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      the Christian Roman empire for twelve hundred and sixty years are intended , under the divine government , to establish the doctrines of Christianity , by subduing the nations to a political obedience to the Son of God . Ver . 7 . Towards the close of the

      twelve hundred and sixty days of their testimony in mourning , they shall be made silent as death ; ver . 8 , and lay unburied , open and neglected in one of the great streets of the Roman city or empire ; vers . Q , 10 , and the silencing of the principles they tea £ h concerning

      all men being equal , as the children of God , shall be i ver . 10 ) rejoiced over ; ver . 11 , but to the astonishment of their enemies , those principles shall , as in a moment , spring into life ; ver . 12 , and be called up to the throne of

      power : and that the church of God may know the twelve hundred and sixty day sure accomplished , there shall be in that very hour , ( ver . 13 ) a great political earthquake , in which shall perish a totality of the names , titles and distinctions of men in one tenth

      part of the Roman empire . And this period concl udes the second woe trumpet . Adding to the year 531 the commencement of the Germanic beast , created by Clovis or Louis , it brings us to 1791 > or the Revolution in France , as the period for the cessation of teaching in sackcloth the truths of God .

      The religious part of this history is to be found , Rev . xi . 18—29- In the message addressed to the church of Thy at ir a , it speaks of , 1 , their lasting services to the cause of Christianity ; 2 , their permitting anti-christianity publicly to teach idolatry ; 3 ,

      the severe punishments the church and state shall suffer for this ; and , lastly , that considering the peculiar circumstances of this period , those who live in it , and who oppose the idolatrous worship of Rome are not expected to be faultless in their doctrines . No other burden is laid

      upon them in these dreadful times , but to be steadfast in what religious truth they obtain , and for them to bear a determined opposition to all idol-worship . Chap , xi * 15—18 , is the sounding of the seventh trumpet , and a prediction that the consequences of all these w ^ ins w ill be , thaf the kingdoms

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      of the earth will become the kingdoms of our God , and Jesus his anointed . And the standard-bearers of divine truth throughout the world proclaim during this period , concerning these judgments , that they are intended to set-free the oppressed , by destroying the oppressor from the earth .

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      Brie f Notes on the Bible * No . Hi . JOHN i . l . " The Word was God . " Had the apostle meant to propound the Deity of Christ , would he not have written , The Word is God ? And have dwelt upon what he had

      so predicated of his Master in the course of his gospel ? But , has he one subsequent allusion to such a doctrine , thundered , say some of the Fathers , upon the Christian world ?

      That Jesus was God , in a very common and accepted Jewish sense of the term , during his ministry , possessing " without measure , " and exercising as he did , divine and miraculous powers , nobody can question . That God is one and indivisible , that

      there is no other God , we have from that great Being himself reiterations sufficient , one would think , to put modern orthodoxy out of countenance ; yet , in perfect consonance with this sublime and consoling truth , the wellknown instance of Jehovah ' s

      declaration to Moses , " Behold , I have made thee a God to Pharaoh , " ( not to cite other passages in harmony with this subordinate sense of the word , ) comes directly in support of my construction of the text .

      And , that John was mindful of the double import of the word , is manifest from his double application of it ; for , he could not , in saying that " the

      Word was with God , and the Word was God , " mean to be understood , synonymously , that € i God was- with G od 11 1 There is nothing , we know , too absurd for habitual , unsearching believers to acquiesce in ; but , assuredly , our evangelist , with all the sublimity imputed to him by Gibbon , was incapable of so profound a communication , in terms either precise or convertible . BRBVI ^

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 22, 1819, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_22021819/page/48/