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UN ins PROPHECIES. No. X. , 7., z. • , . TILE SWOND TEI7SI7NT. • f IL Of dr milt that ameiteil from the, Gni cues, burnifT with fee, berme, cad iera the 4* #"3Mt4.7 tJ - " Toe third !tart of the tea beanie Una e ma de iA part elk creature, eul:kk peeve L the sea, mei had h+ , sCAI; equ 1 the third pars of tlsf thit.c toss eleetreseet" That the third part of the area-politie,:the,contnta uicy of napons, was imbued with blood bcf thoteeleil •wars of which I gave a brief outline in my last; hits' been sufficiently evinced in the detail. Weakened xrid parklyzed.by these bloody feuds, the miseries of Roman people were aggravated from the period' which I have brought down theihistory, by the un ceasing and increasing incursions of the barbarians , who fmm time to time effected settlements in diffk .rent provinces, and at length wrested the civil power rrom the hands of the natives even in the heart of the empire. Those who were possessed of political life, being thus deprived of their power, are said to hate died r and the third part of the ships, that is. as has before been shewn, the regular political intercommir nication among the different and distant parts of the Empire, was destroyed. This will appear abundant!, intelligible from the following detail; After the death of CONSTANTINE (An. 537), his three sons, CONSTANTINE IL CONSTANTIM and Coe. srAws, agreeably to his will, wirifealuted Emperors. The two brothers of the late Emperor, with their " his, were ordered by the new sovereigns to be pt%ii . to death, lest their ambitious views should eatie troubles in the Empire ! All fell victims to this bow barons order, except two' of the youths, (letzta), and JULIAN, the latter of WhoM rose afteriraidt to the Imperial dignity. Two of the Emperors, as might be expected, soon disagreed about the extent of their respective territories. CONSTANTINE, to whom Britain, Gaul and Spain, were allotted, wished to ob tain a part of Italy; war folloWed, he was defeated - and slain (An. 540), and Cows!.Am remained tole maser of the west till the year 350, when he was as: sassinated by orders of MAGraturrus, on* of his com manders, who revolted and assumed the purple. A war followed between Coustairrws and "Mamal4- flip: . ! he latter . who was an object of. hatred in kale, took refuge in Gaul, was defeated in Dan phial by the Emperor's Generals, and perceiving that his soldiers were resolved to delivsilim up, destroyed himself. • . Freed from this enemy, Comma rtes, under praw tenet of destroying the late usurper's party, estai. Wished a system of-. up/or/nye and proscription, that beelime more intoleiable; and struck more terror than even tte invasions of the Franks, Alumina and other barbarians. lie assumed the titles Neuter of the World and ,anal—a pride which was accompanied with! all the refinements of tyranny. Dreams were made capital grimes, and virtuous men were obliged to con ceal themselves. His General, Srtvesus, who had 1 1 protected Gaul against the Barbarians, accused by ca lumny and dreading every thing from an ungrateful, perfidious Court, caused himself to be proclaimed Emperor. Uasnacus, who had equally sir,nalised himself in the East, and who had been treated with . similar ingratitude by the Court, was sent against him. SYLVANIIS was slain ; and his troops inunedi- . ately dispersed :—but the Emperor chose rather to lose that province than send reinforcements to the General, whose merit gave umbrage. Gaul was thus. abandoned as a prey to the Franks, Alemainebi and Saxons, who ravaged the country, after destroy ing 4.5 towns on the banks of the Rhine. Pannonia and Upper Mccsia were laid waste by the Quadi and Sarmatians, and the East was afflicted with dreadful incursions of the Persians, while