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The Seven apocalyptic trumpets may be divided into the four,

which prepare the way for the revelation of the man of sin;

and the three which comprehend the whole history of the

Apostasy in its dominant state both in the East and in the

West, and which are styled woe-trumpets, p. 3. The silence

at the opening of the seventh seal indicates the anxious

expectation of the troubles about to be produced by the

sounding of the trumpets, p. 5.-By the sounding of the four

first trumpets, he, that letted or prevented the revelation of

the man of sin, is taken out of the way, p. 17.---At the

sounding of the first trumpet, the Northern nations, under

Alaric, Radagaisus, and Attila, overrun the Roman Empire,

p. 8.-- At the sounding of the second, Genseric king of the

Vandals assaults the Western Empire from the South, and

hurls it from its base, like a huge blazing mountain, p. 16.-

At the sounding of the third, the line of the Western Cesars

becomes extinct in the person of Augustulus, p. 18.--- At the

sounding of the fourth, the Roman Empire, considered as

one great whole, experiences an eclipse of its power and

splendor, by the downfal of its Western half, p. 22.-State-

ment of the grounds, on which this explanation of the four

first trumpets is adopted in preference to that of Bp. New-

ton, p. 24-

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CHAP. VIII.

Of the three last apocalyptic trumpets, or, as they are peculiarly

styled, the three roe-trumpets.

The prophecy here divides itself into two distinct lines, treat-

ing severally of the Eastern and Western branches of the

great Apostasy, p. 28.-The first of the three woe-trumpets

describes the commencement of the dominance of the two-

fold Apostasy, p. 29.-The second represents it in the zenith

of its power, till the primary and only partial manifestation

of Antichrist, p. 29.The third exhibits its downfal, dis-

playing at the same time the multiplied horrors of the hare

vest and vintage of the Lord, or the uncontrouled reign of

the atheistical king and his subsequent destruction along

with the other enemies of God, p. 29.

CHAP. IX.

Concerning the effects of the two frsť woe-trumpets in the East.

At the sounding of the fifth trumpet, or the first woe-trum-

pet, in the East, the Apostate star Sergius opens the door of

the bottomless pit, and lets out the impostor Mohammed

with his Saracenic locusts, p. 31.-At the sounding of the

sixth trumpet, or the second woe-trumpet, the four Sulta-

nies of the Turkish horsemen are loosed from the river Ex-

phrates; and, in due season, slay the third part

of

men, or

subvert the Constantinopolitan monarchy, p.38.

CHAP. X.

Contents of the little book-History of the Western Apostasy under

the three woe-trumpets.

The little book comprehends the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth

and fourteenth chapters of the Revelation, p. 45.— These

chapters, in point of chronology, run parallel to each other,

p. 46. And they form a complete history of the Western

Apostasy,

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Apostasy, p. 46. The contents of the little book may be

properly divided into five sections: 1. The prophesying of

the witnesses ; 2. The war of the dragon with the woman;

3. The history of the ten-horned beast of the sea ; 4. The

history of the two-horned beast of the earth ; 5. The colla-

teral history of the true Church, of the Reformation, and of

the harvest and vintage of God's wrath,p.49.

SECT. I.

Concerning the prophesying of the two witnesses.

The little book commences with the year 606, or with the

beginning of the first woe-trumpet, p. 50:- What is meant

by nieasuring the temple, and not measuring the outer court

of the Gentiles, p. 51.--The two witnesses are not the Old

and New Testaments, p. 53.-— Bp. Newton is perfectly right

in the spirit, though not quite accurate in the letter, of his

interpretation of their character, p. 54. They are certainly
two churches, p.54.-Throughout the whole Apocalypse,
the idea of a twofold Church of Christ is constantly pre-
served: the Church before and the Church after, the
advent of our Lord, p. 55. The two witnesses literally re-
present these two Churches, forming jointly the faithful
Church general: but spiritually they mean the mystical
children of the universal Church, those that are Israelites,
indeed, p. 56.--The circumstance of their being said to pro-

phesy is no objection to the supposition, that they symbolize

all God's faithful witnesses during the prevalence of the

Apostasy, p. 57.-In what sense they shut up heaven, and

smite the earth with plagues, during the time of their pro-

phesying, p. 58.-In what sense they are said to have only

one mouth, p. 60.--How, and when, the two witnesses were

slain by the beast of the bottomless pit, p.69.-Our Lord was

literally crucified within the limits of the great city, P-78.

-In what manner the witnesses lay dead three days and

a half, p. 82.- The meaning of the word Hour, p. 104.-A

what period we are to divide the first woe-trumpet from the

second woe-trumpet in the history of the Western Apostasy,

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p. 108,

p. 108.-At the close of the second woe, the great earthquake
of the French Revolution throws down a tenth part of the
Roman city, p. 114.-At the sounding of the seventh trum-
pet, or third woe-trumpet, the limited monarchy of revolu-
tionary France is dissolved; and the reign of openly esta-
blished Anarchy and Atheism commences, p. 120.

SECT, II.

Concerning the war of the dragon with the woman.

The prophecy of the war between the dragon and the woman

cannot relate to the days of Constantine; both because it
is contained in the little book, and because it twice declares
itself to be connected with the 1260 years of the Apostasy,
p.133.—Heaven is the Church general, p. 147.-The woman
is the spiritual Church oftrue believers, as contradi. tinguished
from the nominal believers of the outer court, p. 148.- The
dragon is the devil acting through the instrumentality of

the seven-headed and ten-horned beast, p. 148.--Difficulty

of interpreting the symbol of the man-child, p. 151.-What

is meant by the fall of the dragon from heaven to earth,

p. 159.-The war between Michael and the dragon is the

spiritual contest between the witnesses and their enemies

during the whole period of the 1260 years : but the par-

ticular victory of Michael, here mentioned, was achieved at

the era of the Reformation, p. 160.-In what sense the

devil hath but a short time upon earth, p.162.-An attempt

to trace the steps of the dragon, after he was cast out of the

symbolical heaven by the Reformation, p.163.-The mean-

ing of the flood, which he vomited out of his mouth against

the woman, p. 173.--In what manner the earth swallowed

it up, p. 175.---How the dragon will go forth to make

war with the woman and the remnant of her seed, p. 176,

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