In setting up this dominion the Bishops of Rome made great use of the Nic authority of the Council of Nice, as may be seen their decretal Epistles. The Nicene Decree was theise words: Antiqua consuetudo servetur per Ægyptum Lyibyam et Pentaplim, ita ut Alexandrinus Episcopus horum omnium habeat potestatem quia et urbis Romæ Episcopo paribis mos est: Similiter autem et apud Antiochiam cæterasque Provincias, sius privilegia serventur Ecclasÿs. Illud autem generaliter clarum est quod siquis præter sententiam Metropolitani factus fuerit factus episcopus, hunc magna synodus definivit episcopum esse non oportere. Where This Decree Canon Now it is observable that this Canon relates only to Provinces & their metropolitans. For when after the three first Metropolitans Provinces were wthwith two first Provin Bishops of Rome & Alexandria wthwith their Churches were named the adds Council adds: similiter apud Antiochiam cæterasque provincias. Here is no mention of Patriarchs superior to Metropolitans of Provinces. The Council only ordeins that the Metropolitans of every Province should have power over the bishops of his Province, the bishop of Rome over the bishops of the Province of Rome, thise Bishop of Alexandria over the Province of AntioLÆgypt & Libya, the bishop of Antioch over the Province of Antioch, the bishop of Cæsarea of Cappadocia over the ProvnceProvince of Pontus, this Bishop of Ephesus over the Province of Asia, thethe bishop of Carthage over the Province of Afric the bishops of Thessalonica over the Province of that city Illyricum orientale or some part of it, the bishops of Simium Aquileia & Millain over their Provinces & so of the rest of those cities & so of the rest. Wherein this power of the Metropolitans over the bishops of their several provinces consisted the Councel defined in the wo two Canons next preceding, namely that a Bishop should be ordeined by all the bishops of the Province (that is by a Provincial Council) or at least by three of them wthwith yethe consent of the rest in writing, & the firmness of the ordination should depend upon the Metropolitian in every Province. And that in every Province a Council of the bishops of the Province should also be celebrated twice a year every spring & autum. To the power of the metropolitan of over Ordination, & his presiding in provincial Councils & call convening them upon Ordinations & such like extraordinary occasisons, the Council seem to refer in saying Antiqua consuetudo servetur per Ægyptum Libyam & Pentapolim ita ut horum Alexandrinus Episcopus horum omnium habeat potestatem quia at Vrbis Romæ parilis mos est. For by this Canon the power of ordeineing without the consent of the BpBishop of Alexandria was taken away from the bish Meletians throughout Ægypt Libya & Pentapolis, & the bishops of all these regions (including Thebais) met together in provincial Councils at Alexandria as often as is manifest by the Councils wchwhich upon the summons of Athanasius of about 90 bishops wchwhich met A.C. 341 & 369 at Alexandria out of all these regions A.C. 341 & 369. without the Imperial authority. [Athanas epist et ad Afrop p. As therefore all the Bishops under the power of the Bishop of Alexandria composed but of wchwhich he was President for the government of the whole Province one Prouvincial Council, so when the Council of Nice established this power of the bishop of Alexandria quia et Vrbis Romæ parilis mos est, they understood the power of the Bishop of Rome over those bishops only who met annually every spring & autumn in a provincial council at Rome for governing yethe Pro. & upon at other times for ordening the Bps.Bishops of the Province wthwith its president of wchwhich he was President. [ And therefore Ruffin was not mistaken when he interpreted the Nicene Canon in these words: ut apud Alexandriam et in urb Roma, ut vetusta consuetudo servetur ut vel ille Ægypti vel hic suburbicariarum reginam ecclesiarum sollicitudinem gerat, meaning by suburbicarian Churches the churches wchwhich sent bishops annually to the provincial Council of Rome according to the Nicene decree, A & whose Bishops were not ordeined without his consent that is the schurches of the suburbicarian provinces or ten provinces under the Vicar of Rome. [And therefore When the Bishop of Rome cited the Nicene Council against the churches of Afric they were in the right to tell him that he was mistaken. So then the Council of Nice 1v confirmed the provincial authority of the bishop of Rome over the suburbicarian churches as their metropolitan: but his patriarchal authority over all the western Churches was of a later date.

And this is further manifest by the Co second Canon of the second general Council yethe Council of Constantinople wchwhich r wchwhich was convened A.C. 381. Episcopi, say they qui ex The Canon is this. Episcopi qui extra diœcesiumm sunt . . . . . dinoscitur. By this Canon there were five metropolitan bishops in the all yethe Greek Empire, each of wchwhich had the care of his own diocess for ordinations & the ordering of affairs by a Council of bishop the bishops of the diocess meteting half yy every half year. The bishop of Alexandria governed Egypt Thebais Libya & Pentapolis by a Council out of the Bishops of all these regions. The BpBishop of Antioch governed Syria the east that is Syria, Phœnicia, Palestine, Mes P Palestine, Phœnicia, Syria, Cilicia, Oshroena Meospotamia, Csae, Isauria, Arabia, Cyprus, by a council of bishops out of all these regions. The bishop of Cæsarea of Cappadocia governed the Province or diocess of Pontus conteining Bithynia, Paphlagonia, Galatia prima & secunda, Honorias, Cappadocia, Pontus, Hellenopontus, Armenia prima & secunda. This diocess had its rise from the kingdoms of Pontus conquered, by the rRomans & reduced into a Province Mithridates & Ariobarzanes reduced into a Province by the Romans The bishop of Ephesus governed yethe Province diocess of Asia conteining Asia Proconsularis, Hellespontus, Pamphylia Lydia, Pisidia, Lycaonia, Phrygia Pacatiana, Phrygiasalutaris, Lycia, Caria & the Islands ajadjacent: & this Diocess had its rise from the kingdom of Pergamus reduced into a Province by the Romans. And The bishop of Heraclea governed the Province of Thrace conteining Europa, Thrace, Hæmimons, Rhodopes, Mœsia secunda & Scythia. Europa was the principal part of Thrace & conteined Heraclea & Constinople And these five Metropolitans had each of them by the Canons of the Council of Nice their prope annual Cou proper Council convened out all the Diocess [proper Councils of the bishops of that Diocess] convened annually out of & for governing the Diocess,] & were independent of one another, & forbidden by this Canon of the Council of Constantinople to intermeddle wthwith one anothers affairs. By tThe Nicene decree therefore, as it is interpreted by the Council of Constantinople, gave power to every metropolitan to only to ordein & toBishops & govern his diocess by a Council of yethe Bishops thereof & his power extended no farther then his the Diocess wchwhich sent bishops to his Council. The Bishops of Rome, Carthage, Aquiléaia, Millain, Thessalomica, Arles &c had each of them their Councils Provincial Councils & the power of each by the Nicene Decree extended only over those churches which sent bishops to their his Councilors. And this power was only to act in conjuncion with not in the Metropolitan alone but in him & the yethe Council of the Diocess & the pPresident of the Council & to have a negative vote in Ordinations. together, he leading as Presid He actin was authorized only to act as President of yethe Council & had a negative vote in Ordinations. And therefore Ruffin was not mistaken when he interpreted the Seing therefore that the provincial Council of the Bishop of Rome extended not into Afric the eastern ( for Empire for the five bishops of the eastern churches had councils of their own & industriously avoided coming to Rome); not into Afric (for the bishops of Afric met in Councils at Carthage; not into yethe diocess of Millain Aquileia or Millain for this diocess had its own council & so had the Diocess of Aquileia & that of Arles & that of Arminum: we mus it remains that we must & seing the designe & end of every the Council of every diocess or Province with its pPresident or Metropolitan, to c was to take care of Or the Ordinations of G Bishops & regulate other the affairs of the Diocess & particularly of yethe ordinations of the Bishops thereof: its manifest that the authority of the Bishop of Rome for ordeining Bishops & regulating ecclesiastical affairs extended no further by the Nicene decree then the Diocess of the Rome. It extended no further then then the authority of the Council2r Council of the Diocess of this bishop extended, & that the authority of this Council with its President the Bishop of Rome extended no further then the Diocess of the city wchwhich sent bishops to yethe Council, & that this Diocess extended not into yethe Diocess of Mill Aquileia Millain or Arimiminum nor but comprehended only the southern parts of Italy with the Islands adjacent namely or ten suburbicharian Churches regions above mentioned Campania, Tascia & Vmbeia, Piccnum suburbicarian, Sicily, Apulir & Carabria, Brutÿ & Lucania, Samium, Corsica Sardinia, Corsica, & Veleria] The Council of Nice set up no Patriarchal authority. They only declared the Bishop of Rome the first Metropo Sicily Rome the first Metropolitan of the Empire, Alexandria the second, Antioch yethe 3d &c & that every Metropolitan wthwith his Council should have power over his own Diocess. Patriarchs were of a later date.

And therefore when the Bishop of Rome upon an appeal of Apiarus from yethe Bishops of Afric sent to them to receive him into communion & cited the Nicene decrees for what he bid & for his doing so pretended the authority of the Council of Nice [for his excercising this authority over them cited the words of the Council of Serdica prete for a Canon of the Council of Nice, the Bishops of Afric were in the right to send for the Acts of yethe Council of Nice & upon consulting them, to tell him that he was mistaken.

And when Pope Iulius summoned the Eastern bishops to appear before him in a Council at Rome: those bishops (some of wchwhich had been in the Council of Nice) were in the right to let him know that he acted without authority & to reprehend him very sharply for his arrogance & threaten to excommunicate him if he did not forbear this illegal hostility.

So then the Bishop of Rome w in the times of the Council of Nice was only Metropolitan of the suburbicarian Churches or of that is, bishop of their Metropolis & & pPresident of their Council,,. And tho he endeaveoured soon after to extend his authority over the Councils of other diocesses, yet he was checkt &by the eastern bishops & baffled by the Emperor Constantius & forced to be content with his own Diocess till the reign of the Emperor Gratian by whose Edict for Appeals he became Patriarch of the west.

