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Show ATPENDIX, APPENDIX, of this subject will not prove to be of great practical mmportanee: and possibly his remarks may receive a “ quielu s” in a statement of facts. This power is ever treated of in this Dissert ation as an empire, not as auy emperor, or succession of emperors. The writer dil about lourteen years ago publish a Dissertation on the Prophecies, ie did it at the request of many, and’w ith the special recommendation of more than half a dozen of the first literary characters in New England, ‘his characteristics. His atheism follows > “and shall speak mar- vellous things against the God of guds.” He shall] blaspheme and deay the God of heaven. “But in his estate shall he honour the wed of forces.” After this power shall gin national importance, he ; oes, ne shall honour mililary 'Ging S munitions, { or pay his » first ortes attention to the DP arte Qi war. * And a god whom his fathers knew not, shall he honour with gold and silver. and precious siones, and pleasant things.” Altho ugh his father’s god, aud-all gods (kings) have been rejected ; yet a god, or ruler of foreign desceni.shall by and by come to be raat cheee by this power, aud honoured with the create st magnificence. + hus shallhe do inthe most strong hold with a strange God whonmrye étfatl acknowledee anh increase with ‘Story s atid he shall cause thei and sdad the 7% ~ of 2king~» a he Ottoman oi 7 the north : - shall / : come } against Wag-2: 6 him ‘ 7 like a “ « yy e . «7 ’ 39a aE to cack to cack their common overwhelming torrent; - and violence » Will be ex. —~ out of inso he mouth much, of the old serpent, that an ting those violent meas ures, and confound hg the enemy, like the earth opening her mouth and swallowing up floods of Water.”* Great reverses in the state of this power of the last days implied in the first edition of were thug this And work, it occurred to the writer, while preparing his secon (soon afier) that these d edition. reverses were clearly held up 10 Various collat. eral prophecies, as being far while yet the power (not any grealer than he had ex; ressly stated; individua) ieaders of it) wou ld continue its mystical existence, til] it should sink in perdit ion / seventh vial, subsequen at the close o; the tly to the restorat ion of the Jews be * part of tron, and It was to part of clay ; partly str ong and partly broken Of this the writer gav .» e ample notice in his second edition in the lowing sentences, and fo} many similar ones > these reverses may * To how great knows. Should the proceed, God {Ole a degree } token: only hess of this last part of the Roman power be now made as conspicuous as hj antecedent str¢ ogtn, (as the text + the kingdom - Shall be partly | stroneOr and partly brokKen,” seem s to expect) that wick Varrant ed power would us to indeed be prosir this be the case, shou ated, But sh vid ld all the horns, f the off, and the wretch anti-christian beast lie bleeding and fa be 3 inting; yet it appe that all his work js ars ev eat not yet done. He does not £0 into {ill the battle of tha final perdition t steat day of Go as d, which is sul Yseq resto ration of . the Jews,”+ 1 uentat to the he h Che enormous power or inf lue nce , symbolized by the the bottomless pit, beust from (says the writer) dep ends on no one na i has been eecnmo n; thoueh dated hitherto Wit h a leader truly Pre oo ih ofjudgme pared for nt. In the first reign oman beasast, of the imperial hea t, em emp peer rors were. set up» and dep d and depose in thick succession. osed, and number of the s slain, An d it re pe at ed ly had fallen ipon the empire: sti]} 4 aat seemed as thouch destruction imperial head co fill the days of Consta ntinued, GQ.e ntine.) That genius of the hi ch wououl whi ldd not be govern peo; ‘le contin Perr ed by > ued, any thithi ng short of ‘: potism. And this (it may be a military exp ect Ges. ed) will Ye the case man earth hencefort h, till the battle on the Roof t} ve great da lution succeed rev y. olution, it would Rot: iller the case Should revo. of the beast from the . bot tom he nature les s pit is not broad basis of a senera [ft r rests On the l systemat Ic Gorr changed. uption, which wil l never be . 3 20) Ss : ICL mT Ss ¥Y as “ * S : ¢ e = a . . ‘ae ; some * Page 45, Ist edi t, 4, ¢ Page 8, 2d edit .« be Ue@ore > = ( . , ‘in . : ? ; "Onat! ‘\ 2 1 . ° ; e - —s , : : ivi . - / like nothing can save the cause of Christ from destruction, but signal interpositions of Providence jin counterac . * See sect. 2, chap, I. Ist edit. betthed ¢ ® and of the Mba whirlwind. a the (in thescheme if not o! national] rage, armies and bloody ; mie in. empire may provoke the infidel power to its own ru : power, will be fouad to unite, with a view \enemy; time will decide.”* his last head. cited, as though . “ Whether this will be the ease; or whether some other two Dee 8 ers, re one <on the south, , audcrethe oiher on the north of the infidel : in with general, if aot unive rsal] approbation) Was to coutinue through the three last and sreatest vials, the filth. sixth and sey enth. rhe periof od these s vials was to be distinguished from each Other by yarious reverses experienced by this power. Says ihe y riter in hie first edition, * Floods of delusion, of wicked agent s, of falseh. ods abuse, 6s to rule 6Vér Many, aud shall divide the land for gai” ‘T his infidel powersaaltoreriun strony holds, and powerful “batio ns, with this foreigner at their head, who shall be received as their supreme ruler, and honoured with the hig¢hest dignity. _And he shall Jead them to subihie states and nations; and shall distribute their goveraments among his favourites. “And at the time of the end the king of the sont h shall push aes Bors at him; ata - beast seven vials the Dissertation, which scheme has never been en disproved, but viv has aotin “In this work Buonaparte was noted only as one senal leader of the last head of the secular Roman beast rising from the bottomless pit. But he was never identified wilh this beasts but was ever distinguished irom it. Hence let his death have taken place ever so soon, after the beast was exhibited in his characteristic merks, it would in no sense have given a guietus to Mr. S's. scheme. or as the first part of the ancient imperial head of this beast depended on ro one emperor; but was accommodated with many Wr succession ; so notice was given that it might be with the last imperi al reign of the same head, recovered to life in these last days. See the foilowing quotations frona the first edition of the Dissertation. And -he king shall,do accor? ‘ding to his will, and he shail exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous t} ings against the God oi gods.” “ By a king in the language of prophecy, is generally to be understood a kingdom, or civil power, and not an individual person. [yn this sense we are to understand the king in this text. In the passag e we are presented witha great atheistical power, who in his commencement is to be anarchical.—His licentiousness Is first noted; he * shal] do according to his will;” breaking every restraint. His anarchy follows; “and he shall exalt himself above every God,” i. e. above every king or legitimate ruler. War with kings, was to be among his first 283 "S . Z ' a a |
