Various miscellaneous apocalyptic, historical and mint-related jottings on largely unpaginated scraps of paper or draft/re-used letters (section 7.3p) Isaac Newton Isaac Banastre J. P. Biester Francis Cressener John Francis Fauquier Henry Hunt M. Pilkington c. 20,869 words The Newton Project Oxford 2020 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 c. 1675-80, in English with some Latin and Greek, c. 20,869 words, 42 pp. on 21 ff. 42 pp. on 21 ff.

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 c. 1675-80 England English Latin Greek Holograph Unknown Cataloguer J P Biester Unknown Hand (1) Henry Hunt Unknown Hand (2) Unknown Hand (3) John Francis Fauquier Isaac Banastre Unknown Hand (4) M. Pilkington Francis Cressener Unknown Hand (5) Unknown Hand (6) Religion Mint Part of Newton's text is written in the blank spaces of a letters by I P Biester, Henry Hunt, John Francis Fauquier, Isaac Banastre, M. Pilkington, and Francis Cressener; the transcription also includes those letters. Niki Black start tagged transcription Niki Black end tagged transcription Checking started by Robert Ralley Checking completed by Robert Ralley Note about the inclusion of letters by other authors written, and those authors added to the header, by Robert Ralley
Ms. 7.3(p).1r

SrSir

I was did my self the honour was this morning at yoryour lodgings to acquaint you that yesterday I procured there was a full meeting of the Royal Socityety & I you are elected a member did my self the honour to procure you & the Marquiss de Guiscard to be elected members of the Society. And if you please upon any wednesday to see one of their meetings I will wait upon you thither. I am

Honoratissimo DnoDomino Mrarchesio de Guiscard Is. Newton salutem.

DneDomine

HoneHonore DneDomine

Cum didicissem ex serumonibus tuis te in rebus Philosophisis nom minus artibus et scientijs quam disciplinis bellicis pollere, hesterna die occasionem nactus id obtinui á Societate Regia ut in numerum Sociorum eligereris S & societatemis eligereris. Spero me nih Et quamvis hac nihil claritati nominis tui ex hac electione nihil eaccedat: volui tamen hoc facto animum meum in te benevolum contestari; Et spero quod in bonam partem accipies. Vale.

Dabam 6to die Iunij 1706.

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The true Church diffused through the Roman Empire is at in the first ages represented by the glorious woman in heaven, untill she flies from him into the spiritually barren wildernes & becomes the to her place upon the beast & becomes the whore of Babylon & leaves only a remnant of her seed in the kingdom of the Dragon.

The true Church is represented in the beginning first ages or times of the first six seales by the Tabernacle & first Temple & by the seven horns of the Lamb by the seven Candlesticks or seven Churches of Asia, & by the four Beasts & 24 Elders or twelve Tribes of Israel & by the glorious woman in heaven [But at yethe opening of the seventh seal the an hour of temptation comes upon all the world to try them that are Gods, the woman in respect of her outward visible form, flysyes from the Dragon into the wildernes spiritually barren wilderness & by apostasy becomes the idolatrous church of the Beast who at the same time rises out of the sea] But when the Beast rises out. But Vpon the division of the Empire the woman as the Dragon retires into the Easter&n leaves his western throne to the Beast Empire & leaves the western to yethe ten-horned Beast, the woman retires flies retires into yethe western Empire & leaves the eastern to the horned bBeast [who at yethe same time rises out of the earth or nations of the eastern Empire to succeed the woman there] & this retiring of the woman f into the west is represented by her fleeing into a spiritually ba from the Dragon into a spiritually barren wilderness & there getting upon the back of the Beast & committing fornication with yethe ten kings represented by his horns. & by the Dragons going from her to make war with yethe remnant of her seed wchwhich she left in his eastern kingdom keep the commandments of God, & were left behind in his kingdom. And twhen at the sam the woman fled into yethe wilderness its to be conceived that 144000 were sealed with yethe numbered out of all the 12 tribes of Israel & sealed wthwith the name of God in their foreheads & that the rest of the tribes were at yethe same time marked wthwith the mark of the Beast & became the synagogue of Satan wchwhich say they are Iews & are not.; [& that five of the seven Churches became faulty & only two remained sincere called afterwards the two Candlesticks & two witnesses. For the Church of Ephesus left her first love, that of Pergamus had them that held the doctrine of yethe Nicolaitans, that of Thyatira suffered the woman Iezebel to seduce, that of Sardis was dead had a name that she lived & was dead, & that of Laodicea was lukewarm. And for these failings Christ threatens to come into the Church of Ephesus & remove ther Candlestick of Epheseus & to come into yethe Church of Pergamꝰus & declares that he will spue Laodicea out of his mouth, & there the like is to be understood of the rest But being equally obnoxious were liable to yethe same like f punishment. But the against the Churches of Smirna & Philadelphia nothing is objected & that of Philade are all intirely commended wthoutwithout any objection against them & that of Philadelphia has a promis to be preserved: Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I will keep them from the hour of temptation wchwhich shall come upon all the world to try them that are his dwell upon the earth. Conceive therefore that when the swoman flys into the wilderness five of the Candlesticks are removed out of their places & only two remain in the times of the great Apostacy wchwhich are the two witnesses. And that a second temple was then built wthwith two Candlesticks in it to represent the true Church of God in the western Empire while the first Temple & that the Tabernacle & first Temple wthwith the seven Candlesticks in it, wchwhich in the time of the first six seales signified the whole Church of God throughout the whole Roman Empire is in the time of yethe seventh seale restrained to yethe signify the remnant of the womans seed

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He was in the greatest credit amongst the Iews till the reign of Hadrian Hadrian the Roman emperor & to reject his prophesies is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophesy concerning the Messiah.

Illustrissime Domine!

Veniam dabis, quod Epistolam meam de removendis difficultatibus, praxin Methodi inveniendi longitudinem impedimentibus, et ad te, et per publicam impressionem dederim. Ad te illa videbatur dirigenda, cum ipse, solidâ ratione, difficultates movisses; per impressionem verò, quò et aliis, quibus eædem dubium forsan moverant, remotio illarum innotescere possit. Nolui tibi esse molestus, quamdiu illæ remoram dabant meæ Methodo, potius habens, Londini tam diu degere, licet domi negligendo, hîc consumendo propria, usque dum tam illi difficultati calculo remedium invenirem, quam illi de observatione iam tum remedium scirem; Crimen enim censeo, asseverare, aliquid esse solidum, cuius non verasoliditatem non vera suffulciat ratio. Iam verò, inventô remediô utrique, nullus dubito de tuô favore erga meam Methodum; cùm non solùm, dum mihi concedebatur honor te visendi, ipse me doceres, quod Acta Illustrissimi Parliamenti usque ad 2000 ££ Sterl. (quæ hic non requiruntur) concesserint, ut iisdem, si aliqua propositio de inveniendâ longitudine reperiatur rationalis, rei succurratur; sed et benevolè promitteres, 2v si haberei possit calculus Lunæ præcisior, successum rei tibi habere commendatum. Non male vertas, Illustrissime Domine, quod in te primariam fiduciam huius rei collocem; duo sunt mihi argumentata, quare id? nempè, quod in te mihi sint cognitæ, et facultas dicendi sententiam, et Authoritas. Adiuves itaque me en benovolô promissô, exque animô propensô promovere scientiarum incrementum, simul cum reliquis Dominis, quibus ex Actis, Illuistrissimi Parliamenti negotium de inveniendâ longitudine est commissum, ut, sicut propria hactenus inveniendæ longitudinis gratiâSuderim, ita, quod restat eandem verè ducere in actum, absque ulterioribus meis sumptibus fieri possit; cum Acta Illustrissimi Parliamenti, ex tuâ relatione, non desiderent profusionem propriorum, sed necessaria succurrendæ rei destinaverint, Tibique cum reliquis Illustrissimis ac Doctissimis Duis, in Actis denominatis, plenariam huius rei potestatem concesserint. Si otium id tibi permittet, Illustrissime Domine, humillime sistam et supputationes reliquarum observationum, a DnôDomino Halley mihi communicatarum, collectas ex iisdem principiis, et procedendo præcisè eôdem modô, quò, quod nulla in iisdem sit differentia nisi in min tiutis 2dis, appareat; imò paratus sum, si id placebit, demonstrationem trigonometricam cuiusvis, ex meâ Theoriâ Lunæ, addere. Qui de Cætero sum et ero

