VERSE 21. And a mighty angel* (or powerful messenger) took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea (or river), saying, Thus with violence (the action of the angel causing a great crash) shall that great city Babylon (modern) be THROWN DOWN, and shall be found no more at all.

VERSE 22. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee.

VERSE 23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom, and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy MERCHANTS were the great men of the earth: for by thy Sorceries (MAGICAL GOLD) were all nations deceived.

VERSE 24.

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

* Probably the same MIGHTY ANGEL as he in the first verse of the tenth, and the first verse of this eighteenth chapter.

The white horse," and the sitter upon him in the first seal appears again in the 19th chapter, and in the latter part of it the beast and the false prophet," but so as to preclude remark, any further than that the passages must be taken as connected with, and corroborations of, former parts of the prophecy; and that when such strong expressions are made use of as is found in the latter part

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of

of the 20th verse, they mean that the human being, or beings, will meet their dissolution contrary to the common course of nature.

Verse 17th. And I saw an angel standing in the sun ("The French nation choose the sun for their device, being, as they imagined, a symbol best suited to display the glory of their nation, and of their favourite King Louis the XIVth.")

Compare the 18th verse with respect to the words "eat the flesh," with the 16th verse of the 17th chapter. "Understand the matter and consider the vision.".

Daniel.

The 20th chapter produces an after vision, where the angel" laid hold on the DRAGON and BOUND him a thousand years." Verse 2.

"Understand the matter and consider the vision."

Daniel.

The two last chapters are a fulfilment of the ancient prophecies respecting "the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem," as predicted by Daniel and the other prophets.

Verse 10 of this chapter. "Seal not the sayings of this book (evidently meaning that they would be revealed at a future period) for the time is at hand."

Verse 12. Behold I come quickly (the expression is found three times in this chapter; see remarks upon the latter part of the 9th chapter of Daniel) and my reward is with me (yes, my great and exalted, master, thou bringest thy reward with thee in consequence of thy obedience) to give to every man according as his WORK shall be.

I therefore assert with a degree of confident boldness, that the system of my great and honoured master is a system of duties, and that in consequence of, and in proportion to our virtues, we shall be happy both here and

witchcraft that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.-Nahum iii. 4.

hereafter, and that our works, and WORKS ONLY, will be acceptable at the great and final audit.

"He which testifieth these things saith surely, I come quickly. Amep. Even so come Lord Jesus."(Verse 20).

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There are a few trifling alterations from the manuscript that was sent to Mr. Addington, but they do not in degree affect the general tenor of the prophecy. finished with saying, "To conclude with a few pages. of remarks."

REMARKS.

"It is natural to expect upon great occasions an extraordinary interposition by revelation, miracle, or prophecy."

I HAVE for eight or ten years had an impression on my mind, that passages in these chapters applied to this island; they have gradually unfolded themselves, and are now given to the public: how far I have been aided by a Divine Being is not for me to say. His will be done.

I trust the chapters treated upon are not to be taken in their full literal sense, but as symbolical of the displeasure of God. It appears by the latter part of the eighteenth to amount nearly to annihilation; and in the twelfth verse of the sixteenth chapter, "every island fled away, and the mountains were not found." These very strong expressions can surely only mean terrible judgments; for the following verse says "and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail for the plague thereof was very great." If so, the former verse could not mean annihilation, for in that case men would not be found to blaspheme God for "the plague of the hail."

A late providential discovery for the preservation of the human species, gives us a farther hope that these alarming intimations are merciful warnings though terrible judgments; for it cannot be supposed that the Almighty would interpose in this manner if a complete destruction was to take place. The public will know I allude to the cow-pock inoculation, which I have practised amongst these "cloud capt hills" for some years, and for a few of the last with a view to ascertain how far small- pox extermination could be had, and with the idea of its, some years hence, filling up a chasm in population, for none are so likely to be preserved under sword calamities as the young. I have inoculated 4945 and been very successful, not having heard of a single young person capable of work that has been deprived for one day of his, or her employment; and I should have considerably increased my numbers had it not been for the improper interference, and wrong actions of Apothecaries: and I now declare extermination of the small-pox impossible, their interested views being an insurmountable bar to it.

I have every reason to believe I am right in my general positions respecting the elucidation, viz. that the chapters treated upon are applicable to this country, and that the calamities we are to experience, as there pointed out, are now commencing; how far particular parts may be just or erroneous must be left for time to determine. If then the general positions are right, what an evident proof of the authenticity of the