of the Saracens commences," and (after the description of it) it is then added,--"One woe is past-and behold there come two woes more hereafter."-So at the sounding of the sixth trumpet, the plague of the Euphratean horse. men, or Turks, begins, and in the conclusion -(at Rev. xi. 14,)—it is added, "the second woe is past, and behold the third woe cometh quickly."-At the sounding of the seventh trumpet therefore, one would naturally expect the description of this woe to succeed. Newton on Proph. vol. iii. p. 271.—*

* From hence also it is obvious to conclude, that the Turkish or second woe is now actually past, in the same sense as the first woe was past when the second was announced, That is to say, as a woe, it was past, and a new one was going to take its place. (vol. iii. p. 124.) Yet the monuments and evidences of both these Mohammedan woes still remain, even to this day; though their power of hurting, as woes, be gone by. (See R. FLEMING'S, NEWTON'S, BICHENO'S, &c. methods of computing the time allotted to them. The second woe was past virtually in 1789, and the symbolical earthquake of the French revolution, was the signal for the sounding of the seventh trumpet. The fall of the beast of the sea ensued under the fifth vial; but the testimony of the witnesses is not yet concluded, which may be accounted for in a very reasonable way, if it be reasonable that the cause should preceed the effect. (See 2d. Exod. v. iii. p. 272,-289.-)

Notwithstanding then, the smoke still continues to fill the penetralia of the temple, and may occasion a total misapprehension of what is passing within, to some who are interdicted from entering, and may have disturbed the visual penetration of some others, who are not wholly excluded with the worshippers of the beast; yet still there may be traced the footsteps of a wise providence tending strait forwards, but none turning back again, as some have imagined. The signs of the times, and the indications of prophecy have agreed well together, and still continue so to do. We need not give way to any doubts of the faithfulness of the prophetical pencil, or even of the correctness of our general apprehension of its delineations, on account of the portentous aspect, or surprising changes and combinations of the wonders of our times,

An impious and desolating tyranny sprung from the ABYSS, for a long time successfully trampled under foot, the liberties and happiness of the whole human race. Yet still the success which was indulged to its cupidity and ambition, was useful to the general accomplishment of the purposes of heaven. The

measure of the iniquities of the beast was full, and the superannuated dominancy of apostate ROME, and her confederate horns, was thus to fall, (2d. Exod. v. ii. p. 463-534-). Their time was expired, and their PERDITION Could be no longer delayed; neither could there have been chosen a more adequate instrument of providence, for the execution of that work of judgment, for the making a beginning of it at least. If at length we have seen the bloody scourge wrenched out of his strong grasp, and applied to his own back, and that even by the very victims of his oppression, against whom he was specially commissioned and sent, although he had other views in his own mind;

* All that the world has yet suffered from the opening of the ABYSS, and the bloody tragedy of the third woe, is but the beginning of sorrows. The share which the protestant world has had in it, seems only designed to quicken their attention to the coming scenes of woe, on the dementated worshippers of the beast, of which they are now to be the spectators, as they have been heretofore the denouncers of his criminality. That such a first rate genius as BUONAPARTE for mischief, should ever have fallen from so great an height, and sunk even into contempt, and that he can be succeeded by fresh engines of destruction, still better fitted to the work of blood, is one of the wonders of this SEASON and TIME, which per petually rouse us to renewed astonishment.

(2d. Exod. v. i. p. 351-) yet this argues nothing more than the omnipotence as well as the justice of providence, which is able to furnish fresh instruments for the perpetuating of the uniformity of its design, when those first employed have become worthy of rejection. (Isai. x. 15,) Here is no inconsistency in all this, but a more perfect accomplishment of prophecy; since whether BUONAPARTE himself executes the will of heaven, or suffers the execution of it upon his own person and empire, it amounts to the same thing. In either case it is still the same body of the same beast of the sea, which had been symbolically slain, and delivered to the burning flame for its slow consumption, (Dan. vii. 11. 26.) which St. John represents by "the going into PERDITION," and explains it to us in several visions. (Rev. xiv. 10, I1.—xvi. 10.—xvii. 11.) and indeed it is the general voice of prophecy that this vengeance should be inflicted upon them-. selves, by their own hands. (Isai. xix. 2.— xlix. 26.-Exod. v. i. p. 345.-v. ii. p. 409).

This prospering tyrant himself was also thus to meet his fate of a symbolical death, by the fire out of the mouths of the two prophets of

the British churches, his terrible and privileged tormentors, whom he would not desist from hurting by every imaginable mode of persecution, even to their extermination. (Rev. xi. 5, 6). Their great and glorious exertions have, by their perseverance and success, kindled at length a similar flame of liberty in other nations; and shewn them that the time is come when the late indomitable beast of the abyss may be humbled. Every thing hath so ensued in regular course, from the re-opening of the abyss in 1789, just as we had reason to expect; and I do not see any thing in the present aspect of affairs, from whence to conclude, that the bestial war against the witnesses is terminated, by the fall of one representative of the beast of the abyss, and our troubles consequently at an end. I fear there are yet no good grounds of contradiction to the judgment I had formed of the bestial system, on the basis of Mr. Sharp's plan. The 1260 years without doubt are ended. The second woe is past, and the third begun ; and it will certainly continue, at least at intervals, with but short intermissions, to manifest its existence, untill the utter extirpation of the apostacy, and its supporters have laid a secure foundation for