Londini die 1 Febr. 17256

Illustrissime Domine Illustrissimi Tui Nominis Observantissimus Cultor I P Biester
The first Beast was like a Lion, & had eagles wings to denote the provinces of Babylonia & Assyria of which the first of the four fEmpires (the Empire of Nebuchadnezzar & his successors) was composed then in being) from the time of the fall of the Assyrian Empire, was composed This was the Empire of Nebuchadnezzar and & his race. And I beheld, saith Daniel till the wings thereof were pluckt wherewith it was lifted up from the earth & made to stand upon the feet like a man, & a mans heart was given it: that is till it was humbled & subdued & made to know that it was no more then a man. 3v To S Isaac Newton President of the Royal Society Kingsinton The prophesy of the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven relates to the second coming of Iesus Christ, & that of the Prince of of the host & the Prince relates to his first coming: & therefore this prosphesyprophesy of the weeks Messiah, in explaining them relates to both comings, & assignes the times thereof. Chap. Of the vision of the Image. composed of four metalls. The prophesies of Daniel are all of them related to one another as if they were but several parts of one general prophesy given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, & every following prophesy adds something new to the former. The first was given in a dream to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, but the king forgetting his dream, it was given again to Daniel & by him revealed to the king. And thereby Daniel acquired presently became famous for wisdome & revealing of secrets insomuch that Ezekiel in the days of Nebuchadnezzar while Daniel was yet in his vigour, thus reproves the king of Tyre: Thou his contemporary speaks thus or to the king of Tyre Behold, saith he, thou art wiser then Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee. &c. Ezek. xxviii.3 [And a a little after the Queen dowager of Babylon said to the king: There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the Gods holy Gods.] And in the last year of Belshazzar the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, the queen dowager said of him to the king: Ther Behold there is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the Gods holy Gods. And in the days of thy father light & understanding & wisdom like the wisdome of the Gods was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father &c And the same Ezekiel in another place, joyns Noah wthwith Daniel with Noah & Iob as most high in the favour of God. Ezek. XIV.14, 16, 18, 20. Now in this vision the foundation of all Daniels prophesieys is laid. It represents that there should be four successive Empires, the Babylonian, the Persian, the Greek & the Roman of four several nations, the PersChald Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks & the Romans, & by a stone cut out. It representings the four metals by the four metalls that four several nations should reign successively The head of the image was of gold & represents the kingdom Empire of Babylon. Now in this vision the foundation of all Daniels prophesies is laid. It represents by the Image of four metals four great nations wchwhich should reign over the earth successively., vizt the people of Babylonia, the Persians, the Greeks & the Romans & by a stone cut out of the mounta without hands, and wchwhich fell upon the feet of the image & brake all the the four metalls to pieces, & filled the earth it further represents that a new kingdom wchwhich in the end of the reign of the fourth Romans should conquer the nations of all all those kingdoms, & grow very great & last to the end of ages. The head of the image was of gold & signifies the nations of Babylonia who reigned first, as Daniel himself interprets. Thou art this head of Gold, saith he to Nebuchadnezzar. These nations reigned till Cyrus conquered Babylon & revolted within a few months after that conquest revolted to the Persians & set them up above them. The breast & arms of the image were of silver & represent the Persians who reigned next. The belly & thighs of the image were of brass & represent the Greeks who under the supervision of Alexander the great conquered the Persians & reigned next 3r after themm Persians. The leggs were of iron & represent the Romans who reigned near after the Greeks & began to conquer them in the eighth year of Antiochus Epiphanes. For in that year they conquered Perseus king of Macedon the fundamental kingdom of the greeks Greeks, & from thence forward grew very potent, & reigned with great power till the days of Theodosius the great. Then by the incursinon of many northern nations they brake into manny smaller kingdoms & which are represented by the feet of the I image & toes of the image composed part of iron & part of clay. wchwhich div For then saith Daniel the kingdom shall become divided & there shall be in it of the strength of iron, but they shall not cleave one to another. And in the days of these kings saith Daniel shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom wchwhich shall never be destroyed & nor left to other people, but it shall break in peieces & consume [the people of] all these kingdoms & it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest the stone cut out of the mountains without hands & that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the silver, & the gold. Chap. III. Of the vision of the four Beasts. Dan. VII. In thise next vision wchwhich is of the four Beasts, the prophesy of the four empires is repeated with several nownew additions, such as are the two wings of the Lion, the three ribs in the mouth of the Bear, the four wings & four heads of the Leopard, the elvenelveneleven horns of the fourth Beast, & the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven to the ancient of days sitting in judgment. The first beast was like a Lion & had eagles wings to denote the two collateral emiresempires of the Babylonians & Medes, wchwhich grew great under Nebuchadnezzar & Cyaxeres by overthrowing the Assyrian empire in the 2d or 3d year of Iehojakim & sharing its dominions between them. And I beheld saith Daniel till the wings thereof were pluckt wherewith it was lifted up from the earth & made to stand upon the feet like as a man. The second beast was like a Bear & represents the empire of the Persians wchwhich reigned next after the Persians Babylonians, that is, the empire of the Persians Thy kingdom is divided or broken (saith Daniel to the last king of Babylon) & given to the Medes & Persians Dan. v. 28. This beast raised it self up on one side, & the Persians being under the Medes at the fall of Babylon, but presently rising up above them. And it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it to signify the kingdoms of Sardes Babylon & Egypt wchwhich were conquered by it but did not belong to its proper body but to that of the nex third Beast. And it devoured much flesh, the riches of those three kingdoms. The third Beast was the kingdom wchwhich succeeded the Persian & this was the empire of the Greeks Dan. VIII. 6, 7, 20, 21. It was like a Leopard to signify its fierceness, & had four heads & four wings to signify that it should be divided into four kingdoms. For it continued in a monarchichal form during the reign of Alexander the great & his brother & young sons Alexander & Hercules, & they brake into four kingdoms by the governours of provinces putting crowns on their own heads & reigning over their provinces. Cassander reigned over Syr Macedon Greece & Epire, Lysimachus over Thrace, Antigonus & Seleucus over Syria & the lesser Asia, & Ptolomy over Egypt Libya & Ethiopia. These kingdoms underwent &c. 4r the myster man of sin was to reign till the second com XtChrist should destroy him wthwith yethe brightness of his coming, the great AntiXtAntichrist was to reign in yethe last time & by consequence till yethe day of judg XtsChrists coming to judgmtjudgment: Both prophesies are the same & signify Sir Acording to Your ajournment i have Given notice to the sFellows of the Royal Society to return to their meetings in Gresham Colledge on wednesday the 26th of this October 1709 Hen: Hunt And as yethe father man K. & his Son are consubstantial & yet neither consubstantiality nor any else besides not one K. vnles by united by a united in marchicalmonarchical power by a monarchical unity or unity of power in one monarchy can make them one king united in one maonarchical power: so nothing but a monarchical unity can make God & his Christ one God. For The heathens & old hereticks made all their Gods to to be of one one in substance & on that account sometimes called them one God: yet because they made them several powers ther were accounted polytheists by the Prophets Apostles & first Christians. accused declared them guilty of polytheism/ And as consubstantiality without unity of substance dominion does not make one a King & his son one king so consubstantiality without unity of dominion it cannot make God & Christ one God For the heathens & old hereticks made all their Gods of one in substance & on that account called them one God, & yet were reputed polytheists by the Prophets Apostles & first Christians. And as a king & his son are one consubstantial & yet not one king without unity of Dominion so God & Christ are one mo consubstantiality without unity of dominion cannot make God & Christ one God. For . . . . Christians The phrases one names God Lord & King relating to dominion, one God one Lord & one King can seignify nothing else then one in dominion. And signify that there was an hAntichristian church set up in the Apostles days by many hereticks or Antichrists, & that it should continue & at lenghth rise up wthwith dominion so soon as that wchwhich letted should be taken out of the way & seizing the churches should sit in the Templle of God with authority mighty authority & become yethe universal religion called the great Antichrist & the Man of Sin, & should reign in the last time or time ending with that is untill the second coming of XtChrist. 4v To Sir Isaac Newton K.tKnight 5r For Sir Isaac Newton K.tKnight Theis faith was published by recconed resolved upon by Athanastius had been agreed upon some months before by Athanasius & Eusebius Vercellensis & about 15 other Both 12 or 15 other Bishops of Egypt returneding who returning from banishment who met in Co at Alexandria in Council to consult of their affairs & are therefore called Conf by & are by Ruffin & Ierom called a Council of Confessors. This faith was resolved upon about some months before in a Council of about 17 Council of ab at Alexandria of about 17 B And by theis same Council it was also agreed that the Bishops who had subscribed in the late Councils of Sirmium A nic Arminum Seleucia & Constinople Constantinople [or were in comm in co were of thisat Communion of those Councils were no hereticks for for that but excepting those who were Arians in the hereticks in the the the] authors & there were no hereticks for doing so nor for being of that communion. And upon this resolution they the BpsBishops of the Council of Alexandria grounded the recovery of their affairs. Yet the Greek Emperor Valens opposed the homousion & I do not find that during his reighreign they preach Homousians the Deity of the holy G. openly in their Churches. But after his death they in the e wthinwithin his Empire was preached publickly in his in his Empire. But after his death the preaching of it made a great commotion. Nam talis orbis motio nunquam, reor, futit Nunquam, reor, fuit, Quam sanctus est cum Spiritus Dictus Deus palam Ob idque me liquit favor Chari mei gregis. Greg. Nazianzēem Iamb. 23 At the same time Peter by the sletters of the Bishop of Rome recovered the Bishopric of Alexandria from Lucius who had succeedsucceeded Athanasius about five years before. And now Theodosius a spaniard being was made Emperor in the room of Valens R In propagating this faith Athanasius had the assistedance by all of all the Monks in this diocess in his diocess wchwhich were aboutt a third part of the people of Egypt And Paulinus whom Lucifer Caralitanus had newly made Bishop of Antioch sided wthwith the party of Athenasius, & was astesisted by all the Moncks of Syria & the parts adjacent within his diocess. .. For Athanasius in his youth had pourred water upon the hands of Antony the founder of the monastic life & therefore had been a monck & it came now into fashion to chuse Monck presbiters & Bishops from among the Moncks & so that the principlal men of the Ch & for bishops monasteri or to turn Moncks & to erect monasteries in cities for that purpose so that the principal Churchmen hanceforward (as Epiphanius Basil, Gregory, Nazianzen, Gregory, Nyssen, Epiphanius Chrysostom, Ierome, Ruffin, Augustin Theodoret &c) were Monks, & monasteries were recconed became sacred. 5v Sir I have given notise to the membrsmembers of the Council of the Royal Society, to meet in Gresham Col. on wednesday the 23d of this Inst.Instant February, at 12 of the clock acording to Dyour order, Hen: Hunt For Gratian presently after the death of Valens put forth anby an edict tha reed commanded that the bishops whom Valens had banished should be restored to their seats & that the churches should be delivered to those who communicated with Damascus & sent Saporus the Master of the horse into the east to put this law in execution. Antd thisat time Sapor delivered the bishopric of AntichAntioch to Meletius & the Bishop of Rome sent Peter to Alexandria to succeed Lucius who had succeeded Athanasius about five in that bishopric about six yearyears before. And this delivering of the Churches to those of ethe communion of the Bishop of Rome made the great commotion mentioned by Gregory. In the beginning of the year 379 About five months after the death of Grati Valens Theodosius a Spaniard was made Emperor of the east by Gratian [A. C. 379.] & by new edicts in the years 380 & 381 completed the delivery of the Churches of the Eastern Empire to those of th in communion wthwith yethe Bishops of Rome & Egypt .Alexandria. And notw the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome over the western Churches was also confirmed by an emperial Edict While these things were doing The practise of ere electing bpsbishops & Presbyters out of the Monasteries was in these days propagated from yethe eastern Churches into the western. For Sulpicius the Western BpsBishops erected monasteries for this purpiose & Sulpicius stells us. Liberius bishop of Rome made a fell of to the party of Athanasius in the beginning of& in six mon thre or four years gained the better half of the city of Rome to his party. For upon his death A. C. 3676, Damasus an homousion ai contending wthwith Vsinus for the bishopric had the stronger party. wchwhich happened in September A. C. 366 Vrsisinus (whom Ierom calls an ArianEpist ad Damasum Tom 2 p. 48) contendinedg with Damasus , an homousian for the Bishopric, & by the election o the election being in the people & their parties came to blows. with great violence & almost equal force: of wchwhich Ammianus Marciellinus makes this mention. Damasus & Vrsicinus – – – mensas. In six years more the party of Damasus the bishop of Rome was so far established recovered encreased in yethe west that Damasus called a Council of 93 Bishops of Rome against Auxentius Bishop of Millain who had hitherto opposed him, & this Council setntdding a letter to the Oriental Bishops & another to the Bishops of Illyricum, the Oriental bishops of the homousian faith convened at Antioch to yethe number of 146 & subscribed the Roman faith, & so did a good number of bishops convened in Illyricum. And theis Emperors Valentinian & Gratian sent the Councils sof Illyricum writing to the Churches of Asia & Phrygia the western Emperors Valentinian & Gratiāan backt their letter with an Edict in this manner Cum in Illyrico, say they, tot episcoporum synodus congregata esset, post accuratam inquisitionem de salutari verbo declararunt beatissimi Pontifices Consubstalem trinitatem Patris ac Filij ac spiritus sancti Nostra verò majestas eandem ubique prædicari præcipit. 