CoNstuvrrus, inat, tentive to every thing but the squabbles of theologists, spent his time in assembling councils, persecuting the defenders of consubstantiality, and fomenting, under pretence of settling, disputes between the Catholics and Arians. Surrounded with difficulties, produced by his own perverse stupidity, he at length bestowed the dignity of Cgsar on JULIAN, his own cousin-german, and bro . ther of GALL s, who was made Governor of Gaut, where he behaved with singular prudence' and politi cal address. He quickly drove out the invaders, and even pursued them to the other side of the Rhine,. He soon became the object of the Emperor's envy.— The flower of his army was ordered to Constantino.. ple, and Gaul was again on the point of being lost ; but the soldiers, when he gave them orders to march, refused to obey, proclaimed him Emperor, and forced him to accept the diadem—to which he had perhaps 'fats real reluctance than he affected. JVLIAN was foNnate CoNsTaxrlys died in Cilicia, on his way to oppose him, and he obtained peaceful possession of the throne in the year 361. - 4, He was an enemy to Christianity, but it may be asserted with truth, that to real Christianity he did much less injury than his foolish predecessqr, or even COIatANTINE, the idol of bigotry. He is charged encouraging i l at s sch ist; t ati c i t ught di th e s d djjbn shonour upon the , Gospel by would not, lijpe )14 'pious predecessors, allow them• tO pet;secute lime - other. Even his enemies allow that he " ted to appear moderate in religions matters, unwilling I L. • Nicsluirn. ' " gr,gij l44lne4ll, q 44ll K 42 : Palwieg tlaF rk94otA th at Were. grffteik AOlthrks , tiOs* 4l, raterbr Vrr# :aAcOrralisti9- 1 want :taw 4-!!"..!,44 FrfPiked 6(1 , POl'ilf044 0 1:40 00 0 * a4c4ooditk4iokOons b.tblishililvy.C4sm- STANTI24sE for 'their betfok. and thst . o widows and 74 ginmobliied tberbristianato rebuild the templesat 4)lvri.ppeupet and exchnled them frcan all employ: menti o .7,, dlyt, Christians have no real cause of cons I: plaint in being obliged to pnivide for the expences of their public worship) the temples, which they were compelled to rebuild, they had themselves overthrows, in violation of the public pease) and, as to exclusion from employments, it is still cone = mon, in some countries, to exclude dissenters from offices of trust. His reign, however, was but short. 1n•363 he lost his life in a war with the Persians, and was succeeded byJoviAN, who terminated the Vraj by giving up to SAPOR five provinces on the Tigris, which had formerly belonged to his gieat grandfather, with immediate possession of Nisbis, Singara, and some other places in Mesopotamia. nit vac the frn actual dittnemkrtacnt of the empire. JOVIAN died soon after (in 364) ; and the army gave the purple to VALENTINIAN, who named his bro cher VALEris as his colleage. The barbarians having no longer a JULIAN to contend. wjth, the Alec ains poured into Gaul and Rhcetis - fryrol, Trent, &c.), the Quadi and Sarmatians into Pannonia, the, Picts and Scots into the Roman territories in Britaii r the Goths into Thrace, the Moors into Africa, and the Persians into Armenia. To make head against so many enemies, the two emperors divided their domi nions. • Vamarrunsit reserved the West to himself, VALeics had the East, i. e. Egypt, Asia. and Thrace, VALErynaltsfq drove out the invaders, but he had re course to assassinations and means which load his name with infamy ; and from this time the Romans became every dar more barbarous and abandoned This wretch had two favourite bears fed with theca?... cases of those whom he put to death. He died in 379, and was succeeded by his sort GRATLAW I with whom the army associated his brother VALERTINIAN the Sealed. Vatms still reigned in the East, deservedly