That passage in the Psalms, which represents the destruction of the destroyers of mankind, whose trade is war and plunder, and who live by their swords, perhaps relates to the same time; as it likewise involves the redemption of Israel, and the conversion of the nations. "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver,”—(till the unbelieving submit to Christ, and offer gifts,)" scatter thou the people that delight in war. Then PRINCES shall come out of Egypt"—(the jews, or kings of the east, shall emerge by emerge by a SECOND EXODUS out of the mystical Egypt of the Roman captivity,)—“ Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God"-(by conversion of the African tribes, and of all the world, unto Christ).

To cite but one passage more. I conceive this idea of THE BREAKER coming to the end of his long career in JUDEA, to be additionally confirmed by Isaiah, xiv. 22, where the holy prophet, after giving that fine ironical de

scription of the once formidable spiritual des pot of mystic Babylon, concludes with an account of the sweeping vengeance which shall in the end overtake both him, and the SCOURGE OF GOD also, which arises out of his root, and by which he is himself destroyed, although he cannot help supporting him with the whole weight of his spiritual artillery.*. "I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of Hosts, and cut off from BABYLON the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying, surely as I thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand. That I WILL BREAK THE ASSYRIAN IN MY LAND, and UPON MY MOUNThen

TAINS TREAD HIM UNDERFOOT.

shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth," (or catholic Roman empire,)

* Sect. xxiiii p. 111.

"and this is the hand that is stretched out

upon all the nations" (of which that spiritual confederacy is made up).

SECTION XXXVIII.

Recapitulation of the remarkable epithets and em blems, by which the BREAKER, or destroyer of the papal Roman empire, and PRECURSOR OF ISRAEL, is distinguished in the Prophecies.-His usual deep policy and caution over-ruled by the irresistible power of God, in one remarkable instance.-Papal misinterpretation of the Prophecies corrected by a Satanic commentary.

THE great instrument of Providence in modern times, of whose ambition and spirit of conquest the divine Ruler of the world will make use, to avenge the blood of the saints under the altar, and to prepare a way for the return of his people Israel to their original seats, (against the time when their approaching happy reconciliation with their injured Messias shall take place,) is marked in prophecy by many distinguishing traits of cha

racter, by which he will be known in the day when the accomplishment of these prophecies is at hand. He is called "THE BREAKER" by Micah, in allusion to the breaking of the great image (or Roman empire) by the "STONE cut without bands," and in that prophecy (as in every other, where his appearance and exploits are mentioned,) he is found connected with the preparation for the SECOND EXODUS OF IS

RAEL.

In Isaiah, xxviii. 2, he is called "THE MIGHTY AND STRONG ONE OF THE LORD.""Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand" (of man), or with powerful armies, inexhaustible by repeated destruction; being still recruited from the conquered countries. For the rapidity and resistless force with which he bears down all opposition in the line marked out for his devastation, he is here compared to the impetuous fury of the