Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . FjcanL Coins in ^e BrLtiah Museum. CH. VII. § 1.] THE FOUR TEMPEST-ANGELS THREATENING. 257 (lerful interventions in behalf of his people as a thing of thepast, behold those wonders we now see acted out beforeour own eyes ! It was of us the prophet spake when hetold how the wilderness and the solitary place should beglad, and the desert rejoice and blossom as the lily.^Instead of the Chiuch being, as once, widowed and desolate,her children have now
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . FjcanL Coins in ^e BrLtiah Museum. CH. VII. § 1.] THE FOUR TEMPEST-ANGELS THREATENING. 257 (lerful interventions in behalf of his people as a thing of thepast, behold those wonders we now see acted out beforeour own eyes ! It was of us the prophet spake when hetold how the wilderness and the solitary place should beglad, and the desert rejoice and blossom as the lily.^Instead of the Chiuch being, as once, widowed and desolate,her children have now to exclaim to her, Make room, en-large thy borders : the place is too strait for us ! Gloriousindeed, as we see the prediction realized, appear the thingsspoken of thee, thou city of God. The promises are ful-lilliug. In righteousness shalt thou be estabUshed; all thychildren shall be taught of God; and great shall be thepeace of thy children.^—And so too, with reference toother similar prophecies, in a direct Commentary on Isaiah.^Could there well be a greater contrast to all such antici-])ations of the future, than in the true prospecti
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