hated by all his subjects. He obtained some slight advin tages over the Persians, but all that the Empire had hitherto suffered from them or from its other inva ders, was nothing compared to the evils that were now to be inflicted by the Huns, a nation which struck such terror, that the historian Jolts/aim de rives its origin from the commerce of devils with witches. According to accounts extracted by Da Gtnoims from Chinese authors, the Huns, a people entirely tinlmown in Europe, where they were one day to commit such devastations, were known in China many centuries before the Christian zra. They were inha bitants of a country on the north of that empire, at tending 500 leagues from, west to east. where they bordered on the Mantchew Tartan, and 300 from north to south, reaching toTibet and, the great wall of China, which was built to defend that empire against their lawless incursions. In a word,- they_ were the most formidable people Tartary ever produced.- 1 Civil wan having broke out among them, the nor thern Huns were vanquished, and retired westward. Several hordes united near Siberia, but being driven from their possessions by new tribes pouring into western Tartary, they went southward, passed the Wolga, and attacked the Alans, who dwelt upon the coasts of the sea of Asoph, a roving nation like this*, selves, but less savage, yet such barbarians that thief' Read their slain enemies, and with their skins made housings for their horses. The Alans fled, some to the east, others to the west of the Don, and a third party towards the Danube. The Huns, though thus 4eft to occupy the vast country between the Wolga and the Don, soon set out again in quest of new ha 'bitations, crossed the Don, massacred the Alans and other barbarous nations, or forced them to join their standards ; drove the Ostrogoths from the Dnieper, and then from the Nester ; and at last attacked the Visigoths, whom they forced to retire across the Da nube. In short, these nations precipitated themselves upon one another- with irresistible weight, bearing down every thing:before them. The Goths who noir. occupied the countries from the Danube to the Baltic, struck with a panic, and looking on the Huns as cannibals, thought of nothing but how they might find an asylum from their, fury. With this view' bout 200,000 of the Visigoths pre sented themselves co the banks of the Danube, en. treating the Romans to grant them a passage and re ceive them as subjects, who would shed the last drop of their blood in defence of the Empire. VaLms, delighted with, the acquisition of a nation of-soldiers, idled then a attkosett is tiace.—The Ostrogoths next appeared, requesting the same indulgence. Vik; LENS began now to fear the consequences that might result from the admit& of such dangerous guests, and rejected their demand ; but his troops having quitted the Danube to escort the formaremigrants • Thrace, there'enetuo force to opposethir .' Thus was dii barrier thrown doW Romans and that people by whom theidt.. long menaced. The Romans, instead of acting conciliatory manner to their new guests, excited ti • Mosheirn. . . - • .• ♦ r . ^ • _ .1! 1 5. 147 07-P 4 1411"1 ‘: ,13141*ili r A""e . ,:!41:04 41 Re.* pith 1 1 1,1* . 5.4 31 * TOPPAI AO*l4o),RaPue fgliPsC 00.4P.f1444e !IRA! 11 6 .501 1 4#1 F44 4 4*.;• 0 *, OP PRIM** 3 1 4,94 ' l l**l44oREVX o . l l 6 skiP* 44 o 4 ‘k ii i t rvios i..- I - 4# 41144-14.4***..4 in She Weits t9i44 *l 4 ll 1 ). 0 4 *44 big . 