BRIEF

COMMENTARIES

UPON SUCH PARTS OF

THE REVELATION

AND OTHER

PROPHECIES

AS IMMEDIATELY REFER TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

WITH THE

PROPHETIC, or, ANTICIPATED HISTORY

OF THE

CHURCH OF ROME.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A PILL FOR THE INFIDEL AND ATHEIST

BY JOSEPH GALI.OWAY.

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IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON: Printed 1802:

TRENTON, reprinted by JAMES ORAM,

FOR DANIEL FENTON,

: Henkels

11-13-24
10603

24.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

PAGE

A summary of the prominent Events con-

tained in the Apocalypse

•

.....

The prophetic History of the Beast of the

bottomless Pit

The Reformation foretold

1

50

145

192

A prophetic Introduction to the Seven Vi-

als of the Wrath of God

The Seven Vials poured out-

254

Vial 1,-On atheistical France 271

Vial 2,-On Rome, and the Pow-

Vial 4,-On the Monarchy, and

King of France

..

Vial 5, On the Atheistical and

296

Vial 6, On the Turkish Empire,

and Mohamedan Apostacy 311

Vial 7,-On the ungodly of every

Denomination, preparatory

to the coming of Christ to

The awful Sentence of Divine Justice pas-

sed upon the ungodly Confederacy, and

the last Summons from Christ, to those

that fear God, to separate themselves

The imprisonment of Satan, and the first

Resurrection and Reign of Christ

316

352

372

INTRODUCTION.

HITHERTO Commentators upon the ApoС

ALYPSE, seem to have done more harm to the cause of Christianity than good. They have rather thrown this sacred part of the word of GOD, this Corner Stone of the Gospel of Christ into the back ground, than brought it forward into that conspicuous point of view which its excellence and high importance in the great Work of Redemption manifestly requireTheir method of unfolding its different subjects has been so indigested, loose, and desultory, that instead of removing the veil of allegory in which, for the most part, it was intentionally clothed by its divine Author, they have inadvertently involved it in a Wilderness of dark Confusion. Indeed, judging from their comments, they do not seem to have understood either the scope, design, or end for which it was given; but to me it seems impossible for a serious and attentive mind duly to consider it, without perceiving that it is, upon a general view of it throughout what it imports to be;