Second advent library

'"Some authors say $00,000.,000.$00,000.V122Lscrunn vm.anarmy of 400,000* hoisemen, and aher along siegetook the city in the year 1453, and destroyed the EasternEmpire, which had stood more than ten centuriesfrom its foundation by Constantine.17th verse; " And thus I saw the horses in the vision,and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire,and of jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of thehorses were as the heads of lions, and out of theirmouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone." 18th"verse, By these three was the third part of men killed,by the iire, and by the smoke, and y the brimstone,which issued out of their mouths." 19th verse, "Fortheir power is in their mouth, and in their tails; for theirtails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and withthem they do hurt." In these verses which we havenow read,we areplainly informed that it was an armyof horses, and men on them, which John saw in the vision.And theimfplements and manner of hghting, suchas the trapping o their horses, and the instruments offensiveand defensive, gunpowder and guns, are as exactlydescribed as any person could describe it withoutknowing the name bi which we describe it at the presentday. Fire, smo e, and brimstone, would be themost visible com nent parts of gunpowder. Fire andsmoke we shouliim see, and brimstone we should smell.And who ever saw an army of horsemen engaged in anaction but would think of John's description, "out oftheir mouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone," andin the breech of the guns were bullets, "like heads,and with these they do hurt "? Every part of this descriptionis exactly applicable to an army of horsemenwith Hrs-arms; and what is equally strong in the evidenceis, that guns and iire-arms were invented but a.short time previous to this trump-sounding, and theTurks claimed the honor (if honor it can be called) ofinventing gunpowder and guns; and it is equally evidentby the history that guns were iirst used by theTurks at the taking of Constantinople, they hiving onesingle cannon that took 70 yoke of oxen to draw it atthe siege, as says Dr. Gill on this passage.L