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symbol of the grtat livcfj Euphrates , ]Now, with respect to the particular politkal' power which is thus symbolized, natural saga* city alone would give the interprelatioDr by asJi< log what power hath held the Euphrvites, and tha* rogwDa roundabout i(, and h holditij> tbcm at tbo'. time of these vials. There can be no mistaki here, seeing that for the last seven ccnluncs one power only hath commanded and overruled Eu- , cspe- beloog phrates, and all the regions roundabout, cspe-^^ cially those to the west Ua-reof^ which unto the earth where these vieIb are poured out. The Turkish power began to strike in upon ^^ the eastern part of the empire, about the vcry^^^ time that Pope Gregory VIL (or Hildebraod) ob- tained in the west, the long contested triumph over ^^ emp^^rcjrs and Vings, thai is about the middlo of ^^ the eleventh century ; and from that time to thiB» they have done tlie same office of judgment over all the eastern half, which the pope engaged tiDto the beast hath done over all ^e west. For nearly eight centuries baa the river Euphrates been the proper <iymbol of ihe Turkish powcr; mnd could symbolise no otht^r political |iower upon the face of the eartb. In the timeof Isiuaii, when it is used as the symbol of tbo Assyrian power (viii. 7), it had by no means estabUabed tn^ \] THE DRTISG up Of THK EUPIIEATKS. ^^ good a claim w it hath now (n l>ft the sj-mbol of the Turkish power, Ai>d Uien-ron.\ having ascer- tained beyond a doubt that a political power is sigDififid, wc come to ibc necessary conclusion, that if these vials refer to ibe present time, or to any lime within the last eight hundred years, that power must be the Turk. Which conclusion, sa direcUTCooie at, we have every po^i^iljle me»n!i of confirming from a passage of Ibis book referred to above. " And the siictb angel sounded, and I heard a roice from tho four horns of the golden aitar which is before God, flay- ing to the sixth oogcl which bad the trumpet. Loose the fotir angels which are hound in the great river Euphratest. Ami the fuurangelt were locs47d, which wpr<? prepar«rd for an hour,andaday,BDdamonth, and a year, for to slay the third part of men," (Rev. ix- 13—15.) To perceive the force of this, you must understand that it is the sixth of a series of seren trumpets which bring judgment and woe upon a third part of ihc earth ; and extend no rther. For the earth, or Roman empire, at the time this prophecy openeth, and then only, was divided into three parts, among the sons of