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Beast, figures the Romish Clergy, iii.
161. See Clergy Papal.
Beasts, of the earth, (Apoc. vi. 8) plague
of, alluded to by Arnobius, i. 177
Becket (Thomas A'. pilgrimages to, and
riches of, his shrine at Canterbury, ii. 18
"Before him," force of the expression,

as referred to Christ and to Antichrist,
iii. 162, 173-262

Believers, so. (Apoc. xvii. 14) diffe-
ence of Apocalyptic and early-received
ecclesiastical view of the, i. 238, 241,
254. See Saints

the

"Beloved City," the, what? iv. 243
Berengaud, List of the ten kings, iii. 122
Berenger, some account of, 256, 259; his
notable statement respecting
Romish Church, 259, 373
Bernard (St.) an exalter of Papal autho-
rity, iii. 182

Beveridge, Bishop, iii. 272
Bible, ignorance of in the middle ages,
ii. 15; P. Valdes' translation of, 20,
21; finding of a, by Luther, 92;
the
then general ignorance of, among Ro-
manists, ib. Luther's translation of
170; significant use of, at the ordina-
tions of the Church of England 177
Bibles, price of, in England in 1274, ii. 20
BIBλiapidion (Apoc. x.), Mede's grand

error in interpreting, ii. 44; St.
John's taking it from the Angel signi-
ficant of what, 176

Bishop, universal, the fitting title of An-
tichrist, i. 377; Papal assumption of
the title, 387

Bitthis, Greek epigram on, i. 137

Blasphemy, what? iii. 152, 360; Papal,
ibid.

Blessedness of the dead, iv. 73

Blessedness of the world, promise of fu-
ture, iv. 196, 209; cotemporaneous
with the first resurrection, 209
Blondus (Flavio) iii. 113, 114
Bonaventure, his blasphemous Psalter, ii.

25

Bondari. See Emadeddin.
Boniface, St. See Wilfred.

Boni Homines; heretics so called, con-
demned at the Council of Lombers
(A.D. 1165); ii. 272–275
Book, the seven-sealed (Apoc. v), open-
ing of, by the Lamb, i. 94-96; form
of, 106

Bow, a Cretan symbol, i, 133-140
Bread, deified, ií. 11. See Transubstan-
tiation.

Bride, the arrayed in fine linen, iv. 112.
Brown, Rev. David, iii. 438
Bull, Unam Sanctam, iii. 158
Buonaparte; his first campaign, iii. 335;

his disposal of kingdoms, 341; his ar-
tillery, 343; his ravages, 343; despoils
the Papacy and Rome, 351–357; his
concordat with the Pope, re-establish-
ing Romanism, 364

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Canon Law, Papal, iii. 150

Caracalla, famous edict of, i. 158; Provin-
cial oppression of, 171

Carcassone, disputation held at, (A. D.
1207) between Albigenses and Roman-
ists, ii. 333

Cavalry, Turkish, Apocalyptically co-
loured dress of, i. 481
Cecil, Rev. R. iii. 433
Charlemagne's donation to the Popes, il

143; his Pope-favouring decree, 172
Charles V Emperor, his providential
embroilments with divers nations, ii.
410, 411; attempts the subjugation of
the Protestants, 412, 413
Cherubim, the angelic nature of, i. 88, 89
Chiliads, seven, of the city, (Apoc. xi.
13), meaning of the term, ii. 418–420;
fall of, 421-423

XAas, Septuagint use of the word, ii.

418

Chinese mundane chronology, iv. 263
Cheenix, various kinds of, i. 151–153;
the Roman intended in Apoc. vi. 6.
153-156

Cholera, wastes the Turkish dominions,
iii. 402

Chorepiscopi, ordination by,ii. 172, iv. 59
Christ, said to be present in Leo X's
procession, ii. 58, 59; discovery of, as
the Saviour, at the Reformation, 90-
103; his divine commission to the mi-
nisters of the Reformation, 176, 177;
crucified afresh in the Romish system,
389, 390; his coming in 2 Thess. ii.
his second coming, iii. 79; see Coming.
Christ's Vicar, assumption of the title by
the Pope, i. 387; iii. 133