6r This superstionsuperstition was spread by the Monks & their Admiresrs first in Egypt the Diocess of Egypt wchwhich abounded most wthwith Monks] & comprehendinedg Egypt under Thebais. Libya Arcadia & Augustanica under the Metropolis of Alexandria & in the Diocess of the East wchwhich comprehended Palæstine Phenicia Syria Cilicia Cyprus Osrohoena, Mesopotamia, Isauria, & Arabia under the Metropolis of Antioch. And thence it began to spread into the Diocess of Pontus wchwhich comprehended Galatia, Bithynia, Hononorias, Cappadocia prima et secunda, Hellespontus, Pontus Armenia prima et secunda & Paphlagonia under the Metropolis of Cæsaria. All this was before the reign of Theodosius. And oin the beginning of his reign when all the Churches of the Greek Empire were delivered into the hands of the Saint-worshippers, it quickly overspread the whole Greek Empire To The Honourable SrSir Isaac Newton in St Martin's street near Leicester fields. C Sturgis 6v RecdReceived aboard of my good Ship the Richard & Ann, a box marked glass n 3X wchwhich I promiss to deliver to Christopher Montague EsEsquire danger of the sea & Custome house excepted. Rotterdam 27 Ian 1721. RichdRichard Howletson. 6.41.34. 5.16.53. 5.41.38. 6.51.34. 5.55.56. 4.33.24. 35.00.59. 5.50.10. 979 1660 2639 2580 59 938 (35gr.⁤14 1654 makes 35gr. 28.51.00 1600 1726 36gr. 49.03.42 2538 1690 35⁤12. 88.57.21 378 18 54 7.08.58⁤12 2.34.05⁤12 9.42.63⁤12 4.51.31⁤12 7r To Sr.Sir Isaac Newton at his house In Martin Street. by Leicester fields Sr.Sir Mr. Cartlitch tells me you will him melt the Gold that was weighed in some time since, but as you ordered me to keep it till I had heard from you I have sent my servant to know your pleasure therein; as likewise to desire you to lett me know whether you will be at the Mint this day with the rest of the Officers, and if you will have me provide a dinrner accordingly; I am SrSir your most obedient humb.humble Servant JFauquier Wednesday morning. TF It was first a mystery of iniquity working secretly or without dominion & then was to be revealed & becaome the b man (or body politick) of sin who exalting himself above every thing that is called Go reigning openely as a God in lieu of in the temple of God (or Church catholic) of God, or rather ἐις ναὸν in templum instead in the place & by t&he name of the Church catholick of God. While the Christian heathen Roman Empire stood, this new dominion could not be revealed, & therefore the mystery of iniquity was to worked till the falling of the heathen Roman Empire, that is, till the victory of Constantine the great over Licinius, & in some respect till the death of Iulian the apostate. And [then the dominion of the saint-worshippers was set with up in all the Church Empire with all] that wchwhich letted being no But when that wchwhich letted should be taken out of the way then that is wic the that wicked one (the man of sin) was to be revealed in & accordance whose coming Si & his coming was to be after the manner of Satan with all power & signes & lying wonders & with all deceivableness unrighteousness. And accordingly after the death of Iulian the last heathen Emperor the religion of the moncks over Encratites for so I may call the Moncks & their admi adherents) prevailed by legendary stories & fals miracles pretended to be done by the to tombs & reliques & invocations of dead men. & all m by all mann by the signe of the cross & holy water By these singnes & lying wonders this this religion overspread the Roman Empire & gained the dominion thereof & has evers since reigned over in the nations of this Empire representdrepresented by the last horn of the Goadt & the ten horns of the Beast & is like to continue till Christ destroys it wthwith the brightness of his coming. In the return year 349 inAthanasius in returning from the western Empire through into Egypt & making some stay at Antioch declined the communion of Leontius the bishops & communicated wthwith the disciples of Eustathius the Sabellian who had been deposed for Sabellianism. And at that time. they began to sing the verses of the psalms alternately & to add to the edoxology to the end of them & some used the said Glory be to the father &the son others o to denote an equality, others Glory be to the father in or by the son to denote a subor or GoryGlory be to the father by the son in the holy ghost to denote a subordination. But the dispute was hitherto only about the son Sozom. l. 3. c. 20 & Athanas. apud Theod. l. 2. c. 24. Basil being taccused of innovating ion the doxology & in defending himself quotes out of the second Epistle of Dionysius Alexandrinus to Dinonysius Romanus these words. Agreeably to these things we also, having received a form & rule from the Presbyters who were before us, will conclude our Epistle to you with a thanksgiving like to theirs. To God the father & to the Son our Lord Iesus Christ &with the holy ghost be glory & dominion for ever amen. But this Epistle is a notorious forgery. And while Athanasius makes so much use of it the doxology shews that it was forged after the return departure of Athanasius from the west. west by Antioch into Egypt for setting ton foot the worship of the h. g.holy ghost & that the forgery was older then the doxology Glory be to the father & the son & the holy ghost. & give scant When Hilary wrote to the Bishops of Gallia & Britain, as was mentioned above, his whole discourse is about in defending the Deity of the Son: After After his return into Gallia [wchwhich was in yethe year 360] he procured the meeting & the revolt of Iulian the Apostate wchwhich wa wchwhich was in yethe beginning of the next year, A. C. 361 he wrote an invective against Constantius & in wchwhich about the deity of the Son alone, & the sollicitinedg the bishosps of Gallia to relstore yethe Nicene consubstantiality of the Son, he procured the to meet in Councils agabout the faith & they the the same year A. C. 361 ein a Council at Paris they published a large profession of their faith: but in all this the controversy was only about the D Deity of the Son. Afterwards Aux Hilary went into I Italy & sollicited the Emperor Valentinian against Auxentius bishop of Millain accusing him of denying the Deity of the Son. This was ten years after the decrees of the Councils of Sirmium & Ariminum about the faith that is A. C. 367. And tho The cause whas heard & Hillary was banished Italy as a calunimatorcalumniator yet but all this was about the deity of the Son. as you may see in Hilarys book against Auxentius & the defincedefiance of Auxentius annexed to it. Hilary wa Auxentius in this defense confessed not the deity of the holy Ghost nor was accused by Hilary of denying it, &c therefore the disputes about the deity of the holy Ghost were not yet begun in the west. It seems the western bishops were willing to let the deity of the holy Ghost alone till that of the son was established./ But after the consubstantiality & coequal Deity of the Son was sufficiently established by the Coun Council of France Spain & Italy, &the D like Deity of of the h. G.holy Ghost began to be asserted openly. And in the year 373 Pope Damasus called a Council of 93 bishops at Rome. Hilary acknowledged a Trinity but gave the name of God only to yethe father & son. I do I do not remember that he disputes for the Deity or worship of the h. g.holy Ghost in all his works. 7v By what has been produced out of Bazil it appears that the controversy about the Deity & worship of the h. G.holy Ghost was newly begun when Bazil wrote; & the time of its beginning & who began it is thus distinctly set down more distinctly by Gregory Nazianzen. Inovian, saith he, desired that the truth freedom of speech that Athanasius before imports, that in the reign of Iovian very few were sound in the faith abov when almost all men erred mor in the faith Athanasius having obteined by divine inspiration about yethe holy Ghost what had been granted before to the Nicene fathers about the Son, published the truth openly either first of any man & that [either anlone or with but a very few] when Gregory whrote wchwhich was nine years after,] & that this doctrine had been broached & penne ten years before by Athanasius, who had obteined it by divine inspiration about yethe holy G.Ghost what had been granted tobefore to yethe Nicene fathers about the son, but but was silenced in the east by the Emperor Valens the successor of Iovian. Yet it seems to me that Athanasius had attempted to broach this doctrine before, in the reign of Constantius but without success – For Basil being accused of innovating in the doxology, & in the end of being acccusedaccused of innovating in the doxology & in the 29th chapter of his book de Spiritu Sancto, being citying producing what he could meet with in antiquity for himself, he cites out of the 2d Epistle of Diionysius of Alexandria to Dionysius of Rome these words. Agreably to these things even we also, having received a rule & form & rule from the Presbyters weho were before us, will conclude our epistle to you wthwith the a thanksgiving like to theirs. To God the father& to the son our Lord Iesus XtChrist wthwith the holy Ghost be glory & dominion for ever Amen. But this Epistle was a notorious forgery. &And if Athanasius, who mayde gret use of it, was the author we have here the original of this doxology he began to use this doxology about the middle of the fourth century. At wchwhich time also Flavian & some when he wrote it that is, soon after the Council of Serdica. other moncks at Antioch began to use it, being perhaps excited by Athanasius at in his return through Syria into Egypt, But these attempts were quickly stopt by the success of victory of Constantius over the western Empire, & made no further noise before the death of Constantius & the new retursns of Athanasius from banishmtbanishment. At wchwhich time in returning For in his return from yethe west into Egypt (wchwhich was in the year 349) he made some stay at Antioch & there communicated with declining the communion of Leontious the bishop communicated wthwith the disciples of Eustathius the Sabellian. A And th who then began to And they began at that very time to sing the verses of yethe Psalms alternately & toat yethe End of them to give Glory to yethe father & the son & the holy ghost while the rest of the people gave glory to yethe father by or with the son in the holy Ghost. But these attempts commotions were soon supprest & stopt quieted by the departure of Athanasius into Egypt & the ensuing conquest of the western Empire by Constantius, & revived not till the death I heare nothing more of this new doxology before the death of Constantius & the new returns of Athanasusius from banishmtbanishment.a Compare Sozomen l. 3. c 20 8r Sr.Sir From my House in StSaint Anne's Court near Sohoe-square. I am sorry I was not rightly understood in my Latin Leter LettrLetter. The Upholder has taken my word for one Month for the defraying of a flaming Bill of Funeral Charges wchwhich if I do not, I shall be put to trouble & utterly ruin'd, just at time, when I am going down Tutor into the Country to the Son of a worthy Gent. My ingenious well-wisher the Spectator says, faultless poverty is ever Modest; I therefore wrote in Latin, that I might not be expos'd either to y.ryour Serv.tsServants or Visitors, but I find I have been layd open both ways. Dr Bentley, Dr Knipe, Dr Freind, the ArchBpArchbishop of York BpBishop of Ely & others have done wonders for me, but as it was purely upon acctaccount of my poor Wife (as I observ'd in my Letter) sSo, that reason failing, I will not receive any obligation now but on the Foot of a Loan, so long as I know I shall be in a capacity to do yuyou Iustice about the middle of next Iune. I once more beg you will be pleas'd to make up thisat half Crown Ten shillshillings according to my modest request for I will not have it on any other acctaccount. My dear Friend Mr. Mauliverer of Magdalen if he were alive, woud tell you, that if I would have violated my Faith to King Iames, I might have made as great a Figure in the Secretearys Office as any of my Prevaricating Countrymen have done: I still do, as I have always done, send up my most ardent prayers for you, who am yryour most obliged humble servtservant & Admirer Isaac Banastre The Upholder's & the Apothecary's Bill is above ten pound The Bearer humbly expects yryour Answer. 