At the same time that thise patriarchal authority dominion of this Bishop was set up over all the west, the like patriarchal dominion of the Bishop of Constantinople was set up over a great part of the Greek Eastern Empire. T Before the building of Constantinople by Constantine the great & for some time after he was subordinate to the bishop of Heraclea the Metropolitan of Thrace. The Conuncil of Constantinople A.C. 381, made him the second Primate gave him the honour of the second Bishop of the Empir Roman Empire by this Canon. Constantinopolitanæ civitatis Episcopum habere oportedt Primatums honorem post Romanum Episcopum propetrea quod sit nova Roma. [Can. 3] And after he had gained the honour of this primacy he invaded the rights of assumed to himself the right of ordeining the the Metropolitans of yethe Diocesses of Thrace Asia & Pontus, hearng complaints against their bishops for Simony & other crimes & ejecting them (for wchwhich practises Chrisysostome was banished). & arrogating to himself the ordeinging of acting as Metropolitan of Thrace & ordeining their Metropolitans of Asia & Pontus their Metropolitans & thereby gained a power over them & being got into possession was established Patriarch over those Diocesses by this Canon of the Council of Act 16. Chalcedon called the General Council. Sedi senioris R propter imperium civitatis illius Patres [Nicæni] p consequenter privile reddiderunt; et eadem intentione permoti centum quinquaginta Dei 2v amantissimi Episopi æqua sanctissimæ sSedi novæ Romæ privilegia tribuerunt, rationabiliter judicantes Imperio et Senatu urbem ornatam æquis senioris Romæ privilegÿs frui, et in Ecclesiasticis, sicut illam, majestatem habere negotÿs & secundam post illam existere: et his qui de Ponto sunt et de Asia & Thracia diœcesibus, Metropolitanos solos; rursus autem et qui inter Barbaros sunt, Episcopos præfatorum diœcesewn ordinari a prædictæ sanctissimæ cConstantinopolitanæ sedis sanctissima Ecclesia: ) ( (Quippe ut unusquisque Metropolita præfatarum Diœcesewn cum Episcopis suæ Provinciæ ordinet suæ regionis episcopos, ( sicut divinis Canonibus est præceptum:) ordinari autem , (sicut dictum est,) metropolitas præfatarum diœcesewn a Constinopolitano Archiepiscopo, decretis electionibus consonis secundum morem factis & ad eum relatis. Here the Council plainly ascribes the honour & authority granted to the bishops of Rome & Constantinople is plainly ascribed toby the Council to the dignity & grandure of the cities. But whereas thisthe Council of Chalcedon ascribes this grant to yethe Councils of Nice & Constantinople those Councils granted no ordinations of metropolitans by Patriarchs, no ordinations of forreign Metropolitans, no ordinations of Bishops forreign to yethe anniversary Councils of the bishops who ordeined them. Those Such ordinations were incroached afterwards by the Bishops & ab of Rome & Constantinople. In all the Diocess of Alexandria no bishop could be ordeined without yethe consent of yethe bishop of Alexandria & those &of his Council & so of the DocessDiocess of Antioch, But & all the bishops ordeined by them attenderd their anniversary Councils. But the Bishops of Rome & Constantinople ordeined f Metropolitans of Diocesses forrein to their CouncilisCouncils without claiming a right to ordein the bishops under those Metropolitans. Non enim, saith Pope Leo I, nobis ordinationes vestrarum Provinciarum defendimus, We do not arrogate to our selves a power of ordeining in your Provinces. This power the forrein of Ordeining all the inferior bishops in their several diocesses the forreign Metopolitans preserved to themselves for many ages: but at length the Pope wrested this power also from them. And fFirst, Pope Nicholas I A.C. 861 wrested it from the obnoxious Bishop of Ravenna as may be collected from the submission of that Bishop to this Pope by this sentence in a Council at Rome A.C. 861,. Sigonius de Regno Italiæ l. 5. Et Platina in Papa Nicholas Episcopos per Æmiliam ne consecrato, nisi a clero populoque electos et literis super ea re a Pontifice missis. Eosdem Episcopos, quotiescunque ad apostolicum sedem venire voluerint, ne prohibeto: And afterwards other Popes wrested it from other metropolitans.

By the cCanons of the Councils of Constantinople & Chalcedon it appears that the authority of the Bishop Patriarch of Constantinople extended also over the Churches of several barbarous nations or nations without the bounds of yethe Roman Empire. Nilus Doxapatrius (who lived in yethe 11th century) in his book partly published by Leo Allatius tells us that yethethis Bishop of Cons was over the Churches of yethe barbarians in these regions Chersonesus [Taurica] & Chazaria & Chaldia & Gothia & Abasgia & Iberia & Alania [a large country upon the river Tanais] & great Russia, & sent them metropolitans; & Balsamon [in Can 18 Concil. Chalc. saith that Alania (a large country upon the river Tanais northardnorthward of mount Cancasus) was under the Diocess of Pontus & Russia under that of Thrace. Whence it may be gathered that yethe Power of yethe BishapBishop of Constantinople extended northward over all Churches among yethe barbarous nations in gloria & Gothia the regions [of Iberia & Dacia as far as the rivers Volga & Boristhenes & in all the regions comprehended by those rivers.] between Germany Dacia & the river Volga, the Christian religion being propagated into those reigionsregions by the Christians of the Greek Empire who fled thither in times of persecution, & chiefly in the persecutions of Decius & Dioclesian & Maximinus, & they & their disciples continuing in ian & obedience to the Churches from whence they fled. The Patriarchate of Constantinople was therefore as large as theat Dominion of the Bishop of Rome.

but at length she separates & escapes into the wilderness, [& those of her communion engaged to worship the Beast & his Image & are initiated into her com none are allowed to by ill except that is to be of her communion And he was forward the Dragon goes to make war wthwith the remnant of the seed who keep the commandments of God. And henceforward none are permiteted the Dragon goes from her to p make war upon wthwith the remnant of her seed & cause who keep the commandmtscommandments of God & in this persecution have the testimony of Iesus] while the rest fall away to the worship of the BBeast & his Image. And none are permitted to buy or sell, that is to be in communion with her & wthwith her sister the two horned Beast who succeeds her in the Dragons kingdoms, & the Dragon & two Beasts but those that are initiated in their religion by receiving the matrk or name of the Beast or yethe number of his name. And she The Dragon persecutes first the Woman & then the remnant of her seed, & the multitude that comply receive the mark of the Beast & worship his Image but those that persevere in the persecutions being sa are said to have the testimony of Iesus & to receive the seal of God in their forehead wthwith & from the first division of the Church repre while the rest receive the mark of the Beast, & to have the testimony of Iesus to wchwhich the first fruits unto God & that in their mouth was found no lyes & to & that in their mouth there was found no lye. There are Gods witneses & from the first division of the Church represented by the two wings of a great eagle the Woman they are called the the two Witnesses. These are the saints wthwith whom the Beast makes war & the martyrs of Iesus wthwith whose blood the Whore is made drunken, , & the first fruits unto G & the first fruits unto God in respect of the following harvest. They are sealed out of all the twelve tribes of Israel & therefore are the true Church Catholick of Christ in a state of affliction & dispersion. . And tho they are called two Witnesses yet we are not to concetive that they always continue distinguished into two bodies It suffices that they are the ofspri seed of descended from the Woman while she had two wthwith two wings & had kept the testimony of Iesus when she degenerated From their first rise the name of two witnesses is given to henceforward given to the whole Church CathCatholic in affliction & to every part of this Church catholick considerable part hereof much after the same manner theat kingdoms into wchwhich the w the ten horned Beast & two horned Beast are so called from the first number of their horns & keep those names to the end notwithstanding that the number might afterwards vary , & that the seven Churches of Asia are put for yethe Church catholick in all ages in respect of their first number.

The occasion of the division of the Empire was the building on Constantinople

But whien this Dragon troubled afflicted the Woman, the wCo God Witnesses prophesied against him Theodoret. But Gods p witnesses prophesied against this opinion & the earth also helped the Woman against it. For when Constantius came against Meagnentius.

From this point to the end of the addSpan, and continued on 5v, arguments are reordered with numbers 1 through 3. 2. And this unfolds to us the mystery of counting the number of the Beast. For The name & number of the Beast stands related to the name of God & number of those on Mount Sion by way of opposition & in this respect are opposed to the name of God & the number of those sealed wthwith theis name of God on mount Sion. And in that respect the number 666 is to be counted in such a manner as the number (144000 was counted. This number was counted by multiplying 12000 by 12 the divisor of its divisor 12 the number of yethe tr. of I (Apoc 7.) & therefore 666 is to be counted by multiplying some number by its a divisor dof that number. And there is but one way of counting it in this manner, wchwhich is by multiplying 222 by 3. [And as In one case The divisor Twelve is the number of the twelve tribes of Israel: so the divisor three: & in the other 3 is the number of the three parts or Tribes into wchwhich the nations are divided distinguished who worship the Beast & his Image.] the number of the tribes of them that worship the Beast.

1. The Iews & the nations by wchwhich they were to be captivated & particularly the nations within the bounds of the four monarchies are the subject of the sacred prophesy in the old Testament & those the nations throught wchwhich the Christian religion was to be propagated [& particularly all thoese within nations within the Roman Empire] are the subject of sacred Prophesy in the new especially of the Apoc.Apocalypse wchwhich was given by Christ himself. Now. Thise Christian religion was has been propagated through all the Roman Empire & from thence into some through all t the northern nations nambordering upon it, as into Ethiopia southward, Germany northward & Assyria eastward, & the Roman Empire has consisted of two parts & the Roman Empire is was almost about double to yethe northern nations & has consisted of two Empires about equal to one another, the Greek equal Empire & the the Latine. The Greeks Empire comprehendinedg Greece Asia Georgia Armenia Mesop.Mesopotamia Syria & Arab. Pen. Egypt & Cyrene & past erected by Alexander the grtgreat, & tThe Latine Empire comprehendinedg the nations westward, viztvidelicet Afric, Barbary Italy, Sicily Barbary Spain France Britain Italy Rhætia Noricum & Dalmatia Pannonia & & Illyricum. & Barbary. The northern nations are ☉☉ The northern nations are [T Germany, Hungary northward of yethe Danube, Transylvania, Russia Moscovy Poland, Swedeland, Denmark] Walachia Moldavia Transylvania, Hungary northward of the Danube, the Vpper Hungary Germany, lying next the Empire & Denmark, Swedeland Poland moscovy. lying further from it. The northern nations next the Empire received yethe Christian religion early especialy those neare Greece: for Dacia comprehending Walachia Moldavia Transylvania & upper hungary were conquered by Trajan & continued long under yethe dominion of yethe Romans & its inhabitants the Ostrogoths & Visigoths & Vandals who inhabited Dacia sent their Bish chief Bishop to the Council of Nice & were generally Christians in the fourth & fift centuries when they invaded the Empire, & the Irenæus lets us know that the Christian religion was in a flourishing state in Germany in the middle of the second century. as Irenæus mentions Afterwards [The great duke or Emperor of Russia embraced the Christian religion of the Greeks Church about yethe year 989 but the Christian religion crept into all nations first among the common people] Charles the great propagated the Roman religion into all Germany by conquest & from thence it began at yethe same time to spread into Denmark Swedeland & Poland. And The great Duke of Russia embraced the religion of the Greek Church about yethe year of Christ 989: but yethe Christian religion was spread there among the common people before. And now all the northern part of Europe have two fesseds Christianity many ye & has done so some hundreds of years. The Christian religion has been propagated also from Egypt into into Ethiopia above Egypt. But the Churches of those Ethiopians acknowledge themselves under the Church of Alexandria & receive their Bishops from thence & are some of them under the Turks & in that respect may referred to Ægypt, if they be at all at least so far as they are considered in this Prophesy especially sinm. So then the Christian world wchwhich is the subject of this Prophesy consists of three parts, pretty equal to one another the Greek Empire, the Latine Empire & the northern nations. And by this division you may know that by the third part of the earth sea rivers Sun Moon & stars is meant the third part of this Christian world, or the sun M earth sea rivers Sun Moon & stars of one of these three parts. As Israel is divided into twelve Tribes, so the Christian world wchwhich apostatises to the worship of the Beast & his Image is divided into these these three parts or Tribes. And this unfolds to us the mystery of counting the number of the Beast. For the name & number of the Beast on the forehead of his worshipper is opposed to the name of God & to the number of his servants who stand on mount Sion with his name on their foreheads. And in that respect, the number of yethe Beast 666 is to be counted in the same manner as the number of God's servants 144000 was counted. This number was counted by multiplying 12000 by its divisor 12 the number of the tribes of Israel (Apoc 7 ) & therefore 666 is to be counted by multiplying some number by a divisor of that number. And there is but one way of counting it in this manner, wchwhich is by multiplying 222 by 3 the number of the tribes of them that worship the Beast.

