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eon is darkened, and the 6ub)cctsof his kingdom gnawi their tongues for pain, Kovr^ without going m\ the application of these to the events of the yean, which is not nece^wiry l" our argiimenl prescTit, but will conic in its place, we obici that every one of them is a plague upon the and not upon the elernenls on which they are poi ertont : which fclententf are oril>n chosen afib^ing Ibe means ami esM^nUaU of hnimui life, in order by timv corruption and chanj^to $hew iw\r tin)^ versa! ibeplague* am iipon tbe men wiUiin whose province Ibey fall. Seeing theq that &Qcb of U»c prcc^^dmir vials is aUci^ded Hilh'fUighty.dcstnic- bon a»d mortal agonies of -mca, itwo^ld^beavitpy exlraordin;iiy thing itidei^d, ihut ihiKone slionLd expend iU wrath upiMiirii[>u«Kivc? uaurt. and have no etlect savtt in the drying up of a iiTor ; ceetng also Uiat each of the former viats,(thoiigli, tike ttii». throe of them fait upon the elcnaonu of nature, '* the earth,'' " the sea, " " lt*e riTers and lotiu- taia» of water;" anJ oncal»o like thi»y upon an ioipa&sivc pinoc, " th<- xc^t of tlicbvsst/') isnever- theless attended with sore and tvide-sprcad ^ri€v- i ancc unto living men, yuawirh a kind of universal ^bi.ivoe over the quarters of humau habitiitioiwM ^Bdtntin^ruished, it would indeed be iirnaEidg''.that ^B ibe sixth, which preparttb fur the Mvcnlh^ thn I nOlL direful of ail, likewise |>oured not U|H»i Mi I element of nature, die !iir, should, merely bo* \ caui^c it aUo hnih a local and elemental object, aticct no living thiugi and iuHict nogriovoncc, and effect no destruction, and accontpli&h no end of the wrath of God. rinnlly, ^hen every oiht^ place mentioned in this book, m R^tbyton, Sodom, Eftypl, and every other elen>ent, an the air, the earth, the sea, and the rivers and fountains of water, and every other object as the 5un, and the moon, and the stars; and, in ^hort, I may say every proper name contained in this book, hath an omblematical, yet a re^l signification, a myNti- cal, yet 9 visible object, which it nameth, it wonid be not only against all aense of natural t^gacityj ^fS^ TIU. tSKrtKC up OF TKK EU^Hft^TJIt^ [DAfi' but against all rules of rif^bt i&tcrpretatioQ, to gtvca literal signification to Uiis name and locality of tbo river Eufdiratca atone. But were wc so disposed to go against all sense of uoderstandini and rul«* of inlerpre-tation, ihU book itn^lF wouId:1 set us right again, wlticli in another place hatli- suffictently specified what power, what mighty power is meaut under the