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o we put in po»!»e«sion under the sixth tnini|ket, hare not till now been disturbed by any vi^iuti of Divine judgment. And now, when under sixth vial it comes in such a series, it must be to keeping with the rcat, and proportionate cnmu!< whicli thai einpire by seven centu cruel opprcMstons hath heaped upon itseK. fore i IV- Having thus ascertained the object wbieb the vial is poured out to i^e the Turkiahpower, and that it must commence in «ome signal and natable event, and be oontlnued by a proceaa e^H slow coDfeumption, untrl it» [lovri^rM vtiiI re«uurc«^^l and means of resistance have all ebbed away, we now gt> into the history of that great and valorous people, lo sec whether any such cvonl hath occurred to tbcm or not. And here 1 miM follow down the history of thin scourge of God» from the time they were called to waste and de- stroy until this hour; in which we sliall see a wonderful pa^ of God's righteous severity re- vealed. They were called upon by hira to sweep with the besom of destruction all that third part of the earth which had corrupted the faith with e««ry heresy, which was becorne a nest of the moet false and corrupt opinions^ instead of being an flrk of testimony for the tnie faith of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. As the Lord, many centuries before, had called upon tbc abcp- IV.] rHE DBrilTG Vf OF TH£ EUPHBATBft. 1000 herd tribes of OerinaQy and Scytbia to subren the embattled stmuf^h of the wcftera Roman Empire, outof whichtribe^hc made thehornd of the bca&t, or the ten Goltiic kin^^doms, to arise ; so nov, wlien htt is about to submerge in a wa of bluod ihe wbule CasU.-ni «-ni|iirt, rruiii liw Dauubc to the Euphrates, be cbooneth u tribe of jhhepberda who direlt. or rather w&jidered, over tbo wido plains of Tartary, beyond the bouuds of tbo Perfiinn and Mobammedaii kingdoms. The mighty etn* pirc of the Hultnns and the Caliphs extclKicd aaa barrier to keep ibeni off from the Roman border ; and a^ if to magnify and stren]^ten Uiis bulwark, m order to ahew hifi ^eat mifr'^t in ovcrtbrowinp it> the Sultans of Qasna had conquered and en- riched tbemflclrcs with the spoils of India, and were exceedingly exalted in power and might: of thcKe Tutks there wexe hiil about three thoiisaDd in thr service of Ihosi; iniglity conquerors, and the rest of these tribes were unknown sfaeplwrds; and there wanted hut twenty years to run ibeir course until the time that th^ Lord had summouod tbcm to appear and strike the iirst blow ag:ainst tlie Eastern empire^ or the thir