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As the River Euphrates served the City of Babylon as a Supply, so it also was before observed, it served as an Impediment or Obstacle to hinder the Access of it's Enemies: As there was a vast Moat round the City, filled with the Water of the River, which was left empty when Euphrates was dried up. And therefore we may suppose that another Thing meant by the Effect of the sixth Vial, is the Removal of those Things which hitherto have been the chief Obstacles in the Way of the Progress of the true Religion, and the Victory of the Church of Christ over her Enemies: Which have been the corrupt Doctrines and Practices that have prevailed in Protestant Countries, and the Doubts and Difficulties that attend many Doctrines of the true Religion, and the many Divisions and Contentions that subsist among Protestants. The Removal of those would wonderfully prepare the Way for Christ and his Armies, to go forward and prevail against their Enemies, in a glorious Propagation of true Religion. So that this Vial, which is to prepare the Way for Christ and his People, seems to have Respect to that remarkable preparing the Way for Christ, by levelling Mountains, exalting Valleys, drying up Rivers, and removing Stumbling-Blocks, which is often spoken of in the Prophecies, as what shall next ⟨p. 163⟩proceed the Church's latter-day Glory; as Isai. xlii.13, &c. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty Man; he shall stir up Jealousy as a Man of War;—He shall prevail against his Enemies.—I will make waste Mountains and Hills, and dry up all their Herbs; and I will make the Rivers Islands, and I will dry up the Pools; and I will bring the Blind by a Way that they know not, and I will lead them in Paths that they have not known; I will make Darkness light before them, and crooked Things straight. These Things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. Chap. xl.3, 4, 5. Prepare ye the Way of the Lord, make straight in the Desert an High-Way for our God: Every Valley shall be exalted, and every Mountain and Hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and rough Places plain; and the Glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all Flesh shall see it together. Chap. xi.15, 16. And the Lord shall utterly destroy the Tongue of the Egyptian Sea, and with his mighty Wind shall he shake his Hand over the River, and shall smite it in the seven Streams thereof, and make Men go over dry shod:

As the River Euphrates served the City of Babylon as a Supply, so it also was before observed, it served as an Impediment or Obstacle to hinder the Access of it's Enemies: As there was a vast Moat round the City, fill'd with the Water of the River, which was left empty when Euphrates was dried up. And therefore we may suppose that another Thing meant by the Effect of the sixth Vial, is the Removal of those Things which hitherto have been the chief Obstacles in the Way of the Progress of the true Religion, and the Victory of the Church of Christ over her Enemies: Which have been the corrupt Doctrines and Practices that have prevailed in Protestant Countries, and the Doubts and Difficulties that attend many Doctrines of the true Religion, and the many Divisions and Contentions that subsist among Protestants. The Removal of those would wonderfully prepare the Way for Christ and his Armies, to go forward and prevail against their Enemies, in a glorious Propagation of true Religion. So that this Vial, which is to prepare the Way for Christ and his People, seems to have Respect to that remarkable preparing the Way for Christ, by levelling Mountains, exalting Valleys, drying up Rivers, and removing Stumbling-Blocks, which is often spoken of in the Prophecies, as what shall next