Omar: OR, THE CAPTIVE'S ESCAPE; An Allegory. BY A CITIZEN OF OXFORD. "Fortis est Veritas." LONDON: C. GILPIN, 5, BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT. DUBLIN: JAMES B. GILPIN. 1852. 270.0.7. CONTENTS. THE attention of mankind may sometimes be gained bles. With such an example, the Author of this little work thinks no apology necessary for the style he has adopted, believing the plan well adapted both for young and old. His object has been to exhibit the truths of the Gospel,-the work of the Spirit, and the chief incidents that accompanied the great tragedy upon which the Gospel scheme is founded, with the precepts it enjoins, and the discipline under which God brings his children,—in an enigmatical manner, so as to fix the attention and impress the memory. The work is grounded upon He the Author's own experience and observation. trusts it will not only amuse, but edify, both young and old. They will find in it milk for children; nevertheless, a little strong meat for mature age. The different kinds of bondage herein described, it has been the Author's aim to show, are alike the work of Antichrist. The book itself has been written in the house of mourning, in the very midst of the furnace of affliction, the Author having at the same time to contend with trials and difficulties of a relative and domestic, as well as of a business kind, such as perhaps rarely fall to the lot of one man; but these things have only urged him to complete it, for had he been without these fiery trials, in all probability it would not have been published. Omar; OR, THE CAPTIVE'S ESCAPE. AN ALLEGORY. CHAPTER I. MENTAL BONDAGE, DELIVERANCE THEREFROM. "Proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound."-ISAIAH lxi. 1. THE parents of Omar were slaves in a strange land, which, for accommodation, we call Egypt, and he also was born there, and consequently imbibed many of the customs of the country. On arriving at an age when men begin to think for themselves, he, through some conversation held with a stranger, perceived that Lucifer, their Prince, was a tyrant, B |