DISSERTATION ON THE PROPHECIES RELATIVE TO ANTICHRIST AND THE LAST TIMES; EXHIBITING THE RISE, CHARACTER, AND OVERTHROW OF THAT TERRIBLE POWER: AND A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN APOCALYPTIC VIALS. BY ETHAN SMITH, A. M. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN HOPKINTON, N. H. SECOND EDITION. In the last days perilous times shall come....PAUL, Ye have heard that Antichrist shall come....JouN. The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit....ANGEL. The Lion hath roared; who shall not fear....AMOS. The destroyer of the gentiles is on his way....JEREMIAH. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm in my holy mountain....JOEL, BOSTON: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, No. 50, CORNHILL. 1814. HARVARD DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS-To wit: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the nineteeth day of February, A. D. 1814, and in the thirty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America, SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor; in the words following, to wit: "A Dissertation on the Prophecies relative to Antichrist, and the Last Times; exhibiting the Rise, Character, and Overthrow of that Terrible Power: and a Treatise on the seven apocalyptic Vials. By Ethan Smith, A. M. Pastor of the Church in Hopkinton, N. H. In the last days perilous times shall come....PAUL. Ye have heard that Antichrist shall come....JOHN. The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit....ANGEL. The Lion hath roared, who shall not fear?.... AMOS. The destroyer of the gentiles is on his way....JEREMIAH. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm in my holy mountain....JOEL." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act intitled, "An act supplementary to an act, intitled an act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints." WILLIAM S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. Page. CONTENTS. We are taught, in the prophetic parts of the sacred Scriptures, to expect the rise of a terrible, atheistical Power, and a vast influence of Infidelity, in The closing part of the 1260 years occupied by Antichrist. Paul's Man Other prophecies, relative to the last expedition and the overthrow of Anti- Vial 4. Fulfilled in the operations of the civil European governments against the interests of the Papal hierarchy; and the expulsion of the Jesuits from the principal nations in Europe, after the middle of the eighteenth century 412 Vial 5. Fulfilled in the overthrow of the Papal Beast, by the rise of the An- Vial 6. To be fulfilled in the subversion of the Turkish empire, to prepare Vial 7. To be fulfilled in the destruction of Antichrist, in his expedition against the Jews in Palestine; and in the destruction of all the persecuting enemies of the Church, to prepare the way for the Millennium 486 2. Faithfulness in the government of our literary Institutions S. Vigilance and faithfulness in the embassadors of Christ 4. Caution in the induction of men into the Gospel ministry 5. A faithful support and improvement of the regular administration of the Gospel; avoiding erroneous and unknown teachers; and affording our aid to 6. Due exertions to promote the sanctification of the Lord's day The lives of the rest of the Beasts prolonged for a season and a time Charlemagne not the last head of the Roman Beast:-Also the long death of The great day of the Lord in the Old Testament, and the seventh vial, the A signal propagation of the Gospel just before the battle of the great day |