BRIEF UPON SUCH PARTS OF THE REVELATION AND OTHER PROPHECIES AS IMXEDIATELY REFER TO THE PRESENT TIMES. WITH THE PROPHETIC, or, ANTICIPATED HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. TO WHICH IS ADDED, BY JOSEPH GALIOWAY. 'IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed 1802 FOR DANIEL FENTON, PAGE A summary of the prominent Events con- tained in the Apocalypse ..i... 1 The prophetic History of the Beast of the The Reformation foretold ....... 145 The Beast of the Earth ........ 192 A prophetic Introduction to the Seven Via als of the Wrath of God ....... 254 Vial 1,-On atheistical France 271 Vial 5,–On the Atheistical and Revolutionary Republic . . 306 Vial 6,- On the Turkish Empire, Vial 7,-On the ungodly of every The arvful Sentence of Divine Justice pas- sed upon the ungodly Confederacy, and the last Summons from Christ, to those that fear God, to separate themselves The imprisonment of Satan, and the first INTRODUCTION. ITHERTO Commentators upon the APOCALYPSE, seem to have done more harm to the cause of Christianity than good. They have rather thrown this sacred part of the word of GOD, this Corner Stone of the Gospel of Christ into the back ground, than brought it forward into that conspicuous point of view which its excellence and high importance in the great Work of Redemption manifestly require. Their method of unfolding its different subjects has been so indigested, loose, and desultory, that instead of removing the veil of allegory in which, for the most part, it was intentionally clothed by its divine Author, they have inadvertently involved it in a Wilderness of dark Confusion. Indeed, judging from their comments, they do not seem to have undera stood either the scope, design, or end for which it was given ; but to me it seems impossible for a serious and attentive mind duly to consider it, without perceiving that it is, upon a general view of it throughout what it imports to be ; |