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l died m the sea. This intofitine judgment, this wide-spread death, this cold- blood j udgmcnt, came to pass by the exaltation of Hobespierre, whose monstrous adminUlration hath procured for it the fearful appellation of ' the reign of terror/ For sxa 1004 THb URVIKG Ur or the Et^PHRATCfl. (. tbJs also Ion]* and secret causes had been at w'ork for flevcral years the people were hardly reetrain and tbctr blood-thirsty tribunes and demago. had already taken a rich prey: but to them vial hulh no effect, which rfH[[iirelh a widely di seminattfd destrttctiveness throughout Uie w rei«tle«ft element; such a destruciivenCTs a<i came not to pai;^ till the clevaiion of Kobe^pierre to directorial throne,— The tbiid> which faUethap the Fountains and hvers of waters, and toro them into blood, hath Che place of iu visitati there where the fountain head& and weU*fiprin of the su}>erRtitioii lie, whence it is diffused the whole earth; and thig we know well is Italy, especially the sacerdotal Rtatee, and Koroe itneU which also had uo doubt been long under I operation of intidel and diAorganizing princtpl which »t«le of ihingH indeed the first vial made Miitnifest owT tlii; whole tmrtfa. But to shake disorganization and corruption, this vial bath do re«pect; being a judgment of iho sword, which shall fall in upon those ccclesiaMical »<^CTeciM and sacred ahrinea> and stain them all with bloud. And this wa^ brought to pass, by the French it l?98> wha sacked and pillaged, stew and dcfilad every sanctuarVj revolutionized Rome, and banish^ ed its pope and cardinaU: an event, the like ofl which had not happened since the time of the Goths; and not c?cn then, for they favoured the superstition which they found growing tbere,thoufli they would somewhat hnve modified its creed : I may say, which had not happened since Romr became a Christian city. — The fuurlh vial faileth upon the sun, which is the emblem of royal power and glory, cind workcth in him such baocfiil I IV.] TU£ DRYIXO DP OP TH£ KUPRRATSS. 1005 cuergYf that for genial warmth aod pleasant Ugbt, he fthootcth forth glaring, scorching, bunw iug beatm^ which scorched men mth fire. Thii is vexatious tyranny^ and grieYOUS exaction, which some single monarch hath power to spread far and wideorer the men of the earth, or Roman em- pire; and which I maysay tioBiDji^leman hath had since the days of Charlemagne and hia patadins. This conspicuoua exaltation of one man for a judgment of »coTchiiig. burning heat, over the wi<dc^ ta