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DISSERTATION

ON THE

PROPHECIES,

THAT HAVE BEEN FULFILLED,

ARE NOW FULFILLING,

OR

WILL HEREAFTER BE FULFILLED,

RELATIVE TO THE

GREAT PERIOD OF 1260 YEARS;

THE PAPAL AND MOHAMMEDAN APOSTASIES;

THE TYRANNICAL REIGN OF ANTICHRIST, OR THE INFIDEL
POWER;

AND

THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.

BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B. D.

VICAR OF STOCKTON-UPON-TEES.

"Shut up the Words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the end: many
"shall run to and fre, and knowledge shall be increased." Dan. xii. 4.

London:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,
N° 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

1806.

Printed by Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.`

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

CHAP. VII.

Of the four first apocalyptic trumpets

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THE seven apocalyptic trumpets 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

-All the seven trumpets are comprehended under the

seventh seal-The silence at the opening of the seventh

seal indicates the anxious expectation of the troubles

about to be produced by the sounding of the trumpe s—

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-At the sounding of the first trumpet, the

northern nations, under Alaric, Radagaisus, and Attila,

overrun the Roman Empire-At the sounding of the se-

cond, Genseric king of the Vandals assaults the Western

Empire from the South, and hurls it from its base, like a

huge blazing mountain-At the sounding of the third,

the line of the Western Cesars becomes extinct in the

person of Augustulus-- At the sounding of the fourth, the

Roman Empire, considered as one great whole, experi-

ences an eclipse of its power and splendor, by the down-

fall of its Western half-Statement of the grounds, on

which this explanation of the four first trumpets is

adopted in preference to that of Bp. Newton...

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