Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-09-01

The feet and toes Of the image, which relate
to The Weaern Roman Empire, are deleI'oed
by Daniel TO he partly iron, partly clay, panty
aronp, and rarity broken; and as iron and clay
do not unite neither were they 10 unite. Now
the eSaa.acccmpliihment cf this i highly wor-
thy az attention. Bv the ten toes 1t was pre-
diGed thas il thould be dividcd into ten king
-doms. and Sir haac proves thar this was 10 an
the year AoS. It was after this diviiion to be
part Rrcng, and 70 were thele kingdoms, tor
the followers OF Mahomet and the Turks could
make 10 permanent ccnqueR within the bounds
If tie WeHern Roman Empire. II was aiio
10 be N part broken in its power, and 70 were
thele kingdoms, for they in vain poured fourth
their millions of crufades into Ala, without
being able to make any permanent eonqueit
there. As iron and clay do not unite, neither
have they been united, from the year 4oS to
the preitnt day. In vain did Charlemagne at
tempt Tin vain did the Emperor Charles Y
attempt tin vain dill Louis XIV attempt Il.
No, the God Of Heaven had decla II ihould
remain ID a divided fa,e, Till an Univerill
Kingdom was 10 be eaablllhed on the Garth
Kings and their Minifers, without knowing It,
have accompliihed the ful6lment Of this alton
iihing prophecy, and that balance Of power,
which has fer 70 many centuries been attended
to il Europe, Is neither more nor lels than
keeping up that broken fate Of the Wsitern
Roman Empire.
Before / 90 into the remainder Of the pro-
phecy as to theie Kingdoms into which the
Weltern Empire was broken, 1t is curious 10
contemplate what has happened within thar
boundary, in the courie of the Taft ten years
France d=throning and putting to death her
Monarch and going through variety Of bloc
dy revolutions-The Au1rian Netherlands
taken from their ancient princes, and made
part of France-Iolland revolutionized, and
her Stakeholder fent into exile-Switzerland
reyolutionized-Ven aEnihilated as 4 Rate
All Italy for a time TevolutlonIzed, and
though reduced by the AuRrian and Ru1ian
forces, yet Till in late intirsly unfettled-the
late Pope bercft Of an his temporal dnminions,
and dying a priloaer 10 France, the new Pope
not even elected IT, or reGjing in Rome
Spain bordering on Ievolnriou-Po tugal in
danger either Of being rsvolutiuned or iubdued
the affairs Of Germany and the houfe Of
AuitIia in a critical Gtpation, and Great Bri-
tain engaged IN an arduous war, to which we
can fee no termination. Thus Sir, The whole,
I may fay, Of what was the WeRern Empire,
and which contains the mott pohthei nations
If the earth, is convulfed from one end TO the
other. But the next and LAD par, of the pre-
phecy of the I'd chapter of Daniel viii tell US
the winding up Of all thofe eventful fcenes
After having deicribed the Image, Daniel
procseds. and iays he beheld a aone cut out
without hands which imote the Image on bis
feet, that were Of iron, and clay, and brake
them to pieces. Then were The iron, the clay,
the brats, tie FLYER, and the gold broken to
pieces together, and became Ike The ehaff df
the fummer threihing floor, and the wind car
red them away that 90 place was found for
them and the fone that lmote the Image,
became great mountain, and filed the whole
earth. To know more exactly what IS meant
by this Rome, We have only to read the 9TH
chap. Of Daniel. There, the four great EN-
pirss are more minutsly treated of under the
d5fcription of four BEATS, and inaead of the
ten kingdoms being deicribed by tees, they arc
made the ten horns OF the fourth be2f-and
when their dsRruaion is mentioned, ID thef-
words, " faw in the night vifons, and Be.
hold, one like the Son Of Man, came with the
clouds Of Heaven, and came TO the Ancient Of
Days, and they brought HIM near before hIm.
and there was given him dominion and glory,
and kingdom, that all people, nations aud
languages ihould ferve him his dominion is
an cverlatirg dominion, which ihall not paf
away, and his kingdom that which lhall not Be
dearoysd." There cannot therefore be doubt
but that the Gone, and the Perlonage thus
pointed out, is the Mehiah, and 70 does Sir
Ilaac, and all the bet Of the commentators ex.
plain thole paHages and there are many texts
in the icriptures that eoroborate this eKplana-
ton. But for my ewu part, if there was not
another paGage il he Bible, than what IS to be
met with in the "a and 7th chapters Of Daniel,
nor another commentator than Sir Ilaac New
ton, ihould not have doubt Of the certainty
of the fecond coming oftheMeGiah. lhall haw-
ever add what is the opinion of the Jewiii' n1-
ton, becaufe it ought 10 have great weight,
as they are in faef a BANDING miracle but
fhail frR promile the exact Accomplishment of
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