...testifying against the purple and scarlet church by their sackcloth that his kingdom is not of this world; "and if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out...will hurt them he must in this manner be killed." One of the Prefectures, which now comprises modern Turkey, long ago fell by the fault of a degenerate...

...them ;" and is it not written, " If any man will *' hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouths, " and devoureth their enemies ; and if any man " will hurt them, he must in this manner be " killed ?" I did speak of " the world as groan" ing in hopeless misery, under plagues like those " of Egypt...

...Goi Like 'Moses and Aaron, these witnesses of Christ had power " to turn water into blood ;" and " to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy," as Elijah did: the rain of the Gospel, and the dew of the word of truth and righteousness, being withheld...

...depression they shall prophesy clothed in sackcloth the scriptural symbol of sorrow and mourning. 5. "And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out...will hurt them he must in this manner be killed." The two churches have also this similitude — the * The greek word, evanriov, translated before means...

...by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Rev. 5. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth outof their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any...will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 25 RISE, PROGRESS ANT* We have a most awful instance of this kind, in the 16th chapter of Numbers,...

...like Elijah and Moses, " to consume * their enemies with fire proceeding ' out of their mouth, and to shut ' heaven that it rain not in the days ' of their prophecy, and to turn the ' waters into blood, and to smite ' as they will/' that is, with the plagues of the trumpets...

...witnesses are baptized, compared to the flowing out of fire from their mouth to consume the adversary. " And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out...man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed " (Rev. xi. 5). The church thus baptized shall dwell in the love of God, the flesh and the fleshly...

...were deluged with the blood of the saints, and which lent its power to extirpate them in other lands. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out...enemies ; and if any man will hurt them, he must, in like manner, be killed, &c. verse 5. The saints of the Most High were to be given into the hands of...

...witnesses that shall prophecy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth, it is said, If any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of...enemies ; and if any man will hurt them, he must, in like manner, be killed, Rev. xi. 5. The charge not to harm or to hurt, and the threatening of death...

...an enemy to Christianity, should thus write an involuntary and unconscious comment on St. John ! " hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, " and...will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed." The prophets, in the Scriptural style, are often said to do those things which they denounce. " I "...