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popish darkness at the reformation, appears
like a Revelation newly made-WICKLIFF
the first angel that appears in the ecclesiasti-
cal heaven proclaiming it :-LUTHER and his
followers, the second and third angels.-Lu-
THER dissolves the enchanted SPELL of a PUR-
GATORY -The HARVEST and VINTAGE ap-
pointed to mystic Babylon.
SECTION XXI.
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The opening of the TABERNACLE of the TESTI-
MONY in heaven, or the reformation of re-
ligion and the church,-preparatory to the
seven divine judgments upon the kingdom of
THE BEAST,-which are to effect its total over-
throw -The impenitency and blindness of his
worshippers (while a long respite is given them)
still continuing.The judgment begins with
the plague of a figurative ULCER.-By the in-
fliction of the second plague, its corroding ma-
lignancy spreads over the whole popish system,
-and works deadly effects by the influence of
the third. 49
SECTION XXII.
The church of the witnesses gives glory to God
for the truth and justice of his dispensations,
in the fulfilment of prophecy,-The apostate
church perseveres in her misapprehension of
them.-The fourth vial poured out, repre-
sents the scorching heat of despotic power and
cruel tyranny.-The fifth vial, a darkness both
political and moral. The remarkable wisdom
of Providence in these judgments, which are
adapted to set before the eyes of sinners the
crimes that drew these miseries upon them.
SECTION XXIII.
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The sixth vial makes preparation for the RESTO-
RATION OF THE JEWS, by the fall of the TURK-
ISH EMPIRE, and in its consequences becomes
a plague of the PAPAL APOSTACY -The state
of the world at this period a general subjection
to an universal tyranny The head of the
apostacy (ejected from royal and independent
sovereignty by the effect of the fifth plague) is
stiled from henceforth THE FALSE PROPHET.
-An hopeful scheme set on foot against the
church of the witnesses ostensibly, but against
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christianity itself in design.
SECTION XXIV.
Christian faith and patience put to the test with
unexampled severity The true time of the
-
death of the witnesses.-The restoration of the