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c1n.xs'r's szcoxn course. 105this civil power: this was Bonaparte, the ruler of thoFrench nation. This year of which we are now treatingwas the very year that the French destroyed thopower of the pope, and Bonaparte began his extraordinarycareer in conquest and authority; and it was evident,by his success and fortune, that he was raised up byGod himself for somegreat a.nd special purpose; andthrough him,as an instrument, and bymeans ol' theFrench revolution, the shackles that had bound morethan half of Europe in bigotry, superstition, and tyranny,were burst asunder, and the inquisition andtheir power and terror over the bodies andPapaciyslostmin ot'men. At this time, then, our begins, and Bo-prophecy he andnaparte is the person designated y the pronounshim in the prophecy: " And, at the time of the end, shallthe king of the south push at him; and the king ot' thenorth shall come him like aagpinst.whirlwind, withchariots, and with orscmen, and with many ships."This is a description of an alliance entered into by theking of Sardinia, Italy, and Spain, in the south, andGreat Britain, in the north, for six years. England engaged,in this treaty, to pay the king of Sardinia 200,000l.r annum to furnish an armyllghe of horse and a large fleet.command ot' the fleet wasgiven to Lord elson.Various was the success of the allies in the south.Spain had to recede, and the French.iinallyjoined Theking of Sardinia had to leave his territories on the continent,and shut himself up in the island of Sardinia.The king of Naples tied to the island of Sicily, aftermaking avigorous push at the French, in November,17%, and getting possession of Rome, while Lord Nelsontook and yed the French fleet, near ue mouth ofthe Nile, the same But the French soon retookItaly; and this bro year. e up this and the Frenchremained masters of almost all leagpe, t at to thebelongedWestern Empire of Rome, except Great Britain. "Andhe shall enter into the countries, and shall overliow, andpg; qvgr," was literally accomplished."He shall enteralso into the glorious land," (or land of delight, as itmighthave been translated.) This,I have no doubt,means Italy. Bonaparte foughtsome of his most bril-