"The other four men walked about, two and two together, backwards and forwards; two spoke of the lamentable state of time, and the others of the joys of eternity; but the three men upon the altar continued asleep.

"Te Deum ended, and the eight vanished; the other four followed.

"An angel flew out of the cloud, clad in a white robe, with a golden key in his right hand, and a chain of gold upon his arm, and in his left hand he had a golden stick or wand. He passed swiftly along to the altar, and laid the key and chain upon it, and took the stick into both his hands, and struck one of the three men, who had the two swords at his feet, such a violent blow on the head that he fell down from the altar to the ground with so loud a noise and clatter, that the other two awaked, and cast their eyes all round.

"The angel did not smite them down also, but they remained in their chairs, he laid his stick upon the altar, raised, and reseated the man in his chair again, and put the two swords into his hands, saying, 'judge aright; Antichrist has reigned long enough; Christ will now rule and reign.'

"The exposition was given by an angel to John Engelbrecht, a servant and messenger of God, viz. :—

"The three men sitting, clad in white, upon the altar, signify the three states:

"1. The ecclesiastical.

"2. The civil or popular. "3. The political.

"Now, many are seated at ease, asleep, in known sins, in those states.

"The first man, with two swords lying carelessly at his feet, signifies the ecclesiastical state. The swords represent faith and love dropt carelessly out of their hands.

"The second man, in white, with the golden rod and book, represents the popular or family state of the world.

"The third man, in white, represents the political state in which many are sitting asleep at ease, having the sword of love (with which they ought to punish the ungodly, and protect Christians), and the scales of justice lying also on the ground. The angel who smote the first man who represents the ecclesiastical state, signified that I was to remind the learned that they are the most culpable in their ungodly courses throughout Christendom, occasioning the people and their congregations to lead bad lives. For these reasons the church hypocrites are punished so signally. Out of their chairs shall they be smitten down in their pride in which they have exalted themselves, instead of humbling themselves according to the doctrine of Christ.

They breed contentions, and produce divisions, and occasion all the evils suffered in Christendom; but for misleading the people they shall be smote to the ground, at last, not by human hands, but by God's spirit.

"However, exactly like the man in white, so shall Christians be reseated and preach (like the apostles) with pure, believing hearts.

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By the angel's expression, ‘judge aright,' they are to protect the good, and punish the wicked. Antichrist must be driven out of their hearts, who rules and reigns to this very day in almost all men.

"The key which the angel brought me, signifies the Holy Ghost. If what I write is not true, I must answer for it, and not another. I own, the divine revelations transcend all human understanding; no man is required to believe me but in Christ, who once appeared and showed me his five wounds (as he did to Thomas), and comforted me during my poverty and hunger.

* No brewers, no parsons ought to be magistrates. Parsons have enough to do to attend and feed the flock, but they never visit the sick without fees. If they resided at their respective churches nine months every year, instead of giving poor curates 501. to do all the work, they might give half the revenue to feed the poor; if 501. be enough for a parson doing all the duty, 10001. is enough for any bishop or prime minister.

"The chain I saw, signifies God's word, for the word forms a chain of many regular links, and does not clash, as the learned interprete the letters, according to their own heads.

"The angel vanished, and darkness returned. Whilst pondering in bed upon what I had heard and seen, I heard a voice say, 'John, get up, and immediately write down what thou hast seen and heard.' I loitered in bed till I received a blow upon my face, as if by some clenched fist, so that my eye struck fire. I again heard a voice, 'Why do you loiter so long in bed? Thus shall it go with all such as do the work of God negligently;' upon which I got up, lit a candle, and wrote down the vision and exposition in the pastor's house.

"O, ye swarms of learned men, and swarms of preachers in the world, of all denominations, who directing every person to yourselves, cry, Lo, here is Christ; lo, there is Christ; our doctrine is best,' thereby drawing the poor people from Christ by your godless, accursed disputes; it is you who seduce the whole world, emperors, kings, princes, and people; whence come all your wars, but from your covetousness? The devil himself has sent you out, and not God.

"I have written this exposition under the direction of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

(Signed) "JOHN ENGELBRECHT."

Take the Application of this Divine Vision, viz.:This vision happened in 1625, and was realized in 1653, under Oliver Cromwell; at the Restoration in England in 1688, and in France between 1789 and 1798, when Buonaparte overthrew the pope. Sixty-four thousand priests, and one hundred and thirty-eight bishops suffered death and exile. The details of the private lives of the French court and nobles during the reigns of Lewis XIV. XV. and XVI. surpass all history, except the Roman, in licentiousness, cruelty, and blasphemy.

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During this Revolution, God visited the sins of the fathers upon the third and fourth generations, because they exhausted his long forbearance, and continued committing sin. About 2,000,000 of Frenchmen perished in the most barbarous civil war ever recorded. Men and women, naked, were tied together in couples, and slaughtered by sabres, or thrown into the rivers. These were called republican marriages by spectators and executioners. The devil, incarnate, raged. Even young children were slaughtered, as Herod did once all male babes.

All Europe felt and trembled under the rod of iron, and furnished annual conscripts as victims.

Buonaparte prospered against idolators, but fell when he made concordats with Pius VI. in order to obtain a divorce from Josephine. How can popes be infallible, for, 2 Dec. 1804, one came from Rome expressly to crown Napoleon; but Napoleon crowned himself at Paris, in the pope's presence, who pronounced his blessing on Napoleon, full of pomp and vanity.

An air balloon ascended on that day from Paris, surmounted by an imperial crown, which ominously fell, after 22 hours' flight, near Rome. Had Pius been infallible, he never could have crowned the man who twice sacked Rome, before he perished at St. Helena, a prisoner in exile, under the English navy and army.

The Almighty arm who raised, also crushed Napoleon's host by his elements in Russia. "Who can abide God's frost?" One divine word could freeze every sinner to death in one night.

The Almighty has often thrown down and reseated princes, priests, and people; He now gives them a final, merciful opportunity to " judge aright;" but they are again fallen asleep, like idle centinels, leaving the city exposed to universal enemies.

This is the last opportunity for Christendom, because they rejected the divine mercy, and unanimously restored the pope, whose first step was an edict against publishing

the gospel, 29 June, 1816; which edict, or Bull, is open war against God, for he orders the gospel to be preached to all the world*; nevertheless, Christendom supports idolatry, and drags down the fatal blow which God is very unwilling to strike, who spared the Ninevites who repented, and suffered Jonas to be considered a false prophet. Christ owned Jonas as his prophet, and delivered. C him from the whale, after three days and three nights, which was the only sign he gave the Jews!!! but at and after his crucifixion, Christ gave awful signs of his divinity, for the sun set at noon, and there was a great earthquake.

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The Jews rejected these signs, and the miracle on the day of Pentecost; and thereby drew down the utter destruction of Jerusalem, and the death of a million souls; but God gave believers opportunity to escape before the siege, which compelled the Jews to devour their children. God will also now spare every Christian in heart.

Except the holy war, the only historical instance of perfect unanimity in Europe is against God; for, on all other affairs, discord reigns. Thus, the gospel is fulfilled by the Gentiles invoking universal tribulation, because all Europe supports the Pope under the "Holy Alliance" formed in 1814 at Paris, as predicted by St. John's Revelations, in my humble opinion, also by Daniel, as I shall endeavour to expound most clearly in another Chapter, styled "BABYLON THE GREAT," to which I refer, for there is more horrible. confusion universally reigning than did once in Old Babylon.