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man- A
proper name-And the number 666-Not the Pope,

which is the name of an office, and not of an individual—

The period of 666 may be computed from the Christian æra,

or the time of the prophecy, and will find in either case Ma-

homet in the zenith of both secular and spiritual power, in and

by the Saracen monarchy-Has reigned in the double capa-

city of a civil and ecclesiastical monarch 12 centuries-The

Saracen Caliphs and Turkish Sultans but his vicars, or depu-

ties-Extirpated heathen idolatry-Wept over the grave of

his mother-Substituted a more refined and worse idolatry

in its place-Feigned himself the Paraclete-But in reality

the living shrine or temple of Satan himself-Enjoined and

legalized adultery and massacre— -Pretended miracles-Is-

lamism is to idolatry what Christianity is to Judaism —Amaz-

ing success and spread of his imposture-Occupies most of

the ancient world-Completion of prophecy-Benefits of the

true interpretation.

NOTES ON SECTION V.

By peace to destroy many-Mahomet exacted only a moderate

tribute, which increased greatly the number of his converts

and adherents-The desire of women-Polygamy-Prevents

and nullifies marriage-Not forbids it-Forbids wine and

pork-The prophecies of St Jude and of St. Peter foretold,

and are completed in and by the Mahometans in numerous

instances.

SECTION VI. P. 226.

THE FOUR MONARCHIES.

The four monarchies frequently and variously symbolized, and
why-Instrumental to religion, and embraced the church of
God-By the four metals in Nebuchadnezzar's image-The
wild beasts in Daniel-The chariots in Zechariah-And also
by the four horses, with them that sat upon them, in the

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Apocalypse-These betokened kings and conquerors-And

kings in prophetic nomenclature signify kingdoms or mo-

narchies The Babylonian empire, the head of gold-The

lion, the first chariot, and the white horse, with him that sat

upon him, who went out conquering and to conquer-The

Persian empire the silver-The bear-The second chariot and

the second horse with his rider-The Macedonian or Greek

empire the brass, the leopard, the third chariot with white

horses, and why-The third horse, whose rider had a pair of

balances in his hand-And why-Its justice and equity-

The great civilizer of the world-Promoted the arts-Built

cities-Encouraged commerce-The Roman monarchy-

The iron legs-The terrible monster, the fourth chariot, the
fourth horse, whose rider's name was Death, and killed by
famine and beasts of the earth-The Romans alone of all the
others starved their prisoners, and exposed to wild beasts—
Christians often thrown to them-Lactantius-The residue or
remnant of God's church, the saints-All these kingdoms merge
in the fifth and last kingdom, which will have no end, that
of Christ-And in each case the prophets furnish a rapid
sketch of the world's history-Shewn to St. John as being
under the lion of the tribe of Judah-Head of the church-
The God-man-And governed for its use and benefit, and
farther explained in subsequent visions or prophecies-The
Apocalyse greatly mistaken-And why-The heathen Beast
and the Antichristian or Mahometan Beast, the same Beast;
but in different periods of its history.

SECTION VII. P. 239.

THE BEAST.

Difference between Antichrist and the Beast-Beast, what-An-
cient opinion-Evils of misinterpretation-Map of prophecy
-The fourth beast furnished the early site of Messiah's church

-The ten toes-And ten horns-The ten provincial govern-
ments of the Roman empire-Enumerated by Gibbon-Not
in the West alone, but in both East and WestThe West in
the middle ages-Charlemagne and his successors never ruled
the monarchy with the ten horns or provinces-And if they
had, it would not have been, even in that case, a wild beast
at all, having been professedly Christian, and much less the
wild beast of Daniel and of the Apocalypse-Public profes-
sion, not private character, the object and the field of pro-
phecy-The Pope never ruled all Italy, which was only one
of the horns of the wild beast-The West the barrier against
the wild beast-Who is to continue to the end-Sophism of
Bishop Newton-Conclusion contradicts the premises—The
life and the dominion-The body and the head of the beast
-- Bishop Newton's theory contrary to fact the beast to
continue to the end-Now no beast or Roman empire in the
West-The crimes and the character of the beast different
from those of the Pope, or of the rulers of the West-The
little horn literally and primarily Antiochus, and mysti-
cally and remotely Antichrist-To come when the empire
would be so disturbed and distracted, as to be unable
to let him-Was ultimately to subvert it-Chrysostom-The
ancient or primitive church-The three horns plucked up
by the roots, Egypt, Africa, Syria-The beast of Daniel,
also that of the Apocalypse-The first and second beast,
or the beast and the false prophet-The secular and eccle-
siastical monarchy, of Anti-Christ, or Mahomet-Ecclesiasti-
cal power subject to the civil power in the West, but
not in the East; there it is all in all-Hence a decisive and
unanswerable proof of the SCHEME of prophecy-Repre-
sentation of the beast in the xiiith of the Apocalypse, taken
from the history of the golden image in the 2nd of Daniel,
and xivth of Isaiah-Antichrist the mystical and true king of
Babylon-The pretended living image of God-The beast be-
fore the deadly wound-And the revived beast-The Saracen
and the Turkish empires-The noisome and grievous sore-

CONTENTS.

SECTION I. P. 1.

GENERAL NATURE AND OBJECT OF PROPHECY.

Interpretation impeded by speculations of futurity, and by party
zeal-The entire or the whole Christ-The head and the
members-The same church throughout all ages-The object
and the end of prophecy-The ancient prophecies interpreted
to strengthen the evidences of religion-Not so the latter,
but rather to divide the church and to discredit the profession
of her faith, and to increase the objections of infidels-Lord
Clarendon's remark-Inconsistency of Bishop Hurd-Grotius,
Zanchius, and almost all our earliest and best divines, until
the Usurpation, opposed to controversial interpretation of pro-
phecy-Archbishop Sheldon-Turned against the Trinity-
The Protestant churches injured by misapplying the prophe-
cies-Infidelity encouraged-Dr. Jortin's distinction-The
Reformation not the object of prophecy, but the catholic faith
and catholic church-Two prophetic periods-How distin-
guished—Not by place or date-Same subjects reverted to in
the Apocalypse-Given through more than one person, who
themselves required and obtained clearer discoveries-St.
Augustine-Periods how distinguished-The church the ob-
ject of prophecy-Why the second period the more important
-The truth for which Christ suffered―The resurrection and
glory of Christ-The faith and profession of the church-
The mystery of godliness, to which is opposed the mystery of
iniquity-Prophecy the armour and champion of the church