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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
5. The Little Season. — The cruel work of

Romanism did not altogether cease, even after

the work of the Reformation had become

wide-spread and well established. Not a few

terrible outbursts of Romish hate and

persecution were yet to be felt by the church.

Multitudes more were to be punished as

heretics, and to join the great army of martyrs.

The full vindication of their cause was to be

delayed a little season. And during this time,

Rome added hundreds of thousands to the

vast throng of whose blood she had already

become guilty. (See Buck’s Theological

Dictionary, art. Persecution.) But the spirit of

persecution was finally restrained; the cause

of the martyrs was vindicated; and the “little

season” of the fifth seal came to a close.