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me of their literal accomplishment: that in the symbol the sun becomes hhick as sack- cloth of hair, and the moon in changed into blood, and the stars of hearcn fall unto the earth, before it becomes so in the letter; and that it hath be- le 90 in the symbof, is proof to me that it shall '^become so in the letter; and so of the river 'Euphrates, thai it should have a sjmbolicai dry- ^jngup before the literal one comctb. is the same 'ConfirmalioQ of my faith. Ill support of this inference of natural sa* gacity exercising itself to discover the obstacle, from the consideration of that which is opposed; we have now to consider what is to be gailiered from the context, and the parallel passages of Scripture. The seven vials, of which this poured out on the river Kuphrates is one, aie declared to be " vials full of the wnith of God " (xv. 7), and to contain "the seven last plagues in which is fillod up the wrath of God" (xv- 1), and the angds arc commanded to go their ways and pour them out upon the earth; that portion of the world which wa^ under the power of the Romans, where the scat of the apostate church was appoint* -ed to be. Now, the other plagues which are jeconied in iUi» ,bo(>k» ii.amely, Oic nexm wtmh and the seven trnimfjcl», arc in> Jcj* tUunr,iBi direful and awful jodgirfinU upgii ,4Lie a[io«t3 cburcli aitd eni[>ire, stft ajiy piieby ;& t^tance oft! eye may discover. Of the Mmc itind-M^c fihuitJ< therefore conclude these vialf^ tbe tail fieveo Cjod » pla;{uca to be. And wlica we go to wock] 4Dd examine iheni, we fiud, that thcfirsi, poured out, iuiincdiatc>1y brought forth a noi: and grievous sore upor. the mfii which hod il mark of the bcfi^^t, ar.d upon ihein which uor^lnj ped his image; that ifi, upon all ihu^^e of tho Ui\ kiD<;dom8 who bud submitted to the Papacy, corruption of their moral coD^titulion^ and di lutiou of all the jirimnple?* vhich had houod tl to^rether The second us poured out u|>oik U^ a restless and troubled portion of the botinds sited. Dud hriugcthwiih.it a unirerBal death. Tl third upon the rivers and fountaina of waters, i vrcll-heads of the Apoi^ta^y, and lurtift thetn blood, wlicrcby theapc^laTc priiwis, who bad dii the blood of saintA and pioplieis, tutd blood drink. The fourth j« poared out upon thenua* eye and Etoiil of the ft\ttcfn, its light and h^ and converts it into a glaring, baneful, scorchii death'fire to all undirr his bc^mii. The fifth poured out upon the Heat m throne of Ibe beast, and the lighi of the »un which shone ther