titudes of men to the field of battle, to enforce their atheistical anarchy upon mankind: and to prevent all opposition to their cruel and savage measures within the republic, they exercised all the artifice of invention, in devising the means of murdering the greatest numbers in the shortest time; or as they themselves termed it, "en masse."

But the text is yet more explicit and pointed, in describing the very means by which this national deception should be accomplished, the foundation of its revolutionary power laid, and also by which it should be established. And these means are certain "miracles which he" (the beast of the earth which I have before shown is the type of the republic)" had power to do in the sight of the beast," or in the sight of the Pope. But what were the "miracles," or wonders by which this great deception was to be effected, and the foundation of the revolutionary republic laid? The first and greatest wonder, out of which the others arose, was the sudden conversion of a great majority of the people of France, enthusiastically devoted to the Papal church, from that superstition to French atheism, to French liberty and equality. The second, the infatuated and abject condescension of the first nobility and clergy, in mixing with, and putting themselves upon a perfect level with the lowest rabble of France, of which the Convention chiefly consisted; and thus, by an implicit surrender of their ancient rights and dignities, adding strength to the popular notions of national

equality. The others were the destruction of the Bastile; the bribing and corrupting the military force of the kingdom; the imprisonment of the monarch; his dethronement; the intimidation, among the Convention, of the friends to monarchy, to order and peace, by the lowest and most ungovernable and abusive of the female sex; the actual abolition of the ancient rights of the nobility and clergy, &c.; all which wonderful events took place as it were in the sight of the Pope, and before the " Bill of the Rights of Man" was proposed to the nation; and each of which had a natural tendency to facilitate its acceptance. When the delusive influence of the whole is considered, it is impossible not to perceive the very means, the very miracles or wonders, referred to in the text, by which the Convention had prepared the mind of the nation to accept the Bill of Rights, and to swallow all the impious, atheistical, and abominable frauds contained in it. It is equally obvious, that, had not those wonderful events been previously concerted, and brought to pass by the revolutionists, the nation could not have been so cheated out of their social privileges, nor the fraudulent Bill of Rights ever have been proposed, and much less accepted.

The nation thus deceived, it was farther necessary, not only to continue the public mind under the delusion, but to excite in it an enthusiastic attachment to the constitution, lest the people should discover its frauds, and overthrow it. For these purposes the requisite measure remained to be adopted, and the Convention im

mediately pursued it; a measure which the prophet describes so plainly and expressly, that it is impossible for an unbiassed mind, to entertain a doubt respecting its being the event foretold.For after having referred to the wonders which should lead to the acceptance of the constitution in the former part of the verse, he tells us, in the latter, that" the beast of the earth," or the Convention now representing the French nation, typified by the word earth, shall

Ver. 14. Say unto them that dwell on "the earth (the people of France), that they "should make an image unto the beast (or pa

gan Rome) which had the wound by the "sword, and did live*”.

To make an image of any thing, is to represent it by some likeness or resemblance of the original. This may be done by sculpture, painting, writing, or oral description. To fulfil the text, then, the Convention must have represented the similitude of pagan Rome in some great and remarkable feature, of her general political conduct. Now, of all the states which had ever existed, pagan Rome only had deified liberty, worshipped, celebrated its fame in her festivals,

*The prophet here evidently alludes to pagan Rome, the beast which was, as it were, wounded to death," by Constantine the Great, n the fourth century, who abolished pagan idolatry, or its ecclesistical head; and which t "deadly wound was healed" by the Pope, when he established his idolatry in the beginning of the seventh century.

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erected a statue to it, made it her tutelar god, and * pretended to regard it, as the great aim and end, of all her political conduct. Has not the Convention held out to the people of France this great and singular feature. of pagan Rome, or, in other words, only" said to them that dwell on the "earth, that they should make an image to the "beast which had the wound by the sword, and "did live?" It has said to the people, Let us make a statue to Liberty; and they have done it. They have deified it formally and publicly; they have offered incense at its altar, made it their great tutelary god, and have declared to the world, that their sole design is to " reform," to fraternize," or to give liberty to the human race. And that the French, and all other nations, might worship it, "the tree of liberty" was ordered to be erected, as its substitute and representative, in every department of the republic, and in every conquered country.

Ver. 15." And he had power to give "life unto the image of the beast, that the image should both speak, and cause, that "as many as would not worship the image "of the beast, should be killed."

Strange it will seem, should we find, that the two events, predicted in this verse, namely, that of the beast giving "life" to an "image" made of inanimate matter, so that it should not only speak, but cause to be destroyed all who should refuse to worship it, has been

clearly fulfilled: and yet it is not more strange than it is true; for it seems to have been the will of God, that, in the very act of blaspheming and denying his existence, the Convention, with all their cunning, should not be aware, that, by performing, among others, those two seemingly impossible deeds, they should demonstrate, beyond all possibility of doubt, his providence and omniscience in fulfilling the prophecy. It is well known (as I have before had occasion to observe, and as appears necessary here to repeat), that the Convention, immediately after the statue of Liberty was placed in the church of St. Genevieve, procured a woman of the name of Momoro, a common actress, the infamous companion of Hebert the atheist, to represent the image of their goddess, Liberty. This deluded woman, decorated with all the extravagant finery of dress, followed by the Convention, and an immense multitude of people from all parts of France, paraded thro' the streets of Paris to the temple of Liberty, where, assuming the character of the image, she delivered an oration, prepared for her by the Convention, to celebrate its virtues, and to inflame the minds of the people with a zealous attachment to the atheistical constitution; and it produced the wished for effect. If the people had been before enthusiastically attached to the Pope and his idolatry, they now became furiously devoted to the Convention and its atheism, and spent the remainder of the day in frantic joy, riot, and debauchery.