1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

cbis civil power : this aas Banaporte, the ruler of the
French netion This year d which we are now twae
ing waa the very year that the French destroyed the
power of the pope, und Boqmte began his extraordinary
caner in conquest and aatherity; and it was evident,
by hi success and fortune, that he waa daed up by
God himself for some qext and spscial m e ; and
through him, aa an imtmment, and by mew of the
French revolution, the shsckles that had bound more
than half of Eurepe in bigotry, superetition, and tyranny,
were borst asunder, and the inqaisition and Papac lat
*heir power and tenor orer the bodieu a d mint& of
men At thin time, then, oar p ecy begine, ond Bonapcute
ia the pelson designated T y the pmaoune he and
him in the prophecy : And, at the 'time of the end, shall
Ihe kuy of the south p h at him ; and the king of the
north s all come t him like a whirlwind, with
ehariots, and with~emen, and with ouny shlpa*
This is a description of sn alliance entered into by the
king of Bardinia, Italy, and Spain, in the south, and
Great Britain, in tbe north, tkr six years. Englaad engaged,
in thii treaty, to pay the king of Sardinia 200,0001.
per amam te fumkh aa army of horse and a 1 e fleet
The command of the feet my given to Lor%elson.
Various was the saccese of the allies in tJae south.
Spain had to recede, and iinally joined the French. The
k~ng ef Sadiaia had to leaae lua territories on the continent,
and shut himself up in the island of Sannia.
The king of Naples fled to the islaad of Sicily, after
making a vigoreua p h at the French, in November,
17'38, and getting possellsion of Rome, while T~rd Nolso~
took and destroyed the French fleet, near t~ mouth of
the Nile, the same year. Bat the French seon retook
Italy ; and this broke up this league, and the French
remained maaters of almost all that belonged to the
Weetern Empire ef Rome, except Great Britain. " And
he shall enter into the countriem, aad shall ouedow, and
pass over," waa literally accomplished. "He shall enter
also into the glorioua land," (or land of delight, as it
might have been translated) This, I have no doubt,
areur~ Italy- Bonspartb fought af hie moDt .bd-