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

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LECTUaE XV.
nted not to give him the glo ." I believe it is not
gown, that any of these pinciz deistical writ. wem
converted tothe religion of Jesus Christ before their death,
to give God the glory. Yet I think we havg eome account
of many of them dying in horror, at the frightful
view of the future, in consequence of their blasphemow
lives against the majesty of the King of kinga Themfore,
in the history of the Deists in the eighteenth century,
we. have the history of the plague of the f d
vial. 'c And the fiRh angel poured out his vial upon the
seat of the beast ; and his kingdom was full of darknq
and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed
the God of heaven, because of their paina and their
sores, and repented not of their deedan The seat of
'the beast" must mean those ten kingdom on which the
woman sitteth, which is ancient Rome. U Full of darkness"
must mean full of wickedness, confueion, and
every evil work. Gnawed their tongues for pain *
shows shame, dispe, and disappointment. Thie vial
was poured out m the French revolution, about 1796.
When Bonaparte began his extraordinary career, exalted
to the pinnacle of power, he dethrones tbe pope, (whoee
power and authority had made kings and emperors quail
at his feet, who had ruled over the nations mth despotic
sway for more than 1200 years,) nnd makes Rome the
second city of h c e ; conquers the ancient monarchies ;
deluges every country with blood ; masters every kinq;
fi"ther3 spoils from every land, and humbles cities in the
ust; chan es the laws of kingdoms, and destroys the
most sacrefconstitutions of the Roman statea In thii
revolution among the Roman kiilgdom, and under this
vial, the bwtile was demolished, tl~e inquisition destroyed,
torture suppressed, and the power of the Papal clergy
restrained. Their kingdoms were full of darknesa ; they
were troubled, chafed, and grieved; a tho~lsnnd plota
were laid ; many times they confedcroted ngaimt Iim,
the master spirit of the ti~nes ; but they retniled not,
until this vial hnd its acco~nplishn~cnt on $13 k t of the
beast Yet, ~nor all this wonderful tlisplay of G ~ J
udplents Iyon the beast nntl kingdoms of ancient
home, U~ey repented not, but, Phunoh-like, they blu