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cnnrs'rs IICORD comme. 25D. 1632, which war lasted until the peace of Munster1648. The otherkingdoms of the ancient empire ofRome were more or ess drenched in blood, and civilwars, on account of their religious tenets, and contentionof their rulers and sovereign princes. '1'hese weretheheav; judgments which God saw fit to inflict uponthe king oms and states of the church of' Rome, for theinnocent blood which she had shed of the Protestantswho had protested against her cruel and blasphemous"practices. For they have shed the blood of saints andprophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, forthgr are "worthy." And the fourth angel poured out hisvi upon the sun, and power was given unto him toscorch men with fire. And men were scorched withgreat heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hathppwer over these plagues; and they repented not to giveThe sun is the great source of light and'm glory."heat, and, inprophetic language, is an emblem of theEpzpel, as exp ained in the 19th Psalm, 4--10. "Theirhasgone out though all the earth, and their wordsto the en of the world. In them hath he set a tabernaclefor the sun," &c. To " scorch men " with fire, signifiestumake men "angry; heat," uncommonly angry,vengeful, gureat malicious. T 'a vial was poured out in thelastcentury, when the ospelwas proclaimed in theseof the~beast. %Iow, duringkixgimns the greater partof lastcenturi, and in all the kingdoms where thegospelwas preae ed, there were manifested insidiousattempts and asystematic opposition against the gospelChrist, or the Holy Scriptures. This opposi-601| WIS headed by Frederick, king of Prussia, and aidedby a"lI'the wits, men ofgenius and learning; as theyiilfin Fblasphemesatlhehoisted, of all Europe an America; and in eir secretéeinhlies, or clubs, they went so far as to calculateibut# what length of time it would take for them to deemteznninatethe religion of the " Galilean andlie* 'elire iishermeng" and no writers that ever wrote%,iuch unweiried `ns, showed so much virulencename of God to such a desg'thesewriters, and none, either before or since,eve! dared tmexhibit the like; 'fAnd they re-