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of the Defert.- A venerable train of bishops, prefbyters, and deacons, with

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a faithful crowd of four thousand and

ninety-fix perfons, whofe guilt is not precisely afcertained, were torn from "their native homes by the command "of Hunneric. During the night they were confined like a herd of cattle, amidst their own ordure: during the day they pursued their "march over the burning fands; and if they fainted under the heat and fatigue,

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they were goaded, or dragged along, "till they expired in the hands of their tormentors.”—and, "refpectable citizens, noble matrons, and confecrated virgins, were ftripped naked, and "raised in the air by pullies, with a weight fufpended at their feet. In this painful attitude, their naked bodies were torn with fcourges, or burnt in the most tender parts with D 2 "red-hot

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"red-hot plates of iron: the ampu"tation of the ears, the nose, the "tongue, and the right hand, was inflic"ted by the Arians; and though the precife number cannot be defined, it is evident, that many perfons, among "whom a bishop, and a proconful may be named were intitled to the crown of martyrdom" (Ch. 37)

How defcriptive of and how appropriate to fufferers like thefe, is the ac count given to the evangelift of those feen in the vifion. (ch. 7. v. 14.) "Thefe "are they which came out of great tri"bulation, and have washed their robes

and made them white in the blood of

"the lamb. Therefore are they before "the throne of God, and ferve him "day and night in his temple and he "that fitteth on the throne fhall dwell

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more; neither thirst any more; neither * fhall the fun light on them, nor any For the lamb which is in the

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midft of the throne fhall feed them "and shall lead them unto living foun"tains of waters: and God fhall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

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STILL it is a melancholy reflection tho it is not to be paffed over in filence, (becaufe every individual may fatisfy himfelf of the truth of the reprefentation,. and ought thence to draw a powerful Ieffon of perfonal caution,) That this multitude great as it is reprefented, is ftill in comparison with the bulk of the human race, fo fmall, that both the prophet and the apoftle speak of it as very felect; a truth which will be fill more ftrongly marked by the progrefs of this reveiw. Now the former having. declared.

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declared, that the vifion was not yet complete, procceds to sketch out the conduct of the governing power of that portion of the world of which he was fpeaking, the fucceffors in that mon, archy by which Jerufalem was laid wafte." And the king (fays the text,). "fhall do according to his will, and he fhall exa't himfelf, and magnify him"feif above every God, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of "Gods, and fhall profper till the indig

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nation be accomplished: for that that "is determined fhall be done. Neither "fhall he regard the God of his fathers,

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nor the defire of women, nor regard

any God: for he fhall magnify him"felf above all. But in his eftate fhall "he honour the God of forces," (or per haps more accurately with the original.. "But instead of God, protectors over his

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"poffeffion fhall he honour.")* and a "God whom his fathers knew not shall he shonour with gold filver and with pres

cious ftones and with pleafant things." "Thus, fhall he do in the most frong. "holds, (or rather and over his ftrong "holdst he fhall appoint protectors.) with a ftrange god whom he fhall acknow

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ledge and encreafe with glory; and fhall divide the land for gain. And "at the time of the end fhall the king

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king of the north fhall come against "him like a whirlwind, with chariots

For the exact completion of this part of the prophetick Hiftory of the Man of Sin, the reader may confult the learned Bp. Newton, on the place.

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+ How accurately the patron-faints of the Ro man church correfpond with this prediction, a little reflection will fhew the reader,

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