The Empire of yethe Greeks was founded by Alexander yethe great & represented by Daniels Leopard & also by his Hee Goat in the reign of the great horn & in that of the four wchwhich succeeded it succeeding horns as Daniel himself interprets both in the prophesy of this Goat & in that of yethe Scripture of truth. But In the reig the reign of the little horn wchwhich succeeded them the Goat grew greater then ever but not in his own power. The power under wchwhich he grew mighty was that of the Romans. This horn waxed exceeding great towards yethe south & towards yethe east & therefore was a north west horn, the kingdom of Pergamus inherited by the Romans. From henceforward the Goat is the whole united Empire of Greeks & Latines untill they separate. First And this separation begins with the division of the empire between Dioclesian & Maximianus, is promoted advanced by the building of Constantinople for the Metropolis of the Greek Empire & finished by the dividing of the Empire between Valentinian & Valens, Gratian & Theodosius, Honorius & Arcadius reigning at Rome & Constantinople. And by this division Rome the Nations through wchwhich the Christians world was diffused became divided resolved into three parts the two Empires & the northern nations as above.

The lives of Daniel's three first Beasts were prolongued after their dominion was taken away & all the four Beasts continued together alive untill a stone cut out of a mountain without hands fell upon the toes of Nebuchadnezzars Image & brake in pieces the whole Image, ( the gold the silver the brass & the iron in pieces representing the same four Monarchies wthwith the Beasts these four monarchies. And therefore all the third & fourth Beasts are now in being. & The first & second beyond the river Tigris are not yet converted to Christianity. The tThe third is the Greek Empire commencing in erected by Alexander M. propagated through the Roman Empire, & afterwards reigning separated & seated at Constantinople & now under the dominion of the Turks. & tThe fourth Beast is the Latin Empire first subduing devouring & breaking into ten kingdoms & still reigning in many kingdoms as at prresent. Iohn And the very same things two last Empires being Christian are represented by Iohns Dragon & ten horned Beast & described by Iohn under those types so far as Daniels prophesies remained to be fulfilled after Iohns days. The Iohns Dragon signifies the very same thing with Daniels He-Goat & Leopard & brasen Ge Byhis last horn & Iohns ten-horned Beast signifies the very same thing with Daniels fourth Beast. in the reign of his ten horns. & the iron leggs of the Image 4v [The Goat & Dragon & Leopard are properly the Greek Empire signified also by Daniels third Beast the Leopard or their monarchy When bothe Empires are united & considered as one Empire the Goat & Dragon represent comprehen are entered to the whole but when yethe Empires are become separated the Goat & Dragon signify only cease to comprehe return to their proper signification & signify only the eastern Empire & the Beast is tahe Beast rises out of the sea to signify the Western. For since the Prophesies of Daniel & Iohn were given by one & the same holy spirit Ghost, we may conclude &c.] Iohns Dragon is the third Monarchy & his Beast the tenhorned Beast the fourth. When the two Empires are united & considered as one monarchy they are represented in Daniel either by the fourth beast devouring & breaking & in pieces & stamping upon the nations of the third or by the He Goat growing greater then ever in reithe reign of his last horn, but not in his own power Theis horn being higher & greater then the first horn, includes both Empires, that of the Greeks wchwhich grew great mighty & that of the Romans Latines in wchwhich the whose power the Greeks grew mighty But after the Romans separated fro Greeks & Romans Latines separated the Latines ceased to belong to yethe body of the Goat. And in like manner the Dragon signifies both Empires together when they are united & considered as one, but when they are divided it sig the Dragon signifies only the Greek empire. And therefore upon the division of the Empire a ten horned Beast rises out of the sea (Daniels fourth Beast) to respresent the Empire of the Latines. This Beast. This is Daniels fourth Beast, & was in being before he rose out of the sea: for at his first rise he hasd all the Dragons heads & yet five of them were fallen & one of them was wounded to death wthwith a sword & the mortal wound was healed before he rose. But the two Empires being united when Iohn wrote & five of the horns the Dra being the nations of the Earth & sea Iohn takes no notice of the first rise of the Beast but considers him as latent in yethe Dragons body untill the Dragon being cast out of heaven comes down amongst the inhabitants of yethe earth & sea & by a new division of the Empire theB rises out of the nations of the inhabitants sea:; [or if you please untill by two new divisions of yethe Empire he rises first is first cast out of the Dragons mouth in the form of a flood wchwhich is swallowed up by sinks into the earth nations of the earth, & then rises out of the nations of the sea in the form of a Beast] & receives the Dragons old throne western old throne.

TrDacia wasbeing conquered by Trajan received yethe Christian religion very early sent its Bishops to yethe Council & was generally converted before its inhab.inhabitants the Goths & Vandals invaded the Empire. The nations of these two Empires are represented severally by Daniel's f third & fourth beasts & joyntly by his Heee Goat. This Goat represented the Greek Empire alone till the Latine Empire arises & then it represented both together while they continue united And hence arises a division of the subject of the sacred prophesy of the new Testament into three parts, the nations of the Greek Empire the nations of the Latine Empire & the northern nations of Germany Transylvania, Moscovy, Transylvania, Poland, Germany Swedeland Denm.Denmark Christian nations without the bounds of both Empires: all wchwhich together compose the body of yethe Christeiandome world.. This division into three parts became visible at may be recconed to begin be set begin wthwith the division of the Empire between Dioclesian & his Collegue Maximianus, & more visible & confined at, to be suppo improved by the building of Constantinople for the Metropolis of the Eastern Empire & to be was completed by the following spring division of the whole Empire between Valentinian & Valens, Gratian & Theodosius, Honorius & Arcadius. And by this division you may know wthat is meant of the The Greek Empire rose first third part of the stars w earth, sea, Rivers, Sun Moon & stars, that is ias is meant signifies the earth, sea, Rivers Sun Moon & Stars of the third part of Christendome the Christian world, that is, of one of the three parts above mentioned. As Israel is divided into twelve The Greek Empire began first by the conquests of Alexander the great Tribes so the people who worship the Beast & his Image is divided into three parts of Tribes.

3. The Latine Empire being the third fourth Beast of Daniel or third 4th Monarchy stricktly so called, was to stand till the judgmtjudgement should sit & the son of Man should come in the clouds to the ancient of days & the saints should take the kingdom. The Greek Empire is being the sthird monarchy or third Beast whose life was prolongued after its dominion was taken away is still in being. For all the three first beasts or monarchies had their lives prolongued after their dominion was taken away, & all four continued together in being untill a stone cut out of the mountain wthoutwithout hands fell upon the toes of the Image & brake the I gold & the silver & the brass & iron whole image consist to pieces. This third Monarchy comprehending the nations of Greece Asia Syria & Egypt was represented & at first – – – – – – reigning at Constantinople till the Turks subdued it, & is still alive under the dominion of the Turks. And while Daniels Beasts are still alive & the Prophesies of Daniel & Iohn were given by one & the same Holy Ghost: we may conclude that the Beasts in Iohn's Prophesy have relation to the Beasts in Daniel's prophesies & [signify the same Monarchies so far as Daniels prophesies remained to be fulfilled when Iohn wrote. For Daniel h] that as Daniel has in several Prophesies represented & the same monarchies under several types & described them again & again under in several types manners so that the several prophesies being compared together may illustrate one another & be taken joyntly as one Prophesy several times repeated: so Iohn has represented the same monarchies under new types & d & described them again after a new manner so far as they remained to be fulfilled when Iohn wrote, & so that the prophesies of Daniel & Iohn being compared together may illustrate one another & be taken joyntly as one complete prophesy. For even Iohn has th described the same things again & again in various manners, & his descriptions wherever they synchronise must be compared together & that they may illustrate one another & make one complete prophesy. Thiese repeated destcriptions of the same things in various manners by Daniel & Iohn & the other Prophets were designed to obscure the prophesies till5r till the time of the end, & then to make the interpretation plane & sure And therefore Interpreters are to compare the prophesies one wthwith another as far as they can be compared & to reconcile them & adjust them to one another as far as they can be adjusted without straining, & to find out their meaning by comparing reconciling & adjusting them together; & those Interpretations are always to be preferred wchwhich are best supported by the analogy of scripture & without straining reduce the prophesies to the greatest harmony & simplicity. For the Apocalyps is very full of Allusions to the prophesies of the old Testament & these allusions are to direct interpreters to compare the prophesies in order to interpret them

