like the religious war of the infidel king, is to take, place after the close of the 1260 years, and is to be decided in Palestine or the land which extends 1600 furlongs, and at Megiddo a town of that land which

is situated between the seas.

So exact a correspondence both of time, place, and circumstance, evidently shews, that the war of the infidel king is the same as the war of the beast and the false prophet: and, from Daniel's prediction, we can scarcely consider the king only as an inferior actor, only as one of the subordinate kings represented by St. John as leagued with the beast. The conclusion to be drawn from these premises I leave to the cautious reader *.

(5.) To

The first edition of this Work was published just as the intelligence of the fatally decisive battle of Austerlitz arrived, The rumours of a directly opposite purport, that prevailed while the last sheets were printing, had led me to conclude that the time was not yet arrived when the wilful tyrant should be identified with the Carlovingian head of the beast; for, though I certainly expected for the reasons assigned above that sooner or later that time would arrive, I had no warrant from prophecy to say when it would arrive. At length we received intelligence of the disastrous issue of a campaign, which has made the atrocious wretch, whom I doubt not to be an instrument of vengeance in the hand of a justly offended God, the undisputed representative of Charlemagne, the uncontrouled Emperor of the western Roman world. Till this period the chief of the house of Austria was the representative of Charlemagne; but his influence is now annihilated in Germany, and he is totally driven out of every part of Italy. Dispossessed even of a considerable part of his hereditary dominions, he seems tacitly to have resigned his ancient title, now to him nothing

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(5.) To return from this digression; if I be right. in thinking, that the gathering together of the kings, of the Latin earth to the battle of Armageddon is: an expedition of a confederacy of popish infidels against the converted Jews supported by some great protestant maritime nation; the opinion, that the witnesses will not be subjected to the horrors of some future persecution, receives a most abundant confirmation*. The beast and the false prophet indeed shall surely gather their forces together, but not by the Lord: for no weapon, hereafter formed against the Gospel, shall prosper; and whosoever shall gather together against it shall fall. The 1260 years of oppression will then have elapsed; and the great controversy of Jehovah with his enemies will then have commenced. Every project of the beast, the false prophet, and the congregated kings, will be baffled and sudden destruction will come upon them unawares as a thief in the night. Through the aid of the great captain of their salvation, those, who have come out of Babylon, shall be completely

nothing but a title, and to have assumed instead of it that of Emperor (which in his case is virtually the same as only King) of Austria. June 5, 1806,

As I have already observed, he has now resigned his ancient title of Emperor of the Romans. Nov. 23, 1807.

* At least it receives confirmation, so far as protestant coun tries are confirmed; though the two witnesses, scattered through popish regions, will continue to prophesy in sackcloth to the time of the end. This distinction I have already stated very fully,

victorious;

victorious; and the united tyranny of Popery and Atheism shall for ever be destroyed.

II. Having now briefly considered the four grand events comprehended under the last vial; namely the division of the great city into three parts, the storm of hail, the fall of the spiritual Babylon, and the battle of Armageddon: I shall bring toge ther into one point of view the four prophecies of St. John, Daniel, Zechariah, and Joel, relative to the awful events with which the 1260 years will conclude; in order that, by comparing them with each other, a yet stronger light may be thrown upon this period, which is destined to witness not only the overthrow of the Antichristian faction but likewise the restoration of the Jews..

1." And I saw heaven opened, and behold a "white horse; and he, that sat upon him, was "called Faithful and True, and in righteousness

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he doth judge and make war. And his eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed "with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name "is called THE WORD OF GOD. And the armies, "which were in heaven, followed him upon white "horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that "with it he should suite the nations; and he shall "rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth "the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of

Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and

on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel

standing in the sun and he cried with a loud "voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the "midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves "together unto the supper of the great God; "that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the "flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, " and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit 66 on them, and the flesh of all men, both free "and bond, both small and great. And I saw "the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their "armies, gathered together to make war against "him that sat on the horse, and against his army. "And the beast was taken, and with him the false

prophet that wrought miracles before him, with "which he deceived them that had received the "mark of the beast, and them that worshipped «his

his image. These both were cast alive into a "lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that' "sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out "of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with "their flesh *."

2. "I beheld, till the thrones were set, and the "Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was "white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, "and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream'

Rev. xix. 11-21.

"issued,

issued, and came forth, from before him: thou"sand thousands ministered unto him, and ten "thousand times ten thousand stood before him : "the judgment was set, and the books were opened. I beheld then because of the voice "of the great words which the little horn spake: "I beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his

body destroyed, and given to the burning flame "The little horn shall wear out the saints of "the Most High;-and they shall be given into "his hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of a time. But the judgment shall sit; "and they shall take away his dominion, by consuming and destroying it unto the end. And "the kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness

of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall "be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting king"dom, and all dominions shall serve and obey "him."

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"And a king shall do according to his will:"And at the time of the end a king of the south "shall butt at him; and a king of the north "shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots, and with horsemen, and many ships. Yet he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow, and pass over, and shall enter into "the glorious land, and many countries shall be "overthrown: but these shall escape out of his "hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief "of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch "forth