of the last days;-"the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit." As the Saracenic armies were symbolized by most destructive locusts; so the numerous and bloody armies of the terrible Power of the last time, are, in Joel ist and iid chapters, predicted under the same symbol; and that of similar devouring insects; chap. i,4. As under the fifth trumpet men sought death, and longed to die; Rev. ix, 6: So under the afflic tions, which commence under the fifth vial, (according to the above scheme,) it is announced, that "blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord." Under the fifth trumpet, the delusion was propagated with fire and sword. And the object of French intrigue and ambi tion has indeed been propagated with fire and sword. With new improvements in the arts of war, and with intrigue, falsehood, revolutions, and vast carnage, their numerous armies have been intent on propagating an universal military despotism.

The former had their king, or emperor, who was an angel of the bottomless pit, whose name was Apollyon, the destroyer. And the latter have their king or emperor, who is no less an angel of the bottomless pit; being the first ruler of the Beast, from the bottomless pit; and he has indeed been the destroyer. The similarity between the fifth trumpet and the fifth vial is striking:-As is the above resemblance between their kings, or leaders. Napoleon has probably been as great a destroyer, as was the Saracenic Apollyon.

The conquests of the Saracens were rapid and extensive. And thus have been the conquests of the French.

Thus striking is the anology between the fifth trum pet, (or first woe,) and the fifth vial, as explained in this treatise.

The sixth trumpet (or second woe) founded the Turkish empire, (as the best expositors agree) by loos ing the four Turkish sultanies, bound or restrained upon, or near, the river Euphrates; Rev. ix, 14.-And the sixth vial forms the counterpart of this, and dries up the river Euphrates, that the way of the kings of the east may be prepared. Rev. xvi, 12.

And the seventh trumpet, or third woe, and the seventh vial, are given in the same language, as to every essential idea; see Rev. xi, 15-19; and xvi, 17-to end. And see the remarks upon this subject, under the seventh vial.

Thus the analogy between the trumpets and the vials appears perfect. The language in each vial appears to be adopted in allusion to that of its corresponding trumpet. This is most clearly the case in the four first, and two last. And is it not also the case in the fifth? The language of the fifth vial is short; but of the most decisive kind. Its great features are, darkness, and subversion. It is poured upon the Papal throne; and fills his kingdom with darkness; so that they gnaw. ed their tongues for pain; and blasphemed God. And the first feature of the fifth trumpet is, a darkening of the sun and the air, with a smoke from hell. And the correspondent prophecies, which give the events of this period, as well as the evident fulfilment of them before our eyes, decide, that there is a notable similarity between the events of the fifth trumpet, and those of the fifth vial, according to the view given of this vial in the preceding pages.

From these considerations, (and the sixth vial, in the subversion of the Turks, being future) I cannot but think it most probable, that the great events of these days are a fulfilment of the judgment of the fifth vial. And that they are the same with the hour of God's judgment, and the fall of Papal Babylon,-Rev. xiv, 7, 8; and chapter xviii: The same with the descent of the Angel, and the seven thunders: Rev. x: The same with the coming of the devil upon the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: Rev. xii, 12: The same with the wars and rumors of wars; Matt, xxiv, 6, 7: The same with the healing of the head of the old Roman Beast; and his subsequent ravages: Rev. xiii, 3, 4: And the same with the new Beast from the bottomless pit; Rev. xvii; as well as the same with the many other predictions, noted in the preceding pages, which are now

receiving their fulfilment, in the character and affairs of the French Empire.*

The following remark, in favor of the opinion, that the terrible events of the present period are the fulfilment of the seventh vial, has been made by a writer; viz. "As this great work (of the judgments introductory to the Millennial) is in substance done; the vials, if they be to be poured out hereafter, will have no objects on which their force may be employed." Reply. However terrible, recent events in the world have been, we cannot certainly conclude, that events far more extensive and terrible are not still in rescrve, to intervene between this, and the Millennium; and events, which will mark the commencement of new vials.