In this prophesy the same – – – – – – is the number of the name of the Beast

Let us conceive therefore that up when the Dragon goes to make war with yethe remnant of the womans seed he leaves the Woman flying through into the wilderness of Arabia towards the great City Babylon seated on the many waters of Euphrates & that the Beast wchwhich was wounded to death revives at the same time, & Thus thereby, the Empire becomes imperfectly distinguished but not yet fully divided into two Empires the Dragon in the east & Beast in the west & the Church becomes distinguished into two Churches ready to the Woman in the west & the remnant of her seed in yethe east ready to break communion with one another. Let us further conceive That at the opening of yethe seventh Seal the B first Beast rises out of yethe sea by a further new division &new division & further separation rises out of the sea to succeed the Dragon in yethe west & that the second Beast rises out of the earth to succeed the Woman in the east & tThat the Woman by hb & there sets up the worship of the first Beast & his causes an Image to be erected to him & worshipped & that all men should be initiated in this new religion by receiving the mark or name of the first Beast or number of his name. The Woman flyes voluntarily into the spiritually barren wilderness, & becomes the great city Babylon but the remnant of her seed keep the commandments of God untill the Dragon by the influence of the two horned Beast & the speaking Image of the other Beast, makes war upon them & causes all men to receive yethe makrk of the mystically kills them dissolving their government & polyty & taking away their dayly worship in the outward court & in the room thereof setting up the abomination of the wilderness, & where the Woman reigns &by causinesg causing men to worship the Beast & his Image [in the outward court of the Temple or] with under an outward form of religion & church government, & all men are excommunicated throughout the whole empi & forbidden to buy & sell throughout the whole Empire who will not worship th be initiated in this new religion. And now the twelve tribes of Israel, called the inhabitants of the earth & sea to whom the Dragon came down, are initiated in this new religion by receiving the mark or name of the Beast or the number of his name, except the 144000 who are sealed wthwith the name of God in their foreheads. And this is done in the whole Empire consisting of both earth & sea between the opening of the seventh seale & the sounding of the first Trumpet because the four Angels were not to be hurt the earth & sea till the servants of God should be sealed out of all the twelve tribes of Israel & upon pouring out the first Vial there fell a noisome sore upon the men who had the mark of yethe B. & w. h.Beast & who had. Thus the Empire became divided into two Empires representdrepresented by the Dragon & Beast & the Church of the Empire apostatized to the worship of the Beast & his Image & under an outward form of religion & Church government became divided into two fals Churches represented by the Woman & two horned Beast, & the true Church of God became reduced to yethe s represented by the seven golden candlesticks & seven horns of the Lamb became reduced to the small number of 144000, the remnant of the & these whenever the he times of the tabernacle & first temple are alluded unto became divided are considered as the seed of the seven Churches of Asia & are still represented by the seven golden candlesticks & seven horns of the Lamb: but when yethe stimes of the Babylonian captivity & second temple are alluded unto, they are considered as the seed of the Woman with two Wings & represented by the two candlesticks of Olive-tree & two burning leggs of the son of Man & in opposition to the two fals Churches of the Dragon & Beast are called Gods the two Witnesses of Iesus Christ. It is not necessary that they should always continue two distinct Churches: they have the name of two witnesses from their first number when the name was first imposed. For they were the witnesses of Iesus Christ against the from the time that yethe Woman began to be persecuted by the Dragon & received two Wings of a great Eagle that she might fly from yethe persecutor.

Dacia being conquered by Trajan . . . . . . . . . time will discover. At present it may be further observed that the seven Churches of Asia being seated in the east have a fu special relation to the eastern Churches & the Woman wflying into the West, the two witnesswitnesses wchwhich arose from her two wings & are opposed to her & killed by her Beast have a more especial relation to the Western Churches. And thus it may be conceived that when the D Empire became divided into two Empires each wthwith their Churches & the Dragon retired into the eastern Empire & the Woman into the Western, the Church of of God represented by the first Temple with its seven Candlesticks retired into the East, & when the first Beast rose out of the6v the sea to succeed yethe Dr.Dragon in yethe west & the second Beast rose out of the earth to succeed the Dragon in Woman in the East, a new second Temple was built with two Candlesticks to succeed the first Temple in the west. I do not mean that two temples appeared to Iohn at once. One & the same temple with allusion to the times of the first & second Temple of the Iews is sometimes considered as the first Temple & sometimes as the second

At present it may be further observed that the seven Churches of Asia have a special relation being seated in the east are chiefly related to the eastern Churches, & wthen the Woman flyes from the Temple first temple into yethe wil through through the wilderness of Arabia to the great city Babylon & seated upon the many waters of Eufrates, & ceases to be represented by the seven candlesticks in this Temple a part of Christs mystical body

At present it may be further observed that the seven Churches of Asia being seated in the Dragons kingdom from the beginning & in the eastern part of the Roman Empire the first Temple with its can golden candlesticks may be taken to represent the Church of God within the Dragons kingdom from the beginning to the end of the prophesy whether that kingdom be the whole Roman empire or the eastern part thereof. And by consequence when the Woman flies from this Temple through the Dragon & from this Temple in tointo the wilderness of Arabia to the great city Babylon & ceases to be a part of Christs mystical body thi & to be so is no longer represented by the seven hornes of the Lamb nor by the seven Candlesticks, the Taberna Temple of the Tabernacle wthwith its seven golden candlesticks becomes restrained to signify the remnant of the womans seed wchwhich she leaves behind her in this Temple & in the kingdom of the Dragon who came down to the inhabitants of the earth & sea in yethe outward court of this Temple. And when the Dragon has made war upon with the remnant of the Womans seed & mystically killed their bodyies polytick (the or Churches Ch dissolved their particular churches ,) then this temple wthwith its seven Candlesticks are is restrained to signify the remnant of that remnant, those within the Dragons kingdom who persist in the testimony of Iesus & are sealed wthwith the seal of God. And when the Woman First ten horned bBeast is risen out of the Sea to succeed the Dragon in the west & the Woman with her two wings is fled into this western wilderness & become the kingd Church of this Beast then a new Temple is built with two cadlestickscandlesticks of olive-tree to to succeed the first Temple in the western part of the Empire & represent the Church of God within the kingdom of the Beast in opposition to the Woman, that is, to represent the people of God within the western Empire or as many of them as are sealed with the seale of God. For by the same figure that The following text has been reordered; new order according to circled numbers 1–3. ② yethe Woman with her two Eagles wings be at first represented the ChuchChurch of God throughout the whole Roman Empire & was afterward restrained to signify the Church of the western Empire in a state of Apostasy; & that ① the Dragon wthwith his ten horns af at first signified the Whole ERoman Empire & was afterward restrained to signify only yethe eastern part thereof: ③ the two Witnesses might may at first signify all Gods sincere people in the whole Roman Empire from the time that the Woman received two wings of a great eagle & afterwards be restrained to signify all his sincere people only in the western part thereof. When the Dragon began they to persecute the Woman they began their testimony against him & against the flood wchwhich he cast out of his mouth & when the woman separated from them & her Beast revived & rose out of the sea & began to be worshipped & to persecute the saints they begainbegan their testimony against her & her Beast. They are derived from the Womans two wings & opposed to her & where she reignes they prophesy against her corruptions. And these are the saints wthwith whose blood she is drunken, the Saints with whom the Beast makes war & whom he overcomes & kills & They have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophesy & therefore they prophesy in the wilderness into where Iohn saw the Woman s a dry & barren regim thies wilderness where Iohn saw the Woman sitting upon her Beast. And when . . . . . . & when these two Witnesses shall have finished their testimony against the great city Babylon the Beast makes war against them & overcomes them & kills them in the streets of theis great city & therefore they prophesy in his kingdom. . I do not understand that Iohn saw two Temples at once. All the visions, as I said, appeare in one & the same Temple : but & this Temple with its Candlesticks represents the whole Church: but when after the division of the Empire when the times of the Tabernacle & first Temple are alluded unto it represents the Chur principally the people of Gotd within the kingdom of the Dragon whatever be the extent of that kingdom & when the times of the second Temple are alluded unto it represents principally the people of God within the kingdom of B the Beast; & accordingly as the Dragon & Beast are taken for7r for the whole Empire or restrained to a part thereof the temple with candlesticks are is taken for all the sincere pleople of God within the whole Empire or restrained to a part thereof. And by the same figure that the Dragon keeps his ten horns & the Woman her two wings after they are separated from one another, the two Witnesses may keep the name of two witnesses after that separation they are separated both from the Dragon & from the Woman. And also inby the same semfigure that mystical body of Christ Nebuc the Image in several parts of yethe Image in Nebuchadnezzars dream signifies were are put for the four several Monarchies & sevaleral horns of a Beast are put for several dominions the several members of Christs mystical body may have several significations. signify several parts of the Church. When the Lamb Dragon & Beast with common heads & horns at are taken each for the of them for the whole Empire the Be Dr th mystical body of the Christ whether in the form of a man or in that of a Lamb, may sig is may be taken for all the people of God in the whole Empire. And when the Dragon & Beast are restrained to several parts thereof, the horns of the Lamb may be retstrained to yethe sev people of God within the Dragons kingdom & the leggs of the son of man to those within the kingdom of the Beast. And thus the Roman Empire will becaome divided into two Empires each with its Church both false & true: the Dragon the two horned Beast or fals Prophet wthwith two horns & the seven Churches of Asia in the east, & the Beast with ten hornesd, the Woman & the wthwith two wings & the two Witnesses in the West.

✝ Let us conceive therefore that the Dragon

For the better understanding of all this you are to remember that the scene of the visions is the first Temple. This Temple was opened in heaven for Iohn to see the visions in it, & there he saw the Ark of the Testament & the Child-bearing woman & the Dragon standing by her & how her child was caught up to the throne of God above the Ark, & the Dragon was cast out of this Temple of heaven by Michael into the outward court or court of the people wchwhich people are here called the inhabitants of the earth & sea, & how the woman fled from this Temple through the wilderness of Arabia towards the great city Babylon, there to serve other Gods wood & stone & left a remnant of her seed with the Dragon in the outward court of this Temple. There he saw the two Beasts rise out of the earth & sea & earth & the second Beast deify the first & cause men to erect & an Image to him & to worship the Image. There the Dragon by the dictates of the speaking Image, (before he give his throne to the Beast,) made war upon the remnant of the woman's seed & mystically killed all that would not worship the Image, & there all men received the mark or name or number of the Beast or number of his name except the 144000 who were sealed with the name of God, & being forbid to buy or sell, that is, being excommunicated, retire from the multitude in the outward court of this Temple & stand on mount Sion with the Lamb singing a new song before the throne & the four Beasts & the Elders & by consequence in the inner court of the same Temple. And now the ten-horned Beast receiving the Dragon's throne & going from this Temple into the wilderness to take possession thereof: the Dragon and two horned Beast remain alone in the outward court of this Temple, & the ten-horned Beast is afterwards found in the wilderness with the woman. Thus the primitive Church catholick represented by the glorious woman in this Temple of heaven was by degrees deserted diminished & oppressed by her enemies, & reduced to the small remnan number of 144000 saints & these saints retired into the inner court of this Temple & left the outward court to their enemies the Dragon & two horned Beast while the schismatical Woman & the tern horned Beast went from theis Temple to reign in the Wilderness.

