integral part of the Roman territory, was in existence under its sixth or imperial head. It was the fall of the Emperor Napoleon, in 1815, which left the empire, for the first time, without a head. It is here said, however, that "his deadly wound was healed:" which is another proof that "one of the seven" heads will revive, as has been already enlarged upon in considering Daniel's last vision.

7. From this symbolical beast having been the wonder and dread of the world. Perhaps the combined strength and magnificence of these ten kingdoms was never more strikingly displayed than in the repeated Crusades that were, in the very zenith of Popery, made against the Mohammedan power in the Holy Land and there was no event that ever more completely identified them as belonging to the Papal apostasy. And during the whole period of their existence, which is now nearly 1260 years, they have stood in the most elevated position of any empire in the world.

8. It is another proof that this "beast" is symbolical of the Papal nations, from its blasphemies being described in similar language to that which is used by Daniel in speaking of the "little horn" that was to spring up among the ten horns of the Roman empire. (See Dan. vii. 8, 11, 20, 25, compared with Rev. xiii. 5, 6.)

9. The chronological term here used, and which I have already so fully noticed, while it limits the existence of this ten-horned beast to 1260 years, furnishes at the same time one of the clearest proofs of its identification with the Papal nations. And this fact, that the existence of these ten nations, as forming the ten toes of Daniel's great image, is thus limited; and which limit, according to the evidence I have been able to bring forward, appears to have so short a time before it will be run out; while it countenances the important conclusions I have come to in the general interpretation of unfulfilled prophecy, is of itself, independent of any other prophecy, calculated to excite the deepest alarm in the minds of all those who have any reverence for the word of God. For when it comes to this, that God is pleased, in addition to the many other prophecies that bear upon the subject, expressly to mention this date as the date of the actual existence of the Western empire, we shall find we have need of other sources of dependence than any arm of flesh-any systems of human policy-or than the most powerful and best-disciplined fleets and armies.

When God's right arm is bared for war,

And thunders clothe his cloudy car;

Where, where, oh where, shall man retire,
escape the horrors of his ire?

To

'Tis He, the Lamb! To Him we fly,
While the dread tempest passes by:
God sees his Well-beloved's face,

And spares us—IN OUR HIDING PLACE!"

H. K. WHITE.

10. Another mark of identity in this symbo"And it was

lical beast, is its persecutions. given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them" (ver. 7). Daniel, in nearly the same words, says (chap. vii. 21), "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them." All the persecutions which Papal Rome stirred up against the Lord's people, were carried into execution by the secular arm of the empire. The most dreadful and bloody mandates that were accustomed to be issued from the Vatican, found a ready obedience in all ranks of persons throughout the ten kingdoms of the empire. It was the secular power, symbolized by this ten-horned beast, that waged such destructive and cruel war with the Albigenses and Waldenses; with the Protestants, at various periods, in France, in the Netherlands, in Spain, in Germany, and in Britain. And the truth of this assertion is so indelibly written and interwoven with the history of modern Europe, that it is impossible to have escaped the notice even of the most superficial reader.

11. And, lastly, a further mark of identity is in the following paragraph, describing its most

extensive dominion: "And power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations" (ver. 7). In illustration of this particular it is only necessary to name, that the greater part of the habitable globe has been, and in a great degree still is, subject to one or other of these ten kingdoms. Nearly the whole of North and South America, the East and West India Islands, the vast territory of Hindostan and Upper India, parts of Africa, and the coasts of New Holland, have all owned the sway of either England, France, Portugal, or Spain, and more or less of the other kingdoms: thus fulfilling, in a very remarkable manner, the first direct prophecy with regard to the nations: "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant" (Genesis ix. 25, 27).

(PERIOD VII.)

Third Aspect.

POPERY AS IT APPEARS IN THE DEPRESSED CONDITION OF THE CHURCH GIVEN IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL TERM OF A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREE-SCORE DAYS.

CONTENTS.

The Lord's people form two distinct churches-Their depressed condition-The symbols of these two churches -Their importance in the eye of God-What is to be understood by their being two witnesses-The Waldenses and Albigenses-Their origin-A church within. the Popish apostasy-The English church consists of two witnesses-The three years and a half persecution of the Lord's two witnesses-Infidelity-The death of the two witnesses-Their great deliverance-The Saviour's second coming-Elijah a type of these witnesses -A Revolution-The fall of Turkey-The correct date of that event.