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    • MONTHLY RETROSPECT OP PUBLIC AFFAIRS; pR, . T . The Christian*s Survey of the Political WorlQ. "
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      Monthly Retrospect Op Public Affairs; Pr, . T . The Christian*S Survey Of The Political Worlq. "

      MONTHLY RETROSPECT OP PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; pR , . T . The Christian * s Survey of the Political WorlQ . "

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      € l With respect to the French Involution , when 1 view it in its commencement , progress and termination , it appears a perfect phenomenon in the history of the world . In rea ' soniag upon it as a philosopher or politician I am perplexed , confounded , and lost ; nor can I possibly account for the turn it has taken from principles of philosophy or the nature of the human mind . That so

      much blood should have been shed and so much misery occasioned for such an end , and to such a purpose , is * truly mysterious , and utterly inexplicable to a partial observer of things . The true explication is in the fulfilling of those awful and sublime prophecies , which you point out ; and which when viewed in their completion , appear so clear that

      he who runs , may read them ; while the rulers of the world are gratifying their bad passions and pursuing their own ambitious views , they are unintention ally fulfilling the designs of that great Being , who maketh the wratji of man to praise him . The spoliation of the Komish church by the sons of the church is finely and strongly expressed by their

      tearing her flesh . We now seem to be far advanced in the third period of the apocalyptic prophecies , extending from the rise of the beast in the time of Charlemagne , An . Dom . 756 , to its final deetruction , and the commencement of ther Miileniimi An . Dom . 2016 , being a duration of 1260 prophetic days ; and though

      the events of the xiv . ch . of the Hevelations are separated from those of the tfviii . andxix , by three interyening chapr ters > yet they seem to be synchronous , and yet to come . May net theieforeBuonaparte be the angel , who is commanded to thrust in his sickle into the earth , and gather

      the vine of the earth , and cast it into the great wine press , of the wrath of God ? We certainly live in an age in whichgreat events are taking place , to which we find no parallels in all history . It is very extraordinary that this great civil tyrant of Europe should give liberty of conscience wherever he . goes . It cannot be

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      denied that * he has been raised up by providence to fulfil great designs . But we must wait with- patience to see the result—« -Our strength is in standing still . "— '* Such is the language of a searcher afr ter truth , who in the midst of retirement contemplates the awful scenes now pass * ing on in the world . That a revolution has taken place in mens * sentiments , in , every part of the continent of Europe cannot be doubted ; and we might be led to think , that the day is approaching ,

      when the beast , spoken of in the Reve * lations , shall with the false prophet be Cast into the lake of fire and brimstone , that is , be utterly consumexj . Th . c characteristic qualities of the beast and the false prophet are religious intolerance ^ the usurped and impious power assumed over the consciences of men , the denial

      of civil privileges to those , who do not worship tlje beast or his image . The < > £ points will sound oddly to the infidels o £ the present age , whether they are Christians or not ; but on this account the scriptural Christian is not to be at all daunted , and without presuming to speak decisively of his interpretation of revelation , he feels the fullest confidence , that the

      corruptions of Christianity must have an end , and that they will expire in the manner and according to the similitudes of the revelations . A few years will probably decide some

      great points . We shall see how far tm $ extension of liberty of conscience by tfce French Emperor proceeds . He s&ems to have abrogated the vile clauses of the Justinian Code , which established intolerance in both divisions of the

      chfistian world : but whether the new Code of liberty of conscience will be attended with the advantages it should prodi ^ e , time must shew . A remarkable circtiny stance attending this new code deserves the consideration of the true Cfiristian : and it seems to have escaped the notice of the politicians , who have written upon it in our public papers , ^ Puonapartcjias issued hjs cade . of edfy ?

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/43/