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`*clans-r's sscosn comlle.»Rleates the dissolution of the body atllicted, and that theconstitution islaborinfggunder some inward disease, oraifected by contagionm without. It is therefore a litemblem to re resent the exposure of the corruptions ofthe church of? Rome, and breaking out of those loathsomediseases of internal abominations which had beenhid for ages from the world by the cunnin cratiinessof this Papal beast.The men spoken of in sais passageare those whoworship the beast, and who aret e professedfollowers of this corrupt society, and all who liveunder the influence and control ofthe idolatrous city ofnations, and who tradic in her indulgences and abominablepractices. This vial then began to be poured outwhen the Protestants first publishedto the world thecorruptions and abominable practices of the church ofRome, when the world to see the noisome andsoresgrievous that covere begun the men who pretended topreach or proclaim the doctrine, laws, or commands oi'this beast. And of course this wasplague sent on theRomish church about the year A. D. 1529, under thepreaching oi' Luther, Calvin, and others who opposed andosed the corruptions ofthe church of Rome."Worse 3, "And the second angel pouredout his vialupon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man;and every living soul died in the sea." The sea, inprophetic language, is the centre of somtnrgreat nation,or society of men, as in a restless and ulent state;and the things living in the sea, are the persons livingunder the wer or control of this nation, or society.Lining soul"denotes those persons who have been homof the Spirit, and are in possession of that living faithin love for all men. "As the blood of a deadman." Godbznd ere issomethinivery striking in this figurenatan ordinary dgure of lood, which denotes war andriorlnl controversy, but cold, corigealed blood; the blooda dead mandenoting a massacre in cool blood, withofthose murdered. ThisDilf any resistance on epartvialwas, then, poured out in France, the principal kingdominthe Roman ten horns, in the year A. D. 1572 atthe 'massacre of the St. Bartholomew'|Hngnenotsone|Q,il»|l50,0wwere slaxninouenight, and thestreets19 °