PROPHECIES, ARE NOW FULFILLING, OR WILL HEREAFTER BE FULFILLED, RELATIVE TO THE GREAT PERIOD OF 1260 YEARS; THE PAPAL AND MOHAMMEDAN APOSTASIES; OR THE INFIDEL POWER; AND THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS. By the Rev. GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B. D. RECTOR OF LONG-NEWTON IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. “ Shut up the Words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Dan. xii. 4. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CUURCI-YARD ; CONTENTS: VOL. II. CHA P. VII. OF THE FOUR FIRST APOCALYPTIC TRUMPETS. 1. The seventh seal comprehends all the seven trumpets. These may be divided into the four, which prepare the way for the revelation of the man of sin; and the three, which comprehend the whole history of the Apostasy in its dominant state both in the East and in the West, and which are styled woe-trumpets. The silence at the opening of the seventh scal indicates the anxious expectation of the troubles about to be pro duced by the sounding of the trumpets. p. 3. II. By the sounding of the four first trumpets, he, that letted or prevented the revelation of the man of sin, is taken out of the way. p. 7, 1. Import of the phrase the third part. At the sounding of the first trumpet, the northern nations, under Alaric, Radagaisys, and Attila, overrun the Human empire, preparatory to the subversion of its Western third part, p. 17. 2. At the sounding of the second, Genseric king of the Vane dalo assaults the Western Empire from the south, and 3. At 4. At the sounding of the fourth, the political luminaries of CH A P. VIII. The prophecy here divides into two distinct lines, treat- ing severally of the eastern and western branches of the great Apostasy. The first of the three woe-trumpets describes the commencement of the dominance of the two-fold Apostasy : the second represents it in the zenith of its power, untiline mani- festation of Antichrist : the third exhibits its downfall, display- ing at the same time the multiplied horrors of the harvest and the vintage of the Lord, or the uncontrouled reign of the athe- istical king and his subsequent destruction along with the other CHA P. IX. 2. At the sounding of the sixth trumpet, or the second woe trumpet, the four sultanies of the Turkish horsemen are loosed from the river Euphrates ; and, in due season, slay the third part of men, or subvert the Constantinopolitan monarchy. p. 37. OCNTENTS OF THE LITTLE BOOK--HISTORY OF THE WESTERN APOSTASY UNDER THE THREE WOE-TRUMPETS. The little book comprehends the eleventlı, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth, chapters of the Revelation. These chapters, in point of chronology, run parallel to each other, forming a come plete history of the western Apostasy. p. 45. 1. The first describes the prophesying of the witnesses during the 1260 years. p. 46. 2. The second describes the war of the infernal dragon with the mystic woman the Church, during the same period. p. 47. 3. The third describes the actions of the two apocalyptic beasts during the same period. p. 47. 4. The fourth describes the internal state of the true Church during the same period, and the harvest and the vin tage of God's wrath. p. 48. The contents therefore of the little book may be properly divided into five sections : 1. The prophesying of the witnesses ; 2. The war of the dragon with the woman; 3. The history of the ten-horned beast of the sea; 4. The history of the t'voa, horned beast of the earth ; 5. The collateral history of the true Church, of the Reformation, and of the harvest and vintage of God's wrath. p. 49. SECT. |