likewise the senses of prophecy-Instance in the xxxivth of
Isaiah-In the vision of dry bones, xxxviith of Ezekiel-
Literal sense-Return from Babylon-Secondary or spiritual
sense-The deliverance of Messiah's church from heathen
persecution-And the same with the first resurrection-
The binding of Satan, and the reign of the saints in the
Apocalypse-Which are symbolical, temporal, and tempo-
rary, and foresignify the public and legal establishment of
Christianity in this world—In type and token of its triumph
and glory in the world to come-Lord Bacon's Scalas Com-
plimenti-Errors respecting the millenium founded in the
figurative language of the prophets-No actual rising from
the grave until the last day-When all things shall be made
new-Ezekiel's temple not merely that built by Zerubbabel-
The type of the church-Grotius incorrect-False conclusion
of Eichhorn-Michaelis more just-The most perfect sketch
and outline of Messiah's church-So explained in the last
chapters of the Apocalypse-The temple of Jerusalem not the
house of God after the crucifixion-The altar on which Christ
suffered, and the temple, of which he was the sacrifice and
the High Priest, not that of Jerusalem, but of the church
and of the world-Two divisions of the tabernacle, and of
the temple and of the city of Jerusalem-Types of the two
divisions of the church on earth and in heaven-Who the
children of Abraham—The land of Israel a type of the world
and of heaven-Ezekiel exhibits emblematically the esta-
blishment of the church on earth, as an adumbration of its
future glory in heaven-Who the true Jews-Not the literal,
but the promised seed of Abraham; and hence the true
sense and completion of prophecy.
Note 1st, 8th Psalm-Note 2nd, lines from Waller-Note 3rd,
double sense of our Lord's prophecy-In the carcase—The
eagles The abomination of desolation-His coming, and
the signs of it-The sun being darkened-Its suddenness—
xith of Romans not opposed to the scheme of prophecy—
Its object to encourage the Jews, and to check the pride of
the Gentiles-Greatly mistaken-Errors of the Syriac version
-But corrected by the Vulgate and the Arabic-Division of
verses 25 and 26 peculiarly unfortunate-Who the Israel to
be saved-Not the literal Israel, but the Israel of God, the
church-Other errors-Conversion of the Jews resembles
that of the Gentiles-Many still to remain in unbelief-No
return to Canaan-Such an exposition brings back the types
and shadows of the former dispensation, and tends to exalt
the synagogue, and to depress the church.
Party zeal and neglect or contempt of antiquity sources of mis-
interpretation-False prophets of first period-Of second and
last period--Without the pale of the church-Open enemies
of it-They deny not God and his Providence-Enemies
of Christ and of his faith-Proved from St. John's first
epistle-One Antichrist-The false prophet-The deceiver-
The liar-To deny that Christ was come in the flesh—And the
Father and the Son-And to oppose himself to Christ and all
the gods of the heathen-And to exalt himself above them—
And, therefore, to be no idolater-On the contrary, to perse-
cute idolaters-To acknowledge the Sovereignty, and to pro-
mote the worship of the one Almighty God-Excellence of
the marginal reading of Daniel xi. 38.-Fanciful and unsup-
ported rendering of Mr. Mede, Bishop Newton, and of other
writers on the prophecies-To come in or with circumcision—
To be but one man-Not a succession or plurality of men—
Variously compared and contrasted with Christ-In the last
times all things were to be in the extreme-Completion to be
ascertained, not from a single mark or solitary proof, but from
the concurrence and concentration of all the signs, and all
the proofs together-Mahomet-His name the name of a
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
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.
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 West-The 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-
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