lard has had a miscarriage since the second Sunday in Advent, and that it occurred four days previous to the illness, which is reported to have been another fit. We have therefore only one observation to make, which is this;-Popish miracles should be confined to Popish countries. They may succeed very well when performed in those countries, or, as St. John expresses it, when performed "in the sight of the Beast." But when they are sifted in Protestant England, and examined in the Court of Reason and Conscience,' they will not abide the scrutiny; they turn out a miscarriage."

Let Roman Catholics boast, if they please, of the miracles performed by their church! They “glory in their shame." A true miracle in support of pure doctrine is widely different from a Popish miracle in support of Popish doctrine. The former is the mark of a true church, but not a necessary appendage to it, for, christianity being established, there is no necessity for miracles. The latter is the mark, and the infallible mark, of Antichrist. We need no surer mark than this. Every Popish miracle in support of Popish doctrine is a fresh proof that the Pope is the "Man of sin, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders." Every such miracle is a fresh proof that "the Dragon has given" the Pope "his power." A multiplication of such miracles is a multiplication of fresh proofs. Every Popish miracle is performed by one or other of "the unclean spirits, like frogs," which St. John beheld; or by two of these "frogs," or by the three

'frogs" combined. For these " frogs" have the power of "working miracles;" and yet these miracles are not real miracles: they are only "lying wonders;" they will not bear investigation, having no other foundation than the mere ipse dixit of the person who is said to perform them. Thus the poor man, of whom we have spoken, who lived near the lake of Lucerne, was said to be possessed of 303 devils and was said to be cured miraculously. In like manner the Image of the Virgin in the church of Notre Dame at Brussels is said to have performed many miracles. The Pope has also given his sanction to them, and says they are real. Thus also the cure of Anne Fullard is said to have been a miracle. And the same remark may be extended to Popish miracles in general. The annual exhibition of the blood of St. Januarius at Naples is said to be a miracle. But we ask with the Poet Laureate, ' Would the Neapolitan priests exhibit this experiment in the presence of Sir Humphrey Davy, and permit him to examine the phial and its contents? They dare not submit their miracle to any such investigation. And yet this juggle is annually performed with the full knowledge of the highest ecclesiastical authorities, not with their sufferance only, but their sanction ... with the full approbation of the Infallible Church and its Infallible Head: and, knowing this, is it with a sigh, or a smile' that Romanists charge us with calumny, when we charge their church with carrying on a system of imposture and wickedness?' (Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, p. 98.)

The exhibition at Naples is evidently chemical; and yet we are told that the liquefaction is the blood of St. Januarius! What shameless impudence and effrontery is here! The miracle is all an imposture. It exists no where but in the mouth of the deceivers and the imagination of the deceived. Popish miracles are miracles of the mouth. "I saw three unclean spirits," says the Apostle, " like frogs, come out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the mouth of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the False Prophet; for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

We have now gone through the first six vials and have shown their fulfilment. The seventh vial remains to be poured out; and we believe the year of its out-pouring to be the year 1987. The Scriptures have declared that these vials should be poured out, and they have been poured out accordingly. It is therefore evident that the Scriptures "have power over waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will."

From what has preceded we conclude that the Scriptures are the Two Witnesses, which are to "prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." It appears that the hostility of the Papacy to the Word of God will increase more and more. The last act of the Papacy before its final downfall will be to destroy all copies of the Scriptures in Rome. "The Beast," as we have

seen, rose out of the sea." This emblematical "sea" has a two-fold meaning. It teaches us that the empire of the Papacy took its rise from the disorders and commotions of the world; and that the doctrine of the Papacy, like that of Mahomet, proceeds from the bottomless pit." In the seventeenth of Revelation we read, that "the Beast was and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition." And in the eleventh chapter we are told, that "when the two witnesses shall have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put into graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth."

Rome is here called Sodom and Egypt, on account of its wickedness and oppression of God's people, and also on account of its resemblance to those places in its final and awful destruction. Rome is also called "the great city, where our Lord was crucified." Christ may be said to be crucified again in every sacrifice of the Mass, because the sacrifice of the Mass is the same, according to the Romish Creed,

as the sacrifice on the Cross; and also because, according to Bellarmine, it is essential to the very idea of a sacrifice, that life be taken away! How many

millions of times has Christ been crucified in this sense by the Romish Church! And how fearfully has that Church departed from the true spirit of the Gospel, and in this sense " crucified the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame!" And what an awful doom awaits such a Church as this! The land" which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned." (Heb. vi. 6, 8.) During the reign of Popery, which lasts 1260 years, beginning A. D. 727, when the Pope was "the Eighth" Head of Rome, and ending, A. D. 1987, the Scriptures are to "prophesy, clothed in sackcloth." At the termination of this period they are to meet with a worse fate than they ever experienced before at the hands of the Papacy. They are not merely to be slighted, and despised, and had in disgrace, and called 'the black gospel,' &c. but they are to be destroyed. No copies, however mutilated, are to be preserved; they will be ordered to be thrown into the streets, and to lie there a spectacle to all that pass by. All libraries, all book-shelves, will be closed against them. They will not suffer their dead bodies to be put into graves: but they are to lie exposed to public contempt "three" prophetical days and a half," or three years and a "And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tor

half.