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Which means that the child was preserved by the power of the Almighty.

VERSE 6. And the woman fled into (or took refuge in) the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of (or appointed by) God, that they should feed her there (support, or preserve her) a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The passage means that the child, or the seed of the woman would be fed, preserved, or protected in the wilderness, during the calamitous time mentioned here, and in various parts of the prophecy.

From the 7th to the 13th verse is Ireland. Her situation has been dreadful for some years, her sufferings therefore were " signs of the times," and foretastes, or warnings of the calamities she is to undergo. See the 7th, 8th, and 9th verses. The Michael in the 7th verse is the same Michael so frequently mentioned by Daniel.

There is a Michael spoken of by Jude, whom he styles the archangel," or a chief instrument empowered by the Supreme to execute his decrees. Read the Epistle with care, as an introduction to, or immediately preceding, the Revelations; particularly from the 14th to the 20th

verse.

The Dragon in the former part of the chapter is the same Dragon as in the after chapter, and. in other parts of the prophecy (see remarks upon the 2d verse of the next chapter): he is in this a red, or bloody one, being much engaged

in war.

It is evident by reading the various passages where the serpent is mentioned that he is the same animal as the Dragon.

Whenever the words "in heaven" are mentioned, as in the 7th, 8th, and 10th verses and other places, the passages mean an operating power proceeding from, or directed by the God

of Heaven.

VERSE 9. And the great Dragon was cast out, that old Serpent, called the Devil, and Satan ("the Devil" and Satan, "is the principle of moral evil personified") which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out unto the earth (or degraded) and his angels (his associates, or those connected) were cast out with him.

See in the 13th verse, that when he is "cast out unto the earth" how he persecutes the WOMAN which brought forth the man child.

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"The blood of the Lamb"-" the word of their testimony," and "their not loving their lives (Mr. Wakefield has it "expose their life") unto the death," in the 11th verse, means religion -an explicit declaration, or a solemn oath, and dreadful and terrible perseverance, even death; it has a strong allusion to the most calamitous parts of the third vial. How strongly this 11th verse points out the situation of Ireland, where, perhaps, four parts of the people are hostile to a system of religion imposed upon them. Let the inhabitants of Great Britain take care that the blood of the Lamb do not stain their garments. The Lamb of God was no

perseculor. Persecution is the consequence of establishments, in this case no one can doubt

it; but the meek and virtuous Lamb says, "My kingdom is not of this world, I came not to destroy men's lives but to save them." Read the former part of the 11th verse, I have not quoted it, neither the preceding one, the passages taken in connection are self-obvious.

The decision in the House of Commons, and in the House of Lords, in the eventful year 1810, has decided the "Catholic Question." I quote the concluding passage of a speech made in the former one, on Friday the 25th of May. Mr. Ponsonby pledged his reputation with the House, that should the Government of this country persist in the line of conduct they had adopted towards the Roman Catholics of Ireland, either in his Majesty's reign, or in that of some of his predecessors, such commotions would arise in that country as would either reduce it to a heap of ruins, or for ever break its connection with England." Compare the speech with the two prophetic verses as before mentioned--the 10th and 11th of the 12th chapter of Revelations.

Let it be remembered that in another case "persceution has been the cause of Establishments," for a Clergyman of the Establishment a STONE CUT OUT OF A MOUNTAIN, (refer to the prophet Daniel, and do not forget Britannia's Hierarchy; and observe that he did not cut himself out) was degraded by Dr. Porteus, Bishop of London, (who, as a branch of what is called the Upper House, has a dragonic power both spiritual and temporal) attended by his Dean, Chancellor, &c. at the Consistory Court,

Doctors' Commons, on the 20th of May, 1808, for preaching and publishing "ERROR, AND MAINTAINING HERETICAL DOCTRINE," and it was for him (the said criminal, said Sir John Nichols) either to recant or submit to the sentence which the LAW had provided for such an offence. The offender against the Establishment said he was answerable to GOD, and to him alone; and when sentence was pronounced exclaimed "God's will be done."

Another strong" sign of the times."

Ye believers in Christianity read the following:

I am the way the truth and the life.---John xiv. 6.

Britons have now been stimulated into a rage for giving assistance to Spain and Portugal, the people of which countries are the most superstitious and bigotted Catholics in Europe. What a religious absurdity, and inconsistence; history cannot produce its parallel; our own Catholic subjects are persecuted, while we, as protestants, are advocating the cause, and supporting the errors of the Church of Rome!!

The 14th verse is nearly a transcript of the 6th verse. There was given to her two wings of a great eagle (the arms of America, are two wings of a great eagle, the body being hid by a shield, whereon are the stripes of the union) that she might fly into the wilderness (America was literally a wilderness) from the face of the serpent.

VERSE 15. And the serpent cast out of her mouth (Britannia's mouth) water as a flood after the woman, that he (the serpent) might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

Which signifies that she (America) might be subdued, or brought to submission by means of a flood of arms floating on the surface of the

water.

VERSE 16. And the earth (Continent) helped the woman, and the earth (a Continental Power) opened her mouth (was free and open in giving assistance) and swallowed up the flood (of arms) which the dragon cast out of his mouth. Or in other words, that the Continent was the cause at first of the child's being separated from its parent, and afterwards that the earth, or a Continental power, delivered the child from the power of the dragon.

Take notice of the distinction there is between the woman and the serpent or dragon, both here and in other parts of the prophecy.

VERSE 17. And the dragon was wroth with the WOMAN, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ; and remember that by the 14th verse, "she (America) is to be nourished (supported, or preserved) for a time, and times, and half a time from the face of the serpent.' The period

of time so often mentioned.

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America was the child of Great Britain, "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a MAN, I put away childish things.

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