from any hostilities in which we are now engaged." He then goes on to say, that his dread arose, not "from contending nations, but from contending PRINCIPLES;" that "he feared the next war which should be kindled in Europe, would be a war not so much of armies as of OPINIONS"-"the more fatal conflict of opinions." "It is the contemplation of this new power," he adds, "in any future war, which excites my most serious apprehensions." The conse

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quences of letting loose the PASSIONS, at present chained and confined, would be to produce a scene of desolation which no man can contemplate WITHOUT HORROR!"

SEVENTH TRUMPET.

The first direct announcement that is given of this "" woe," is in Rev. x. 7, in these words: "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, THE MYSTERY OF GOD SHOULD BE FINISHED, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."

In the following chapter it is then said, verse

15, "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, saying, We

give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name small and great; and shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there were seen in the temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an EARTHQUAKE, and GREAT HAIL."

The sounding of this trumpet I consider, as above noticed, will commence when, at the moment of the extinction of the Turkish empire, the way is prepared for "the kings of the East;" and we can have no reason for supposing that it will be of a character less terrific than those already accomplished, of which series it forms the termination. Indeed, the most correct idea we are enabled to form of what we may expect from it, must be drawn from the analogy it will bear to the former sir trumpets, and to the application of the axioms which uniformly mark prophetical eras. Accordingly, as one of the latter, we may with certainty conclude that the seventh trumpet will form an important epoch. in the world; that it will be identified with the

affairs of the church of Christ; and that it will be attended with permanent changes. As a trumpet, we may with equal certainty conclude, that, like all the former ones, it will be produced by the instrumentality of strange and less civilized nations; that it will be characterized by invasion, rapid conquests, and overthrows; and that it will be attended with the horrors of war in their most dreadful forms. And, finally, as a woe trumpet, we have, I fear, too much reason to conclude that it will form the dreadful counterpart of the Saracenic and Turkish conquests! Producing, however, such an important consummation, as "the kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ," we are sure it must be attended with the overthrow of every existing kingdom; and likewise, from the last verse, in which it is said there shall be "lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail," that there will be dreadful COMMOTIONS, a REVOLUTION, and a NORTHERN We are likewise sure, from the language of the elders in their adoration before the "Lord God Almighty," that it is a time of extreme "WRATH" and vengeance; and also that, with whatever indifference it is viewed by men, it is the theme of the highest interest in the invisible world!

INVASION.

We will, however, proceed to the contents of the seventh vial.

"And the seventh angel poured his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great."

This vial I consider performs the same office to the seventh trumpet, as the former six vials have done to the sixth and seventh seals; that is, it amplifies the events, and arranges them in a methodical order. After the universality and final nature of this plague are first asserted, the effects of the warring of the three unclean spirits of the former vial are then represented. It is said, first, there will be great commotions--"voices, thunders, and lightnings;"-that these will be followed by a GREAT REVOLUTION, SO "great

and mighty" as was never before seen. From this it appears, that the spirit of insubordination and infidelity which now agitates the nations, will ere long become universally TRIUMPHANT, and produce the GREATEST REVOLUTION THAT EVER WAS KNOWN; and which, in its wild and lawless career, will cause "the great city to be divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations to fall." What is the meaning of the great city being divided into three parts, and the falling of the cities of the nations, time only can fully explain; and we may be assured time will explain it; and that, whether it means the Western empire being divided into three parts, instead of ten, and the cities of nations losing all that gives them importance as cities, it too surely implies very great calamities.

Reference is then made to another of the "unclean spirits," as feeling the effects of this revolution-that of Popery, represented by "great Babylon;"—and of this it is said, that Now it "came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH ! In this second "great" revolution, therefore, it appears that this apostasy will FINALLY FALL. And the same inference will be found drawn in a subsequent part of the work, in explaining, from the 17th chapter of the Revelation, where it is said, "The ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, shall hate the whore,