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Judgment delayed until the servants of God are sealed,
or deprived of influence. - Palm-bearing multitude, &c.
-The corrupt church.
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CHAPTER VIII.
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Silence or portentous calm previous to the Northern ir-
ruptions. The Angel-priest, or Roman bishop. — The
censor with strange fire. The tempest, or judgment. —
Sketch of the Roman bishopric. — Its date prior to the
Northern irruptions. Confirmatory extracts from
Surplus popu-
Soame's Mosheim.
- Recapitulation.
lation of the North.
The prevailing opinions of ex-
positors on the seven trumpets.
First trumpet. · Parallels in fulfilled prophecies.
Alaric and others. Third part refers to the final di-
visions of the sixth head.
creases.
ing influence of the Roman bishop. - Superstition in-
Opposed by Vigilantius without success.
The Roman bishop courted by all. Uncertain date of
his rise. His reign over the Western empire distinct
from and prior to that over the Gothic kingdoms. —
The general prevalence of the apostasy occasioned the
fall of the empire.- Popery in England at least till
1857.-The Goths inflicted great evils. — Adopted the
apostasy. Established at length civil and religious
liberty, which will subserve God's purposes; but the
Saracens and Turks imposed an error and a perpetual
subjection.
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Fifth trumpet.
CHAPTER IX.
Mahomet. - Parallels.
phet. - Made slow progress.
Pretended divine au-
thority to employ force. — His followers rapidly subdue
a third of the Roman empire. - Made proselytes. -
Islamism a spiritual death or woe. Treatment of the
conquered. Aggressive for 150 years. - Character and
force. Caliph a king and priest.—150 years of de-
cline. The Eastern Church not corrected. This woe
ceased when the caliphat was supplanted by a sultany.
Sixth trumpet. - Eastern empire destroyed through
the corruption of its four patriarchies. - Euphrates, not
literal, but metaphorical. — The Turks long restrained
by the Tartars, &c. Othman commenced a career
which at length overturned the empire. - Turkish
cavalry.
- Pro-
The terror of Europe. - Fire-arms.
selytes. Europe takes no warning. In the mean time
civilisation and liberty grow in Europe. -Promoted by
union under one ecclesiastical head. Literature pre-
served in monasteries. - Vital religion by the Divine
Spirit. The two witnesses not always traceable. —
Persecuted by Popery.
CHAPTER X.
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The Angel, or the Reformation.-Explained the Bible.-
A great movement. Its difficulties. Opposed by
Rome.- Protected by the civil power.-
Seventh trum-
pet the great solution of Divine Providence. . The
Bible translated. Generally read. Missionary efforts
made.
Measuring rod or confessions of faith.— Rome condemned
all who differed from its creed. Reformers appealed
to the Bible alone. Allowed that the fathers held
essential truth, but could not decide in a controversy.-
Measurement of the true Church.-Reformation revived
the distinction between the true and false, &c.-Unction
of the Spirit. - Rome depends on works, the reformers
on faith.. - Standard of the Romish faith. Contradic-
tory. Its practice opposed to the truth, and determines
its character. Whether a true church or not. The
reformers did not found the true Church. - Its previous
existence implied. Two witnesses parts of the Reform-
ation. - Within the boundaries of the Roman empire.
Not the Waldenses or Paulicians.-Perhaps England
and Switzerland. Their ministry relies on argument
and persuasion. Not yet slain. The street not Jeru-
salem, but the Western empire. The Jesuits revived
the papacy, which is now sanguine. - End of the
Turkish religion and power. - Parallel between the
sixth seal and sixth trumpet.
Seventh trumpet. -
Yet future. Will explain the
divine proceedings.—Reveal the true Priest-king, Jesus
Christ. Conversion of the world. Final struggle. 199
CHAPTER XII.
Repetition of the prophecy. A feature of prophetic
writing. Symbols always obscure. The Roman
apostasy very great. The Gospel gives birth to infant
corruptions; which paganism, under Galerius, at-
tempts to destroy; but is defeated by Constantine the
Great. - Corruptions grow into favour. - The rod of
iron wielded by the apostasy. · The journey of the
woman contemporaneous with the man-child. - Her
nourishment or affliction. - Michael, or outward Chris.
tianity, contends with paganism. Victories of the saints
and martyrs, not of Christ or of the emperors, celebrated.
- Man of Sin expected, not perceived. - Metamorphosis
of visible Christianity into the spirit of the dragon.—
Growth of corruptions, or the flight of the woman, aided
by the division of the empire.. The people favourable
to true religion
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CHAPTER XIII.
Recapitulation of the 1260 years. .The dragon trans-
formed into a beast with ten horns. By its death in
the first, and recovery of life in the second form. — Both
changes contemporaneous. The civil and ecclesiastical
power venerated, and at times worshipped. — Pretensions
of Rome. - Persecutor of the Church for a season. —
The two-horned beast, the pope and his priests.
Ostentatious miracles. - Pretensions. - Partial success.
- Persecuting spirit. - Number of its name.
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CHAPTERS XV. XVI.
Future events. The vials not yet poured out, though the
principles they denote already exist. Rome wasting
Infidelity, despotism, and anarchy. The
away.
Christian and optimist. Approaching
experiment.
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CHAPTER XVII.
The desolate false church.
- Universal opinion of it.
Daniel, ii. Four successive empires – God's kingdom
will destroy the image under the last.
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Daniel, vii. Four beasts, or successive empires. - The
ten horns of the latter consumed by God's kingdom.
Rev. xii. The dragon compared with the fourth
kingdom and beast of Daniel.
Rev. xiii. This beast has something common with the
four kingdoms and beasts.
Rev. xvii. Scene reverts to the time of St. John.-
Civil and ecclesiastical power of the pope. The Cæsars'
empire then existed. -The popes' governments had a
disgraceful origin.- Sealing, &c. of the people of God.
- Hills and kings. - 1260 years a short time. - Eighth
power. - Its destruction entire. - And the ten king-
doms. - Death of the two witnesses passed over. -
-The
.Apparent contradiction.
Object of the work.
greatest error. - Its inconsistencies.
- Private judgment
allowed by prophets and apostles. According to popery
wicked men have authority over men's faith and practice.
- Under the law both people and priests needed divine