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ona^_ its own steady paci? ? There may have been a alo^H process i^oing on out of «igbl» but Uic lime and ^ftveut which answercth to the vial must be a most ml acceleration of it : or tliere muy have a balance between the forocs that upbnld, and forces that subvert; the Ulter grailujilly gaii upon the other, but the time of the vial is tba time of judi^mcnt. when the de^roying power, havingforced the barrtcm, burutctb in like a deluge 1 .jai! 3 mosft iib^ iiua|H IV.J TMK DRYIXG Ur Oir Tilt EUPHRATES, 1007 upon all the 9Ut«% : oiherwise there would be no ehmrader of vrrath, do vi^ittition uf jiniffrt^ent in iht^e vial«, which nre bo portentoutiK bruugbi forward aa filling up the wmth of God, and coo-* talnjn^ his serca last and most direful pla^M upon the earth. It muKt he such an event in Turkey, as that uuivcrsal dissolution ot the bonds ofreHgiofi and society which ev^ry man felt with fthrinkini? horror at the epoch of the French Revo* lutioo ; fiuch an event as happened unto France^ whose 1and-mark$ nnd shores of containin^f govern^ ment were swept away, aod a cold-blooded and wide-spread niaAsacrc of human hvcs was pcrpc- tnitj-d cfiiriii^ ihe reign of len-otj — such an never WHS birard of before nor since, under any kind of government whatever; or such a» came upon the priesthood of Itily, spoiling iheir KQiicluane^, extinguishing Ihcir power, and obliterating the very form of their hoary tymnny ; euoh as had not teU there 8iDoc the overthrow of paifamam: it must he tin event corresponding in magnitude to ihal ftcorchinjf tyranny which hefel all the kiBf^dotna of Papal Europe under the imperial usurpation of Napoleon; hein*; such a judjiment of absolute power as thoy bnd not lelt since Cliarlcmagne: it must be such a reverse upon Turkey, as, making alJowancc for the difference of the symbols, will figure by the side of that inva^^ion and long occu- pation of France and her cupitul by iU*^ ainne:^ of *ber conquerors. Now tf all these are most par- ticular and famous evenlK, and awful judgments in the history and experience of the places on which they fell,— second to none in their annals^ and hardly equalled by any*— we ought to expect the same characteristic fulfilment of the lOOb IU£ DUTJNC^ UP OK TllK tVFUUATZS, [ mxth ml, which w<^ have now inofit clearly mitied has for its object the Turkish emjiire: nolMnf^ of a different character, oothing le BtnkiD^, nothing less awfuJ. wilt answer to i place : it must be 6uch a thiag aj never before occtined in the auQals of that peopie^ wh