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ally and symbolically, 1 observe, that as all tUags which have been literally occompliKhcd tinder the Gospel, were symbolic:illy repre- sented under the Law, so all things which are symbolically written uctdcr the present dispcn- 8 59 988 TH£ DRTINO V? OP THB CUPIfBATKl. [. ^iioD, will be litcmlly accompUshed undei tbe dispensation of mighty power about to com- mence: and that ns it i» the literal arresting the »tphvre*i^ ilisrsolutioii of the hobt of heaven, ai falling of the stars like the fi^ of a fig-tree, pi phefiied of by l«aiali to take place in the day the Lord's vengeance, and the year of the recoi penccs for the controversy of Zion, wliich gin lan^agc to the sixth &eal, undxvhichwas formed emhlematically , as 1 judge, at the ni»g uf the French Kevoliitioti; so do I belli that it is the real smiting of Euphrates io its 8e< fttreanifE, for expediting the return of the childi of Isiael, to take place licrcaflcr. that gives tl language of this sixth vial, arvd i» cmblematieall fulfilled under it. And this is a general nilc, want of attention to whicti, interprt'ters of tti symbolical prophecies go astray. For findini* times in tbe discur^ve and literal prophelSp groundwork of the Bvmbol, they are apt to au| (Ktftc that the event contuircd under the ftyml must take place at the same time with the coDtamcd under the letter: vrhereaft, if ihiK wei tlie case, tliere would have been no need of th? symbolical ut all ; which would have been merely to write daikly aud dotibifiilly, vvhut hud bcea already written clearly and exprcaaly. But real things being revealed in plain language as abont lo liapiwn at a distant time ^ it was [>o?(^ible an^H profitable to &et forth things more uear at hand^l and to illnslrate the imerrenin^ space by a syni< bolical hi»iory, which should at (he same time give a foretaste of the great events Io come, whereof it was a shadowy figure, Tlius, under tbe Patriarchs, the coming of Rhiloh and the promised Reed hcing well and plainly rerealed; THE DBVTKO UP OP THK Ei;PHHATKS- 989 lit-re was constructed under Moses a symbolical xr embleinatica) exhibition or the spiritual bless- ini^s which we now possess : and when His com^ Ing in power was postponed , there was constructed for our use during the interval a symbolical rcprc- ion of the arts and arqiiiftitifjiis of power rhich he should shew for his people, at hin st-cond ling. Therefore t am nothing; amazed to find : the exact and critical interpretation of this symbolical book doth bring forward the events before the ti