Second advent library

.What-Rome?Gone,crnrs-r's noon comma. SIBne, bthe power of earthly foa.But behold the chourch of Christ and of God, deliveredfirst from Egyptian bondage by the mighty arm ofthe God of Jacob, led by miracles through the wildernessforty years, brought into the proiuiscml land, althoughall the nations of the earth were her enemies, preservedas a nation through the rise and fall of mi hty empires,and experiencinga reverse of fortune Oli when shecourted the aid of worldly kidoms, suéering or diminutiononly when she adoptednsie more popular Yet in her lowest estate, God worship tolof heathen idolatry.his servant the prophet, that "he had reserved seventhousand that had not bowed the knee to Baal." Andif men would reason on the subject of religion as theydo on other subjects, there could not he an inlidel in theworld. For nothing is or can he more manifest thanthe miraculous interposition of Providence in the preservationof his people through the most severe trials, heaviestadlictions, and deadliest hatred of all men, that menor societies ever endured.Ourresent discourse will show us the history of thechurch Isy prophecy, through the darkest age the churchhas ever been permitted to experience since the days ofAbraham.I. I shall show what we may understand by " thewoman " in our text.U. I shall show what we are to understand by thegreat red dragon and beast.III. I shall give the history of the woman given in theof our text.chapters I . Thetime specified in the text, 1260 days, theirbe inning and end.ma we understand b woman in our text?I answer, Wa must understand the people of God, infallwges ofthe church, whether amon the Jew or Gentile:she is called a woman because sge is the spouse ofChrist; she is likewise called awonum because of her:dependence on Christ for all things. As a man is the-had of the woman, so is Christ the head over all thing:in ,the church, sa s the apostle. As the woman depeali-her husbandting a name, for food, and for raimentyso