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Second Exodus;

OR

REFLECTIONS ON THE PROPHECIES,

RELATING TO
THE RISE,-FALL-AND PERDITION

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IN THREÉ VOLS.- SECOND EDITION.

WITH ADDITIONS CONSECUTIVE TO THE END OF THE LATE
REVOLUTION, OR FIRST CRISIS OF THE CONCLUDING PART
OF THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES, BY FIRE OUT OF
THEIR MOUTHS.-" AND IF ANY ONE WILL HURT THEM
HE

MUST IN THIS MANNER BE KILLED.” REV. xi.

BTHE Rev. W. ETTRICK, A. M.

Me Vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.

Hor. Ep. 1. 1.

VOL.

11.

* And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his
hand again the SECOND TIME to recover the REMNANT OF HIS PEO-
PLE-And there shall be an high way for the REMNANT OF HIS Pro-
PLE, like as it was to Israel in the day when he came up our Of The
LAND OF EGYPT."

Isai. xi. 11, 16.

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The APOCALYPse an arrangement and elucidati.

on of all former prophecies concerning the

times of the Gospel.--State of religion in the

Roman empire in the primitive times -- Jea-

lousy and malice of the pagan emperors, watch-

ful for the destruction of christianity, at the

instigation of the OLD SERPENT, there in pos-

session of the temples War between the two

religions - Triumph of the Gospel – The dra-

gon's malice thereby increased.--He excites

fresh enmity, and raises new partisans. -Re.

covers his old influence, and is worshipped

again, but under disyuised attributes The

two beasts and the image, and their worship-

pers. The MARK—and NUMBER of the beast.

The superstitious abuse of religious signs no

reason against the sober use of them – The

witnesses themselves are distinguished by a

mystical name.-The Gospel brought out of

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popish darkness at the reformation, appears

like a Revelation newly made.--WICKLIFF

the first angel that appears in the ecclesiasti.

cal heaven proclaiming it :-Luther and his

followers, the second and third angels.-Lu-

THER dissolves the enchanted spell of a PUR-

GATORY - The HARVEST and VINTAGE ap.

pointed to mystic Babylon.

The opening of the TABERNACLE of the testi-

MONY in heaven,-or the reformation of re-

ligion and the church,-preparatory to the

seven divine judgments upon the kingdom of

THE BEAST,--which are to effect its total over-

throw.—The impenitency and blindness of his

worshippers (while a long respite is given them)

still continuing.--The judgment begins with

the plague of a figurative Ulcer.-By the in-

fliction of the second plague, its corroding ma-

lignancy spreads over the whole popish system,

-and works deadly effects by the influence of

The church of the witnesses gives glory to God

for the truth and justice of his dispensations,

in the fulfilment of prophecy, -The apostate

church perseveres in her misapprehension of

them. The fourth vial poured out, repre-

sents the scorching heat of despotic power and

cruel tyranny.--The fifth vial, a darkness both

political and moral. The remarkable wisdom

of Providence in these judgments, which are

adapted to set before the eyes of sinners the

crimes that drew these miseries upon them.

The sixth vial makes preparation for the RESTO-

RATION of The Jews, by the fall of the TURK.

ISH EMPIRE, and in its consequences becomes

a plague of the PAPAL APOSTACY – The state

of the world at this period a general subjection

to an universal tyranny — The head of the

apostacy (ejected from royal and independent

sovereignty by the effect of the fifth plague) is

stiled from henceforth THE FALSE PROPHET,

--An hopeful scheme set on foot against the

church of the witnesses ostensibly, but against

christianity itself in design.

Christian faith and patience put to the test with

unexampled severity - The true time of the

death of the witnesses.-The restoration of the

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