8v To SrSir Isaac Newton, at his House in St Martin's Street Lesterfields. There In the middle of the second century, tThe opinion that the Word of God was the λόγος ἐνδιάθετος the inherent wisdom & reason of yethe father wthoutwithout wchwhich the father would be ασοφος & ἀλογος void of wisdom & understanding, began to creep into the Churches in the second century got ground in it all the third & upon the death of Constantine the great began to overspread the western Church, ‡ ‡ in so much that the Council of Sardica in her Epistle as it is recited entire by Theodorit declared her self of this opinion & that there was but one hypostasis of the father & son. This which made the eastern Churches cry out that the western were turneding Sabellian For this doctrine took away the real person or personal substanc of the Son & so amounted to a denyal of the father & the Son for God is not the father of his own attributes, nor are they his children. And in this respect also the earth helped the Woman. For so soon as Constantius came against Magnentius he called a Clouncil at Sirmium A. C. 3591 against Photinus Bishop of that City A. C. 351. & this Council in Condemning Photinus for the doctinedoctrine of Paul of Samosat & Sallius anathematized those that held the Son to be the λογος & ενδιάθετος ἠ προφορικὸς of the Father or that the Father son & H. G.Holy Ghost were but one person of the father, & thereby they rescued the western Churches from this growing heresy. For the decrees of this Council are were universally recieved against Photinus were universally received by the churches of both Empires as right & authentick & prevaild at that time against this heresy so as to put the Latines upon the langnagelanguage of three persons for for clearing themselves from this heresy, & those of their communion in the Greek Empire upon that of three hyostaseshypostases By the same victory of Constantius over Magnentius the Beast was wounded to death with a sword & ceased to be for a time both Empires &c And the survivor of them reigning over all the West, & supporting the Bishop of Rome in his claim of appleeals from all the world, & causing the Council of Sardica to be calle meet wchwhich A. C. 347 deecreing this universal authority to him wthwith the cone approbation of the western Churches, & by consequence setting up the universal Bishopric over the western Churches for a time. For the western Churches headed by the Pope, are the Woman in the Wilderness & submitting to his authority as of divine right is the Woman in the wilderness. A f Constans was succeeded by Magnentius in the end of whose reign A. C 3531 A. C. 35 the earth or eastern Empire opened her mouth & swallo helped the woman & opened her mouth & swallowed up the flood by a victory over the western Empire for about five months & restored the universal bishopric – rose out of the sea. At that time Gratian restored rose out of the sea And at the same time the universal bishopric of Rome was restored ‡ ‡ & the invocation of Saints began to prevail. Gratian reigned at R with his young. And by the next division of the Empire w was revived, & the invocation of Saints began to be set up. And at that time the bishop of Rome began to receive appeals from the Greek Church & thereby to erect an ecclesiastical monarch & make himself the universal Bishop, t& was supported therein by the western Emperor Constans. And after he had proudly summoned the Bishops of the Greek Church to appear before him in a Council at Rome & was answered that by those bishops that he had no authority over them & attempted to dissolve their government of their churches, & had no authority over them, he prevailed by means of the Western Emperor Constans to have a Council summoned by imperial authority to meet out of both Empires to meet at Sardica. About 80 of yethe Greek b Eastern BpsBishops came to Serdica: but finding that matters were predudgedprejudged by the western BpsBishops & that the designe was to in favour of the judge Call that to the bar of the & censure them & set up the authority of the BpBishop of Rome & the western churches over the eastern stand by the the pretended authority of the bishop of Rome, they went back & then the Council western BpsBishops at Serdica decreed appeals from all the Churches to the Bishop of Rome & (thereby not only laid the foundation of the universal Bishopric & but actually set it up over the western Churches who in Se submitted to that decree, And thus the Woman received two wings of a great Eagle & began to fly into the Wilderness. For the western churches headed by the Pope & submitting to his authority & decrees as of divine right (as they did soon after) is are the Woman in the wilderness. Magentius slew Constans & succeded him in the west A. C. 350 & was soon after conquered by Constantius. And by that victorsy over the western Empire the earth or eastern Empire helped the woman & opened her mouth & swallowed up the flood. 9r To Sr.Sir Isaac Newton near Orange Street Leicester fields These 9v Here by the Princes of the north I understand those on the north of Iudea & chiefly the Princes of Armenia & Cappadocia who fell in the wars of with which Cyaxeres made in conquering those countries. And Elam or Persia was conquered by the Medes & Susiana by the Babylonians after the ninth & before the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. And therefore we cannot err much if we place these coquestsconquests about the twelft or fourteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar Edom & Zidon were also conquered before the twentith year of Nebuchadnezzar (Ezek ) & Ammon was invaded & conquered about Ithe same time that Ierusalem was besieged & taken the Temple burnt (Ezek. 21.19, 20. And presently after the siege of Ierusalem & burning of Edom & the Zidonians were conquered by Nebuchadnezzar in the nineteenth or twentith year of that king. & so were Ammon & Moab. And Tyre was then besieged but not btaken before the 357th year of that king Anno Nabonass 175 the Temple Nebuchadnezzar invaded & subdued Edom Zidon Ammon Moaab Edom & Tyre Ier 27.3. 6 & Ezek. 21.19, 20 & 25.2, 8, 12 & 26.2. And after these things the 35th year of Nebuchadnezzar he conquered Egypt & Thebais & Libya. (Ezek 29.17, 19 & 30.4, 5.) And then Darius the son & successor of Cyaxeres Edom & the Zidonians were conquered by Nebuchadnezzar in the about the 20th year of that king, & so were Ammon & Moab. Tyre was besiedged by him soon after but not taken before the 397th year of that king. thirteen years & taken in the 27th year of Iehojakins captivity. And then he conquered Egypt & Thebais & Libya. (Ezek 29.17, 19 & 30.4, 5) & And Darius the son & successor of Cyaxeres soon after, subdued the Empires of Lydia Sardes & Babylon & thereby finished the work of propagating the Medo-Persian Monarchy over all Asia as Æschylus represents. This is that Darius – – – In the ninetheenth & twentith & one & twentith year year of his reign he invaded Iudea & aa Ier. 27.3, 6 Ezek. 21.19, 20 & 25.2, 8, 12 conquered Iudea Moab Ammon Edom the PhistimsPhilistims & & Zidon & bb Ezek. 26.2 & 29.17, 19. the next year he besieged Tyre & after a siege of 13 years took it in the 35th year of his reign & then cc Ezek. 29.19 & 30.4, 5. he invaded & conquered Ægypt Thebais Æthiopia & Libya. (Ier 27.3, 6. Ezek. 21.19, 20. & 25.2, 8, 12 & 26.2. & 29.17, 19 & 30.4, 5) And about 20 years after the death of this king Cyrus Darius the Mede conquered the kingdom of Sardes & after five or six years more invaded & conquered the Empire of Babylon & therby finished the work of propagating the Medo-Persian Monarchy over all Asia as Æschylus represents. This is that Darius – 10r HonrdHonoured SrSir I beg youll bee Please to pay this halfe year to my Cosin mary Hovlden which will oblige yo:ryour Most obedient nece M:Pilkington Nottingham April 26 1709 From these Gates by there was a descent of by five seppsstepps. The Gentiles had accesse into yethe outward Court to yethe rail Soreg. [The men & weomen went entred & returned through this passage into the court of Isralel & the next court of the people.] The men & weomen into yethe court of the people, called the court of thence called the court of the weomen. The men the men into yethe court of Isra th the weomen & court of Israel, the Priests into the court of the Priests the Princes of the Priests into the holy place & the Princes of the 24 curiæ or orders of Priests into the holy place. & the high Priest into the most holy. 10v And the sanctuary or inward court being 200 cubits square was compassed with [a walk 10 cubits broad called the intermural space into wchwhich they descended from the gates of the sanctuary by five steps & On the eastern side o & from the middle of yethe eastern side of the walk they descended into the court of the weomen by fifteen steps. & from the intermural space they went up to the gates of the sanctuary by five steps. And from the Gates of the Sanctuary (wchwhich was 200 cubits square,) they went down into the intermural space by five steps.] the intermural space ten cubits broad into wchwhich they descended from the gates of the sanctuary by sfive steps. on the northern & southern sides of t – & between them ran a walk 10 cubits broad wchwhich bounded the square sanctuary on the eastern side. ✝ ✝ & by a passage cross the middle, led eastw into the court of the people eastward by a descent of 15 steps & into the court of the es Israel sanctury westward westward by an ascent of 5 steps. & was called a part of the intermural space. For the intermural space ran between the square sanctuary & the court of the people & compassed them both. The two next . . . . . . Prince. From the nine gates of the square sanctuuary they descended by five steps to the intermural space. And from the eastern side of the intermural space wchwhich compassed the square sanctuary they descended by by in the middle by 15 steps into yethe court of pethe people, & at either end by other steps into the intermural space wchwhich compassed the court of the people on the northern eastern & southern sides. 11r To SrSir Isaac Newton SrSir I thank you for yryour kind inquiry after me & much rejoyce at yethe recovery of yryour health indeed SrSir I am greatly ashamed & ask pardon for not performing my promis to you in yethe feathers they be bought but no shipps happened to goe to ytthat port soe late I doubt not of giting ymthem over in time this Summer & hope in God you will use ymthem many winters & am SrSir your very Humble Servant Fra: Cressener Ian: yethe last They sailed also as far as Britain. For Pliny tells us Plumbum ex Cassiteride insula primus apportavit Midacritus & Bochart tells Midacritus is a GeekGreek name corruptly written for Melcartus. p. 708 Britain being inthosein those days unknown to the Greeks. p. 708 SPeloponesian warr., Suppose it about 600 years earlier then the end of that warr, & it will fall upon the middle of Solomons reign. Hellanicus b tells us — Whence it follows that the Trojan war & Argonaurtic expedition were later than the days of Solomon & Rehoboam, & could not be much earlier then we have represented. 11v For aa Vide Bocherti Phaleg lib. 111 cap 5 181. some tell us that Telephus the son of Hercules & Auge & his son Latinus reigning in Italy changed the name of the Cetij (or posterity of Killim) into that of Latins. But thou O Daniel shut up the book words & seal thae book even to the time of the end. And tThis is that book wchwhich in the visions of Iohn the Apostle was sealed wthwith seven seales & which the Lamb of God took out of the hand of him that sat upon the throne & opened the seales thereof, Many shall run to & fro [the two witnesses at the time of the end] & knowledge shall bee inceasedincreased. Then I Daniel looked & behold there stood other two, one on this side of the bank of the river, & the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to man cloathen in linen who was upon the waters of the river How long Shall it be to the end of these wonders? And I heard the man & clothed in linnen washo was upon the bank of the river when he lift up his right hand & his left hand up to heaven & sware by him that liveth for ever & ever, that it shall be for a time times & half a time. [This is the duration & the reign of the reign of the little horn of Daniels fourth bearst, & therefore the affairs of that horn are included in this prophesy.] And [after this] when he shall have [further] acccomplishedaccomplished to scatter the power of the holy people [by bringing them back out of all nations into Iudea] then all these things shall be fulfilled. And I heard but I understood not. Then said I. O my Lord what shall be the end of these things. And he said Go thy way Daniel. For the words are closed up & sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified & made white & tryed: but And none of the wicked shall understand: but the wise shall understand. The 144000 sealed out of all nations & o two witneses & only those at the time of the end when the book shall be opened again. And I heard br And from the time that the daily worship shall be taken away [not only that of the Iews but that of the C converted gentiles also] shall be taken away, so as [fully] to set up the [great] abomination wchwhich maketh desolate, there [unteil he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people] there shall be a thousand two hundred & ninety days. But Blessed is he that waiteth & cometh to the thousand thrreethree hundred & five & thirty days. But go thou thy way Daniel [Daniel] till the end be For thou shalt rest, [in the dust] & stand in thy lot [amongst those that awake] at the end of the days. & stand in thy lot [amongst those that awake out of the dust] at the end of the days. 12r To the most Honblehonourable this Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury Lord H. Treasurer of great Britain May it please yoryour Grace The Mint being at a stop untill there shall be an Order for proceeding for for want of authority to proceed at present with the old last Dyes & Puncheons untill new ones can be made, & hitherto last in use, & great untill new ones can be made & great great quantities of gold Bullion being already in my hands in the Mint to be coyned & more bullion being daily brought in & imported into the Mint expected: I (the Master & Worker of the Mint) have hereunto annexed a copy of athe Warrant signed by her late MajtyMajesty upon the like occasion & a dDraught of a new Warrant suitable to the present occasion & pmost humbly pray yoryour Lor Grace to lay the matter before their excellencies the Lord Iustices. I am YorYour yaGraces most humble & most obedient Servant Is.Isaac Newton, Master & Worker of his of his MatiesMajesties Mint Mint Office Aug. 2. 1714 135.10.00 6.15.06 3.07.09 145.13.03 against the sanctuary & the Host to bread then under foot untill the end of the second period. Between this And the great Tribulation may endesd with the third period victory of Michael over Gog at the third period. And And And the kingdom & dominion is tgive Then is its doth the king of the king of the north plant thae tabernacle of his palace between the seas in othe glorious holy mountain & come to his end by the hand of Michael the great Prince who standeth for the children of Israel. against him. Then doth is God vanquished ion the mountains of Israel. by the Gods people newly returned from their Captivity (Ezek 38.8, 11 & 39.23, 25, 27, 28.) & the one like the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, receives a kingdom that all nations people nations & languages should serve him, & the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven is given to the people of the most high Dan. 7.13, 14, 27. And a stone cut out of a mountain without hands smites the image upon his feet & becomes a breaks in pieces the former kingdoms, & & becomes a great mountain fillin (or kingdom) filling the whole earth. Dan. 2.34, 35, 44, 45. And the wWord of God comes with his armies in heaven on white horses to smite the nations & rule them with a rod of iron, & the Beast & fals Prophet are taken & the remnant are slain Apoc XIX.11, 14, 15, 20, 21 & great Babylon comes in remembrance before God. Apoc. XVI.19. God & the resurrection & judgment of the righteous called the first resurrection be begins. in wchwhich the righteous are judged Apoc. XX.4, 5 . 1 Pet IV.17 . And after another thousand years there is such another victory over the nations called Gog & Magog, Apoc XX. 4, 5, 6, 8 9 & the rest of the dead live again, & the son of man reigns till he has p & for by this victory the kingdom of the saints on earthsearth grownsgrows more universal by this than before & & the rest of the dead now live again & the son o & are judged & Christ reigns over the quick & dead till he hath pasutt all things under dhis feet enemies under his feet the last of wchwhich is death, & when all the dead are raised & judged he delivers up the kingdom to his father. 