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the eyes of his understanding, and to begin a good work in him. He is now a candidate for the ministry, and a consistently pious character.

Chap. xi, ver. 8, 9.—And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Admiral Coligni was among the earliest victims of Popish treachery and cruelty, in the bloody massacre at Paris in 1572. One Beheme, a German, was the first that entered his chamber; who said, "Are not you the Admiral?" "I am," said he, "but you, young man, should have regard to my hoary head and old age." Beheme struck him with his sword. Several other assassins rushed into the room, and the venerable Coligni fell covered with wounds. The Duke of Guise ordered his body to be thrown out at the window, that the people might be assured it was be. His head was cut off, and sent to the king and queen mother: who got it embalmed, and gave it as a present to the Pope. His body was dragged about the streets for three days together. Such was the end of this brave man, who was the first nobleman in France that professed himself a Protestant, and a defender of the Protestant cause.

Chap. xii, ver. 10. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Mr. Dod, a little before his death, experienced

some severe conflicts with Satan; but he was enabled, through grace, to obtain the victory. One morning, about two o'clock, he said to the person who sat up with him, "That he had, from the beginning of the night, been wrestling with Satan; who had accused him as having neither preached nor prayed, nor performed any duty as he should have done, either for manner or end. But," continued he, "I have answered him from the examples of the prodigal and the publican."

Chap. xiii, ver. 14.-And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, by means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

In an official and authorized Roman Catholic publication, printed in 1801, we are told that no less than twenty-six pictures of the Virgin Mary opened and shut their eyes at Rome, in the years 1796 and 1797, which was supposed to be an indication of her peculiar grace and favor to the Roman people, on account of their opposition to the French at that period. Among the subscribers to this work are the four Popish archbishops, and eleven Popish bishops, of Ire- land! It also states, that, on the same occasion, the face of a statue of the Virgin at Torrice changed color, and perspiration appeared upon it! Surely the senseless block manifested more sensibility than the unblushing relaters of such tales; but the Protestant reader can hardly avoid similar sensations upon hearing such fabrications. It may remind us of the words of the apostle, "They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved; and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."

Chap. xiv, ver. 13.-—And I heard a voice

from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.

A few weeks ago, Stephen Karkeet, twenty-five years of age, whilst employed under ground in a mine, in the parish of Newlyn, was buried alive by the falling together of the sides of the shaft in which he was, at the depth of five fathoms from the surface. The first person who arrived at the spot, was a man named George Trevarrow, who called to know if any living being was beneath, when Karkeet answered in a firm voice, "I know all earthly power can avail me nothing; I feel the cold hand of death upon me. If there is any hope of my being extricated from this untimely grave, tell me; and if not, tell me." Trevarrow at once informed him, that there was not a shadow of hope left him, as upwards of four tons of rubbish had fallen around him, and that suffocation must inevitably take place before any human aid could afford him relief. On hearing which, Karkeet exclaimed, "All's well! it is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good! Tell my dear father and mother not to be sorry, as those without hope, for me; it is now only that I am happy; it is now I feel the advantage of a religious life; now I feel the Lord is my strong hold; and now I feel I am going to heaven!" Here his voice failed him, he never spoke again.

Chap. xv, ver. 2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Luther, having rejected with disdain the great offers by which Alexander, the Papal legate, attempted

to gain him over to the court of Rome; "He is a ferocious brute, (exclaimed the legate, equally confounded and disappointed,) whom nothing can soften, and who regards riches and honors as mere dirt; otherwise the Pope would long ago have loaded him with favors."

Chap. xvi, ver. 15.-Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

The honorable Robert Boyle was, from early youth, singularly attentive to derive moral and religious improvement from every object in nature, and every occurrence in life. In the year 1648, he made a short excursion to the Hague. Sailing home, between Rotterdam and Gravesend, he saw, through a perspective glass, a vessel, imagined to be a pirate, and to give chase to the ship in which he was embarked. The occasion suggested to him the following judicious reflections: :-"This glass does, indeed, cause the distrusted vessel to approach; but it causes her to approach only to our eyes, not to our ship. If she be not making up to us, this harmless instrument will prove no loadstone to draw her towards us; and if she be, it will put us in better readiness to receive her. Such an instrument, in relation to death, is the meditation of it, by mortals so much and so carelessly abhorred. For though most men studiously shun all thoughts of death, as if, like a nice acquaintance, he would forbear to visit where he knows he is never thought of; or as if we could exempt ourselves from being mortal, by forgetting that we are so; yet meditation on this subject brings the awful reality nearer to our view, without at all lessening the real distance betwixt us and death. If our last enemy be not approaching us, this innocent meditation will no more quicken his pace than direct his steps; and if he be, it will, without hastening his arrival, prepare us for his reception."

Chap. xvi, ver. 21. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Natural historians record various instances of surprising showers of hail, in which the hailstones were of extraordinary magnitude. An author speaking of the war of Louis XII, in Italy, in 1510, relates, that there was for some time a horrible darkness, thicker than that of night; after which the clouds broke into thunder and lightning, and there fell a shower of hailstones, or rather, as he calls them, pebble stones, which destroyed all the fish, birds, and beasts of the country. It was attended with a strong smell of sulphur; and the stones were of a bluish color, some of them weighing 100 lbs.

Chap. xvii, ver. 6.—And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

According to the calculation of some, about two hundred thousand suffered death in seven years, under Pope Julian; no less than a hundred thousand were massacred by the French in the space of three months; the Waldenses who perished, amounted to one million; within thirty years, the Jesuits destroyed nine hundred thousand; under the Duke of Alva, thirty-six thousand were executed by the common hangman; a hundred and fifty thousand perished in the inquisition; and a hundred and fifty thousand by the Irish massacre; besides the vast multitude of whom the world could never be particularly informed, who were proscribed, banished, starved, burnt, buried alive, smothered, suffocated, drowned, assassinated, chained to the gallies for life, or immured within the horrid walls of the Bastile, or others of their church or state prisons. According to some, the whole num

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