Second advent library

W6uzcruu anlikewise the church on Christ, for a name-" And thoushalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of theLord shall name," Isa. lxii. 245. "And they werecalled Christiane first at Antioch." For food,our text"says, that they should feed her there," &c. Theprophet Isaiah says, xl. 11, °' He shall feed his flock as ashepherd." John vi. 53,"Except e eat the flesh ofthe Son of Man, and drink his have no life inyou." For raiment, bloodgie the psalmist, spe ing of the church,says, "She shall be brought to the in raiment ofneedlework; her clothing king is wrought go d." The angelto the seven churches says, "He that overcometh, thesame shall be clothed in white raiment." Andagain,"I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, comingdown from God, out of heaven, prepared as a brideadorned for her husband." This shows conclusivelythat the people of God are comparedto a woman. Andnow let meshow,II. What we may understand by the great red dra nand beast that persecuted the church, or woman that ggdinto the wilderness.The reddragsn is the same poweras Danie1's fourthkingdom, the oman, for the description is the same,having ten homs; his character, too, is the same. Danielsays he should break in pieces the whole earth, andstamp the residue with his feet; that he should workdeceitfully, &,c. John says that the dragon drew athird part ot' the stars of heaven, and did cast themto the earth, and that he deceiveth the whole world.The Roman government, then, must be the apocalypticalred dragon beast, havingseven heads and ten horns.The Roman power is called red, either because of theirpersecuting and blood spirit, or on account of theiremperors wearing purpha robes, when dressed in state;eithermilght be sutiicient to entitle them to the appellation"re ." "Dragon" is undoubtedly given the Romangovernment from the fact that the R.omans changedseven dif-from theirtheir forms of govemmentso often,ferent fomis in about five hundred years, havingi andeceitful, cunning, intriguing manner by which they obtainedpower over the nations around them, that they