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( 5 ) and have been led to mark the following observations, which, I could wish you, and all who read or hear the word of God, to consider. As I have never seen any of them in print, I shall begin with

, xvi. 17.

Where you will observe it written, that the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air, when a great voice came out of the temple in heaven, saying, “It is done,” which I take to be, the reign of Antichrist is at an end, the oppression of the true church is at an end.

is followed in the 18th verse, with voices, and thunders, and lightnings, which, I take, to relate to the cries and pleadings against popery and absolute power throughout Europe, and especially in France, before the late Revolution; and the thunderings and lightnings to be the struggles and battles with fire-arms, bringing about and accomplishing that great earthquake or revolution, which in many circumstances, excels all other shakings or commotions that have been since mankind were upon earth.