Now since this Temple had it in the Ark of the testament & the four Beasts, it was the yethe Tabernacle or first Temple, or as it is afterwards called, the Temple of the tabernacle, that is a Temple framed & furnished after the manner of the Tabernacle, & by consequence with a candlestick of seven branches called in this Prophesy the seven candlesticks. For in such aTemple all the visions appeared untill Iohn was carried from this Temple into the wilderness to see the Woman & her Beast who were gone thither. And the seven Angels wchwhich sounded the Trumpets & coming out of this Temple poured out the Vials of wrath are the seven spirits of God & the Angels of the seven Churches: wchwhich churches are the seven candlesticks in this Temple and9r and which Angels or Spirits are the seven lamps burning before the throne & appearing like a rod of seven starrs in the right hand of the son of man who walketh in the middle of the seven candlesticks. Apoc. 1.20 & 2.1 & 3.1 & 4.5.

When Iohn had seen in this Temple all the visions from the opening of the first seal to the pouring out of the last Vial, one of the four seven Angels carried him away from this Temple into the wilderness to see the great Whore that sitteth upon many waters, that is, to see the great city Babylon seated upon the many waters of Euphrates, wchwhich waters are said to be peoples & multitudes & nations & tongues. And there he saw the Woman sitting upon the ten horned Beast, that is, reigning over the body politique composed of those peoples & multitudes & nations & tongues. For the ten horns of the Beast are ten kings or kingdoms over wchwhich the woman reigneth & kingdoms are peoples & multitudes & nations & tongues. Now this Woman being a Church wchwhich separated departed & fled from the first Temple, & the Beast being the laity of this Church, & every Church having a place of worship: a new Temple is built whose outward Court (or outward form of religion) is given to these Babylonian gentiles & inward Court to the people of God whom these gentiles carried away captive to Babylon.

For the vision of the great Whore sitting on her Beast in the Wilderness is a commentary on the prophesy of the Angel concerning the Temple & Altar two Widtnesses & Beast who kills them in the streets of the great city. And in this Prophesy the building of a new temple is represented by giving a reed to Iohn & bidding him rise & measure the Temple & Altar. For the measuring of a building is a type of building it. For when Zechary saw an Angel with a measuring reed go to measure Ierusalem, & to see what was the length breadth & what the breadth length thereof, another Angel by way of interpretation tells us that Ierusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men & cattel therein. And when the Babylonians had destroyed Solomon's Temple & Ezekiel was commanded to measure thie Temple in a vision, the measuring signified that a new Temple should be built, as is plain by many prophesies in that Temple passages in that prophesy. And in allusion to this vision of Ezekiel & to the building of Zerubbabels temple soon after Iohn is bid to measure the temple & altar & them that worship therein, that is, the court of the Temple & court of the Altar & the court of them that worship therein called the weomens coulrt, & to leave out the court without the Temple & not to measure it because it is given to the gentiles & they tread the holy city under foot.. For Zerubbabel built only the courts of the temple & altar & the weomens court; & the outward court wchwhich in Solomon's temple had been built for the people of Israel he left unbuilt & open to the Gentiles & it continued unbuilt aboveut 200 years; & tho it was afterwards built by Simeon Iustus the Maccabees & Herod, yet it continued open to the Gentiles & was called the Gentiles court. And as Haggai & Zechary prophesied at the building of Zerubbalels temple, so in allusion to those two Prophets, there are two Prophets or Witnesses wchwhich prophesy in the seven new Temple in the Apocalyps, & these two Prophets are represented by two candelesticks standing in this temple before the God of the earth (Apoc 11.4) and

To worship in the outward court is to worship in aan outward form of religion & church government, & there to worship the Beast & his Image is to serve thise Gods & Wobey his laws wchwhich they set up & to keep their laws above the laws of God.

BeforeVntill yethe msealing & marking of yethe twelve Tribes the Whole is represented by the Woman & by the sevenfold golden Candlestick, & the 144000 are included in these representations; but w when the multitude of the twelve tribes revolts falls away to the worship the Beast: & [the 144000 wchwhich remain begin to be represented apart] & is spread out & becomes the of Christs mouth receives thise mark of yethe Beast & becomes the Man of sin, the ma 144000 being n begin to be represented apart, & from their sufferings & testimony & & their being the remainder of the Womans two Wings are called the two Witnesses,. & And at the same time the sevenfold golden candlestick ceasing to represent the Woman & the Worshippers of the Beast is revomedremoved out of its place & succeeded by two candlesticks of olive-tree suc succeed to represent the remaining 144000. And at yethe same time the worshippers of the Beast by the division of the Empire into two Empires wthwith their Churches, the Woman who flyes into yethe w. & separates from yethe remnant of her seed become disting distinguished into four bodies, The Beast who rises out of the sea, begins to be worshipped & soon after receives the Dragons thonethrone the Dragon who makes war wthwith theat remnant of the Womans seed & soon after gives the Beast & mystically kills those that will not worship the Image of the Beast, & the two horned Beast] the Beast who rises out of the sea & is deified & receives the Dragons throne, yethe the Woman who [flyes into yethe wilderness & leaves a rem & when yethe Beast rises out of yethe sea] separtesseparates from the remnant of her seed, the Dragon who the Dragon who & becomes his Church, the Dragon who makes war upon yethe remnant & the two horned beast who deifies the other Beast & by whose influence the Dragon mystically kills those that would not worship his Image.

The Temple being the scene of the Visions, I conceive ytthat it remains the same.

While the twelve tribes continue united in one communion, the whole is represented by the mystical body of Christ & by yethe candlesticks in the Temple & by the Woman in heaven: but when the multitude separates & receives PWoman bro Woman in flying into yethe wilderness receedes from the communion of the remnant of her seed & the multitude receive the mark of her beast: they cease to be a part of Christs mystical body & to be represented by of the Church represented by the candlesticks in the temple & theose 144000 that are sealed wthwith the name of God cease to be a part of the Womans mystical body & both parties begin to be represented by their apart by typ proper types. The mystical body of Christ & the Candlesticks in yethe Temple henceforth signify only those that are sealed wthwith yethe name of God & the Woman & two Beasts & Dragon signify only those in communion with yethe Beast & his worshippers who wonder after the Beast & receive his mark. And this distinction begins when the first Beast rises out of the sea & the other Beast deifies him & worships his image causes all men to worship his image & receive his mark.

✝For the better understanding

When the Empire became Christian it magnified it & the Emperors (Clhonstantine & his sons) began to reign over the Church as the head thereof then the little horn magnified it self to the Prince of the host. sittin beginning to sit in the Temple of God & to magnify himself above everyn God And it took away the daily worship & cast down the place of his sanctuary. thesat is of the sanctuary of his people the Christians. For yethe Prince of yethe host is Iesus Christ. ground. –This it did inby persecuting the Church & especially in the vehement & lasting persecution of Dioclesian. Then it magnified it self to the Prince of the host, When or throne of Iesus Christ sitting in the temple of God & magnifying himself above every God. When the Empire became XtianChristian – – – – – – above every God host is Iesus Christ. And an Host or Church [the Church represented in the Apocalyps by the two horned Beast .] was given it by means of transgression

– many years. But if you should think that the Senate & people of Rome were to who made Charles their Emperor. were at that time too mean a dominion to be recconed one of the ten horns or if that the Romans & their new Emperor ought to be considered as one dominion wchwhich was rather exalted in dominion then depressed by having this change: or that yethe Pope was not yet risen up to his greatness so as to reign over the hor (for the new Emperor was his superior.): you may cansider this new dominion now hea of the Romans now headed by the western Emperors as one of the ten horns & the last of the three whom the Pope humbled horn wchwhich remained to be humbled & brought into subjection by the Prope. For these new Emperors continued superior to the Pope till the days of Pope Gregory VII & Henry IV the Emperor Henry IV. But this Pope th Excommunicated & deposed the Emperor Henry yethe fourth, wthwith all his adherents & deposed him absolving his subjects from their allegiance, & caused when the Electorex forbad all temporal Princes to meddle with the investitures when he had taken off the first excommunication he excommunicated him a second time & forbad all invest all temporal pPrinces to meddle with investitures & entirely shook off all the dominion of the Emperors over the Sea of Ro Rom city & Prophet of Rome. For these new Emperors continued superior to the Popes till the days of Pope Greg.Gregory VII. But this Pope A.C. 1076 Inudict 14 Excommunicated & deposed & deposed the Emperor Henry IV & absolved his subjects from their allegiance. And two years after in other Councils he excommunicated many that opposed him & decreed that none of the Clergy should receive investitures of Bishoprics, Abbies, or Churches from Emperors kings or Kings or any of the laity under pain of excommunication. And the next year, A.C. 1079 he establishe decreed the doctrine of transubstantiation. While these things were doing the Germans had elected a new Emperor Rudolphus, & the Pope meeting the Emperor Henry in Lombardiy had taken off the excommunication but not restored the him to yethe Empire. But the next year A.C. 31080 the Pope in another Council at Rome excommunicated the Emperor Henry him a second time & w with all his adherents & deposed him again & absolved his subjects from their allegiance a second time & granted established Rodolphus in the throne of the Empire & granted to all that should adhere to him benedicti absolution from all their sins & benediction both in this life & in that wchwhich is to come & cl concluded the sentence wthwith these words. Agite nunc quæso Patres & Principes sanctissimi ut omnis mundus intelligat et cognoscat, quia sicut potestas in cælocœlo ligare et solvere, potestis in terra Imperia Regna Principatus Ducatus Marchias Comitatus & omnium hominum possessiones pro meritis tollere unicuique & concedere. And henceforward the bishop of Rome began to had a look more stout then his followers.

