(3) The foc, by whom they are slain, is the first beast of the

Apocalypse under his last head, p. 65. . Explanation of their death from history. p. 66. (1.) History of the Smalcaldic league, and of the constrained

reception of the Interim by the German protestants in

the reign of the Emperor Charles V. p. 66. (2.) The witnesses were slain by their constrained reception

of the Interim. p. 77. 3. Their revival, after they had lain unburied during three

prophetic days and a balf. p. 78. (1.) The place, where they were thus to lie, is the broad

street or forum of the mystical great city. The great city is the Roman empire, within the limits of which our Lord was literally crucified. Its forum is that part of the great city, which is specially subject to

the last head of the beåst: p. 78. (2.) The witnesses revived three years and a balf after their

figurative death, by rejecting the Interim. History of

this event. p. 83. 4. Their ascension into heaven by being formerly recognized

as an ecclesiastical body. p. 89. 5. Untenableness of other interpretations of this part of the

prophecy. p. 92. 6. It does not necessarily follow, that the war of the beast

against the witnesses should be the last persecution of

the Church, p. 94. 7. Three objections to the application of the prophecy to the

Smalcaldic league. p. 100. (1.) Why this persecution should be more noticed than many

others. p. 100. (2.) The German protestants were compelled to receive the

Interim near three centuries ago. p. 101. (3.) Some of the German states did not receive the Interim

during the whole period of the three years and a half.

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V. The great earthquake: the fall of the tenth part of the

city: the coming of the third woe. p. 107. 1. The meaning of the word Hour. p. 108. 2. At what epoch we are to divide the first woe-trumpet

from the second woe-trumpet in the history of the

western Apostasy: p. 112.: 5. The fall of the tenth part of the city by the great earth

quake. p. 115. (1.) This takes place at the passing away of the secon. woe,

which is quickly followed by the third woe. p. 115. L. (2) The fall of the tenth part of the Roman city is the over

throw of the ancient French monarchy by the symbolical earthquake of the revolution in the year 1789, by which event seven titles of nobilitywere suppressed.

p. 117.

V. The sounding of the seventh trumpet, or the third wee

trumpet' p. 125. iu ļ. The limited monarchy of revolutionary France is dissolv

ed; and the reign of openly established anarchy and

atheism commences. p. 125. 2. The preceding arguments drawn to a point. p. 133. 3. Objection answered, and the proper arrangement of the contents of the third woe-trumpet established. p.

136.

Concerning the war of the dragon with the woman.

1. CHARACTERS of the dragon, the woman, and the man

child. p. 140. 1. Interpretation of the prophecy as given by Bp. Newton. od 1310

3. The chapter of the little book, which contains this pro

phecy, relates solely and exclusively, with the exception of a short introductory preface, to the events of

the 1260 years. p. 150. 4. A discussion of the particulars contained in it. p. 154. (1.) Heaven is the Church general. p. 154. (2.). The woman is the spiritual Church of true believers, as

contradistinguished from the nominal believers of the br outer court. p. 154. (3.) The dragon is the devil acting through the instrumen

tality of the seven-headed and ten-horned beast.

155. (4.) The birth of the man-child denotes the full establish

(4.). The

SECT. III.

Concerning the ten-hurned beast of the sea.

1. OPINIONS respecting the ten-horned beast. p. 189. 1. Mr. Kett supposes him to be the same as the little hornt

of Daniel's fourth beast, and to symbolize the Papacy.

p. 189.

2. kir. Galloway supposes him to be the Papacy, but denies

that he is the same as the little hurn of Daniel's fourth

beast. p. 190. 3. Bp. Newtou conceives him to represent the secular Roman

empire; and yet very inconsistently esteems him the same as the little horn of Daniel's fourth beast, or the

Papacy. p. 190. (1.) If the beast be a secular empire, his last head, which is

identified with himself, cannot be the spiritual power

of the Papacy. p. 192. (2.) The Pope, although the acknowledged head of the

Church, was never allowed to be the head of the secular empire, or (what Bp. Newton styles) a king of

kings. p. 193. (3.) The ten-horned apocalyptic beast is plainly the same as

Daniel's ten-horned beast: but Daniel's ten-horned beast is the Roman empire, and the little horn of that bcast is as plainly the Papacy: therefore the apoca. lyptic ten-horned beast is the Roman empire, and consequently cannot be the Papacy: in other words, the ten-horned beast cannot be the same as his own

little horn. p. 199. II. The seven-headed and ten-horned apocalyptic beast then,

being the same as the fourth and ten-horned beast of Daniel, must symbolize the secular Roman empire.

1. Ilow St. John could be said prophetically to behold the

rise of that empire, when it had been in existence's

many ages before he was born. p. 204. (1.) The Apostle gives us two solutions of this question: by

teaching us, that the beast, after his rise from the sea, should prosper during the same period that his little horn should tyrannize, namely 1260 years; and by telling us, that the same beast “ was, and is not, and

yet should be.” p. 204. (2.) Import of the existence, the non-existence, and the

renewed existence, of the beast. As he appears in the Apocalypse, he is the Roman empire in its papally

idolatrous state. p. 206. 2. The symbolical import of the seven heads of the beast