Excerpt from The Signs of the Times, Vol. 2 of 2: As Denoted by the Fulfilment of Historical Predictions, Traced Down From the Babylonish Captivity to the Present Time But as, after the mighty angel had cried, or the Reformation was established, the seven thunders uttered their voices, it is written in history that the Reformation was the main and principal spring which moved the nations from that illustrious period down to the time of another mighty revolution, which bears not the character of religious, and drew not its light from heaven. And the civil and re ligious revolutions that fill the annals of history between these most eventful eras, and of the great est part of which the Reformation was the occasion, may perhaps, without any violence to things sacred or civil, be now viewed retrospectively, that it may be seen whether, as emanating from the Reforma tion, they do not, like all antecedent history, occupy their own place in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and, exclusive of any specific definition, give palpa ble illustration from their origin, nature, and number, that the seven thunders which uttered their voices after the Reformation needed not to be farther writ, ten, in order that their significancy might finally be obvious without affording a seeming sanction to Christians to look on war as their calling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.