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Mr: Cuninghame and Mr. Faber have sup posed, but to the history of the Empire alone? and I have already shewn, in the preceding part of this work, p. 10-19, how carefully these subjects are kept separated and distinguished from each other. In answer to the question, how it is" that no hint is given in any other part of the Apocalypse of such effects being produced," I reply, that Mahometanism is not particularly mentioned in the Little Opened Book of Saint John, although it does contain the history of the Church; because the spiritual state of the Eastern Church had, I conceive, already been described in Rev. xii. 4, a part of this book, where the "Dragon" is said to draw "with his tail the third part of the Stars of "heaven," and to "cast them to the earth;" which representation describes the Bishops, Ministers, and Pastors, of the Eastern Church, as totally apostatizing from the truth and because, after this event, the further spiritual history of the Eastern Church was not of importance enough to be mentioned distinctly and separately from the temporal history of the Eastern Empire.

I have thus endeavoured to reply to the several" reasons" given by Mr. Cuninghame, "for rejecting the application of Daniel's

symbolical little horn of the He-goat to the "spiritual empire of Mohammed;" and I should be truly happy if what has been said should appear satisfactory.

Daniel's last Prophecy of "that which is noted "in the Scripture of truth."

The history of individual kings of Persia, Greece, Syria, Egypt, &c. The history of the Infidel King.

It must be allowed by all, that there never was a period so replete with important events as that in which we live: and that there never was a person so powerful, and so evidently an instrument in the hands of God, as that extraordinary individual who has been the chief means of effecting those great changes which we have witnessed. If then, we duly consider that all important events, changes, and revolutions, are described in prophecy, and that those characters which appear most conspicuously in history, as Cyrus, Xerxes, Alexander, &c.

were spoken of in the sacred writings before they appeared upon the stage of the world; the question with respect to the events of the present day, and to the individual who has been the chief means of producing them, will no longer be, whether or not they are mentioned in prophecy, but solely in what part of the Scriptures they are most particularly to be found. I shall now endeavour to satisfy this inquiry, as far as it regards the prophecies of Daniel, by examining the last that is recorded by him, which relates principally to the events of the present day; and completes the history of the Church, by describing its third and last great enemy, the Infidel Power.

This Power, I shall proceed to shew, is Napoleon Buonaparte; and although he may not yet have so clearly manifested himself in his character as the personal enemy of the Church of Christ, as it is probable that he will do hereafter, but has hitherto appeared rather as an instrument in the hands of God, of inflicting severe judgmeats upon the other enemies of the Church, the Papal and Mahometan Powers; yet he must in some respects be considered as having even already exhibited his enmity to it, in as much as he has been the bitter enemy of that nation which is peculiarly favoured by God, and which alone of all the nations of the

divided Roman Empire professes the pure religion of Christ; and is therefore in this prophecy of Daniel, typified by the Jewish nation, or "the Holy Covenant," in whose place it now stands. He hates it too for the same cause that other nations formerly hated the Jewish nation, because its maxims and principles are so contrary to his own; for it may be truly said of this favoured British nation, and especially at. this day, "What nation is there so great, who "hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon

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great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous?"

The two first enemies of the Church were long-established powers, existing through many generations, and through a long course of years; the full duration of the Papacy being for above 1290 years, and that of the Mahometan Power for about 1220. The last enemy of the Church, the Infidel Power, differs in this respect from the others, for its time is confined to that of the lives of two individuals; the prophecy therefore relating to it is written on a singular plan, corresponding with this difference.

In the prophecies already considered, the ruling kingdoms of the world are symbolically described as Wild Beasts, which represent the