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ments and connections, at home or abroad, my sentiments remain unchanged; and I deprecate any union or compromise to be made with it, or its adherents, that can possibly be avoided; lest we draw upon ourselves a participation in her plagues, even while her judgment is before our eyes. I must confess I cannot easily conceive how the future "death of the witnesses," can be supposed to attain its accomplishment, to the temporary ruin of the protestant cause and party; except it be by way of a short but smart chastisement of some error of this kind, by a time-serving and sinful policy, in departing from the true principles of the reformation, in favor of popery, through flattery or fear of her rising greatness and terror.* It will be a grievous aggravation

* No friend to human nature will envy the heroes of the continent the fatiguing harvest of glory, they have reaped in ENGLAND. And much less so the well earned honors decreed to the great WELLINGTON-"himself an host."-But JOHN BULL has bellowed out his applause in a sort of stile, which will impress the minds of the illustrious foreigners with an idea of the english character, as much below the medium tenor of human nature, as the unparalleled efforts of our glorious defenders by sea and land, have elevated it above that standard. MR BULL seems to have lost sight

of our sufferings, to be obliged by a too late repentance, to acknowledge that our folly has deserved them; and to be ourselves scourged by the very lash which our own hands have strengthened, and platted afresh for the ungrateful execution. (2d Exod. sec. 13th and sec. 28th-and vol. iii. p. 236.-Isai. xxvi. 10, 11).

What ails thee, restless as the waves that roar,
And fling their foam against thy chalky shore?
Mistress at least while providence shall please—
And trident bearing Queen of the wide seas.
Why, having kept good faith, and often shewn
Friendship and truth to others, find'st thou none?
Thon that hast set the persecuted free,

None interposes now to succour thee!

Countries indebted to thy power, that shine

With light derived from thee, would smother thine.

altogether of the manifestation of the hand of providence, equally plain in the downfall, as it had before been, in the wonderful rise of the tyrant NAPOLEON. (2d. Exod. v. ii. P. 447,-450.)-POOR JOHN seems getting fast into his dotage! and it is to be feared that on some future occasion, he will actually in his delirium, fall down and worship his human deities, or perhaps hug them to death, and eat them afterwards. The honors he paid in this way to the departed Nelson, were little short of a roman APOTHEOSIS, or a papal CANONIZATION.

Thy very children watch for thy disgrace,

A lawless Brood, and curse thee to thy face!

Cowper's Expostulat.

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CORRECTIONS.

The idea of the SECOND BEAST as an ecclesiastical empire, made up of THE POPE AND HIERARCHY OF THE CHURCH, which had been held by MEDE, and all the older commentators, and adopted by most of the moderns, has now been fully refuted and exploded, by time and events. It was therefore given up by me in the publication of the third volume, agreeably to the suggestions of MR. SHARP, on the basis of the Justinian empire affording the only true solution of the Date of the 1260 YEARS, now visibly expired, with all the prophetical tokens. (2d Exod. vol. iii. p. 174). As the BESTIAL SYSTEM on that foundation, is laid down in full in the third volume, and there is no variation from it, but only a more complete confirmation of its truth given by the events which have since occurred, it was thought best not to disturb the arrangement of the work, in all the passages where any allu

sion to the old system occurs; but correcting the principal one at p. 23 &c. vol. ii. to point out the others as errata, with the corrections requisite. The purchasers of the former publication, may thus be accommodated with the Index, and the whole of the additions made to the present one.

At p. 205, vol. i. it must be understood that Charlemagne added to THE PAPACY its temporal power, but its date, as last head, was given by JUSTINIAN; and 1260 years after that, it was pulled down by NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.-At p. 254, "the two horns,” are those of THE SECOND BEAST, and refer not to the man of sin, but the JUSTINIAN EMPIRE.At p. 390, The "beast of the earth," is not the papacy, but the other Empire, as also again at p. 112. vol. ii.—At p. 86. vol. ii, “The earth is not the peculium of the church, but the territorial Roman Empire.--At p. 172, The woman riding the beast, symbolizes the combined powers of the church and secular government at ROME, and is identified with the last head, and the Image; the SECOND BEAST is not here included.-At p. 354, The same error occurs; the second beast is the

JUSTINIAN EMPIRE, and the earth is the symbol of the Empire in its integrity, out of which he arose by a partition.

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