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 powers shaken, convulsions of the prophetic earth, And dislocations of its governing powers; and to strengthen the saints, the consequence is shewn.  The seventh seal gave occasion to the definite results of the state of things introduced by the fifth. There were those who had come out of great tribulation, and were fully owned—their robes were “white in the blood of the Lamb.”

The seventh seal, once opened, we hear no more of the Lamb. The Church, as a dispensation, had