00 11 **o l viOsNIIi.I*I4 4I belie***of * eitetat VAT,TCNS OTEciPAged 4 *Oa WWI'. Tha:BaakariaailT4 • • A40.449P1! , 54icla. hy.) ! st : his life.. ltd theiaarthi understood the art of besieging towns, they met; bec9W 03 1 1 4 1 '4 of All tae*; but though ready t 4 face Oath inani,*ape in which *term elan imeply, could inflict itolley were, piseit•stnick wlten .they totl34: l2 27le4*Avekharlecl *pea *nil by. the Roman eneines, feonaffivrealls of AilOanople. -lice, leaving Adrianople, Pertithus and Con stamiepple, all 9t which they hut "rocked, they ra vaged& !tide !gent ef country, and, joined by other. barbarians, carried havoc. into t Ankaia on cue hand, and Pnu'enia on the other.. SnSeelde..leas dre.sieis-7 tance which they. 0, th encounteneriftbelltehicile a = . Tic.o l . 3 4 l o4oeThedo -lt thelitotnain • . th e cos but only by the same tiele by Which flocks peelete:rhe land. where theypasture. 0VV,14.11, futditig affairs in such a perilous state wheibp . reacbed Constantinople, admitted Tuaoeo sun to &Aare ie the sovereignty, conferring on him the empire of the Bast, with a considerable portion of Illyria, Daciodoinsia, and all Greece, countries which were tbeflwasted by the barbarians. Tuao nosms adopted the strange policy of admitting the bar. isetians anon: the number of his troops, immense num bers of whom, from the North of the Danube, were allowed to serve in his armies. This Tiensoostus, called run GREAT, by ecclesiastical writers, prohi. bited the heterodox from holding meetings; evenin private houses ; in cue of transgression, Anyeitted the ' orthodox to use fora against hien ; declared certain he retics worthy of death ; and assembled, successively, 'a number of councils to fir the standards of true or thodoxy.. GRATTAN, equally zealous, persecuted the pagans, overthrew the altar of victory in the Senate, and did every thing in his power to unite the pagans his enemiesdaoifiting his favours en the illaar, and other Intrietins, whom he tryerred to all tees in the Court ‘lln6frary, even wearing their dress.—Such were .the means now resorted to by the Eastern and Western Emperors, to heal the dissentions that prevailed Idainsos, Governor of Britain, ',solving to profit by the present discontents, was proclaimed Emperor by the troops under him, crossea•the Northern part of Gaul, and was met by GRATTAN'S army near Paris. GRATTAN, abandoned by his troops, fled to. wards the Alps in disguise, but was at length be trayed and murdered in MS. An accommodation between MAXIMUS and VALLNTINIAN 11. followed soon after, by which the former was allowed to tea* Gaul, Spain, and Britain, his title being acknowledg ed even by THEODOSIL/Se;—PRISCILLIAN, a Spanish Bishop, accused of heresy by a council held at Boer deaux, appealed to the Emperor, and with hi,t4cif pies, was carried before MAxiatot, whe e at.thelnsti gation of two zeeloti, ordered sheni *Oat** ,to death—a proof tote well - he: was gualifnd for go vernment. Ile soon after threatened Vag.sarrpu,s, with a war; 'if hi should continue to (*VW 44, 4 4 111 —a mete pretext for attempting to seize wen, his do-- minions. The ionng Eniperoi fled to 11,aunosnxs, who armed- in 'his cause,' tooLa needier tf Aarbariaiu into his pas, and in Pannonia gained two victories over the usurper, who bad passed the Alps to meet him. 'MA.I3iII7I was pursued, blimp prisoner, and put to death. The Pagans bad declared for the usurper, in the hope that he would re-establith poli theism. The Christians opposed him, chiefly because he had been just enough to. .order the rebuilding of a Jewish synagogue, which the populace of Rote had burnt ! Religious" tumults were now become tregeript nor could it be otherwise, considering* 'lragOle*, of false zeal that were daily set before.. the rib* by Emperors and Bishops, but principo Shc 4 1 . ix i t Calinicum a synagogue was destripthj* tians, and a church, belonging to =ll4l:ed bC tics, by the monks. Tnapooasua tarlis.astins , justice he ought, to be rebuilt, c A po i is *evsAsnyw i sg, wrote to the Prince, that se. the,. c erocilsl..logs, prevaricators if they obiritstll#ls.'.erialK ti4PY chose rather to obey GOu.'