continually, tho' flowly, decreafing, abated more fenfibly upon this phænomenon. And, after he had been pretty easy for fome weeks, he was again founded about the middle of April; when, upon careful fearching, it was imagined, that the nucleus of the ftone could fometimes be felt by flight touches upon the catheter, And the patient faid, he was fure that what remained of it was a very small He bit; because he fometimes had a feeling as if it was entering the urethra. continued the fame courfe a fortnight longer; when the founding was repeated, and no relique of a ftone could be felt; and, as he had no complaint, except, very feldom, a little pain and ftoppage in making water, he grew impatient to return home. I therefore difmiffed him, with orders to continue the fame courfe till thofe fymptoms should entirely cease. As most of our Readers may bave heard of that furprising Fish, fo much celebrated by the Antients, called the TORPEDO or CRAMPFISH, we shall give them the following authentick Account of it, from the fecond Volume of Dr. Templeman's curious Remarks, &c. lately published. See the |