Christendom, Eastern, apparent security
of at the beginning of the xith century,
i. 448-454; Turkish invasion of, 469,
501
Christendom, Western, retrospective view
of, during the former half of second
woe. ii. 1-38; its dæmonolatry and ido-
latry, 8-11; its corruption of morals,
12-15; sorceries, 14–16; thefts, 17
-20; murders, 21, 22; stubborn im-
penitence, 24-30; its hopeless state
as to religion, 30-38; its present po-
sition, iv. 24

Christianity, organized, i. 317; establish-
ment of in Roman Empire, iii. 18, 20
Christians, persecution of, under Diocle-

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Chronological periods, iv. 254; conver-
gency of, 255-267

Chronology of the 1260 years, iv. 255;
of the world, 258
Church, the, in Paradise, represented by
the 24 elders and 4 Zwa, i. 92-94

the true, figured by the sun-clothed
woman, iii. 7; after Constantine be-
coming more and more invisible, 36-39
prefigurations of it, during the
Vials, iii. 410

the visible, view of by the Anglican
Church, the Reformers, and Bossuet,
iii. 53, 55-57

origin of the word, iv. 284; present
duty of the, 291
Churches, Christian, state of in St. John's
time, i. 62-66; early heresies in, 64,
66; the seven of Asia, epistles to, 76
-81; Vitringa's and Girdlestone's
schemes of the epistles to, as prefigu-
rative, 78; promises made to the faith-
ful in, 81; ecclesiastical establishment
and constitution of the Reformed, ii.
179-191

City, the great, (Apoc. xi. 8) answers to
Roman Antichristendom, ii. 385-390;
fall of the tenth part, and seven chi-
liads of, 415-423

Clement of Rome, his view of God's

true Israel, or Church, i. 243
Clement of Alexandria, frequently quotes
the Apocalypse, i. 27, 37
Clergy and laity, early distinction of,
iii. 163

Clergy, corrupted gradually till prepared

in the 6th century for a heading Anti-
christ, i. 384-386; subjection to
Bishops; then of Bishops to Metropo-
litans, and Metropolitans to Patriarchs,
iii. 165; final subjugation of all Wes-
tern clergy and hierarchy to the Pope,
in his character of Western Patriarch,
168-172; as vassals to their lord,
and with oath of allegiance, 173

Papal, with horns as lamb, speaks
as dragon, iii. 175; exercises Pope's
authority "before him," 176, 177; in-
cluding that of, excommunication, 178,
miracles, 177, and transubstantiation,
178
Claude of Turin (A. D. 820), the Protes-
tant of the West, ii. 222; falsely
charged with Arianism, ib; vast
effect of his protestations, 226-228;
231

Cloud, investiture with, a proper ensign of
Deity, ii. 39; Angel's descent in,
ibid; ascent of the witnesses in the
same, 414

Clovis, iii. 123

Coena Domini, at feast of a, general ex-
communication of heretics, iii. 179
Coincidence of time, between Israel's

conversion, and the saints' resurrec-
tion, iv. 197-205; also between the
blessedness of the world and the
saints' resurrection, 210

Cologne, account of the heretics burnt at
(A. D. 1147), ii. 264-269
Colonies, advances of Popery in the Eng-
lish, iv. 40

Comet, at time of Attila's irruptions, i.
356; iii. 297

Coming of Christ, signification of the
term, iv. 194; suddenness of the,
224

Communion of saints, iii. 56
Concluding remarks to the Horæ, iv. 249
Confession, private, begun, i. 385; its
evil and abuses, ii. 14, 27
Confessors, Christian, restored by Con-
stantine, iii. 25

Constantine, raised up by God for the
destruction of Paganism, i. 214; his
vision of the cross, 215, 216; esta-
blishes Christianity, 220; his baptism
and death, 263, 264; trisection of the
Roman world under, 335-340; other
notice of, iii. 16
Constantine (the Armenian) originator of
the Paulikian sect, ii. 235–238
Constantinople, curious prophecy re-
specting its conquest by the Russians,
i. 452; besieged by the Turks, 476;
taken by Turkish artillery, 483, 484,
501; late conflagrations in, iii, 403
Constantius I., iii. 15

Constantius II., iii. 31
Consummation, the, early patristic ex-
pectations of, i. 204-207; probable
physical changes attending, 223; im-
pression of its nearness towards the
close of the 6th century, 371–377;
again in the 10th century, 444-448;
among the Reformers, ii, 129–146;
near approaching under the 7th Trum-
pet, 434-437
Contrast, allusive, principle of, i. 112,
113; various examples of, 244-246.
See Allusive.