! . Eudool imp * pup nity, these pious men destroyed so many spagogues, that Tmeiposios was at last obliged to orsciCrsuch 4"•• tubers of the public peace.to beaevetely.lavaished declaring that the sect of die Jews, Ant being p ro .. serihed by nry.law, oUgt!rto have the fs"*lvise their religiots..thronglie#_ the eMp ire. An th e : , proscribed , sects hey?". etneerpely b lishe4 :clbehOgs.44PTA . Manicheill:irr* Roacas Wallow PPril,isathct on their -641. cur e d. t he i ;!s . oo: ll , 2 ; be.diPP l ?. l Airst among Au. Pen* %TIM MAI 4. PA absurd. la;." s' a. Og- 9 ' • . -CM 111 f : ale t. . . • m 1 , 404 0, are iban sio*le L :;e• le** rift StVilksispriralt bias; itetrAioatbi L.. •ClP*rii"liffi4i:P4illS, 4c. ; i t '1. 10.4 . - 14314 P in'F•FLPIP!• 4 4cie44-4 . i,44 0 4.• • ....baiiipetWits • whit died the follow ing year, after dividing the Empire between his ran . Abbas: We Vialeatoatits 7 4le eattccn pant to a te .4adaltelwesterata *dotter. From this thus tiliiiPP.S"*sP 't e a, herni a o f evglitigns• were lam . ' hiatianiente nt MS. of ministers, women, and • 4 ' .OA p"0 a Inight'eittlly hare been foreseen Ow „ iratif fioists4ll sitleadonr Was hastening to set 'lkigiitAikTost*l *se; the reader can be p % 00411111110411 1 COVIWWW . . " the erestarer 'that were is pee fhb #lei . :119d W 4.". The barbaria ns , h av i ng awe a td settiemeat ameba Site natives, very s r illgained an astendancfby .. .thokytip clz rag e, fortitude, and.perseverance: ../arrret e b etter men, better soldiers, more assiduous... Snore virwous, then the warmed, Alimipated, frivol, ? aa ma l e w h o r theß.l.oo - *****barians• Aft - ilwataw • ~ that in the ecsestsble for the spoils of this ;nighty empire, they shOuld expel the sycophants who possessed none o those qualifications for office which san ;dope command preferencein times of ge nerd-In:Malt ? Such was the state of things in the very bosom of the ernpir; ; white in the distant pro vinces; theyoke was entirely-thrown off, and 'the in ter-communication by which . the *distant members yielded their portion of aid and supply to the gene ral system was entirely destroyed —some of thepro. vines, being usurped by the commanders of the army, and mantriote of them subjugated by the foreign invaders. -Thus 64 the third met eMe Alfa were de, i tro F C - Nor can it excita:*p* that ;he prtg isamileraim .kgraiNtr witkfirtObeisid soon after, he come a prey w t,titt 44 4 1 11 ;At V'Filike/Ilations by which it was assailed, ,a; 1 1 .... .2.... _ ._...,- P- - :.. , !ar, i . i . The first TputaillerMilitgilbe religious con tentions which were to - arise"! the first preaching of the Gospel, gliir.,flsAstitio,;),.:effects which these would produce, i**oll4eltik2u4=hg Se cond proclaimed da4sei e t.: y pro due: in a pcilitiakip . t . "' . # . loitsr; . - , l*,*tiog fist strength. of the e,us • lax, at last, it should not be able to realsk with any, effect, the attacks °Obi vailOus 7ssatiZegicli would.come against.* The grand car/unitise need not now l cletailog*"jt forms the .'A v ast sit the , , iourth Trtunimaii;:the narrative of the prophecy, *so fifasit regards this political revolution,. being siivandikd to announce certain important thanes 't4t were to take place in the church aimin g the same period of time. . The nature of these changes,:. which were followed by most lanientable ef f ects; are declared by the sounding of the Third Trumpet;vAsich comes next to he .considered. • . . JUSLICUS. pfo..tfie .., •Aloirrbler.....- 11, ► . DIED.. t. , ,••idit !. ; ' .) : -' seidaylast, the 14th Inst. Gcorge ► i4q. a Church -- • - - • - Huai wicreit AT Lospoit liii)dE TO-MORROW. . lgarning mine** after 9 Aftern00n.............. .44 minutes after 9 MESSRS. LEIGti and Co. 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