After Daniel – – –

Rome was governed by a Duke under the exarch of Ravenna till the year 7 reign of the Emperor Philippicus A.C. 711. This Emperor for declaring against the worship of Images wchwhich had been long overspreading the Greek Empire was excommunicated by Pope Constatntine & the people of Rome werebeing stirred up by the pope to receive neither his Letters nor his money from him & against him, the Pope wthwith their consent & by their command decreed that neither his the Emperors letters nor his money should be received, nor his image statue as was the custome should be brought into yethe Church, nor his name be published pu proclaimed upon pu in sacred solemnities because he was a heretick within the Dutchy. And Whereupon all Italy w the City of Ravenna also revolted & slew Iohn the Exarch & all Italy was in expectation unseltled in expectation of greater changes a revolution. The next year one Peter came from the Emperor Philippicus to be Duke of Rome & advanced wthwith an armed force but was met by a body of the Romans & beaten back. And henceforward the Dutchy of Rome remained in the hands of the senate & people of Rome. In the year 726 the Pope excommunicated the E Greek Emperor Leo Isaurus upon the same account as was mentioned above & the city Ravenna revolted & slew But the next year Philippicus being dead, Peter was received into Rome upon an oath that he would consult their advo welfare. After this in the year 726 the Emperor Leo Isaurus to put a stop to the worship of Images called a Council meeting of Councellours & BpsBishops in his Palace & by their advice put out an edict against that worship & wrote to Pope Gregory the second that a general Council might be called. But the Pope thereupon calling a Council at Rome confirmed the worship of Images excommunicated the Greek Emperor & absolved his subjects in Italy from their allegiance & absolved the people of Italy from their allegiance & forbad them to pay tribute or otherwise to be obedient to him the Emperor & the Romans people of Rome & Campania Ravenna & those Ravenna & the Pentapolitans revolted & threw off laid violent hands upon their magistrates, killing the Exarch Paul at Ravenna, & blinding Peter at Rome, & Exhileratus Duke of Campania when he invading Campania when Exhileratus Duke of Campania incited the people against the Pope was invaded by the Romans & slain invaded Campania & slew him with his son Hadrian. [And henceforward the Dutchies following l of Rome & part of the duchy of campania remained in the hands of the Senate & people of Rome. [ Then the a new Exarch Eutychius coming to Naples sent sent some secretly to take away the lives of the Pope & the nobles of Rome ] Th] but the plot being discovered the people of Romans revolted intirely absolutely from the Emperor & took a oath to be faithful to yethe presevepreserve the life of the Pope & be faith to defend their state & be obedient to its authotyauthority in all things. Thus Rome & its Dutchy revolted from the Thus Rome wthwith its Dutchy & including part of yethe Dutchy of Tuscia & campania revolted & became a free state under the governmtgovernment of yethe Senate of the City. & the [The towns wchwhich revolted & became subject to this state were Rome, Portus Cent wthwith its castels towns & villages in Tuscia the parts of Tuscia viztvidelicet Postus, Circumcellæ, Cæræ, Bleda, Manturanum, Sutrium, Nepet, Castellum Gallesij, Orta, Polimartium Ameria Tuter Perusia Harniera, & Ocriculi, & in the parts of Latium Signia, Anagnia, Ferentinum Alatrium Patricum Frusino Frusino & Tibur & in the region of Campania Sora Arces Aquinum Teanum & Capua.] At that time the Lombards also being zealous for the wosshipworship of Images & pretending to favour the cause of the Pope invaded the cities of the Exarchate.

At length Pope Zechary . . . . . . . . . . And this the second kingdom wchwhich fell before the little horn.

In the year 796 Po Leo III being made Pope, sent notified his election to Charles the great by this Legates sending to him for a present the golden keys of the confession of StSaint Peter & the banner of the City & desired Charles to send some of his Princes to Rome who might subject the Roman people to him & bind them to this subjection by oath, as as is thus mentioned by Sigonius & by an anonymous Poet published by Boeclerus at Stransburg. in these words The words of the Poet are

[For it seems the Romans at this time , looked upon themselves as a free & soveraing people like th & bearded the Pope like old Romans under there Senate, & that the upon the Pope not as their lawful Prince but as the bishop of their city who was asurping an unjust power over them. For the next year upon an about two or theree years after they raised so great tumults against him as gave occasion to a new state of things ain all the west. For two or three years after some of them Clergy accusinedg him of certain crimes, of & betrayeadssisted wthwith him to an armed force which of the Romans wchwhich seized him, & impris stript him of his sacerdotal habit & imprisoned him in a monastery. But by the assistance of some friends he made his escape & came to fled into France Germany to Charles the great ☉ ☉ & complained of yethe Romans for acting against him out of a design of throwing off the authority of the Church & recovering their ancient liberty. And of the Romāan Romans who accused him seized his possessions wthwith an armed force seized the & sent the accusation into France to Charles, & before the end of the yeare Charles & the Pope went sent the Pope back to Rome wthwith the Pope & an armed force & called a Council to heare the cause. & sen upon a day appointed presided in a Council of Italian & French Bishops to hear both parties. But when the Popes adversaries expected to be heard the Council declared that he who was the supreme Iudge of all men was above being judged by any other then himself. And thereupon And the Pr Princes Nobles & Bishops of France who accompanied the Pope examined the chief of the accusers & sent them into France in custody. And the next year Charles himself went to Rome & upon a day appointed presided in a Council of Italian & French Bishops to hear both partesies. But when the Popes adversaries expected to be heard the Council declared that he who was the supreme11vpreme judge of all men was above being judged by any other then himself. And thereupon the Pope made a solemn declaration of his innocense. And a few the next days after the people of Rome looking upon themselves with their senate as a free people endued with a power of appointing a commander of their forces like to whom the ancient rights of the Romans were legally descended, voted Charles their Emperor & subjected themselves to him in such a manner as the old Romans with their senate were subject to the old Roman Emperors, & the Pope crowned him & adored did did ob him obeisance annointed him & & worshipped him wthwith the people after yethe manner due to of adoring yethe old Roman Emperors, [& the Emperor mutually took the following oath to yethe Pope ....... December A.C. 800.] as the said Poet thus mentions

And the Emperor mutually took the following oath to the Pope ....... December A.C. 800. The Emperor was also made Consul ①② of Rome & his son Pipin king of the Romans. And henceforward ②① And henceforward &c the Emperors effigies was put upon the Coins of Rome & the election of the Pope was to be approved by the Emperor as in yethe times of the old Roman Empire & ① the Emperor stiled himself Carolus serenissimus Augustus a Deo coronatus, magnus, pacificus, Romæ gubernans imperium & was prayed for in the Churches at Rome. ③ Hitherto the right of the Roman Empire had been in the Greek Emperors but now by this act was translated to yethe kings of France. A few days after this act the enemies of the Pope were sentenced to be death beheaded & some say that they those of the Clergy were pardoned at yethe inctercession of the Pope & only banished, into France, others that ee Chron. Abbais Vrspergens. but three hundred of them Romans (as some were beheaded in one day in the Laterin field. Which makes it probable that some were beheaded others only banished. And after this Charles spent the winter in ordering the affairs both civil & ecclesiastical of Rome & the As Church & Apostolic sea & all Italy, both civil & ecclesiastical & in making new laws for them & then returned the next summer into France; & hearing that his new laws were not observed either in Italy by the Iudges in dom his giving sentence dictating the law giving se declaring the law nor by the people in hearing it wrote to his son Piping king of Italy under him to s & that yethe great men took servants from free men & from the Churches & monasteries to labour in their vineyards & fields & pastures & houses & exacted continued to exact cattel & wine of them & to oppress those that served the churches, wrote to his son Pipin who was then made king of the Romans under him to remedy these abuses take care of the Church & see that his laws be executed. And thus the Romans who were conspiring to assert their ancient liberty & property & to bring the bishop of Rome into subjection & by consequence to invade seize invade his possessions as belonging to them the senate & people of Rome by ancient right were overcome by the Pope & forced to subject themselves to the kings of France as their Emperor & to receive his laws. And theis commonwealth of yethe Romans I take to be the third king wchwhich was overcome by the little horn. For the old Roman Empire was a king in the sense of Daniels prophesies as well when it was in the form of an commonwealth as when it was reduced to a monarchical form of government under its Emperors. And tho it was not so great dominion ats that of yethe Exarchate or of that of yethe Lombards, yet it was it in some respects as considerable. It claimed the right & authority of yethe ancient senate & people of rRome wchwhich was the power of the fourth Beast. It was allowed by its enemies the Pope & Emperor to have the power of making an Emperor: wchwhich was a greater power then that of crea the other kingdoms. It was very lasting: for its government by a senate continued first first under the western Emperors then under the Ostrogoths, afterwards under the Exarch & then in a free state till the Pope subjected it to the french king, under whose successors it continued till about the year Charles the great after wchwhich time the senate & people of Rome maintained their civil rights in some measure against the Pope till afte the year 1460 or longer. And the victory of the Pope over this It was the dominion of the city in wchwhich the little horn was to reign & wchwhich was therefore to be subdued & brought under before the by the little horn. & by the And the victory of the little horn over this king is was attended be wthwith greater consequences then the victories over either of the other two horns & finished the work which those two victories had begun. For it set up the western Empire wchwhich continues to this day; it secured Peter's patrimony to yethe Pope, wchwhich Patrimony was the kingdom of the little horn: & it set up the Pope above all humane judicature, & gave him a look more stout then his fellows. & When the Pope in favour of Saint worship revolted from the Greek Emperor & began to set up for himself, he humbled these three kings in his rise in rising up he overcame these three kings who stood in the way & opposed him, & by humb overcoming them he rose up & became a temporal kingdom & by consequence a horn of the Beast. And in token that he is a king as well a bishop he wears the crowns of three kingdoms upon his head in form of a triple crown & carries the keys of the cities of the two first kingdoms in his hand. And being exalted above kings & declared by a Council above all humans judicature & the supreme judge of all men he has reigned ever since wthwith a peculiar soul & a look more stout then his fellows, & by setting up the worship of images the abomination of desolation he has changed times & laws.

His kingdom they call Peters patrimony . . . . . . . . . . . should serve him.

The Popes effigieseffigy was also set upon the reverse of the Roman coins & some say that the custome of kissing his toe was now began at this time, others that it began earlier for kings & Emperors to kiss the Pope's feet begarn in the time of eight century &

In the year 536 Belisarius made war upon the Goths in Italy & in three years conquered them, but being recalled by the Greek Emperor the Goths took up arms again & revived the war for a time & in this contention Rome was almost dispeopled & laid in ruins. And the Lombards A.C. 568 invading Italy, took from the Pope the Alpes Cottiæ & restored them not till the reign of Pope Iohn VI A.C. 704. In the year 569 the Greek Emperor sent an Exarch to reside at Ravenna & govern his dominions in Italy & oppose the Lombards. And henceforward Rome with the cities under it with its territoris was governed by a Duke under the Exarch till the year 711, & the Pope had nothing to do with the city or Dukedom in temporal affairs. But the senate of the city continued under the Duke as it had done formerly under its Emperors.

In the year 711 the Greek Emperor Philippicus for declaring –

He thought to change times & laws by Detcretall Epistles in his rise, & after when he had overcome all his adversaries, & particularly by overcoming the three kings by had gained a temporal Dominion & was set up above all humane judicature, the times & laws were given into his hands & he reigned in this prosperity a time times & half a time before they began to take away his dominion.

