Death of Bonaparte, and universal peace ; a new explanation of Nebuchadnezzar's great image, and Daniel's four beasts ... To which is added a chronological table of the sovereigns included in the number 666 / By L. Mayer.
- Lewis Mayer
- Date:
- 1809
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Death of Bonaparte, and universal peace ; a new explanation of Nebuchadnezzar's great image, and Daniel's four beasts ... To which is added a chronological table of the sovereigns included in the number 666 / By L. Mayer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and ol wood: which neither can see, nor hear, noi walk: neither repented they of their muidcis, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” The allegory contained in the above verses respecting the vast army of two hundred thou- sand, thousand cavalry armed with breast- plates of fire, and of jacinth and brimstone, conveys to our minds ideas not only awful and solemn, but pointed and instructive as they represent the judgments of God in their for- midable and regular approaches, which are comprehended under the appellation of the second woe, that is announced against the in- habitants of the earth, by which we may not only trace to what it has an allusion but the cause; the period of its commencement; and the effects it would produce. If* the first woe commenced at the fall of the French monarchy, and is to terminate at the establishment of that empire represented by the second beast as pre- viously considered, the second woe cannot with propriety be said to have been fully accom- plished, until the antichristian governments of Europe are concentred in Bonaparte, it being limited to the progress of his power; according to this explanation of the prophecy the third woe commenceth with the depopulation of Turkey by war. Agreeable to Ezekiel xxxix. ] 7. Joel iii. 12. Rev. xix. 17. And since the scene before us is situated on the banks of the river Euphrates, and the hieroglyphic re- presents to our view a more numerous army of cavalry than Turkey could ever produce, and greater than its whole population. A lion being emblematical of ferocity, a.horse](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22040377_0215.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
