'Tis He, the Lamb! To Him we fly,
While the dread tempest passes by:
God sees his Well-beloved's face,

And spares us-IN OUR HIDING PLACE!"

H. K. WHITE.

10. Another mark of identity in this symbolical beast, is its persecutions. "And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them" (ver. 7). Daniel, in nearly the same words, says (chap. vii. 21), "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them." All the persecutions which Papal Rome stirred up against the Lord's people, were carried into execution by the secular arm of the empire. The most dreadful and bloody mandates that were accustomed to be issued from the Vatican, found a ready obedience in all ranks of persons throughout the ten kingdoms of the empire. It was the secular power, symbolized by this ten-horned beast, that waged such destructive and cruel war with the Albigenses and Waldenses; with the Protestants, at various periods, in France, in the Netherlands, in Spain, in Germany, and in Britain. And the truth of this assertion is so indelibly written and interwoven with the history of modern Europe, that it is impossible to have escaped the notice even of the most superficial reader.

11. And, lastly, a further mark of identity is in the following paragraph, describing its most

extensive dominion: "And power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations (ver. 7). In illustration of this particular it is only necessary to name, that the greater part of the habitable globe has been, and in a great degree still is, subject to one or other of these ten kingdoms. Nearly the whole of North and South America, the East and West India Islands, the vast territory of Hindostan and Upper India, parts of Africa, and the coasts of New Holland, have all owned the sway of either England, France, Portugal, or Spain, and more or less of the other kingdoms: thus fulfilling, in a very remarkable manner, the first direct prophecy with regard to the nations: "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant" (Genesis ix. 25, 27).

(PERIOD VII.)

Third Aspect.

POPERY AS IT APPEARS IN THE DEPRESSED CONDITION OF THE CHURCH: GIVEN IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL TERM OF A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREE-SCORE DAYS.

CONTENTS.

The Lord's people form two distinct churches-Their depressed condition-The symbols of these two churches -Their importance in the eye of God-What is to be understood by their being two witnesses-The Waldenses and Albigenses-Their origin-A church within the Popish apostasy-The English church consists of two witnesses-The three years and a half persecution of the Lord's two witnesses-Infidelity-The death of the two witnesses-Their great deliverance-The Saviour's second coming-Elijah a type of these witnesses -A Revolution-The fall of Turkey-The correct date of that event.

" AND I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREE-SCORE DAYS, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive-trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindred and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven IN A CLOUD; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and behold, the third woe cometh quickly."-REV. xi. 3—14.

SECOND PROPHECY.

"AND there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREE-SCORE DAYS."-REV, xii. 1-6.

THIRD ASPECT-FIRST PROPHECY.

In the verses immediately preceding the first of these two prophecies it was predicted that the "outer court," or the visible professing church, should be given to the "Gentiles," or to Paganizing Christians, during the whole of the 1260 years; and that during this period the members of the true spiritual church, who worshipped within the temple, should be "measured," or set apart from the rest of the world. We are now, in this first prophecy, informed of many particulars of the real situation of this spiritual church, and of these true worshippers. They are said to consist of two distinct

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witnesses," who are to prophesy—that is, to bear their testimony to the faith and love of Jesus" clothed in sackcloth," or in a depressed and sorrowful condition, during the whole of the tyrannical dominion of the Papacy and the Papal nations. These two witnesses, we are told, are "two olive-trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the whole earth." In other words, they are two churches. "A candlestick and an olive-tree"