1 ne reader will recollect, that chapters 6, 11, 12, 13, relate to the occurrences which were to happen prior the rife of the kingdom of God. We fhall here prefent him with the refult of the different dates, which e have treated of in the chapters abovementioned. By the following ftatements it will be perceived, at we conftrue the Wilderness-Ruffia; the Woman-the Gofpel; and the Bottomlefs Pit-France; ecause in the latter kingdom, we have supposed, that the empire of the beast has arisen. RUSSIA. Two dominions 536 Nourished for a time 360 360 In order to enable the reader to draw his own conclufions from the above periods, we have felected the ollowing events from TALMA. At the fame time it may not be unneceffary to remind him, that we have onfidered, that the killing of the witneffes was to happen on the rifing of the laft horn, and that their odies were to lie in the streets for 3 years from that period. TALMA, page 82. May 26, Decree, that the Ecclefiaftics declare to what foreign country they mean to retire, when they were to be furnished with a paffport, and to quit the district within twenty-four hours. Page 83. June 13. The King refused to sanction the decree against the refractory priests, and the camp of 20,000 men, near Paris. Page 84. June 17. The High National Court of France, pass a decree, which declares the two brothers of the French King, and the Prince de Condé, deprived of the title of French citizens, and confifcates their effects to the nation. Page 92. Aug. 9. The Affembly, confidering the present dangerous fituation of the capital, decreed, that till order be restored, there fhould be a permanent fitting. A bill was posted, entitled "The Tocfin of Liberty." Page 95. Auguft 12. The King, Queen, and, Royal Family fent to the Temple. Page 101. September 21. The Convention decreed, that Royalty is abolished in France. Page the fame, September 22. The Convention decreed, that all the public acts fhall be dated, "The first year of the French Republic." DANIEL, ch. 12, Ver. 10. "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, but the wicked fhall do wickedly: and none of the wicked fhall understand, but the wife fhall understand.” By this we are to understand, that men will continue to worship the image of the beast; We have, therefore, extracted from Revelation, as a warning to those, who are fupporters of republican doctrines, the denunciation of the Almighty against fuch perfons, in the hope of contributing to the decrease, if not to the entire deftruction of their evil practices. REVELA REVELATION, CHAP. XIV. Verse 9 "And the third angel followed them, faying, with a loud voice, if any man worship the beaft, and his image, and receive his mark, in his forehead, or in his hand. Verse 10. "The fame fhall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture, into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimftone in the prefence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb." Chap. xv. v. 2. "And I faw as it were a fea of glass, mingled with fire; and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the fea of glass, having the harps of God." Chap. xix. v. 20. and with him the false "And the beast was taken, prophet that wrought mira cles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were caft alive into a lake of fire burning with brimftone." Chap. xx. ver. 4 "And I faw thrones, and they fat upon them, and judgment was given unto them and I faw the fouls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jefus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with Chrift a thousand years.' CHAP. XVII and XVIII. IN the first of these chapters we have two figurative expreffions, viz. "whore" and "woman;' and in the last verse of the same chapter, we are told that woman' is the representative of that great city it may therefore be prefumed that these chapters allude to two cities, the description of which is given in both, together with the distinct punishments allotted to each. The emblematical expreffion, "fcarlet coloured beast with ten horns" which has hitherto been confidered as defcriptive of the Roman Empire, points out the situation of thefe cities. "And |