Second advent library

212 1.2¢-runs xiv.into Piedmont' and valleys of the Alps, where it issupposed the true worship of God was retained duringthe dark ages of Papal ignorance, bigotry, and superstition.(See Milner's Church History, and Bened1ct'sHistory of the Ba that she might dy into thewildemess, into her tistsq-_" p ace," -a separation from theworld, as says the voice from heaven, " Come out of her,my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and thatye receive not of her plagues," Rev. xviii. 4.-" whereshe is nourished for a time, times,-and half atime," fedand nourished by the spirit and word of God 1260"from the face of the serpent"-from the know years. edgeof Papal Rome.Verse 15, " And the serpent cast out of his mouth watersas a flood after the woman,"-waters, in prophecy,meanspeople, Rev. xvii. 15. Therefore I understandthis prophecy to have been fulfilled when the Pope, thehead of Papal Rome, sent forth hisarmies and inquisitionto subdue the heretics, as he called them, who dwelt inthevalleys of the Alps, which was about the beginningof the thirteenth 'f that he causecentury,-might her tobe carried away of the flood"-extlerrninated and destrplyedby his armies and erse 16, imapisition." And the earthelped the woman, and theearth opened her mouth and swallowed up the floodwhich the dragon cast out of his mouth." This versewas fulfilled in the wa.rs which followed the abovementionedtime of persecution, in which the Germanprinces helped their subjects against the armies of theope, and estroyed and swallowed up many of the Papalarmies, from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.Or, as some authors have supposed, the waters whichthe cast out of his mouth was the Good oferrors drain w 'ch arose about the time of the French revolution, under the name of Deism, which was calculated todestroy the doctrine of the asiospel, they vainlysupposed, backed up by the repu lican armies o Francs,rnd alierwards by the power of Bonaparte, who washnally subdued by the combinations of the kings of theearth. But,asthis transaction seemsto me to be too