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CHAP. XV.-On the Prophetical Period of Twelve

Hundred and Sixty Years, concluded

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CHAP. XVI.-On the Fourteenth Chapter of the Apo

calypse

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CHAP. XVII.-The Vision of Seven Angels with the

Seven Vials of Wrath

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CHAP. XVIII.-The Effusion of the Vials

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CHAP. XIX.-Practical Observations on the present

State of the World, in connection with
Prophecy

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CONTENTS.

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The first four seals exhibit four hieroglyphics, which are distinct
but homogeneous
Most interpreters have lost sight of the homogeneity of these
seals

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This hieroglyphic, describes the triumphant progress of the
Gospel in the three first centuries.....

ib.

The rider on the white horse is by some supposed to be our Lord
himself, this opinion seems inaccurate

ib.

Reasons to show that the rider is an hieroglyphical character....

Archdeacon Woodhouse has pointed out the erroneousness of the
translation of Zuyos in our Bibles, which properly signifies a
yoke.....

ib.

The black colour of the horse in this seal is an emblem of dark-
ness and ignorance .....

ib.

The yoke denotes the imposition of a burthen of rites, cere-
monies and ordinances...

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The chanix of wheat, and denarius, or penny, explained...........
The prices of wheat and barley in this seal, indicate a spiritual
famine, a scarcity of the word of God
Wine and oil mean the influences of the Spirit given only to be-
lievers, who even during the famine of this seal, have an abun-
dant share of these influences

Recapitulation of the contents of this seal.....

It was accomplished in the rise and prevalence of the Papal
power
Characters of the period called the dark ages, referred to in this
seal.

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THE FOURTH SEAL.

A pale livid green horse-his rider is Death, followed by hell.... 12 Remarks on the colour of the horse, and on its emblematical signification, with which corresponds the character of his rider .. ib. Terrific import of the whole assemblage of figures

This seal represents the state of the church during the ages of papal persecution......

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Address of Innocent III. to Philip Augustus of France to extirpate heretics.-The Albigenses subdued or extirpated

ib.

Tribunal of the Inquisition erected-Its consequences

ib.

The persecutions of Rome were continued until the revocation of the edict of Nantz....

ib.

Detail of slaughters perpetrated in these persecutions

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Thus did the rulers of the visible church assume the character of
Death, accompanied by Hades

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THE FIFTH SEAL.

The language of this seal also is hieroglyphical

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The souls of the slain martyrs are seen under the altar crying for vengeance

ib.

This emblem is explanatory of the slaughter of the former seals, particularly the fourth, and confirms the application of that seal and all the prior ones to the history of the church........ ib. It also describes the aspect of the church immediately before the dawn of the Reformation-Brief view of that state............... White robes are given to the slain martyrs, and they are told to rest till their brethren to be killed as they were should be fulfilled

ib.

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This denotes the improved condition of the church, after the reformation

ib.

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The second part of this seal fills the interval between the reformation and the sixth seal and seventh trumpet

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CHAPTER II.

THE SIXTH SEAL.

In the hieroglyphical language the natural universe is used as a symbol of the political world

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The meaning of the symbolical sun and moon-the stars, the
heaven, mountains, and islands
The remaining language of the passage describes the conster-
nation of the princes of the world, at the approach of the day
of wrath

Three passages cited from Joel, St. Matthew, and St. Luke, de-
scriptive of the signs which precede the great day of the Lord
Correspondence of the language of the sixth seal with these
passages, and inference thence deduced that it relates to the
great revolution of the last ages

This seal is very incongruously referred by Mede, and others, to the events of the reign of Constantine

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Its hieroglyphics are of too august a nature, to be applied to these

events.....

ib.

In other respects these events do not correspond with the description of the earthquake

ib.

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Quotation from Vitringa in support of above reasoning
A circumstance mentioned in confirmation of the arguments of
Vitringa

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Further arguments to show that the sixth seal relates to the final revolution, which is to convulse the nations of Christendom before the second advent.

This revolution is predicted by Daniel, and the scene of it is to be sought for in those kingdoms which formed the western Roman empire

It is the same revolution with that mentioned in the seventh trumpet, and seventh vial ......

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The principle of this exposition is of very remote antiquityopinion of Victorinus, of Andrew, and Arethas

The further consideration of the first part of the sixth seal deferred, till we arrive at the seventh trumpet, and seven vials.. Reasons for thinking that the sixth seal commenced at the revolution of France......

ib.

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CHAPTER III.

THE SIXTH SEAL CONCLUDED.

The whole of the seventh chapter of Revelation relates to the period of the sixth seal

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The effects of the revolution of the sixth seal briefly recapitulated ib.

What is to become of the church of Christ during these desolations...

The visions seen in Rev. vii. contain an answer to this question The vision of four angels holding the four winds, and an angel with the seal of God..........

Symbolical import of the wind..

The place of this vision in the Apocalyptic chronology

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It indicates a term of peace before the end, for the purpose of sealing the servants of God.................

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This vision compared with one in Ezekiel, and the mystical number of 144,000 explained....

ib.

The four angels are emblems of the powers which shall restrain the calamities of the earthquake-Import of their hurting the earth......

Remarks on the sealing of the servants of God

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It is probable that we now witness the fulfilment of this vision in
the recent pacification of Europe, by a mighty confederacy
which now occupies France with its armies to preserve the
peace
This interval of tranquillity has been marked by exertions for the
circulation of the scriptures, on such a scale as to mark that
they belong to a period of the extraordinary operations of
the Almighty

When the allotted period of peace is past, the commission to hold
the winds shall cease, and the calamities of the earthquake shall
be renewed....

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The sealed shall be delivered from these judgments by the immediate hand of God .....

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The foregoing interpretation of the vision, supported by a quotation from Vitringa

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Vision of a countless multitude, clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands, who stand before the throne......
This denotes the translation of the church, from the tribulation
of the sixth seal into her millennial rest

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ib.

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ib.

The chronology of this vision is marked by the circumstance, that
the palm bearers worship in the temple, or holy of holies
This proved to be subsequent in time to the destruction of Anti-
christ
The passage therefore relates to the establishment of the king-
dom of our Lord, described in the seventh chapter of Daniel..
This manifestation of the kingdom of God, succeeds the de-
struction of the fourth monarchy-Its other Apocalyptical
marks

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ib.

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