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Eureka AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE |
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Chapter 9 Section 5 Subsection 5 Preparation of the Second Angel |
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The rise and progress of the Ottomans are founded on a previous knowledge of the great eruption of the Moguls and Tartars; whose rapid conquests may be compared with the primitive convulsions of nature which have agitated and altered the surface of the globe. The spacious highlands between China, Siberia, and the Caspian sea, the ancient seats of the Huns and Turks, were occupied in the twelfth century by many pastoral tribes, of the same descent and similar manners, which were united and led to conquest by the formidable Zingis Khan. His private name was Temugin, but from a naked prophet, who claimed to be able to ascend to heaven on a white horse, he condescended to accept the title of ZINGIS, the Most Great; and a divine right to the conquest and dominion of the earth. In a general diet, he was solemnly proclaimed Great Khan, or Emperor of the Moguls and Tartars. War was his delight, and his maxim was that peace should never be granted unless to a vanquished or suppliant enemy. His religious system was that of pure theism and perfect toleration. He was in direct opposition to the impious fools of Europe, who believed nonsense and defended it by cruelty. His first and only article of faith was the existence of one God, the author of all good, who fills by his presence the heavens and earth, which he has created by his power. Such a potentate was an appropriate scourge for the idolators of the Roman world. In the west, his empire touched the dominions of the Sultan of Carizme, who reigned from the Persian Gulph to the borders of India and Turkestan. It was his wish to establish a friendly and commercial intercourse with the most powerful of the Moslem princes. But he was not met in the same spirit. In the vast plains north of the Jaxartes, 700,000 Moguls and Tartars under Zingis and his four sons, encountered the Sultan with 400,000. In the first battle, 160,000 Carizmians were slain. The Sultan retired into his fortified cities. But, aided by his Chinese engineers, and informed of the secret of gunpowder, they were unable to withstand the attacks of Zingis. From the Caspian to the Indus, his Moguls ruined a tract of many hundred miles, which was adorned with the habitations and labors of mankind; so that five centuries have not been sufficient to repair the ravages of four years. Zingis died in the fulness of years, A.D. 1227, leaving his
empire to successors of his own race and family. In the sixty-eight
years of the first four of these, the Moguls subdued almost
all Asia, and a large portion of Europe. Thus, a power was
prepared eastward of the Euphrates, which, A.D. 1258, under
Holagou, the grandson of Zingis, by the storm and capture
of Bagdad, and the territory of its jurisdiction, extended
to the Euphrates; the east of which the stream of Mogul hostility
was driven back from the south by the Mamelucs of Egypt. Hence,
it was a prepared power "bounded by the great river Euphrates."
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