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V116 Lscrua: vm.this discourse; the irst four having theirto the last three under accomI|;lish-omement under Rome Pagan;Papal. These three trumpets and three woes are adescription of the judgments that God has sent and willsend on this Papal beast, the abomination of the wholeearth. Therefore we see the propriety of theof our text, language" Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of eearth," meaning the worshippers of this Papal beast, thefollowers of this abomination. The iihh trumpet alludesto the rise of the Turkish empire under Ottoman, at thedownfall of the Saracens. Ottoman under hisgovernment unitirig the four contending nations of ahometans,which had long contended for the wer during thereign of the aracen empire, viz., the gdracens, Tartars,These, allbeing by profession Ma-Arabs, and Turks.hometans, were ready to follow daring leader toconquer (and, and drive out from Asia even make excursioninto Europe) all who rofessed the Christian faith.They, having embraced &e errors of that fallen star,Mahomet, w oee principles were byconquestpromul%ted and the sword, became one and per ps the onlybarrier to the spread of the Paxil doctrine and power inthe eastem world. Here the oman Church hadheld apowerful sway over the minds and consciences long othe Christian or Greek church in the east, by the aid of theeastern emperor at Constantinople. But the Turks orOttomans, whom the Lord suffered to rise up in Bithynia,on or near the head waters of the Euphrates, as a scourgeagainst this Papal abomination, now became a check tothe Roman power; and fiom this time wemay reasonablydate the declension of Papal authority. hereforeon the sounding of the filth trumpet, Rome Papalto show a weakness which in every succeeding age beg:been more and more manifested, until her civil powerhas crumbled to ruin, and her ecclesiastical assumptionsmust sink, at the sounding of the seventh trump, to riseno more forever.In the description of these trumpetswe shall be ableto apply the prophecy, as the writer believes, to thoseevents designed by the vision which John saw.. Rev.ix.1. "And the filth angel sounded,andIsaw