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Excerpt from Watchman of the Night, And, Millennial Morning: A Voice From the Land Shadowed With Wings, to the Church in the Wilderness
The great image, seen by Nebuchadnezzar, and explained by Daniel, will serve as a general scale; and show us how to ar range the four great empires, represented under four kinds metal. The golden head, Nebuchadnezzar, or the Babylonian monarchy - his breast and arms of silver, the medo-persian; his belly and thighs of brass, the Grecian - his legs of iron, the Roman monarchy - and his feet part of non, and part of miry, odious _clay, the abominable, Papal and Mahometan apostacies chap.i1 In his night vision, when he beheld the four winds; implying the same four monarchies, striving upon the great sea, representing at least the whole of the then known world, so far as the general commotions and ?uctuations of agitated nations extended. In this tempestuous and billowing sea of nations-the same things were again represented to him, under their several' peculiar characters as beasts the first like a Lion, with Eagle's wings; the second like a Bear, rising up on one side; the third like a Leopard, with four heads and four wings; and the fourth diverse from all the former, was dreadful, terrible, and exceed ingly strong, devouring, breaking in pieces, a and stamping the residue with his feet - had great 1ron teeth, and nails of brass! But what engaged the attention of Daniel still more, was a little horn, with eyes like a man, and a mouth speaking great things, rising up among the ten with looks more stout than his fellows so that three of them were plucked up by the roots be fore this little ambitious fellow; not, as it would seem, imme diately by himself; but by his creatures; who, ' instigated by the great words, and over -awed by the stout looks, were com pletely under the controul and obedient to the dictates of this arbitrary monster; who, thus rising in power, made war with the saints and prevailed against them.
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