ERRATA, VOL. I. Page 50. 1. 26. For reign, read region. 211. I, 14, 15. Por prophecy, read prophesy. 272. 1. 25. For insuparable, read insuperable. 278. 1. 2, 3. For slumbeing, read slumbering, 300. 1. 1. For prophesy, read prophecy. 300. last line. Insert a comnia between both, and it. 305. Note, l. 11. For w, read □). 312. Note, I. 4, 5. Read by before the other two Hebrew words, 329. Note, L. 5. For stutute, read statue. 332. Note, 1. 20. For suplice, read supplice. 340. Note, 1. 7. For undistinguished, read undisguised. 350. 1. 9. For villanies, read villainies. VOL. II. 20. 1. 24. For Britains, read Britain: 22. 1. 26. For the semi-colon between extinct and till, place a comma. 33. 1. 7. Erase the comma between 612 and then, and place it between then and Mohammed. 37. Note, l. 11. Insert the between in and fortunes. 39. 1. 26. For pobability, read probability. 50. 1. 2. For prophecy, read prophesy, 54, 1. 5. For twele, read twelve," 58. Note, l. 12. For prophecy, read prophesy, 86. 1. 5. For natural, read national. 94. Note, 1. 3. Insert after revol tionary the following line, France are under the second. These matters will be dis 211. 1. 20. For the colon between prophet and we, place a period. 253. Note, l. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Place the marks of quotation after the first beast, and erase the remaining subsequent marks of quo tation. 280. Note, 1. 2. For menia, read mænia. 296. Note, I. 9. Fer typfy, read typify. 302. 1. 27. For foward, read forward. 338. 1. 7. Insert and between Lord and to. 340. l. 12. For naturally read nationally. 360. 1. 1. For nd, read and. 382. Note, l. 1. 387. Note, 1. 9. For mon, read an. Erase the words Bp. of St. Asaph's letter on the 18th chap. of Isaiah, and place the same words at the end of the quotation at the bottom of P. 389, CONTENTS. THE 1260 years cannot have any connection with the per- secutions of pagan Rome—They are the period of the do- minance of the great Apostasy, and of the reign of the two little horns-They comprehend likewise towards their conclusion the tyranny of the Infidel king, who was destined to arise after the era of the Reformation- At the end of the 1260 years all these enemies of God will be destroyed, and the restoration of the Jews will commence-These matters are predicted in four of the prophecies of Daniel. 1. The dream of Nebuchadnez- 2. The vision of the four beasts. 3. The vision of the ram and the he-goat. 4. The latter end of the pro- phecy of the Scripture of truth-With these four prophe- cies the Apocalypse is closely connected-This grand chronological prediction contains a history of the Church of Christ from the days of St. John to the end of the world—It is divided into three successive periods of seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven vials-Under the three last trumpets the period of 1260 days is comprehended; the final trumpet containing the seven vials-This period Apostasy in its dominant state-The history of the Apostasy is detailed in two distinct parallel prophetic lines→→→→ The little book contains the peculiar history of the western Apostasy under all the three woe-trumpets-Under the last woe-trumpet Antichrist is fully revealed-This last woe-trumpet comprehends along with its seven vials two remarkable periods of God's wrath, the harvest and the vintage The harvest synchronizes with the three first vials; and the vintage, with the last vial-After all the vials have been poured out, and the enemies of the Lord have been destroyed, the Millennium will commence-Points of correspondence between the prophecies of Daniel and St. John.... Page 3 CHAP. II. On the symbolical language of prophecy. One symbol does not represent many different things, though one thing is frequently represented by many different symbols-Symbols typify at once both temporal and spiritual things, provided the matters thus typified have a mutual relation and correspondence-Symbols may be reduced into various classes-1. Heaven, with its subordinate symbols-2. Earth, with its subordinate symbols-3. A city, with its subordinate symbols-4, A woman-5. A vine-6. A beast, with its subordinate symbols 59 CHAP. CHAP. III. Concerning the scriptural phrases of the latter days, the last days, and the time of the end. In the old Testament, the phrases of the latter days, and the last days, are synonymous; for the original expression, thus variously translated, is the end of days—The end of days denotes primarily any time yet to come, but secondarily the period of the Millennium-In the New Testament, the last days, when not spoken of prophetically, signify, the whole period of the Gospel dispensation-But, when the latter days, and the last days, are spoken of prophetically, then they bear two entirely distinct significations In this case, the latter days import the reign of superstition, which continues during the greater part of the Apostasy while the last days mean the reign of Atheism and Infidelity, which openly commences under the last woe-trumpet towards the termination of the Apostasy→→ The propriety of this distinction appears from a survey of the different prophecies professedly descriptive of the latter days and the last days What we are to understand by the term Antichrist-The time of the end is the termination of the 1260 days; and it apparently extends through the 75 years, which intervene between that termination and the commencement of the Millennium, being the period of God's great controversy with his enemies Page 84 Concerning the two first prophecies of Daniel, and the little horn of the fourth beast. CHAP. IV. From the days of Nebuchadnezzar to the commencement of the Millennium, there are to be no more than four empires, universal so far as the Church is concerned : 3 the the Babylonian; the Medo-Persian; the Macedocian; and the Roman-These are doubly symbolized by the different parts of a large human image, and by four distinct beasts-The last or Roman beast is described as having ten horns, and a little horn rising up among and behind them-The history of the little horn is not an epitome of the whole history of Antichrist, considered as Papal, Mohammedan, and Infidel-Nor is the little horn itself revolutionary France-On the contrary, it is the Papacy-Yet it cannot be the temporal kingdom of the Papacy; but must be that spiritual kingdom of the Bishop of Rome, which, small as it originally was, grew at length into a catholic spiritual empire, symbolized by the second beast of the Apocalypse-It was to arise during the period that the Roman empire was divided into ten kingdoms-It was to be harmless during the first part of its existence; but, after the saints had been given by the secular power into its hand, it was to become an universal ecclesiastical tyrant, utterly offensive in the eyes of God-At the period of their being thus given into its hand, the 1260 days of the great Apostasy of the man of sin, considered in its dominant state, commenced-Exact correspondence of the character of the little horn with the character of the Papacy-The three horns, which were to be plucked up before the little horn, are not the Greek sovereignty in Italy, the kingdom of the Lombards, and the western imperial authority in Italy-Neither are they the Exarchate of Ravenna, the kingdom of the Lombards, and the state of Rome-But they are the kingdom of the Heruli, the kingdom of the Ostrogoths, and the kingdom of the Lombards-The body of the fourth beast comprehends the whole Roman Empire, both in the East and in the West-But the ten horns are to be sought for only in the West-For the Constantinopolitan Emperor was the representative of the sixth head, and consequently cannot be esteemed one of the ten horns likewise-The ten horns are the ten kingdoms, into which the Empire was originally divided.... 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