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. lst.caaurr's ucoim comma. 195Their history, contained in Rev. xi. 5-13, inclusive.Let'me read and explain. 5th "verse, If any manwill hurt them, iire proceedeth out of their mduth, anddevoureth their enemies , and if any man will hurt them,he must in this manner be killed." If any man shall addor take away from the book or revelation of God,"Godshall take away his part out of the book of life, and outof the holy city;" and "God shall add unto him thenlagues that are written in this book." This verse hasheen verified in ourday in the history of deistical France.The rulers of France, in the revolution, proclaimed awar of extermination against the iishermen's Bible, asthey were pleased to term it; and within six earstheyexterminated themselves, the republic, and alymo t theirprinciples. The kingdom was deluged in blood ; anarchywas the law ofthe land ; and the judn-ments denouncedby this word were literallyaccomplizihed, so that deiststhemselves stood appalle at the horror and confusiontheir ownprinciples had brought upon their heavendaringcrimes.6th "verse, These have power to shut heaven, that itrain not in the days of their prophecy." Allusion is herehad to " the three years and a halfi" in the da s ofwhen the heavens were shut' up, Luke iv. ig, Elgah, whic isthe same time the witnesses prophesy clothed in sackcloth,1260 days, forty-two months, thirty days to a.month; that being common time, and this prophetic.The Scriptures are the means which God has made useof to convertsingers from error to truth, from sin tonqrteo' usness, an to convey the knowledge of grace,(w ich in this verse is compared to rain,) to a lost andworld. During the reign of anti-Christ, 1260yeanyvthe church in the wildemese, and the two witnessesclothed in sackcloth the same 1260 years, thedoctrine of in Jesusgrae Christ was but partiallytaught.. Muc of the professedly Christian world havebeen taught that doing penance, purchasing indulpnceqobeyingthe holy Catholic church, or performingoutward act for pardon, would answer them heavenBut when the Scriptures began to bemad an understood, and where the doctrine of grace in