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divides the city into three parts, is ment tioned, nothing is faid of the great change made from mifery to happiness, by the finish ing of the days of wrath, or the found of the feventh trumpet on the contrary, it is ex prefsly declared, “ Babylon came up in res membrance before God," as if after having been suffered to purfue her career for some time unmolested, he was now to become the particular object of punishment, and to res ceive the firft" cup of the wine of the fiercenefs of the wrath of God." This first earthe quake I therefore fuppofe to reprefent the time of the Reformation, and am inclined to place it as contemporary with the first effect of the fourth vial, poured out upon the fun, or ruling power, which was clearly the Pope, till his city was divided," and then the king of France, who had given him his power and fplendour, arofe as he declined; but the ftorm which followed it, I confider as continuing to beat upon "the men who have the mark of the beaft [or Babylon], and who worship his image," to the present hour! Many of the islands," or petty states in his peculiar territory are already loft, and the mountains of his ftrength are gone - The

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tion of a barbarous people", is now the plague of those men, who, having the mark of the beaft, by an extraordinary infatuation worship the image, which is the appointed agent of its deftruction (for this" hail falls from beaven"), and yet blafpheme the name of God, who hath power over thefe plagues." The Papal fun, though fuffering a very confiderable diminution of its own glory," had power given it to fcorch men with fire." Of this the hiftory of the Reformation will furnish abundant evidence. The crown of France, which had been a zealous agent in the bufinefs of maffacre and intolerance witness St. Bartholomew's day, and many other fcenes of blood-became the acknowledged Sun of the political sphere in the reign of Louis the fourteenth, when it reached the meridian of its glory. This fun did also "fcorch men with fire," as the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and the thoufand bar barities which mark this vaunted Auguftan reign, will amply teftify. But the dregs of the cup of retaliation were now to be poured out upon this devoted kingdom-its Regal

Thus are the French confidered in the Manifefto of the King of Naples.

See Fleming, p. 53.

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fun was blotted from the political heavens, and a more tremendous Meteor took poffeffion of the darkened fky. Then did the Second earthquake," in which the tenth part of the city," or one of the ten kingdoms “fell," convulse the earth. For I prefume the fecond earthquake to represent the Revolution in France, and at that period (that is, still un-' der the fourth vial). I date the commencement of the reign of the image, though I conceive the fifth vial is now poured out, and conjecture that the fixth is near P. The confequences of this earthquake will be more generally felt, and excite more general terror than the plagues of the firft, fo that at last the remnant will be affrighted, and give glory to the God of heaven, and thus they perhaps will find protection from the effects of the third woe, and the feventh vial, which I imagine will fall with peculiar violence “upon them which deftroy the earth," by the united powers of Infidelity and Democratic fyranny, or, in other words, the fecond Beaft, and the Image.

See note, p. 401,

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And now may I not afk, whether we have not ourfelves feen a Power gradually rise from its den, where it has long been ftrengthening itself, and from whence it has long fent forth the fumes of an intoxicating poifon to prepare the world for its appearance, which exactly resembles this fecond beaft? Have we not feen APOSTATE INFIDELITY, under the name of REASON, eftablifh its dominion over the minds of men by its pretenfions to a refined religion, a pure morality? Are not the doctrines of LIBERTY and EQUALITY, doctrines most perversely drawn from the religion of the Lamb, the HORNS of its fafcinating power? Does it not unite the fubtlety of the ferpent, with the fury of the dragon?-promife univerfal happiness, but lead to univerfal mifery? Has it not caufed them that dwell on the earth to make an IMAGE to (or like) the beaft which had the wound by a fword, and did live?" An IMAGE in the form of the antient Roman government, which has already obliged many of the nations to yield

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obedience to its new revived authority ercifeth all the civil and religious tyranny of the first beast, or the Papal power of Antichrift, by depriving all men of their civil and religious privileges, who will not re ceive the mark of union with its abominable principles who has made war with the faints," or fervants of God, and has " overcome many; and who now openly blaf phemes the God of heaven?

To what height of enormity to what extent of dominion the power of this tremendous image will be permitted to rise, must remain for futurity to discover .--But who

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The following obfervations upon the Treaty of Lunewille by a political writer in the Sun paper, Feb. 21, 1801, throws fome additional light upon a subject, which time alone can clearly elucidate. "The execution of this double. plan for aggrandizement on one fide of the Alps, and republicanizing on the other, is the main feature, which pre. sents itself in the Treaty of Luneville: it has been the object, and it is the effential principle of it. In this manner is the whole of antient Gaul, and almost all the Empire of the Weft, viz. the largest and best part of the Continent of Europe divided into five Republics, united under the yoke, more or less ftrict, of one Man, and having before their eyes, only fix Monarchies, either weak or hoftile to one another, or at leafb divided in interefts and inclinations. Such a refult from nine years warfare is undoubtedly. calculated