Convents, profligacy of the, in 9th cen-
tury, i. 447; in 13th 14th, and 15th,
ii. 13, 27; Papal fortresses, iv. 554
Convention, National of France, iii.
311

Conversion of Israel promised, iv. 196
Convocation of the States General of
France, iii. 299

Corrie, Bishop, iii. 438

Council of Nice, iii. 31; on the Roman
bishop's precedency at, 166
Council of Constantinople, iii. 46
Councils, iii. 165

Councils Papal General answer to Beast's
Image, as representing Papal Christen-
dom and the Popes; iii. 183, 186-188;
convened by Pope as Western Patri-
arch, 190, 191; inspired, and made to
speak by him, 191--196; to laity at-

tendant no voice allowed in, 193; pro-
nounced death on all that would not
worship the Pope, 196-200; Trentine
Council compared to an image speaking
by priest's jugglery, 196

Councils General, early history of, traced;
first eight in Eastern Christendom un-
der the Emperors; twelve next in
Western Christendom under Popes;
"representatio totius nominis Christi-
ani," iii. 185; the members Bishops,
with a few Presbyters, ibid: anciently
represented in images or pietures, 188;
originally convened by emperors, 194;
This power reclaimed for the reigning
Emperor from the Popes, by Protes-
tants at time of Council of Trent, 195;
canons of, sworn to by every Romish
priest on taking a benefice, iii. 198.
Covenant Angel, intervention of, at the
Reformation, ii. 39-47

Creation, the, its waiting for the manifes-
tation of the sons of God, iv. 215
Crescent, a Turkish ensign, i. 474
Crete, famous for archers and bows, i.
133-136; Nerva's family came from,
140

Cross, Constantine's vision of the, i. 215,
216, worship of the, resisted by the
Paulikians, ii. 307, 308

Crown, the Pope's imperial, account of,
ii. 51. See Papal Crown and Triregno.
Cruelties against Protestants in France,
consequent upon Papal principles, iii.
320-336

Crusades, the, i. 472; against heretics
proclaimed by Innocent III. ii. 378;
succeeded by others sanctioned by 4th
Lateran Council, 379; against saints,
iii. 158

Chrysostom, his allusion, though but

rarely, to the Apocalypse, i. 33; his
prophetic views, i. 365, iii. 83, iv. 551
Cyril, of Jerusalem, a rejector of the
Apocalypse, i. 32; his prophetic views,
365, iii. 83, iv. 547

D.

Dæmonolatry, of Western Christendom,
ii. 8-11, 24
Δαιμονιον, the term as used in Scrip-
ture, ii. 439-450; as used by writers
of the early Church, 447-450
Damasus, (Pope) his ode to St. Felix, i.
309

Daniel's prophecy of the little horn of
the he-goat, iii. 374-396. See he-goat.

last prophecy, iv. 116-174
date of, 116; introduced by Messiah,
118; told by Gabriel, 119; fulfilled in
the contests of the Ptolemies with the
Seleucidæ, 127-139; period of, 168
Days, (year-days,) the 280 to Constan-
tine, iii. 18; the 1260 of woman in wil-
derness, 56; and of Gentiles treading
the Holy City, and Beast's reign, 112,

251-256; also of the 1260, 1290, and
1335 of Dan. xii. 169, 253
Decius, the Emperor, determines to crush
Christianity, i. 196

Deliverance of God's people, as "written
in the book," iv. 168
Democratic principles, advocated by the
Jesuits, iii. 318; dissemination of, 324
infect the symbolic sea, 328; united
with spirit of infidelity, &c. iv. 30
"Desert Place," the locality of “the
Harlot," iv. 97

"Desire of Women," what? iv. 151
Διαβολος, scriptural use of the word as

contrasted with διαμονιον, ii. 439 450
Aiadnua, when first adopted by the Ro-
man Emperors, in lieu of σTEPAFOS
i. 130