Is not the Turkish empire most evidently to be overthrown in this period? Is that empire to remain, and to occupy the land of Palestine, to the end of the world? The Mohammedan delusion, and the Turks (the modern supporters of it) have been of great notoriety, and a most grievous curse to the Church, and to unnumbered millions. Are not that fatal delusion, and the Turkish government, to be done away, before the millennial Kingdom of Christ? And would it be unaccountable, if one of the seven vials should be reserved for the accomplishment of this object? Here then is an "object, on which the force of one vial may be employed." The rise of Mohammedism, and the Turks, were objects of sufficient magnitude to employ the force of the two first wo-trumpets; Rev. ixth chapter. And these abominable enemies of the Church are still in existence. Is their destruction too small an object, to render it possible, that it may employ one of the last vials?

The Jews are not yet returned. Are they not to be restored to the land of their fathers? Is not a coalition to be formed against them there? And is not that mighty coalition to be destroyed, in a remarkable manifestation of the God of the Jews? Are not these events great and express subjects, in ancient prophecy? Is not this overthrow of the enemies of the Jews, and of all God's enemies, the same event with the seventh trumpet? Rev. x, 7; "But in the days of the seventh Angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." And is it not the same event with the seventh vial? which is called, the battle of THAT great day of God Almighty; as an event well known in the prophets? And may not the fatal destruction of this final coalition, and of all the persecuting enemies of the Church, "from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth," (Jer. xxv, 31-33,) be of sufficient magnitude to employ one vial, the seventh? We find it decided in the prophets, that an enormous Power, under the name of Gog, is to be in existence, after the return of the Jews to Palestine. May

I cannot but apprehend, that as the three last trumpets were to be most signal and capital events; so the three last of the vials were to be most signal and capital events; which should form a new and most interesting era in the history of man. And, that the first of these has been fulfilling in the events of modern date. As the four first of the trumpets were minor events; and the three last, capital events, or wo-trumpets; so it may be with the vials. The same things appear to have been true of the seals. The four first of them presented minor events; and the three last capital events. Surely the seventh seal unfolded capital events. For it contained all the subsequent trumpets. The six seal also unfolded a capital scene of events; fulfilled in the revolution in Rome from paganism to Christianity, under Constantine; described in Rev. vi, 12-17, in figures, which seem to describe the final catastrophe at the end of the word. And the fifth seal, in like manner, clearly relates to capital events, compared with the four preceding seals, Rev. vi, 9-11; "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them, that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony, which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blocd on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them. And it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed, as they were, should be fulfilled." Probably this seal might have a special reference to the horrid persecution (the tenth

not the final destruction of this same Power, together with that of all his admirers, and all that is autichristian on earth, be an object on which the force of one vial may be employed?

Can we certainly decide, before hand, that the rise, progress, ravages, and the final overthrow, of this Power (and the overthrow of all on earth, found possessed of his spirit, "partakers of his ruin, and about to receive of his plagues,") shall all be accomplished under one vial? Who knows but such complicated, tremendous, and very different events, may afford objects sufficient to employ more than one of the vials?

and last) in the pagan Roman empire, under the emperors Dioclesian and Maximian: And that it looked, in a special manner, to the signal judgments of God, which were to follow, under the sixth seal. But we have, in this fifth seal, the language of the blood of all the martyrs, crying to heaven for avenging justice. And we read in it the infallible divine denunciation, that justice shall awake; and all this blood shall be avenged: As the prophet expresses it, of the battle of the great day; "The earth also shall disclose her blood, and no longer cover her slain." The fifth seal then, may be viewed as a preparatory note to all that inquisition for blood, which God would make. The voice of the blood of the martyrs, in this seal, seems to overlook the preceding seals of judgment, inflicted on per. secutors, as though they were beneath notice, compar. ed to those judgments, for which they called. They inquire how long, before the martyrs should be avenged? As though they had not been avenged under the preceding seals. This shows that the fifth seal ultimately related to judgments far more signal, than any or all the judgments under the preceding seals: That it related to new and more tremendous scenes of judg ment. The judgments imprecated under the fifth seal were to have their ultimate, and more signal accomplishment in the terrible events of the last days; which are ever represented as a new and signal inquisition for blood. Of that event God says, "For I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed; for the Lord dwelleth in Zion;" Joel iii, 21. "For the day of vengeance is in mine heart; and the year of my redeemed is come;" Isa. lxiii, 4. "And in her (i. e. mystical Babylon destroyed in the last days) was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth;" Rev. xviii, 24.. Here is the great fulfilment of the judgments imprecated under the fifth seal. This seal then, may be called the open. ing of the most tremendous judgments then future; or it was the first seal, that most signally related to them.