George Stanley Faber (1773–1854)
Remarks on the effusion of the fifth apocalyptic vial, and the late extraordinary restoration of the imperial revolutionary government of France…
Second edition, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, by Law and Gilbert, 1815
8100.d.1041(2), title page

The astonishing nature of Napoleon’s restoration was registered in writings of various kinds, including the theological. By 1815 the evangelical Anglican G. S. Faber had an established record of prophetic interpretation of world affairs: an earlier attempt to correlate the vials of the wrath of God foreseen in the New Testament book of Revelation to current political developments had been published in 1799 as Two sermons preached before the University of Oxford… An attempt to explain, by recent events, five of the seven vials mentioned in the Revelation. At the time of writing this later work in May 1815, Faber remained uncertain on the crucial matter of whether the pouring out of the fifth vial had yet reached its end: ‘If then we have reached it, France will be successful; if we have not reached it, the allies will be successful.’