This period is the same with that of the woman in the wilderness Apocalyps who was nourished in her place in the wilderness a time times & half a time or 1260 days & with that of her Beast who continued 42 months & with that of the Gentiles treading under foot the holy City & outward court of the second Temple 42 months, & with that of the two witnessesseswitnesses (or two of the seven Candlesticks) prophesying in the sackcloth 1260 days untill great Babylon beginns to fall. These Lo Witnesses are called two candlesticks. For The first Temple was illuminated with seven lamps in seven golden Candlesticks, & when Vpon the whren it fell, five of the first Temple five of the Candlesticks awere removed for not repenting; & the other two, wchwhich represented the primitive Church in times of affliction remain wthwith their lamps to illuminate in the second Temple to illuminate it wthwith their lamps all the time of their prophesying in sackcloth,, & are called two witnesses & two Candlesticks from their first number of affliction, remained in the second Temple to illuminate it with their lamps, & are called two Witnesses two Prophets & two Candlesticks from their first number. So then the time times & half a time are three times or years & an half, or 42 months or 1260 days recconing with the ancients twelve calendar months to a year & 30 days to a calendar month. And the days of short lived Beasts arebeing put for the years of long lived BKingdoms, thes the period of 1260 years if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800 will end in the year of Lord 2060. But it may end later & [it is not for us to know the times & seasons wchwhich God hath put in his own breast.] I mention this period not to assert it, but only to shew that there is little reason to expect it earlier, & thereby to put a stop to the rash conjectures of Interpreters who are frequently assigning the time of the end, & thereby bringing the sacred Prophesies into discredit as after as their projections do not come to pass. It is not for us to know the times & seasons wchwhich God hath put in his own breast

assisted him in subduing the City & Dutchy of Rome. By the conversion of the barbarous nations to the Roman religion the Pope only enlarged his spirituall dominion & did not yet become rise up as a horn of the Beeast. It was this temporal kingdom wchwhich made him one of the horns. And this kingdom he aacquired by subduing in the latter half of the eighth century by subduing three of the former horns as above. And now being arrived at a power above all humane judicature, on times & laws were given into his hand during three times & an half or 1260 years. After wchwhich the Iudgement shall is to sit & they shall take away his dominion (not at once but by degrees) to consume & to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom & dominion unde & the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven under the whole heaven shall (by like degrees) be given unto the people of the most high God saints of the most hHigh whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, & all dominions shall serve & obey him.

When the ten kings begin to hate the great Whore, the two Witnesses rise from the dead; & when Babylon is fallen is fallen, the two Witnesses ascend up to heaven in a cloud with the everlasting Gospel to preach & soon after ascend up to heaven in a cloud with the everlasting Gospel to preach to all nations.

The time times & half a time are in the Apocalyps called forty & two months & 1260 days putting a day for a year. At the end of this period the ten kings begin to hate the great whore & eat her flesh & burn her with fire & the two Witnesses rise from the dead & stand on their feet & soon after ascend up to heaven in a cloud (or great multitude) with the everlasting Gospel to preach to all to all nations, admonishing them to worship God who made the heaven & earth & forbear worshipping the Beast & his Image. And then the tenth part of the great City falls (or chief of the ten kings,) & an Angel proclaims Babylon is fallen is fallen. And then the seventh Trumpet sounds to the battel of the great day, & the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of Christ & the Iews are converted & return into their own land & receive dominion over the nations of the four Monarchies & the time of the dead is come that they should begin to rise again & be judged, & judgment begins at the house of God & invisibly to morals &c., & after a thousand years GodGog & Magog are subdued & the rest of the dead begin to ag rise again & be judged. For Christ must raign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. judge both the quick who continue on earth in mortal bodies & the dead who are raised again to life, & must raign till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

– we are to look for a power wchwhich rose up out of one of the four horns & was less then any of them, & continued so till [the dominion of the Goat should be taken away] he should rise up & grow mightier then any of them & grow mighty by another power then that of the Goat by a forreign power wchwhich should reign over him & by consequence all over all the Goa nations represented by him after he was grown great, that is by the body of the Goat in the reign of this his last horn, & that by consequence by the power wchwhich took away the dominion of the Goat. And this points at the power of the Romans.

Book printed at Paris 1659 printed twice at full length Sea for See of Rome Temple of Jupiter olympius built at Jerusalem + after said of Jupiter –

When the Dragon signifies the whole Empire, the Woman signifies the whole Church the true ChChurch untill she separates in communion from the remnant of her seed & then the fals Church. And when the Beast rises out of the Sea Empire becomes divided into the Empires of the earth & sea or east & west, & the Beast rises out of the sea & receives the Dragons throne in the west & & the Dragon thenceforward reigns only in the east the Woman being separated from the remnant of her seed retires into the west from the face of the serpent & becomes the Church of the Beast, & a two horned beast rises out of the Sea earth & becomes yethe Church of the Dragon, & the remnanatnt of the Womans seed being the true Church wchwhich keep the commandments of God are rem are remnant are or as many of them as in the war which the Dragon makes upon them are sealed are his true Church diffused through the earth & sea, & & are & is thence & are called the two Witnesses. And thus the Empire becomes divided into two Empires each wthwith his Church with their Churches true false & true; the Dragon, the two-horned Beast & one Witness in the earth: the Beast, the Woman & the other Witness in the Sea. But An yet God hasvng but one Church & one Temple, & the two Witnesses are that but one Church distinguished into the Churches of the earth & Sea but not divided from one another. , & And hence forward & the name of the two witnesses becomes the name of Gods theis true one true Church Catholick of God. And he that hurts any considerable part of the true Church hurts the two Witnesses. And the Beast including his worshippers when opposed to the two witnesses may be sometimes taken in a large sence so as to include all his worshippers, that is, all whose names are not written in the book of life.

& then she & the remnant of her seed begin to signify two Churches the one [flying from the Temple of God into spiritually barren wilderness the other remaingremaining in the inner courts of the Temple] in a state of defection shismschism & apostasy, the other the true Church of God. & then she signifies thies same a church as before in outward form of governmtgovernment but now in a state of defection schism & apostasy, & the remnant of her seed signifyies the true Church of God within

The kingdom of the four horns (so called from their first number) in the lasts so long as the Greeks reign over them [till the Latine Romans begin to conquer them Greeks.] And so long Daniel describes the particular actions of two of theose kingsdoms bordering upon Iudea, by the names of the kings of the North & South. And so long hHitherto the He-Goat reigned by his own power. But after his dominion began to be taken away by the Romans, Daniel describes only the general affairs of the those nations the Greeks by long intervalls of time in a few general words. And these are the intervalls make up the days of the last horn of the Goat wchwhich was to be mighty but not by his own power. In the latter time of the kingdom of the four horns when the transgressors were come to the full the little horn called a king of firerce countenance was to stand up. The transgressors came to the full in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes. For then the High-Priesthood was bought & sold the vessels of the Temple were sold to pay for the purchase, & the H.High Priest with some of the Iews – – – – the heathen religion in all Iudea. Hitherto the nations wchwhich composed the body of the Goat continued under the dominion of the Greeks, but now they began to be conquered by the Romans: & therefore this is the latter time of their kingdom, when the And now this the little horn called a king of firserce countenance or last horn of the Goat was now to stand up. And this king is the last horn of the Goat. And therefore we are now to look for the little horn of the Goat wchwhich was to secucceed the kingdom of the four horns & grow mighty but not by his own power.

Now because he was a horn of the Goat – – – – that he is the last horn of the Goat.

In the latter end of the kingdom of the four horns of the He Goat when the transgressors were to come to the height. And this was came to pass in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes. when For then the High Priesthood was bought & sold, & sold, & the Vessels of the Temple were sold to raise the money, And & the High Priest caused with some of the Iews procured a licence from the king to do after the heathen ordinances of the heathen & set up a school at Ierusalem for teaching them those ordinances,. And sacked & took Ierusalem & Antiochus stook Ierusalem with an an armed force, & slew 40000 Iews, took as many prisoners & sold them, spoiled the Temple of interdicted the worship, of Moses commanded his law to be burnt & set up the heathen religion in all Iudea,. & commanded the law of Moses to be burnt. An Hitherto the nations wchwhich composed the body of the He-Goat continued under dthe dominion of the Greeks but now began to be conquered by the Romans & therefore this is the latter time of the kingdom of the Greeks [represented by the Goat wthwith four horns] when the transgressors were come to the full: & we are not to look for the rappearing of the little horn of the Goat wchwhich was to succeed the kingomkingdom of the four & grow mighty but not by his own power.

Now because he was to grow migh a horn of the Goat, we are to look for him among the nations wchwhich composed the body of the Goat; & because he was to grow mighty but not by his own power, he was to grow mighty we are to look for him after the after the pow dominion of the Goat should be taken away. And this directs at points to the power of the Romasns wchwhich took away the dominion of the Greeks. He was therefore to grow mighty by the power of the Romans: And such a little horn was the kingdom of Pergamus. It became a little horn of the Goat by the conquest of Asia minor before the Romans began to take away the dominion of the Goat. It assisted them in conquering Macedon. It came under the power of the Romans by the legacy of Attalus its last king: & by their power grew mighty conquering the other Syria Phœnicia & Egypt, & continued in this mighty state under by the power of the Romans till the reign of Constantine the great & his sons. And then by the division of the Roman Empire became the Greek empire still still under the power of the Romans, & but is now under the power of the Turks. For all the four Beasts are still alive tho the dominion of the three first be taken away & continued under their power till the Saracens pushed at him & the Turks conquered him . & is now And at present he is under yethe power of the Turks. For all the four Beasts are still alive tho the dominion of the three first be taken away. And the Goat still reigns in his last horn tho not by his own power.

Some suppose that the little horn of the He-Goat was Antiochus Epiphanes

The last horn of the Goat is by some taken for Antiochus Epiphanes, but not very judiciously. A horn of a Beast is never taken for a single person. A new horn always signifies a new kingdom & the kingdom of Aniochus was an old one. Antiochus reigned over one of the four horns, & the little horn was a fift under its proper kings. This horn was at first a little one & waxed exceeding great, & so did not Antiochus. It is described great above all the former horns & so was not Antiochus. His kingdome on the contrary was weak & tributary to the Romans & he did not enlarge it. The horn was a king of fierce countenance & destroyed wonderfully, & prospered in his practises against the holy people, but Antiochus was frighted out of Egypt by a mere message of the Romans, & afterwards routed & baffled by the Iews. The horn was mighty by anothers power, Antiochus acted by his own. The horn cast down the sanctuary to the grownd & so did not Antiochus. The sanctuary & host were trampled under foot 2300 days, & in Daniels prophesies days are put for years. These things were to last till the last end of the Indignation against the Iews, & this Indignation is not yet at an end. The Goat in the days of his last horn is represented in the Apocalyps by the great red Dragon. The Dragon is there called Satan, & Satan is there said to have his throne in Pergamus to denote that he is the kingdom of Pergamus represented that he is by the last horn of the Goat.