1 Cor. XV.24, 25, 26, 28. 12v And its observable that after the transgressors were come th to the full the first act of setting up the abomination was in autumn in upon the 215th day of yethe month Casleu (November) in the 145th year of Seleucus, (two months after the conquest of the kingdom of Macedon by the Romans) at wchwhich time they built idol-altars throughtout the cities of Iudah on every sitde (1 Macc. 1.54.) & that the last act of setting up And it is observable that the last act of the first period whas the consulting plotting of the two kings ( together at one Table to do mischief & the against the holy Covenant (Dan 11.27) & the first act of the next period was the returning of yethe king of the north into his own land & acting against the holy covenant in his return. This was in autumn in the year of Seleucus 143 & in the middle of the war of the Romans agaisnt Perseus king of Macedon. Ad This was At this time he took away the golden altar & the candlesticks & the tables of Shew bread & all the vail, & all the vials & golden censers of gold & other vessels & golden ornamentes & all the vessels & treasures of the Temple & thereby put made dthe daily sacificesacrifice to cease & soon after they set up the polluted the altar & set up idol altars in all the land, & prohibited A This was the first aAct of taking away the daily sworship & placing the abomination: & the last act was in the beginning of the year of Christ 842 & end of the year of Seleucus 1153 when - - - - - - in memory of their restitution. And the difference – – – – – for a Iudaic year. In the end of the first period it is said. And both these kings hearts shall be to mischief & they shall speake lies at one table [against the holy covenant;] but it shall not prosper: for yet the end [shall be] at the time appointed. And the second period begins with these words: Then shall he return into his land with great riches, & his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant: & he shall act [agtagainst it,] but it shall not prosper for the end is not yet. All this was in autumn in the year of Seleucus 143 when Antiochus Epiphanes r in returning out of Egypt into Syria sackt Ierusalem slew many of yethe people spoiled the 1 Temple took away the golden Altar & the candelstick & the table of shew bread & the vail & all the vials & censers of gold & golden ornaments & all the vessels & treasures of gold the Temple & thereby made the daily sacrifice worship begin to cease. And after two years, upon his second retu This was in the middle of the war of the Romans against the kingdom of Macedon. And after two years, when that kingdom was newly conquered, Antiochus upon his second return of out of Egypt (by the suggestion of Ptolomy king of Egypt as above ) caused the altar to be polluted, & idol-altars & groves & gro & chappels of Idols to be set up in all Iudea, throughout the cities & of IudaIudea & that all men should follow the customes of the heathens upon pain of death. 1 Macc. 1 & 2 Macc. 6. This was the first period Act of setting taking away the daily sac worship & setting up the abomination of desolation. And the last act was in the beginning of the year of Christ 842 & end of the year of Seleucus 1153 when – – – – It may be observed also that From the war of the Romans against the Iews whereby their Temple was destroyed, & daily worship taken away to the actions of Pope Gregory yethe 7th whereby the against the western EmperoEmperor Henry IV whereby the Papacy came to its greatest height of dominion there is the same interval of dominion 1010 years. But the interpretation of Daniel's numbers must be left to time. Between the first & the second the Gospel is preached in all nations. Between the second & the third the people of God suffer in the great tribulation. And the thrird event is at the resurrection of th Daniel with those that sleep in the dust & awake out of the dust to shine as the starrs in the firmament. And these thre events he describes in this manner. 1. And one said &c. 2 And [after theat] when &c. 3 But the blessedness beatitude of him that expecteth it, shall come at the [the end of] a thousand three hundred & thirty & five days. [And then all these things shall be finished]] But go thy way for thou shallt rest & stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Ti To Times & laws are given into the hands of the little horn of the fourth beast till the end of the first period, & then that horn begins to fall & to lose his power & the Godspel begins to be preached in all nations by the witnesses ascending up to heaven in a cloud. This is the first fall of Babylon The litle horn of the He goat spr reigning either in his own power or in anothers, practises & prospers 13rYah Ms Var 1 / Newton 7.3 (P) Sect III Of the seven Churches & two witnesses Of the Temple & its Candlesticks. The Temple is a type of the Church catholicks &c As the Beast & his horns signify a kingdom && the ruling parts of a kingdom, so the Temple & its Candlesticks signify tahe Church & the its parts of ta Church. F catholick & the particular Churches of wchwhich preside in it. the Church catholick is composed. This Temple is in the beginning of the Prophesy represented with seven Candlesticks & those Ca seven lamps in them & those Candlesticks are called the seven Churches of Asia sto signify that the Church Catholick from the times of the writing of this prophesy the Church catholick, wchwhich had hitherto till that time been illuminated from Ierusalem with the preaching of the Gospel, from Ierusalem should thence forward be illuminated from the seven Churches of Asia. untill the woman wchwhich is this church Catholick tshould fly from this Temple into yethe wildereness. For that end seven epistles are written to the Angels of of the seven Churches, & the Apostle Iohn continued to live amongst them long after the & instruct them in the truth long after the death of the rest of the Apostles & left there a race of disciples by whom the whole Church catholick was illuminated long after his death. And So long as this Temple stands wthwith these seven lamps burning in it, so lomg the seven Churches of Asia & their successors continue to be the light of illuminate the Church catholick. This Temple was opened in heaven for Iohn We told you that the scene of the visions in thise Temple. It was opened in heaven for Iohn to see the visions in it, & there he saw . . . . . . . . . . . . . went from this Temple to reign in yethe wildersness. Now this Temple in several circumstances is compared sometimes to the Tabernalcle of first Temple & sometimes to the second Temple. In the beginning it hasd the in it the Arc of the Testament & the four Beasts & in that respect it was the Tablernacle or first Temple or, as it is afterwards called, the Temple of the tabernacle. Aft Be of [Afterwards it is measured in allusion to the building of athe second Temple & the outward court is left out unmeasured or unbuilt & given to the gentiles as the outward court of that temple was left unbuilt & became the gentiles court. & And in this Temple are two candlesticks called the two Olive trees in allusion to the two Olive trees wchwhich in the second Temple times of the second Temple emptied emitted out of themselves through golden pipes the golden o into the golden bowl for nourishing the seven lamps with their oyle. Zech. 4.] Afterwards in allusion to yethe building of the second temple Iohn is bid to rise & measure the temple & altar. & For measuring of a building is a type of building it. For when Zechary saw an Angel with a mesuring reed go to measure Ierusalem & to see what was yethe breadth & what the length thereof, another Angel by way of interpretation tells him that Ierusalem shall be inhabited as twowns wthoutwithout walls for yethe multitude of men & cattel therin. And when yethe Babylonians had destroyed Solomons temple & Ezekiel was commanded to measure the temple in a vision: the measuring signified that a new Temple should be built, as is plain by many passages in that prophesy. And in allusion to this vision & to yethe building of Zerubbabels temple Iohn is bid to mse measure the temple t& altar & them that worship therein, that is, the court of the temple & the court of the altar & the court of them that worship therein, called by the Iews the weoments court, & to leave out the court without the Temple & not to measure it because it is given to the Gentiles & they were to tread the holy city under foot as in the times of the second Temple. For Zerubbabel built only the courts of the temple & altar & the weomens13v weomens court, & the outward court wchwhich in Solomons temple had been built for the people of Israel he left unbuilt & open to the Gentiles & it continued unbuilt above 200 A years: & tho it was afterwards built by the Maccabees & Herod, yet it continued open to the Gentiles & was called the Gentiles court. And all the times of this temple the Gentiles trod the holy city under foot. And as Haggai & Zechary prophesied at the building of Zerubbabels temple, so in allusion to those two Prophets there are two Prophets or wWitnesses wchwhich prophesy in the times of yethe new Temple in the Apocalyps; & these two Prophets are represented by two candlesticks standing [in this temple] before the God of the earth (Apoc. 1.4.) & to signify that they are the churches wchwhich prophesy in this Temple & are two Churches, & in allusion to the two olive trees wchwhich in the times of the second Temples emptied themselves through two golden pipes into the golden bowl for nourishing the seven lamps with their oyle (Zech. 4.3, 12, 14), these two Prophets are called the two Olive trees & the two candle-sticks standing before the God of the earth, that is before his throne in the Temple. By being I In the vision of Zechary Conceive that the two olive trees in the Vision of Zecchary are not living trees growing upon a root & flourishing with leaves & branches & leaves, but cand shafts of Olive wood formed like Candlesticks to support two vessels of oyle for feeding the seven lamps feeding the lamps. wchwhich empty themselves through two pipes into the golden bowl for feeding the lamps. The seven lamps in the vision of Zechary are called the eyes of the Lord wchwhich run to & fro through the whole earth (Zech 4.10.) & therefore signify the same thing with the seven eyes of the Lamb & the se&ven spirits of God (Apoc 5.6) & the seven lamps Apoc 4.5 in the Apocalyps (ch. 4.5) And these lappps seven eyes & seven lamps are the light of the Church catholicks represented by the body of the Lamb & by by the candlestick wchwhich supports the seven lamps in the vision of Zechary; & the two olive trees being called the wchwhich Church is therefor the Church Catholick. And the two olive trees [wchwhich supply the lamps wthwith oyle] in being called two candlesticks are two churches & six by supplying all the seven lamps with oyle they joyntly represent the whole Church catholick. They are therefore the saints wchwhichwho worship in the Temple, & of whom it is said Measure the Temple & Altar & them that worship therin, & by consequence they are the 144000 sealed & numbered out of all the twelve Tribes of Israel in the day of the fast & sealed wthwith the seal of God in their forehead & the 144000 who stand on mount Sion with the Lamb before the throne & before the four Beasts & the Elders haveing the name of God in their forehead. TOf these two witnesses it is said that if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth & devourth toheir enemies, & these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophesy: & thus they are Elijah & Elisha in the days of Iezabel & this temple is the first Temple. [It is also said of them that they have power to turn the waters into blood & thus to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will; & thus they are Mosues & Aron]. T Conceive therefore that the temple remains the same from the beginning to the end of the visions, allusions being made sometimes to the firs times of the first temple for the & sometimes to the times of the second, & theat yethe ey seven lamps in the temple also remain the same, they being the seven eyes of the Lamb & the seven Spirits of God wchwhich admit of no alteration. But And in allusion to the passage of Israel over the red sea the victors stand on yethe sea of glass & sing the 14r song of Moses (Apoc. 15.2, 3) & the Temple is called the temple is called the temple of the tabernacle (Apoc. 15.2, 3, 5.) Conceive therefore that the temple remains the same from the beginning of the viseions to the end, allusions being made sometimes to the tabernacle or first temple & sometimes to yethe second temple: for the Temple is the Church & God has but one Church. Conceive also that the seven lamps in this Temple remain the same, they being the seven eyes of yethe Lamb & seven spirits of God wchwhich admit of no alteration. But at the opening of the seventh seal conceive that the candlestick is changed & that the seven lamps the instead of burning an standing upon the seven golden candlesticks burn in are joyned to the golden bowle supported by one candlesticks & that this bowle is supplied wthwith oyle out of two vessels on either side sp supported by two candlesticks of olive tree as is described in the prophesy of vision of Zecchary. and thus Christ removed so by seven golden pipes through wchwhich the oyle runs into them from the bowle & that this bowl is joyned to the two vessels of oyle by two golden pipes on either side through wchwhich they oyle runs into it out of the two vessels as is described in the vision of Zecchary, & that the two vessels of oyle with the bowle & lamps between them are supported by two candlesticks of olive tree For the candlestick of the Church of Ephesus was to be removed out of its place & the Church of Laodicea was to be rspewed out of Christs mouth. And the two olive trees or candlesticks wchwhich succeed the seven churches candlesticks or churches belong to the second Temple & so commence wthwith yethe opening of yethe seventh seal. The seven lamps in the Apocalyps are the seven Angels of the churches & the seven spirits of God, & the (Apoc. 1.20 & & 4.5.) And the seven eyes of the Lamb are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Apoc. 5.6. And the seven lamps in Zechary are the seven eyes of the Lord sent wchwhich run to & fro through the whole earth & those eyes are the seven eyes upon one stone (the head stone of the crorner) are the same Zech 3.9 & 4.4, 10. All these have therefore one and yethe same signification. The eyes And because the Temple & the mystical body of the Lamb represent the Church catholick the seven lamps & seven eyes wchwhich illuminate athem are the light of the Church catholick: And the two olive trees wchwhich feed those lamps wthwith oyle, in being called candlesticks or churches, must joyntly represents the Church catholick. The two witnesses therefore are two Churches wchwhich together compose the Church Catholick from the times of opening the seventh seale. They are thoese who