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given to these messengers of God to commence their judgments . Ver . 2 . The first messenger , like the first trumpet , pours his phial upon the earth , and appears to be those seven judgments which fell upon the Austrian beast and the German
dominions , and those parts which , made afterwards a government-resembling that of Old Rome , and which made the whole body politic of Germany , Tyrol , Switzerland , Italyt Spain and Portugal ulcerate *} . ( 1 Kings viii . 39 ) by its pestiferous touch .
Ver . S . The second messenger j ^ ours his phial out upon the sen , xviii . 15 , said to be on peoples , multitudes , nations anil languages . This phial fell , therefore , on the governments of the nations of the VVestera Roman empire , and killed them .
Vers 4 —? The third messenger pours his upon the rivers and fountains of war , and they become blood . This corresponds with the third trumpet of war , which dried up the resources of Old Rome . In prophetic language rivers denote instruction
and fountains , of course , the smaller sources which feed them , Psa . xxxvi . 8 ; xlvi . 4 } John iv . 14 ; vii . 38 ; Rev . xxii . 1 , £ > . The drains by war in Old Rome were replaced by the reflowing of the Barbarian nation to
that sea of wealth and power . It is arts , sciences and commerce that produce the same effect in modern time , and this phial being poured out upon all the seats of science in Europe , and commerce being destroyed , dried up the leading inducements for
intercourse of nations throughout the European Continent . Vers . 8 , 9 . The fourth messenger poured out his pliial upon the sun , and he was permitted to scorch men with fire . The consequence of a partial eclipse of the sun of Roman power , under the fourth trumpet , seated the Barbarians on the throne of Rome .
So . the fourth phial , by causing the huntsman of France , the son of the Roman empire , to rouse from his icy den the northern bear , caused him to tarn from the pursuit . And the
consequence was , that France being pursued , rraised such sudden and immense armies , that the whole of the German empire was scourged with the devastations of war ; but ^ the successful Rus-
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sians , Austiians , Prussians , S wedes & . c , have not given glory to God by repenting of their past despotism , and establishing in place of it civil and religious liberty . Vers . 10 , 11 . The fifth messenger
poured out his phial on the thron e of the beast , and . his kingdom-was darkened , &c . This appears to be the unseating the emperor from the throne of imperial power , and eclipsing the splendour of his kingdom . And as the prophecy foretells of that kingdom , it has happened that , notwithstanding the divine judgments upon it , instead of repenting of their past wickedness , they have returned back to their impurities , superstitions and persecutions , and blasphemed the Creator of heaven and earth .
Ver . 12 , describes the sixth messenger as pouring out his phial on the Euphrates . It was the sixth trumpet which unloosed the Euphratic horsemen or Turkish power . In 1402 they first besieged Constantinople , which was saved through the defeat of Bajazet by Tamerlane . It was again
besieged by Amu rath II . 1422 , and saved by becoming tributary , and was at last taken A- D . 1453 , by Mahommed , the seventh emperor , ix . 15 . The Turks were appointed for dominion 39 1 years , 15 days- The first time they laid Christian princes , rather the head of the Eastern
Christian , under tribute , was A . D . 1422 , Add to this 391 years , it will bring to 1813 for the period of beginning to dry up their strength , and in about thirty years from that time to retake Constantinople from them . What events , therefore , are now to take
place must be at hand to weaken , but not to destroy , this power , but to make them consent , by choice or compulsion , to the return of the kings of the East , of the Jewish nation , to Palestine . Daniel , I think , speaks of this period as being ( xii . 11 ) thirty years after the close of the 1260 days ,
and that forty-five years beyond this period should be their final restoration . Vers . IS—21 , describe the pouring out of " the seventh phial . From ver . 12 to 14 , describes the means by which it will be accomplished . Vers . 15 , 16 , are a caution to the Christian that he may not be involved in that awful contest described xix » 11— # !•
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418 On the Contents of the Boo ' k of Revelation , No . IV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/18/
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