Signs of the Times, Past, Present, and Future; Comprising a Vindication of Capital Punishment for Wilful Murder - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1849 Excerpt: ... PREDICTION TO BE FULFILLED. 257 We are now prepared to see the analogy which exists between the portions of sacred writ which were symbolically used to foreshow both the establishment and subversion of the Ottoman Empire. The figurative language of command resulting in the establishment of the Turkish Empire, was, "Loose the Four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates." The import of this divine proclamation, which has been considered, was summarily, an indication of the permissive providential voice from heaven, to a messenger of Divine Providence, commissioning him thus to foreshow what wicked men would do, when restraints were removed, and they were permitted to follow their own aspiring disposition. Thus it was with the four Turkish Sultanies. Restraints were removed; Divine Providence permitted them to be loosened; unbound; free to pursue their own ambitious projects of invasion, conquests, and vast extension of dominion and power. And the result of that divine permission foretold, was, the establishment of.the enormously extensive Ottoman Empire, which is held by Mahometan Turks, with an iron grasp of power to the present day. The sacred text which is understood to foreshow the subversion of that empire, is obviously analogous in the following symbolical language: "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." Now, as in the former text, by the Euphrates was to be understood the Four Sultanies in the Euphratean regions, which swelled to the extent and power of the vast Ottoman Empire; so in the latter text, by the great river Euphrates, figuratively; may be understood in plain language, the great Ottoman Turkish Empire, 2...

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