worshippeinrs the Temple in the temple, of whom yethe Angel spake saying rise measure the temple & altar & them that worship therein. They are the 144000 numbred out of all the tribes of Israel in the day of the fast & sealed wthwith the seal of God in their foreheads. They are the 144000 who have the name of God in thetheir foreheads & stand on mount Sion with the Lamb before the throne & before the elders four Beasts & the Elders & by consequence in the Temple. They are theose mart & who get the victory over the Beast & over his Image & stand on the sea of glass [in the temple] singing the song of Moses & the Lamb. They are the witnesses or martyrs of Iesus who with whose blood the whore of Babylon is druknken. While the Roman empire continued entire the church catholic Church diffused through the empire was represented by seven branches of a candlesticks called called seven candlesticks but upon opening the seventh seal who the Empire became divided & from that time, the seven Churches diffused through the two Empires were represented by two Olive trees or Candlesticks divided from one another. They are represented also by the two leggs of the son of man burning as in a furnace. The burning represents the persecution of the two witnesssewitnesses. In the form of an Angel he sets his right foot on the earth & his left foot on the sea during the seven thunders to signify that one of his churches is in the kingdom of the earth & the other in the kingdom of the sea. As the ten toes of Nebuchadnezzars image signify the ten kingdoms into wchwhich the fourth Empire was to be divided so the two leggs of that image may signify the s two cand pincipalprincipal kingdonskingdoms into wchwhich that Empire was to be divided & so the two leggs of the Son of man standing upon the earth & sea may signify the churches in those kingdoms 14v These witnesses put on sackscloth for the day of the fast when they were sealed with the seal of God in their foreheads. so And at the seounding of the trumpets & pouring out the Vials of wrath, sent tfire came out of their mouth & to devoured their enemies, & they turned the waters into blood & smote the earth with all plagues as often as they would. When the Woman arrived at her place in the wilderness where she was fed deliciously by the merchants of the earth, & the ten horned beast began his period of acting 42 months, & & tshe Gentiles theirs of treading the holy city underfoot the two witnesses began to put on saclcloth & had power to shut up heaven that it should not rain in a spiritual sense For the woman Iezabel & the Beast now reigned in the wilder spiritually barren wilderness. Dacia being conquered by Trajan became a part of the Roman Empire & the church of Dacia belonged to the was subordinate to yethe Greek church & sometimes sent her bishop to yethe Councils of the Greeks: & from this country came the Goths & Vandals wchwhichwho invaded the western Empire & seating themselves in Pannonia Gallia Spain Af Italy & Afric, made a mixture of the two witnesses in the western Empire. These tWitnesses are to be slain by the Beast in the streets of the great city wchwhich spiritually is called Sodom for its spiritual whoredom ,& Egypt for its persecution & [the city] where also their Lord was crucified. for its bloody antichristianity crucifying our Lord in its in his members. W And is not this the persecuting city the great AntichistAntichrist a full description of the great Antichrist In killing the witnesses they crucify their Lord Christ afressh & therefore are the city & kingdom of the great Antichrist. Sect III SrSir I remberremember very well that about three or four years ago I examined Mr Hussey for an hour together or above, in the several parts of Mathematicks, in order to know his ability for a post for wchwhich teaching a Mathematical school, & found him very well qualified. And I belieive that in respect of his mathematical abilities he will make an able Professeor if the heads of Colleges should think fit to chuse him. But his qualifications are in other respects I do not know, being a stranger to ahim I am SrSir YorYour most humble servant Is. Newton. SrSir I have made a resolution not to meddle with this elecction of a Mathematick Professor any further then in answering Letters & have given this answer to some who have desired a certificate from me. In answer to your Letter & another I received from Mr Cotes I send you the two inclosed & give you both & your friends leave to shew them to any of the Electors. I am If he Mr Hussey be as well qualified in temper & manners as in Mathematical skill he will be a grace to yethe university. 15r To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Lords CommersCommissioners of his MatsMajesty's Treasury. May it please yoryour LordpsLordships In answer to the Memorial of Mr Nicholson & Mr Briggs I humbly represent, that I told thatem, that, wthoutwithout a Warrant from the king, I could not receive copper in blanks nor coin money with round edges for the people; that without a Warrant from your LordpsLordships I could not deliver a Cutter to them that Mr Appleby & Mr Hines having all things ready for a triall were to coin their five Tons in the first place; & that twhen I was ready for the Memorialists I would give them notice, but it would take up some time first to prepare the Mint for a tryall. There is no difficulty in rounding the money edges of the blanks, & I have not delivered another cutter to Mr Appleby & Mr Hines, nor are they contractors wthwith your LordpsLordships, but, upon triall & good behaviour. And if the Memorialists have built furnaces & prepared a sufficient quantity of copper ready for the cutters & been at sufficient charges in preparing the same, & can blame no body but themselves if they should lose their charges. because they have done it contrary to my advice & without staying for sufficient authority, & can blame no body but themselves if they should lose their charges. 15v This primitive Christian religion was preserved entire in the Church, till about the the end of the second Century the days of Pope Victor. For Hegesippus in travelling from Rome Syria to Rome found all the Churches agree in one & the same faith. And Irenæus The primitive Christian religion (according to Hegesippus) was preserved entire in all the Churches till the death of Simeon Cleopas Bishop of Ierusalem who was martyred under Trajan A. C. 107 & was commonly called the brother of orour Lord being 1220 years old. Hitherto the Church remained a pure Virgin under the influence of the Bish not of the Bishop of Rome but of the Bishop of Ierusalem & the Apostle Iohn in Asia. But after the death of Simeon many new heresies sprang up, grounded on the metaphysical Philosophy of the Heathens & Cabbaslists, w wchwhich great trouble to the Christian Church & caused the second Century to be called seculum Gnosticum. However, the true Church stood her grownd till & continued entire till the days of Pope Victor. reign of the Emperor Severus. H For Hegesippus in the reign of Antoninus Philosophus travelling from Syria to Rome & cofnferring with the Bishops in his way, found them all to agree in the faith. And Irenæus in the middle of yethe reign of the Emperor Commodus the successor of Antoninus & predecessor of Severus, having recited in the form of a Creed all the Articles of the Christian faith propagated down in the Churches from the days of the Apostles in the form of a Creed, simmediately subjoins: The Church having received this faith & doctrine, although dispersed thoughthrough the whole world, diligently preserves it as though she inhabited but one house, & accordingly she believes these things as thô she had but one soul & one heart, & constantly preaches & teaches these things as thô she had but one mouth. For althô there are various languages in the world, yet the doctrine is one & the same; so that the churches in Li Germany, France, Asia, Egypt or Libya have not a different faith 0.2.3)186′00 18400′ 200′ 20700′ 1,20′ 1200 1150 50 (8′∟09|45)3720(8.1∟60000∷00′ 5∟2|45)3600 1208′.3″00000∷00′ 8′.0″5∟3|45)7∟20658″∷10559∷60′633540.−548333(5776 27085107(5776 76733(5776 8374(5776 700(5776 4,9345=4,3115=12415=8⁤415=8.16. 68359.01.0′∟000 68348.071′∟950∷57064⁤12. 410088.071′∟866(285322⁤12. 35,9333.0(57062∟35,135805⁤01. 5,07547.5706450⁤01. 503066.399451500⁤01. 4481.410579077⁤01. 4312. 169. 144. 25. 11∟9666)10559⁤12(52 633570(52 598333(52 35237(52 23939(52 60. 10∟9666 7195)410088000(5700000 359750000(570−375 50338000(56996∟35 50365000(5700000 −27000000(5700000 21585000(5700000 −5415000(5700000 050365000(5700000 3785000(5700000 82′∟96666.60′∷78907∟5 )47344200(57064∟1 41483330(57064∟1 5860870(57064∟1 5807660(57064∟1 53210(57064∟1 49780(57064∟1 3430(57064∟1 3318(57064∟1 112(57064∟1 16r & ytthat this his reading on crying e] Eating & drinking – – s & so eating the book is becoming inspired wthwith yethe prophesy conteined in it. TK E S It signifies a imples a new, & vigorous & extraordinary inspiration a being inspired anew wthwith yethe prophesy of the whole book & therefore implies signifies a repet lively repetition of the whole prophesy & beginns not til the pr first prophesy, that of the seals & trumpets is ended. It was sweet in Iohns mouth & therefore begains better in his belly & therefore beginns not with the bitter prophesy of the gentiles trea benigbeing in yethe outward court & treading down yethe holy city nor ends with th & yethe prophesying of the witnesses in sackcloth notr ends wthwith yethe sweet prophesy of the witnesses ascending up to heaven in a cloud & the kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdoms of God orour Lord & his Christ, but & the s but begins immediately wthwith the sw wthwith the n but after but so soon as the prophesy of the Trumpets is ended it begins wthwith the sweet fprophesy of the sealed in glorious woman in heaven & the victory of Michael over the Dragon & ends as then after that consists in many almost wholly chiefly of the bitter prophesy of the Dragon & two Beasts & whore of Babylon & their destru destruction in the Lake of fire. Conceive therefore that the Angel, before he giaves Iohn yethe book to eat, looked upon viewed the writing on the first page of the eighth leaf, & whoen Iohn hasd eaten yethe book & is was digesting it in order to a new prophesy, thus prophesies to him Iohn described the times of yethe 7th onece more by memory out of theat eighth leaf eighth page, as in the manner followsing. And the Angel stood, saying, Rise, & measure the temple of God & [the [court of] this the Altar & [the Court of] them that worship therein [that is called the weom or the court of the people & the called the called yethe weomen's court] but the court wchwhich is without the temple [that wherein the four Animals appeared] leave out & measure it not for it is given to the gentils & they holy city shall they tread under foot forty & two monthds. This is a plain allusion to the times of the Babylonian em Hitherto the visions had appeared in Solomons Temple in whose outward court were four animals representing the people in the four sides of that Court: now but now upon prophesying out of a new leaf of the book the scene is changed & the visions appear in the second Temple whose outward court [during the captivity under the Babylonians Greeks &] was is given to the gentiles those Gentiles who captivated the Iews & trode & they tread down the holy city This which being is a plain allusion to the Babylonian captivity, these Gentiles are Babylonians & therefore the woman whos rides upon the ten horned Beast is called Babylon the great.: So that here the Babylonian captivity is plainly alluded unto. Measuring is a type of rebuilding Zech. 2. ✝ & it signifies the building of the second Temple. It is also a ty & It is also a type of distingiushingdistinguishing that wchwhich is measured from that wchwhich is left unmeasured or from that wchwhich is measured for another purpose, ② & therefore denotes in this prophehesyre inthe measuring part of yethe Temple & leaving yethe rest vnmesudvnmeasured signifies the same thing with numbring & sealing the servants of God in their foreheads & leaving the rest of yethe Tribes unsealed or marking them wthwith the mark of the Beast., ① as is evident by Davids measuring Moab with two lines to a p a line, even wthwith two lines to put to death & wthwith one full line to keep alive. 2 Sam. 68. And I will give power unto my two witnesses & they shall prophesy 1260 days, that is all the time that the Gentiles tread the holy city under foot. These are the two olive trees & yethe 2 Candlesticks – – – standing before the God of the earth. T In the Temple wchwhich was the scene of the former visions there was a Candl were seven Candlesticks wthwith seven seven lamps in them representing the seven churches of Asia, in this there are two Candlesticks to represent two Churches here called the two witnesses. And as the seven TChurches joyntly & severally are put in general for all the churches, so are the two churches. These are called two Prophets wthwith respect to Haggai & Zechary who prophesied at the building of the second Temple. & & two Olive trees wthwith respect to yethe two Olive trees wchwhich Zechary describes in yethe 3Second Temple & calls sons of oyle or annointed ones wchwhich stand by the Lord of the whole earth, meaning (as I conceive) Zerubbabel & Ieshua. And if any man will hurt them fire (that is war) proceedeth out of their mouth & devoureth their Enemies. These have power to shut heaven in the days of their prophesy. That is they are have yethe 16v compared to power of Elijah & Elisha & in that respect the whrore of Babylon is called the woman Iezabel. ThAnd thes barren state of the church in their days is compared to the state of Israel in the days of Iezabel when it rained not t& there remained only seven thousand who had not bowed yethe knee to baal & those absconded so too in secret so ytthat Elijah thought himself left alone. And they have power to turn the waters into blood & to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. At the sounding of the first Trumpet they consume their enemies wthwith fire, at yethe sounding of the second they turn the waters into blood & in the following Trumpets they smite the earth wchwhichwthwith all plagues as often as they will. And when And after they are slain & rise again the For they continue till the seventh Trumpet sounds whereby and end is put to yethe prohesyprophesy of the seals & Trumpets. And the Apostate Church is Ecomprdcompared to Iezabel in a barren dry country, & the woman in yethe wilderness. + yethe Church represented by the woman in the wilderness its compared to yethe woman Iezabel in a barren diry country r / & 1 / & live under the ./ & are persecuted by the woman in yethe w.wilderness as these prophets were by Iezabel in a dry season & barren country. For when yethe word of God came first to Ezekiel he was bid to eat this roll & then sent to prophesy to the house of Israel. Iermin street 17 May. 1706 SrSir I send you the book I promised & hope you will please to accept of it tho I beleive amidst yoryour business of consequence you have no time to spend on these matters. Considering yoryour great learning I presumed last wednesday to propose you to the Council of the Royal Society for their assent that you may be proposed to the Society at a full meeting to be elected one of their members, & the Council gave their assent unanimously. I hope you will pardon me for doing this without your leave it being the effect of of my good will to yoryour self & the cause you are solliciting. I am Yryour most humble and most obedient Servant Is. Newton. This is and allusion to the Babylonian captivity & building of a second temple after yethe first had been destroyed. For measuring is a type of building (Zech. 2.) & it was in the time of the 2d temple only that the outward court became & the outward court of the Gentiles trode down the holy city Gentiles wer Gentiles were in the outward court & trode down the holy city, & that the outward court was called yethe court of the Gentiles. unt Brianson. 