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gtory that belonged to the Creator ? But since that period how rapidly have the numbers increased , and their boldness in the cause of truth has increased with their increase ! The next promise is , that those who call themselves peculiar ! y the people of God , shall come and take instruction at their feet . . Tiiis lias been
partly fulfilled , and daily increasing ntimbers do this .
We neKt have a promise , that because they guard the Scriptures and regulate their doctrines , their manners and their practices , by that history of the divine patience towards man ,
God will , by their manners , doctrines and practices , guard them from those awful trials that are coming upon the whole habitable globe , to try the inhabitants of the earth . This promise accords with the threats of the two
messengers , who proclaim the destractiota of the confused political religions of the Western Roman empire , and shew the Christian , who hath ears to listen to it , that the only path he has for safety , is in the path of religious duty . The space is but short ,
when -in the way of providence the victory will be given to those who retain their confidence in the practice of the divine commands , and regulate all their religious actions by New-Testament authority , and not by the precepts of men , or the authority of
councils or churches , or the pernicious and accommodating doctrine of human oppressors—expediency . Keturning , therefore , back to chap . xiv . 1 % we may say , that there is prophetically given strong inducement to the Christian , to cause him to give his
whole attention to Scripture obedience ; for , in this period of general trouble , ** Hvre is manifested the patience of the saints i" here are they who keep tlie commands of God and the faith of Jesus . And the prophetic spirit from this period pronounces them
who die during it peculiarly blessed : ver . 13 , For henceforth they who die tn the Lord , not only rest from their labours * but their works follow them . They live , they survive , they take deep root , they subdue the kingdoms of the earth to Ood and his Christ .
Chap . xiv . 14—H-6 , describes the harvest of the world . The language of Joel Hi \ sp proves the reaping-of i
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the harvest to be figurative of divine judgments . If the harvest precedes the phials , it must allude to those events which took place prior to the full establishment of the image of the beast , by the confederation of the Rhine . But as the seventh seal
included the seven trumpets * so the seventh trumpet includes the seven phials . I conclude that this is a summary description of the pouring out the phials upon the Continental part of Europe ; and that we must refer to them for the manner in which the
earth was to be reaped . Vers . 17—20 , describe the vintage being trodden without the city . Is this without the Roman empire ? Or is it without the city of Rome , as giving the denomination to the whole empire ? If the harvest alludes to
the events that took place before the destruction of the confederacy of the Rhine , this vintage was trodden in the empire of Russia without the Roman empire . But if the harvest does include the phials , as I have no doubt it does , then the vintage would be trodden without the
Roman city ; and it is remarkable , says Mede , that St . Peter ' s patrimony reaches from the walls of Rome to the river Po and the marshes of Verona , nnd contains the space of 200 Italian miles , or 16 Q 0 furlongs , being the vast dimensions of this slaughter of the
vintage . And by comparing this vintage with chap . xvi . 12—16 , the battle of Armageddon , and chap . xix . 17 —21 , no one can well hesitate to pronounce them to be one and the same event , and such a one as can only lead to the effects foretold to follow the seventh phial .
Chap , xv . This chapter describes the importance of the prediction by the solemnity of its preparation , and also the scene of action , the Temple , the church , that portion of the world which denominates itself
Christian ; and the last verse gives us to understand , that though many attempt to enter into the Temple , i . e . as I understand it , to observe only those regulations os a church that the
Lord of the church has ordained , yet none will be successful till the phials have , by divine judgment , destroyed the Antichristian powels . Chap . xvi . 1 , The command is
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On the Contents of the Booh of Revelation . No . IV . 417
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/17/
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