indignation was accomplished, and till that which was determined in the divine councils that he should accomplish against the Papacy and the Papal nations was done, experienced in the end the most dreadful reverses.

As he began his career by executing a most severe judgment upon the chief city of the Papal Apostasy, when as the Comet, or "horrible star" of the prophecy of Ezra*, which was to be" poured out over every high and eminent place," "he went stedfastly unto Babylon, "and made her afraid," and "poured out all

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his wrath upon her," bringing upon her the

many waters," or the overwhelming violence of the French revolutionary armies, (called in this prophecy of Daniel "the arms of a flood;") so also his second act was, by the invasion of Egypt, to inflict a severe judgment upon the sister Apostasy of the East, the Mahometan superstition; to the followers of which he made it his boast and recommendatory plea, that he had so lately destroyed her rival of the West; which judgment upon the Eastern Apostasy is thus denounced in its proper place, in this chronological prophecy of Ezra ; " and thou ASIA, "that art partaker of the hope of BABYLON, "and art the glory of her person, woe be unto "thee thou wretch; because thou hast made

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thyself like unto her, and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom-thou hast followed "her, that is hated in all her works and inventions, therefore saith God, I will send plagues upon thee, widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses "with destruction and death, and the glory of thy power shall be dried up as a flower, when "the heat shall arise that is sent over thee. Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with

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stripes, and as one chastised with wounds." The third act of Buonaparte, the infidel Antichrist, was, on his return to the territory of the western Roman Empire, as the scorching imperial Sun of the fourth Apocalyptic Vial, to afflict the nations, the followers of that false religion, so wonderfully and accurately described in the prophecy of Ezra, as "hated of God in "all its works and inventions." The period of this Vial was the longest of any, extending from the year 1802 to April 1814, including the whole period of his reign; in the course of which his troops entered the capital of every one of the Papal Continental nations; Britain who had "gotten the victory over the (Papal) "Beast, and over his mark, and over the num"ber of his name", and thus become "the first "fruits unto God and to the Lamb," being the only one that was not subjected to his power.

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This farther judgment upon the West is thus described, as following that inflicted upon the East, in the chronological prophecy of Ezra above referred to; "then shall they," (i. e. the French army under Buonaparte) “return” from Egypt, "unto Babylon that" formerly, by them as executioners of the judgment of the third Vial, was destroyed: and they" (i. e. the French armies under the consular and imperial rule of Buonaparte) "shall consume thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they “burn up with fire; thy children shall they carry away captive, and look what thou hast, they shall spoil it, and mar the beauty of thy "face."

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Neither can it be considered as an indifferent circumstance that the closing act of Buonapartes career, was the destruction of the chief seat of the superstition of the Greek church, the sacred city of Moscow. Here, as in the first destruetion of the Papacy, the image of the Virgin, the object of their idolatrous veneration and confidence was resorted to, and opposed to the desolating progress of the French arms, the ministers of divine vengeance; but as vainly as the image of St. Januarius is opposed to the torrent of burning lava; and their sacred city is destroyed by fire. The judgment upon the

Greek church, and upon Russia, was, however, productive of repentance, and she brought forth works meet for repentance, and is to be the great instrument in the last days of inflicting the final judgment of the seventh Vial upon the infidel Roman Empire, when the vengeance which came upon the north as "fire," shall be returned upon the nations of the south, in the form of a desolating hail.

The judgment upon the Papal city on the contrary has to this day been followed by no repentance, and we learn from the book of the Revelation, that it is to receive a far more signal judgment from Antichrist in his last form, as eighth head or sovereign of the Roman Empire, who shall previously have been of the seven; for in chap. xvii. where infidelity is shewn under its yet future and last head and in its most aggravated form, it is said "the ten "horns which thou sawest upon the beast these

shall hate the (Papal) whore, and shall make "her desolate, and naked, and shall eat her “flesh and burn her with fire; for God hath put " in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom to the beast (of infidelity, the eighth head)“ until the words of God" (or his judgments denounced against the Papacy) "shall be fulfilled; and the "woman which thou sawest, is that great city

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(Papal Rome or the spiritual Babylon), which reigneth over the kings of the earth."

And accordingly it has been found that infidelity on its first breaking out in France in the year 1792, and on every occasion, as when it again broke out, though with less virulence, in Spain, in the year 1820, has manifested a spiritual instinct, if we may so term it, to prey upon the Papacy, to eat her flesh, and utterly to consume her.

The office of Antichrist in his last form, as eighth head of the Beast, is thus so decidedly a continuance of the same office that was executed by Antichrist in his first form, as seventh head, and the two characters are so blended together, and united in one, by having jointly formed the seventh headship, that the prophecy here seems to be a counterpart to those types where the two birds, or the two goats, were taken together and presented before the Lord, and used figuratively to represent the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; for we find in Dan. xi. 21-45, the history apparently of a single individual, and again the single symbol of the last head of the Apocalyptic Beast, are used to describe the successive actions of two individuals, presented together in the first instance, not before the Lord, to take away the sin of the world, but presented together be