Now as the separation of the flood from the Dragon signifies a separ division of yethe whole Empire into two Empires so ther flying of the woman into the wilderness & rleaving behind her a remnant of her seed signifies a division of the whole Church into two Churches, the Churches of two Empires. And the endeavour of the flood to carry away the woman from the remntremnant of her s.seed signifies the endeavour of the western empire to carry away the western Churches from the eastern, that is, to make a schism between them, & to separate them into two Churches one of wchwhich in the Western henceforward from the time of the division should be represented by the woman in the Wilderness the ot the other by the remnant of her seed. She flyes from the pers Dragon that is she flies of his kingdom. She flies into into the kingdom of the Beast because she is afterwards found sitting upon hism back in the wilderness., The Dra[ & is there called th Babylon the great city seated upon seven hills & reigning over the kings of the earth, in relation to her metropolis the great city Rome seated upon seven hills seven hilled city the great city Rome called Babylon by Peter.] The Dragon goes from her to make war with the remnant of her seed & therefore they remain in his kingdom, after she is fled out of it but she flies after she is fled out of it of out of it. She flies into the wilderness that they should feed & nourished her there that is, she flies into a from the face of the serpent that is she renounces her state of spiritual baptismal vow of forsaking the desire of riches & honour & flies into a state of spiritualbarrannes that to live deliciously. out of the Dragons kingdom. And according in that state For she is afterwards found in the wilderness sitting upon the Beast, that is, reigning over him, & there livinesg deliciously with the kings of the earth & being is fed with all manner of delicacies by the merchants of the earth. When therefore she became rich in this world & increased with goods & power & glory she fled into the spiritually barren wilderness & became spiritually poor wretched & miserally & poor & blind & naked & was spewd out of Christs mouth & fled into a state of spiritual barrenness represented by the wilderness. And this state she began to enter into when upon the division of the Empire between the sons of Constantine. For then sthe began to claim the BPBishop of Rome became universlall bishopric, & that with success over the churches of the western empire.

For in the year 341 he received appeals from Councils of the Greek church & proudly summoned the Bishops of theat Greeks to Greek Empire Church to appear before him in a Council at Rome ;[ by wchwhich act he claimed appeals from all the Churches & made himself universal Bishop ;] but was stotly opposed & reprimanded by those bishops for his am- g Then being & being supported in this alone by the western Emperor Constans ambition Then he prevailed to have a Council summoned by Imperial authority out of both Empires to meet at Saeridica in the year 347. And aAbout 80 eastern BpsBishops came to Serdica., But but befinding that matters were prejudged by the western BpsBishops in favour of the pretended authority & that they were of the BpBishop of Rome, they went back; & then the remaining part of the Council composed of western & Egyptian bishops decreed appeals from all the Churches to the BpBishop of Rome, & thereby not only laid the foundation of the gave him the supremacy over all the west. For the western churches submitted to that decree. And these proceedings almost made a schism between churches of the two Churches Empires the people of the eastern em western churches beginning now to avoiding the communiōcommunion of the Eastern but those of the eastern not yet avoiding the communion of the western. And this tendency to a schism is elegantly represented by the endeavour of the flood to carry away the woman. ⊕⊕ And as the dominion of the Church of Rome in the wilderness is represented by her sitting upon many waters so in her way into the wilderness it is represented by her floating upon the flood. Thus did the Woman soon after she had received two Wings of a great Eagle, begin to fly into the wilderness. For the western Churches headed by the Pope are the woman in the wilderness

F But thise force of the flood to carry away the Woman was but of short continuance For Magnentius slew Constancs. And & succeeded him in the west A.C. 350 & within a year or two was conquered by Constantius. And by that victory of the Eastern Empire over the western the earth or eastern Empire helped the woman & opened her mouth & swallowed up the flood, & thereby put a stop to retarded her flight for a time. For by the reunion of the Empires th a stop was put to the commencing impending schism or division of her mystical body & sac womā of the quaint emerging of churches the till the continued united with two wings & she continued to represent the undivided Church of the whole Empire for some time longer, & the new dominion of the Bishop of Rome was suspended during that dominion for a t during the union, & the western bishops were being forced to allow the supreme authority of the eastern Councils over their own the members of that Church of their Churches in matters judicial without appeal to the western BpBishop of Rome.

The opinion that the Word of God was the λόγος ἐνδιάθετος the inherent rereason wisdom & understanding of the father without a proper hypothesis & by some began to creep into the churches in the second century & got ground in all the theird & the beginning of the fourth. For it was the opinion of Constantine the great & of Alexander bishop of Alexandria & of Eustathius bishop of Antioch &+ Marcellus bishop of Ancyra & Photinus bishop of Sirmium & of the Council of Serdica & by consequence of Hosius the Bishop of Rome, & by misinterpreting the Nicene decree so far got ground in the west as to make the eastern bishops at length begin to cry out that the western Churches were turning Sabellian. For this doctrine took away the power of the Word And in respect of this opinion the Earth also helped the Woman. For so soon as Constantine came into the West against Magnentius, he called a Council at Sirmium against Photinus & A.C. 351. & the Council in condemning him anathematized those that held the son to be the λόγος ἐνδιάθετος of the father ἢ πρσφοριζὸς of the father or that there father son & holy Ghost wereas but one person of the father son & holy Ghost.

And as the flowing of the flood out of the Dragons mouth signifies a division of yethe empire into two empires one of wchwhich is henceforward represented by the Dragon during the division & the other by the fl so the flying of the woman from the remnant of her seed signifies a division of the Church into two churches one of wchwhich is henceforward represented by the woman during the division. When she receives She flies from the Dragon to sit upon the Beast in his kingd the wilderness & therefore when she quit separa & the other by the remnant of her seed. When she receives two wings of a great eagle she becomes distinguished into two churches in communion wthwith one another. & Vpon these wings she flies towards into a state of spiritual barrenness represented by the wilderness, & at length separates leaves the remnant of her seed behind her by breach of communion. She flies from the Dragon to sit upon the Beast in the wilderness & therefore quits the Dragon kingdom when she separates & the from the remnant of her seed & thenceforward she remains in the wilderness till sitting upon the Beast. A she quits the Dragons kingdom & she leaves them in the kingdom to sit upon th to sit upon the Beast wchwhich there rises out of the sea being as t the Dragon aAt the same time the Dragon the Dragon goes from her to make war upon that remnant & therefore she leaves them in his kingdom. & therefore she leaves them in his kingdom. When she begins to fly upon her two wings, the dDragon casts water as a flood after her that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood, that is, that he might by the division of the Empire promote the division of the Church & cause the woman to separate from the remnant of her seed: wchwhich These keep the commandments of God & have the testimony of Iesus & are under the persecuting Dragon while she fli quits their commuunnion & flyes into a state of spiritual barrenness & becomes the Whore of Babylon. & therefore goes she flyes from them by quitting their communion & from thencef forward ceases to be the Church of God. [for that time the invocation of Saints (wchwhich is the abomination of desolation) overspread all the Church in communion wthwith the woman] They went out frotm us saith the Apostle because they were not off us For had they been of us they would have continued with us. [ And this is the revelation of the man of Sin whose coming was ] to be with all power & signes & lying wonders. For at that time the invocation of saints wchwhich is the abomination of desolation was set up overspread all the Churches in communion wthwith the church of Rome & that by means of fals miracles wchwhich the Moncks every where feigned by the Moncks & reported to be be done by the saints & their reliques.

I have seen Mr Hutchinsons Watch, & all that I can say of it without experience is that yethe contrivance is ingenious & deserves encouragemtencouragement.

In h a copy I have seen of the Bill now before you the Invention is recommended from the hopes of its being determining the Longitude at sea thereby. I doubt whether any Watch-work will ever be brought to that degree of perfection & see not how any thing of that kingd can yet be predicted wi presumed without experience, & without danger of a reflexion in case it should not succeed, & therefore humbly propose that the reconsidering of that clause as whether it shall stand or be struck out amended or struck out as not necessary to the Bill.

And therefore this Article is either to be retained in this sense or to be rejected. And if it be retained, or to be rejected as a new article & isso not to be understood of a λογος προφοριζὸς, nor of the production of an incorporeal spirit out of nothing For a new sence makes it a new article it must be in be understood of the generation of the son with relation to theis the spiritual body wchwhich he had before his incarnation. For all the generation of all things wchwhich have a body is a generation of the body. The primitive fathers Council of Sirmium which condemned Photinus & the Council of Antioch wchwhich condemned Paul of Samosat & the rest of the primitive fathers tell us that Christ walked moved from [place to place walked & was heard & seen & handled, walked in appeared to Adam & the patriarchs & to Moses & talked with them walked in Paradise & talked with Adam, & et with Abraham eat wthwith Moses wthwith & touched Iacob & wrastled wthwith Iacob him & led the Israelites into Canaan & therefore allowed him a spiritual body] place to place walked in paradise, came down to see the city & tower of Babel & the wickedness of Sodom, rained fire from the Lord upon Sodom, led the Israelites into Canaan, appeared to Adam & Noac the Patriarchs & to Moses & Ioshua & talked with them & eat wthwith Apbraham & touched Iacob & wrastled with him & Iacon [& touched his thigh so as to put it a] & therefore they believed that he had a spiritual body.] place to place walked in paradise came down to see the city & tower of Babel & the wicknesswickedness of Sodom & was seen & heard & touched by the Patriarchs & therefore they believed that he had a spiritual body, [And was not the Council of Antioch of the same opinion when the decla] & For they never spake of him as a being purely incorporeal. til they began (wthwith Prasilides Pr Saturnius Prasilides, Valentinius Marcon Montanus Paul & Marcillus Photinus) to take him for the λόγος ἐνδιάθετος ἤ προφοριζὸς of the father. Th So who wh So when Paul of Samosat taught that the Word was prolatitious & consubstantial to the fat God & dwelt in Iesus as the spirit of God both in good men but was not Iesus & the Bishops who of the Council of Antioch wh to cov to prove that Christ was the Word alledged his descending & appearing to the Patriarchs & to Moses: since Paul & Photinus where hereticks of the same kind, & were [And when Christ prayed that the father wa to glorify him wthwith the glory wchwhich he had wthwith him before the world was, did he not pray to be glorified in a spiritual body? & was he not therefore indoth not this imply that he was in glory wthwith the father in a spiritual body before the world was?]