17rYah Ms Var. 1 / Newton 7.3 (P) To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain. May it please your LordpLordship The Dragon & Woman were & Dragon at their first appearance where in the first temple, The & in Dioclesians persecution wchwhich lasted ten years with great violence over all the eastern Empire the Woman cried being with child cried travailing in birth & pained to be delivered. And the Dragon with his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven or saints of the Greek eastern Empire & cast them to yethe earth For Dioclesian divided them Roman Empire between himself & his collegeue Maximinian pl reigning himself in the western Sect 1 Of the Dragon & ten horned Beast Sect 2. Of the Woman & two honedhorned Beast Sect. 3 Of yethe first & second Temples & their Candlesticks. Sect 45 Of the seven heads of the Dragon & Beast. Sect 54 A further acctaccount Of The History of the division of the Empire into two king Empires wthwith their Churches true & false. Sect IV The History of yethe division of yethe Empire into two Empires wthwith their Churches true & false. The Woman & Dragon at their first appearance were even in yethe first Temple. And in Dioclesians Persecution wchwhich began by an edict for demolishing the Churches & burning the sacred books throughout the Empire A. C. 302 & lasted ten years wthwith great violence over all the Eastern Empire the Woman being wthwith child cried travailing in birth & pained to be delivreddelivered And the Dragon with his tail (or armed power) drew yethe 3d part of the starrs of heaven or saints of yethe eastern Empire & cast them to yethe earth, And at the end of the persecution stood before yethe Woman ready to devour her child as so soon as it was born. And in the end of the persecution A. C. 312 by the victory conversion of Constantine the great to yethe Christian religion & his victory over Maxentius whereby he became Emperor of the West a Man she brought forth a Manchild the Sect. V Sect IV The History A further account of the division of the ERoman Empires into two Empires with their Churches false & true. We shewed above that the f Iohn tells us that the first six heads of the Beast fell before he asecended out of the Abyss or Sea:. F His words are: five are fallen & one is & the other is not come & the Beast that was & is not he is the eighth WIohn tells us that the first six five king of the kings represented by yethe heads of the Beast fell & the sixt was in being before he ascended out of yethe Abyss or Sea. For before he ascended he was latent – – – – has all the Dragons heads. The occasion of the division of the Empire – – – – – as are represented by the Manchild. Non When the Temple of God was opened in heaven & the Ark was seen in it & the Wom after lightnings & voices & thundrings & lightnings the Woman & Dragon appeared in Heaven it is to be conceived that they thie Temple was opened that they might appeared in this it Temple The seven Heads of the Dragon & Beast this Temple wchwhich was opened for & that the mManchild was caught up to the throne of God above the ark in this Temple, & that the Woman fled from this Temple into the Wilnderness & left a remnant of her seed in this temple And that the Dragon being was cast down out from yethe inner Court of this Temple, made war there up there into the outward Court came down to reign there among the inhabitants of the earth & sea & persecuted the Woman there & there made war there upon thsee these remnant of her seed. & caused all to receive the mark of the Beast except the 144000 thenceforward was worshipped there. And that the two horned Beast there deified the other Beast & there caused men to set up his Image & caused men to worship him all (the inhabiters of there to men there to worship itthat Beast it & to set up & worship it be yethe Image & recei worship it & tha of that Beast & receive its mark except yethe 144000. And that all this was done before the Dragon gave the Beast his western throne & that afterwards the 144000 worshipped in yethe power. And we are to conceive that the Dragon & two horned Beast or fals Prophet thenceforward remain in the outward court of this Temple & that the saints who worship in this Temple (suppose in the inner court thereof) tare thenceforward called the 144000, this number being used as the name symbol & name of yethe saints who worship in that Temple. & who are represented also by the seven candlesticks thereof therein. 17v And when the Woman flyeeds from this Temple into the Wilderness, we are to conceive that she fleeds there to her place of honour & power & wealth where wchwhich is to sit upon & reign over the ten horned Beast: in wchwhich place she is fed & nourished by the Merchants of the earth & fares deliciously wthwith the ten kings & inebriates the nations wthwith the wine of her fornication t& becomes drunken wthwith the blood of the saints. And that when yethe Dragon giaavesgave the Beast his western throne & power a second new Temple is was built for these saints to worship therein, And that the outward Court of this Temple is was afterwards at length given to the Gentiles, wchwhich Gentiles are the Beast & the Woman sitting upon him. [& the saints who worship in this Temple being mixt of Romans & northern people barbarians are represented the two witnesses represented by two Candlesticks & by two Olive trees or Cherubims made of Olive trees () & that place in this Temple. & by two And as the Woman increasesd in power & dominion the two Witnesses are were more & more afflicted d& oppressed & at length put on s when she arrivesd to her place put on sackcloth & are to prophesy in sackcloth 1260 days while all the time that she is fed by the Merchants of the earth & reigns over the Beast.] And its further to be observed that for distinguishing these two Temples with their worshippers, the visions are of the first Temple & the fir things relating to it are described first & those of the second Temple t& the things relating to it are described last & the visions of the Trumpets & Vials of wrath atre put between them to make. First the seven seales are opened & yethe 144000 are sealed in the first Temple. Then the seven Trumpets sound & the seven thunders utter their voices,. &And then follows the description of the second Temple wthwith the two witnesses & Gentiles in the outward court & Beast making making war upon the witnesses. Sect. V. Of the seven heads & ten horns of the Dragon & Beast These things being understood it will not be difficult to describe the seven heads of yethe Dragon & Beast. These are called kings & signify seven reigns or dynasties of the Roman Empire The four first. - - - - - - being a composition of them all I When the Beast had been slain wounded to death wthwith a sword & was not & was to revive & ascend, that is, in the reign of out of yethe abyss that is, when Constantius Iulian or& Iovian reigned over the whole Empire, Iab five of these heads were fallen & the sixt was & the seventh was not come, & the Beast wchwhich had been & was not was to be ascended afterwards out of the abyss received the Dragons Throne & became the eighth & was of the seven, as has been explained. The Subject of & the ten kings wchwhich soon after received power as kings but & were at first of various regligions &but at length agreed in religion & gave their kingdom to compose the body politique upon wchwhich the Whore sits, & wchwhich is called the Beast thenceforward called yethe Beast. And Having thus descibed the Drag kingdoms Empires of the Dragon & Beast with their Heads & heads & horns & Churches true & false, which are the subject of the Prophesy, let us now go over the whole prophesy in continual order of time & see how it agrees wthwith history. When the Beast had been wounded to death wthwith a sword & was not & was to revive & ascend out of yethe abyss, that is when Constantius, had conquered the western Empire & he & Iulian & Iovian reigned over the whole west Roman Empire, five of these heads or kings were fallen & one was & another was not come & the Beast wahich had been & was not, ascended afterwards out of yethe abyss, received the Dragon's throne & became the eighth king & was of the seven as has been explained, & the ten horns kings received power as kings their crowns the same hour wthwith the eighth head of the Beast & were at first of various religions but at length became of one mind & God put in their heardts to agree in religion & give their kingdom to compose the body politique upon wchwhich the Whore sits, & upon wchwhich she is to sit untill the words of God shall be fulfilled. For under her dominion the Beast is to acts & blaspheme th & to open his mouth in blasphemy against God & his name & them that dwell in heaven & to make war wthwith yethe saints 42 months. I have now described the Empiesres of kingdoms represented by yethe Dragon & Beast wthwith their heads & horns & Churches false & true wchwhich are the subject of the Prophesy: it remains that we go over the whole prophesy in conntnual order of time & see how itall all things it agreess wthwith history, in every part with history. all its parts from the beginning to yethe end so far as it hath been fulfilled. this present time. This eighth period by the sounding of the Trumpets is subdivided into six intervals of time but these make no chaanges in the reign of the Dragon & beast common to them both before the sounding of the last T.Trumpet & therefore there are no more common Dynasties then eight. T At the sounding of the last Trumpet an end is put to the reign of them both: for the Angel mighty sware that 18rYah. Ms. Var. 1 / Newton 7 And again in the Interpr repetition & interpretation of the Prophesy, first there appears the first Temple with the Woman & Dragon & two horned Beast & 144000 & the ten horned Beast between his asce his rising out of the sea & his receiving the Dragons throne. Then follows the prophesy of the seven Vials, & afterwards Iohn is carried from the first Temple on mount Sion into the Wilderness to see the Woman sitting there upon & the many waters or ten horned Beast upon wchwhich the tenshe sits horned Beast who are that is to sea the wor Gentiles to whom the outward court of the second Temple was given,. & Now when the Temple of God was opened in heaven & after lightnings & thundrings Voices & the Ark was seen into it, & after voices lightnings & voices & thundrings & hail there appeared several visions iin heaven, it is to be conceived that this was the first Temple & that it was opened for Iohn to see the visions in it & particularly that the woman & Dragon appeared in this Temple, that yethe Manchild was caught up to the throne of God above yethe Ark in this Temple that Michael cast the Dragon was cast down by Michael from the upper Court of this Temple into yethe outward court thereof, that the Woma & there persecuted the Woman, that she fled from this Temple into yethe wilderness & so left in it a remnant of her seed with wchwhich the Dragon there made war untill there remained only 144000 on mount Sion in this Temple & that the two Beasts rose out of the sea & earth of this Temple & the worship of the first Beast & his Image was set up in thie T outward Court of this Temple. All this was done before the Dragon gave the Beast his throne & by consequence before the building of a second Temple & then from that time; [but what was done by the Woman & Beast in the Wilderness is not shewed in this] & after when the Beast wthas in the Dragon's throne] the 144000 saing yethe a new song on moutnt Sion in the middst of the 4 Beasts & elders that is in the inner court of this Temple & the Dragon & fals Prophet are remained are left in the outward court thereof & yethe beast being risen from the dead & deified & having received the Dragons throne western throne is afterwards found in the Wilderness with the Woman. For Iohn being carried also going going by one of the 7 Angels from this Temple with one of the seven Angels from this Temple to se the Woman who was fled thither & the ten horned Beast who followed her & there he sees her there sitting upon the Beast & upon many waters wchwhich waters are peoples & multitudes & nations & tongues, that is the Gentiles who worship Babylonian Gentiles who tread down the holy City & worship in the outward Court of the second Temple. Then he sees her drunken with the blood of saints & of the Martyrs of Iesus , that is with the blood of the two Witnesses represetnted by the two Candlesticks of this Temple. For she is the for she is yethe gtgreat City represented by old Babylon whoich trod down captivated & trod down the holy city & in whose reign a second Temple was built for the Iews by the prophesiying of Haggai & Zechary, & but yethe outward court of this Temple was left open to yethe Babylonian Gentiles. while the seven Angels pourd out the seven Vials of wrath. And then Iohn is was carried into the Wilderness to see [there visions the visions relating to yethe second Temple, & wchwhich visions are the Woman in the Wilderness & the Merchants of yethe earth who feed & nourish her there & the the kings with whom she commits fornication & the Beast or many waters upon wchwhich she sits: that is the Gentilles who worship in the outward court of thise Temple of the second Temple In the first part of the prophesy of the Apocalyps the seales are o Visions of opening the seales & holding the four wind & sealing the 144000 appear in the first Temple wherein wchwhich has were seven Candlesticks, then the 7 TumpetsTrumpets sound & seven thunders utter their voices & afterwards the courts of yethe Temple & altar & them that worship therein are measured to signify the building of a second Temple is built wthwith two Candlesticks & sthe outward court thereof it is given to the Gentionsles. In second part of the Prophesy wchwhich is a esupplemental repetition of the first part the Visions of the Woman Dragon & fals Prophet & 144000 appear in the first Temple then the 7 Vials are poured out, & then the Gentiles to whom yethe outward Court of the second Temple is was given appear in the wilderness in the form of a Woman & Beast s many waters upon which