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TRENTON, reprinted by JAMES ORAM,

FOR DANIEL FENTON,

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CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION.

PAGE

A summary of the prominent Events con-

tuined in the Apocalypse

1

M

The prophetic History of the Beast of the

bottomless Pit

50

The Reformation foretold

145

The Beast of the Earth .

192

A prophetic Introduction to the Seven Vin

als of the Wrath of God

254

The Seven Vials poured out-

Vial 1, -On atheistical France 271

Vial 2,-On Rome, and the Pore-

er of the Pope .

283

Vial 3,--On papal Germany 291

V'ial 4,- On the Monarchy, and

King of France ..... 296

Vial 5,–On the Atheistical and

Revolutionary Republic . . 306

Vial 6,-On the Turkish Empire,

and Mohamedan Apostacy 311

Vial 7,- On the ungodly of every

Denomination, preparatory

to the coming of Christ to

reign .

316

The arvful Sentence of Divine Justice

pas-

sed
upon

the ungodly Confederacy, and

the last Summons from Christ, to those

that fear God, to separate themselves

352

from it

The imprisonment of Satan, and the first

Resurrection and Reign of Christ . . 372

The Restoration of the Jews

380

INTRODUCTION.

HITHERTO Commentators upon the ArocALYPSE, seem to have done more harm to the cause of Christianity than good. They have rather thrown this sacred part of the word of God, this Corner Stone of the Gospel of Christ into the back ground, than brought it forward into that conspicuous point of view which its excellence and high importance in the great Work of Redemption manifestly require. Their method of unfolding its different subjects has been so indigested, loose, and desultory, that instead of removing the veil of allegory in which, for the most part, it was intentionally clothed by its divine Author, they have inadvertently involved it in a Wilderness of dark Confusion. Indeed, judging from their comments, they do not seem to have undera stood either the scope, design, or end for which it was given ; but to me it seems impossible for a serious and attentive mind duly to consider it, without perceiving that it is, upon a general view of it throughout what it imports to be;