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Constantine, of which that now occupied by the Turkish power doth very nearly represent one. It was then aUo divided into four pre- lures, of which Italy and Africa together tituted oot\ and to Ihifl reference is made in the fourth seal. To the former division the tnunpets have rcfipoct, and therefore they all apeak the language of a third. Now this sixth umpet is the last of the series, (for the seventh is not recorded, being in truth the samo with the seventh seal, which is opened in the seven vials, ^ which ibU sixth only bath reference lo the |B«ons ff^' 994 THE D&riH& UP OF TUr. ECrHHATtl- [, fFurk), Slid that ihini part uf tl>c vartb is lei under its woe. until the seventh trumpet be blo' which brings in the year of tiic redeemed (xi* 15^ Tbereibrc, as the Turk was tlie last inrader of £a3t. who oppre&»eid it, and still broodetfa over like a deadly incubus, wc hare c\Try rea&on conjecture, that it is this power called upou aj ■wakened by the blast of the trtimfvet of tli« uxi an^el, and which must be removed before year of the redeemed come. ?iow, ^inff in examine the churactcr of the power which tntmpet bringeth up, wc find thfit it ia fourfol and chained upon Euphrates, whence it is loi at the Dirinecommaiidmetjt. From the Eupfarati accordingly tliey came in upon tlte empire, in A»ia the GreateTp made their power 6rst to felt. They fell iato four parts; the eultanii i- of Bagdad, iJamascuA, Aleppo, aad Iconti They were prepared for a year, a month, a dai «ihI an hour, to ajay tike third part of men. accordingly they took 301 yearn, which is phetic year 360, and a prophetic mom and a day I, and a fraction more, from time they first struck in upon the empire in until the year 1443, when they took ConstantK' nople, and utteriy cxtingui^hpd Uie political ex- istence of the Christian nalions of the East ; who had been but hurt under the former, that is, tba^ Saracenic woe,— which did onlylnake them tii^^ butary, and that for five months, or 150 years. They were chiefly horAcmen* and almont iiua- mcrahle. The ruhiiim which tht^y mont ul in their dress, verc scarlet, blue, and yellow, tl fire, and jacinth, and brimstone of th€ vtsi Tfaey had a poison of false doctrine b their taik, and out of their mouth went the tire and snhoke IV.] nir J>»rixG UP OK tnr- £uphjiati:j^. 995 »nd bn0i4l<»ou ur tbut mi^biy nrtillery wbich lliey used in the sietre, and each* and prostration yf Conataiitiuopk. Am\ und«r their gncvvu^ yiikc till this dfty doth alt the CAStem part of CliritteD* dani I