she sits. Iohn goes into yethe wilderness to see the great City Babylon seated on many waters under whose dominion the Iews built a second Temple leaving the outward Court unbuilt & open to the Babylonians. In both parts, of th the visions relating to the two Templees are distinguished by interposing the V visions of the Trumpets & T seven wars. And this distinction is not without a meaning. The affairs Iohn first describes first the affairs of the Dragons kingdom & Church by visions in the first Temple, & then those of the Beasts kingdom & Church by visions relating to the second Temple, & to distinguish the two kingdoms wthwith their Churches affairs effectually & actions from one another he interposes the description of the plagues of yethe seven wars, wchwhich are these bingbeing inflicted performed by the saints of both Temples, For the seven Angels of the seven Churches po sounding the Trumpets & pouring out the Vials of wrath & the two Witnesses smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will, that is wthwith yethe seven plagues. Theis eighth period of [is again divide by the sounding of the Trumpets subdivided into six intervals of time, for it] ends when the seventh Trumpet begins to sound. For the Angel sware that there should be time no longer Inbut in the days of the voice of yethe 7th Angel when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God shall be finished And when that That For And when Theat seventh Trumpet Angel sounds to the war battel beetween the army on white horses in heaven & the 8th Beast army of the Beast & kings of the earth, in wchwhich battel the Beast & fals Prophet are ti& taken & cast alive intho yethe lake of fire & yethe Dragon into the bottomless pit And there ends the reign of the eighth king: & of the tvisions of the s so that hHis reign is therefore by the sounding of the trumpets distinguished only into six intervals of time & these intervalls being thrice repeated, once by the sounding of the seven Trumpets, once by the voices of the seven thunders & once by the pouring out of yethe seven vials of wrath, answers to the mysterious number of the Beast 666. What follows concerning the thousand years & or the 18v or day of judgment & yethe kingdom of heaven is to be conceived not w sealed up under any of the seven seales but written on the backside of the Book. Vpon opening the first Temple 19r SrSir: Isaac Newton His–Bill 1719 May May — — 23 – 1: Goose 0 – 3 – 6 27 – 2: Turkey 1Ld 0 – 6 – 6 28 – 2: Rabb 0 – 2 – 0 29 – 1 Chikccken 0 – 1 – 6 0 = 13 = 6 19v This law was ancienter then the days of Moseess being given to Noah & all his posterity, & therefore wnwhen the Apostles & Elders in the Council at Ierusalem when they declared that the Gentiles were not obliged to be circumcised & observe the law of Moses, tehey excepted this law as being imposed on all nations 2 not as the sons of ArahamAbraham but as the Sons of Noah, not by circumcision but by an earlier law of God 3 not by conversion to the Christian religion but even before there were christians. And of the same kind is the law of absteincing from tmeats offered to Idols. & from fornication. not as Christians but as Gentiles – as being imposed on all nations not by the law of eMoses but by an earlier law of God, not as sons of Abraham but as sons of Noah, not as Christians but even as Genttiles. And of the same kind is the law of absteining from meats offered to Idols & from fornication. 20r Lot 44 a Lansship with figures & Cattle 01: 09: 0 47 a Lanship wthwith figures & horses 03: 15: 0 61: Antique Ruins and figures 01: 12: 0 19 a Winter peice 01: 10: 0 a DozDozen of Delf plates 00: 10: 6 08: 16: 6 Chargis 00: 02: 0 £08: 18: 6 20v the governours of Israel that sat in judgment Iud.g. V.9, 10. The elders of Gileaatd Iudg. 11.5, 7., 8, 9, 10, 11. The elders of Bethlehem before whome Booz purchased the land of Elimelech. Ruth. 1 V. 32, 4, Deut. 25.7, 8. Elders of the city shall chastise that man & amerce him. Deut 22.18, 19. stone him or hang him Deut 21.19, 20, 21, 22, deliver him to the executioner Deut 19.12. Elders of the cities of refuge sit in yethe gate of the city Iudgosh. 20.4 CNaboth condemned before the Elders of his city. 1 King. 21.8, 11, 13. / Worship in the Gates Psal. IX.14. Such were the high places of the heathen before the Israel drove them out, vizvidelicet of Amorites Num 231.28 Elders of Midian Num 22.4. High places of all the Canaanites Num 33.52. 2 King. 17.11 of other eastern nations 2 King 17.129, 30, 31, 32, 33. Moalb. Ier. 48.35. Num. 22.41. Amorite Num 21.28. In the days of the Iudges the people were allowed to sacrifice in th all their cities to the true God. Samuel had an altar at Rama in the high place at Ramah 1 Sam 7.17. & 9.193, 19, 22. & sacrificed in the high place at Gilgal & 15.21. & at Bethlehem 1 Sam XVI.2, 5, & XX.6, 29. 2 Sam XXIV.18, 25. & 1 King. III.2. And even after the building of the Temple they sac continued to sacrifice in the high places to yethe Lord. 2 Chron XXXIII 17. But Asa, Hezekiah & Iosiah destroyed the High places & yethe groves. 2 Chron. XIV.3 & XXXI.1 & XXXIV.3, 4. There was also in the Temple a place set apart for worshipping God by prayers & praises & for reading & expounding the Law (Matt. XXI.13. Ier. 7 VII..11.) & the like is to be understood of the High places of all the citys: the Elders of every city setting apart such places for this worship either in their high places or in or neare the Gates of their cities where they sat in judgments or in both. For Moses of old time had in every city them that preach him being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day. Acts XV.21. 21r An Accompt of yethe barrelled Tinn in Barrills now remaining in the Tower. Long slender Barrs of Tin in Barrils each of wchwhich contein 400 weight. Tuns Ccwt 50 Barrils imported from Cornwall 10. 00 1637 Barrils left of what was left melted & last year barrelled in Town 327. 8. Total 337. 8 Whereof Mr Stratford designes to export 100 Barrils 20. 0 Remains 317. 8 There have been alreaiady exported in Barrils about 634 Tuns almost all of it by SrSir Theodore Iohnson, the Pewterers f who factor for the Merchansts, chusing rather to buy Tin in Blocks + Barril it, so that there is a necessity of bargaingbargaining wthwith SrSir Theodore or some other merchant to export it into yethe straights. An Account of the tin in Blocks now in Tower & coming from Cornwall. Tuns Ccwt Qr li 1 5655 Blocks of Tin imported by the last 15 Ships 822. 9. 1. 24 3 Left of the letter x about 48. 0 0. 0 2 Iohn Mitchell come lately 44. 16. 3. 4 Total 915. 6. 1. 0 Whereof Mr Stratford dsesignes to export 220 Remains 695. 6. 1 Six more ships now coming cōontein about 400. 0. 0. 0 177 Blocks wreckt of wchwhich 159 are already taken up, & may amoūunt to about } 22. 0. 0. 0. Total 133117. 6. 1. 0 Pope Symmachus A. C. 503 excommunicated the Greek Emperor Anastasius & upon the Emperors complaining wrote a letter to yethe Emperor in wchwhich is this sentence. Conferamus autem honorem Imperatoris cum honore Pontificis: inter quos tantum daistat, quantum ille rerum humanarum cujram gerit, iste divinarum. This Bishop exercised a jusrisdiction over the Bishops of Gallia & when he die & other when he died, & Hormisda was created his successor, that is A. C. 514 Clodovæus king of France being lately whom wthwith his nation Remigius bpbishop of Rhemes b Rem had lately converted to the Christian religion, di by the advice the advice of Remigius bishop of Rhemes sent him to Rem Hormisda a Crown of gold adorned with gemms, & Pope Hormisda mutually made Remigius his deputy over all the Churches in the kingdom of France. This crown By the circumstances of the story this Crowdn was given to the Pope as universal Bishop. And sho The supremacy was [And the supremacy was afterwards confirmed by the grants of the Greek Emperors Iustinian & Phocas & the Popes authority advanced in Rome by the overthrow of the temp temporal government of that City by a Senate & Consuls & by the removal of the kingdom of the Ostrogoths.] Thae Primacy or first place in point of honour was allowed the sea of TRome long before this & the second place was allowed to the sea of Alexandria. but neither of them were universal Bishops. [This act of Remigius submission of Clodovæus whereby he became bisho Remigius & his successors gained the Archbishopric of all France is the first instance that I have met with of the Popes exercising an Episcop he obteining & excisingexercising a jusrisdiction over the churches of forreign kingdoms as universal Bishop] & this jurisdiction was soon after extended into The Francks so far as I can find are the first kingdom which submitted to yethe Eccles Ecclesiastical dominion of the Pope. & The next was the Greek Empire by the grant of Iustinian, by vertue of wchwhich grant the Pope He deposed the Patriarch of Constantinople & by the arms of the Emperor ruined the kingd Arian kingdom of the Goths & in its room erected a Catholick Exarchate in its room And henceforward all the after this after these exc Then Reccaredus king of the Visigoths A in Spain & other western kings as fast as they were converted either from the heathen or from the Arian religion submitted submitted to the Church of the Catholick religion faith submitted, the Pope being now accounted the Chu head of this Church it being now the Pope being now accounted the head of yethe Church Catholic untill the Pope extended his dominio spir ecclesiastical dominion over all the west, & by the overthrow of the Exarchate & kingdom of the Lombards & added a tem acquired also a temporal dominion in token of wchwhich he weares two keyes in hand & two temporal crowns upon his head. 21v In the year 5353 the Emperor Iustinian d having newly conquered invading the in Afric [& designing afterward to conquer the Ostrogoths in Italy, to draw off the Pope & those of the Catholic religion in Italy from their obedience to the Ostrogoths who reigned over them who were of another religion,] granted to yethe Pope Hormisda Iohn the universal Bishopric & untill the year 535 when had newly conquered the Vandals & designed to conquer send Bellisarius against the Ostrogoths in Italy, he confirmed that grant to Pope Agapetus that he might thereby gain the affections of yethe Roman Catholicks & draw them off from their obedience to yethe Ostrogoths who reigned over them & were of another religion. And the consequence was that in the year 537 theat Goths leaving Rome being garrisond by 54000 Goths opened its gates to Bellisarius & a year or two after Millain & all Liguria fell away to the Greeks, & in yethe year 540 Ravenna delivered up herself & the Goths wthwith their king to Bellisarius. In The Greek Emperor Iustinian to gain the affection of the Italians in the years 533 & again in the year 535 granted the universal Bishopric to the Pope & then sent Belisarius against the Ostrogoths who at that time reigned over all Italy & were Arians & therefore hated by the Italian clergy & there the people of Rome A. C. 537 at the sollicitation of the Pope revolted from the Ostrogoths & delivered up the City of Rome to Bellisarius A. C. 537, & a year or two after Millain also & all Liguria at the instigation of the Bishop of Millain revolted to Belisiarius. And in colnclusion at length the Italians Clergy by the arms of Bellisarius rid the Greek Emperor rid themselves of the dominion of the Ostrogoths. This was one kingdom wchwhich stootd in Popes way & fell before him The gratnt of the universal Bishopric by the Emperor Iustinian th met wthwith opposition, & succeeded not But in the year 607 the grant was renewed by the Emperor Phocas wthwith better success. But However the Popedome had neither a temporal dominion nor military power & so was not yet a horn. Rome was still governed by a Duke who was subordinate to the Exarch of Ravenna. The Whereupon tThe Goths in revenge beseiged & took Millain & slewall the men to yethe number of 300000 & captivated the weomen. But A They beseiged Rome also first under Vitiges wthoutwithout success & then under Totilas who took it twice & af reproached the Italians for their ingratitude in sideing wthwith the Greeks against them. By this war the Goth kingdom of the Goths was subverted & the government of Rome by a senate & Consuls fell. And this was one kingdom wchwhich stood in the Popes way & fell before him. The Primacy of first place in point of honour was allowed to the sea of Rome before the time of the council of Nice & the second & third places to yethe seas of Alexandria & Antioch before the time of the Council of Nicebut neither none of them were Popes acknowledged universal Bishops. But wWhen many kingdoms the western Empire became divided was invaded by man barbarous nations & divided was divided into ten kingdoms wchwhich were either heathens or Arians, the Catholicks united under the Pope & those kingdoms became as fast as they were afterward converted to yethe Catholick religion subjected themselves to yethe Popes spiritual authority in spiritual matters. in matters ecclesiastical,. And first w & the Popes & for &And first Clodovæus king of France being converted from the heathen to yethe Catholic religion sent to su by yethe advi subjected his kingdom to yethe Pope & by the advice of Remigius BpBishop of Rhemes sent to Pope hormisda a crown of gold adorned wthwith gemms A. C. 514 & the Pope in recompence made Remigius his depupty Patriarch Archbishop over all the Churches of the Francks. This crown [was in the year 514, & about 21 years after the Greek Emperor Iustinian acknowledacknowledged & ratified the Popes authority as universal Bishop & the Pope exercised this autority in this Greece by deposing the Patriarch of Constantinople & then conspired wthwith yethe Greek emperor to subvert the kingdom of the Ostrogots who were Arians & tha that a cathlolic government bmight be set up in its room] crown was by the circumstances of the story was episcopal, the F the Franks thereby acknowledging him their Monarch in ecclesiastical affairs & [this [ Monarchy in less than d two or three hundred years conquered all the kingdoms of the west & thereby got upon the back of the ten-horned beast. &] soon after bBy subverting the kingdom of the Ostrogoths who were of different religion & setting up the Catholick eExarchate in its room wchwhich Exarchate was & by the submission of the Greek Emperors theis spiritual Crown bewascame fixed on the Popes head & afterwards by subverting the Exarchate & kingdōom of the Lombards had & giving their cities & terr where othe Pope gained also a temporal dominion, in memory of wchwhich he has ever since worn two keys in his hand & added two temporal crowns & s to the spiritual one upon his head. In the 4th reign of Constantius fourth century reingn of Constantius the western Bishops set up to strenghthen their authority of the western Churches against the Eastern laboured that appeales should be made from all the world to the Pope, but did not subject themselves to the Pope as universal Bishop of over all the western Churches. Wenhen the western empires became divided into ten kingdoms wchwhich at first were either heathen or Arian