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lul before the outburstin^ of the visible cAl&mity, there Bball not have been a «lent progrcvfi of the eatiies whirh are to bring it about: but I aa^ei^H that to thc^' c;iiif'eK, while y-i iiiKlixcuvercd, tli^B prophecy hath no applicatioD. but to the apparoBl event, wfaieh tbvy are worlun^ together to pn* duce ; to the cxploaion ol' the mine which halh been going on uodcr ground. Dot to the commencement and an«een progress of it. Id order to autlicnticaic and ^xemplif] great principle aud c:inon uf profiheticHl intJ talion, 1 need ^ no farther than to the&e vials, of which five hare been poured out during these laM yeant. The hrsi bein^ poun!d upon tbo earth, bringeth out a cruel sore ui^ou the men which had the murk (if the Iteast and woiffhi|)|k^tl his imsge. TbiB is that difisolntion of thi? principles of the Rooian-Catbolic faith, which bad long been aUently going on over Europe, but did not reveal itself until its set period of I2Q0 years beioi; accodi* A aau terpi?" 4 IV,] TKK DKVING UP 09 THE RUPUKATCS. 1008 pushed, in ihe French RL-volutbn it became ma- nifest to every eye, and sensible to every nifttt'n feeliDff. how relaxed were the bonds of ibc Papal yoke, and how ready the people vero to cast it oil'. The pnociples oi corruptioa and dissolutiou bad lonj; been working in ihc constitution ; but to (his silent opemtiiin the prapliecy bath n«j reference whatever It it only when they break out into a visible Bore that it becomes app}icable: na>\ the «ymbo), by usin^ tbe word " earth," requires that it should not yet be couvuUed by any commutton, but grin aitd solid like the dry land. Not ao the necond vial, which Ih poured out upon the sea; wliii-h becauic ]i» tlie bluud of » deail mmi, Hud esery living: thing di^d in tbe sea. Tbe sea is an emblem ol' a troubled* and restless, andconvulsed. and revolutionised condilion.fiucb as thc(*tnpirc was in at tlie time the beast with ten crowned horns, came forth ouCot'the sea; thatis. while itwaatosfied and convulsed and ov^rwhehned by the (Jothic na- tions, out of which chaotic state it took the Pa|>al form and stability, in tbe tiiiieof Charlemaj^ne, and hath retained it until this second vial, where wo find it to be sea again. Sometime after the sore hud sliewn itself upon the men of the earth, we should look for some part of it becoming sea, which almost insttantaneotisly I'ollowed in repub- lican Francr; wlit-tu ihcrtftirr we. ct^nclnile this second vial was poured out, which turncil it« waters into tbe blood of a dead man* and every living sou