WHICH RELATE TO THESE LATTER TIMES, AND
UNTIL THE SECOND ADVENT.

BY THE

REV. EDWARD IRVING,

MINISTER OF THE CALEDONIAN CHURCH, LONDON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

GLASGOW:

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BABYLON AND INFIDELITY FORE

DOOMED OF GOD:

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A

DISCOURSE

ON THE

SEVENTH CHAPTER OF DANIEL,

&c.

PART V.

The Progress of the Infidel Power, up to the battle of Armageddon, in which it is to be annihilated.

THAT power by which the final catastrophe is brought upon Babylon, the city of darkness and confusion, is always described under these short but significant terms, "the beast that was, and is not, and is just at hand," and "the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit and goeth into perdition." The former description, as we have shown above, is applicable to the point of time in which we presently breathe from the ravages which the spirit of infidelity hath