LONDON:

Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

A DISSERTATION ON THE "ADVENT, KINGDOM, AND
DIVINITY OF THE MESSIAH."

"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing
city! Her princes within her are roaring lions, her judges are
evening wolves. Her prophets are light and treacherous, her
priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence
to the law."-ZEPHANIAH.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come
out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have
reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniqui-
ties! Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death,
and mourning, and famine. And she shall be utterly burned
with fire. For strong is the Lord God, who judgeth her!”-
REV. xviii.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

1827.

TO THE

RIGHT HON. ROBERT PEEL, M. P.

&c. &c. &c.

SIR,

Ir the liberty of an unauthorized Dedication may obtain pardon, I am acquainted with no personage to whom a writer might look with a fairer expectation of indulgence than to yourself. Urbanity and liberality are so generally ascribed to you, that I feel no apprehension lest my offering should be rejected; and your well-earned reputation,

at the same time, removes the fear lest my honesty should be compromised in expressing my admiration of your talents and character.

In common with multitudes of your fellow-countrymen, I earnestly look forward, with grateful anticipation, to your resumption of the arduous and important duties which you have so ably and so uprightly fulfilled, persuaded that the good of this empire is the sole aim of your honourable ambition. The purpose of the present publication is, I trust, so far in unison with this sacred object, and consequently, in harmony with your opinions, as to need no other apology than for the manner in which these sentiments have been conveyed,