Second advent library

Uluernu xv.Hated not to give him the glory." l believeit is notown, that any of these principal deistical writers wereconverted to the religion ofJesus Christ before their death,togive God the lory. Yet I think we have someaccountof many 0% them dying in horror, at the frightfulview of the future, in consequence of their blasphemouslives against the majesty of the King of kings. Therelbre,in the history of the Deists in the eighteenth century,we have the history of the plague of the fourthvial. "And the fifth angel poured out his viul upon theseut of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness,and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemedthe God' ot" heaven, because of their pains and theirsores, and repented not of their deeds." "The seat ofthe beast " must mean those ten onkingdoms which thewoman sitteth, which is ancient Rome. "Full of darkness"must mean full of wickedness, confusion, andevery evil work. "Gnawed their tongues for pain"shows shame, disgrace, and disappointment. This vialwaspoured out in the French revolution, about 1798.When Bonaparte began his extraordinary career, exaltedto the pinnacle of power, he dethrones the pope, (whosepower and authorit had made kings und emperors quailat his feet, had who ruled over the nations with despoticsway for more than 1200 yearst,})land makes Rome thesecond city of France ; conquers e ancient monarchies ;deluges every country with blood; masters every king;gathers spoils from every land, and humbles cities in theust;changes the laws of kingdoms, and destroys themost sacre constitutions of the Roman states. In thisrevolution among the Roman kingdoms, and under thisvial, the bastile was demolished, the inquisition destroyed,torture suppressed, and the power of the Papal clergyrestrained. Their kingdoms were full of darkness ; theyweretroubled, chated, and agrieved; thousand plotswerelaid; many times they confederated against him,the master spirit of the times; but they prevailed not,until this vial had its accomplishmenton the seat of thebeast. Yet, aher all this wonderful display of God'supon thc beast and kingdoms of ancientQrdgments ome, they repented not, but, Pharaoh-like, they blas-