Bonaparte the Emperor of the Gauls, considered as the Lucifer and Gog of Isaiah and Ezekiel : and the issue of the present contest between Great Britain and France, represented according to divine revelation / [Lewis Mayer].

Mayer, Lewis

Date:: 1804

Credit: Bonaparte the Emperor of the Gauls, considered as the Lucifer and Gog of Isaiah and Ezekiel : and the issue of the present contest between Great Britain and France, represented according to divine revelation / [Lewis Mayer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$‘‘ dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and set “ on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and “ the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the “ hand staves, and the spears, aqd they shall burn “ them with fire seven years: ver. l(i. so that they “ shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut ‘ ‘ down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the “ weapons with fire, and they shall spoil those “ that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.” So also at the same period, ver. d. “I (the Lord God) will ;sen\l a fire on Magog,* and among them that dwell “ carelessly in the isfes: and they shall know, that “ I am the Lord.” Ver. 7. “ So‘will I make my holy name known in the midst of my p'eople Israel, and I will not let them pollute m^Loly ‘‘ name anymore.” Which prophecies have not liitherto been accomplished ; for the Jew^, 'as a nation and people, remain under the-judgmeuts of God, for their transgressions, and are,’ politically considered, a dead body. There are many heathen nations, nowin existence, who have ever been, respecting the knowledge of the Lord, in gross darkness; and also multitudes livino- carelesslv. hot only in the remote parts of the earth, but among civilized nations of Europe, who, according, to Romans, i. 28. as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, “ God (hath given) over to a “ reprobate mind, to do those things which are not “ convenient, ver. 29, being filled with all unrightc- ousness, fornication and wickedness; ver.32, who, “ knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things arc worthy of death, not only • Magog appears Jo me to have a reference, to the Greek Churcli,$