Diadems on the Dragon's heads, iii. 13,
14; of the ten Romano-Gothic kings,
128

Diocletian, the founder of a new Empire,
i. 185; persecution of Christians under,
185-188; further noticed, iii. 15; his
change of the government, 107-109
Dionysius of Alexandria, an impugner
of the genuineness of the Apocalypse,
i. 3-8

Disciplina arcani, i. 265

Divisions of Roman empire at different
times, i, 336

Dissent, anti-Church spirit of deprecated,
iv. 292-295

Doddridge, Dr. iii. 272

Dominicans. the rise of, ii. 32
Domitian, the Apocalypse written under,
i. 49, 50; persecution of Christians by,

190
Dragon, a Roman standard, iii. 13, 14
great red, iii. 13, 18, 22
Constantine's picture of, cast
down under cross, iii. 22

bound 1000 years, iv. 174
Drought, spiritual, of Christendom, ii.

158-364

Drying up of the Euphrates, a sign of
the times, iv, 267. See Euphrates.
Dutch United Provinces, seven, answer
ing to the seven chiliads of the city,
(Apoc. xi. 13) ii. 421-423

E

Eagle, the great, iii. 40, 43, 44
Earth, the Roman, literally meant in
Apoc. viii. 7, i. 329: (see Sea :) to be
burned up, iv. 226; stored with fire,
227

Earthquakes, symbolic, of 6th Seal, i. 212,
distinct from that of the 7th Vial, 225
-227 previous to the 1st Trumpet
sounding, 349-351; of the Reforma-
tion, ii. 415; of the French Revolu-
tion, iii. 289-294

physical, at destruction of Je-
rusalem, 296; before the Gothic Woe,

291; in Syria, 396; to precede the
Millennium, iv. 227

East, Angel rising from, i. 272

kings from the, iii. 404 - 409
Easter-day, the Lord's day Kar efox,
i. 71

Eclipses at the destruction of Jerusalem,
iii. 297

Edicts against German Pietists, iii. 273
Egypt, a figurative appellation of Rome,
11. 386; its contest with the Turks, iv.
165

Hk8σa, the true reading in Apoc. xi. 12,
ii. 406 - 408

Elders, the twenty-four (Apoc. iv. 4) i.
86, 87; their last act, iv. 107, 111
Elect Church, iii. 260

Election by grace, Augustinian doctrine
of, i. 281-287; its contrariety to an
ecclesiastical system of salvation, 289,
290; its accordance with the doctrine
of the Anglican Church, 291
Elephant made to do homage to Leo X.
ii. 70

Elizabeth, Queen of England, gives God
glory, ii. 426, 427

Emadeddin, extract from, on Thogrul
Beg's investiture, i. 496

Emancipation Act, Roman Catholic, iv.
29, 35, 283

Emperor, Christian, no head to Dragon or
Beast, iii. 97

Emperors humbled before Popes, iii. 155
-157; Henry, 156; Frederic, 180
Empires, the four great, iii. 74
Emperorship, badges of, presented to Ro-
man Emperor, iii. 107

England, the tenth part of "the city,"
(Apoc. xi. 13) ii. 416-418 ; establish-
ment of Protestant Church in, 417,
418; the bulwark of Protestantism,
427; her escape from revolutionary
principles, iii. 428; the promulgator of
the true faith, iv. 281; her abandon-
ment of Protestant principles depre-
cated, 282

Evavros, prophetic value of, as a measure
of time, i. 493

ETTIVIKIOV, of Constantine's establishment
of Christianity, iii. 22--27
Epiphanius, worthless character of his
book, i, 41, 42, 45
Erastianism, iv. 295

Eunapius the Sophist, his charge of relic-
worship against the Christians of the
4th century, i. 311

Euphrates river, the four angels bound

in, i. 467 ; and loosed from, 468- 470,
477: drying up of, iii. 373, 396;
causes which operated to the drying
up of, 397; the drying of, a sign of the
times, iv. 267

Eusebius, questioned the apostolic au-
thorship of the Apocalypse, i. 5, 21-
23, 32; his glowing anticipations of

VOL. IV.

the future on Constantine's establish-
ment of Christianity, i. 231

Evangelic missions, ara of, iii. 412,428
441

Events, origin of all, in the throne of
God, i. 107

Evervinus, his letter to St. Bernard re-
specting the heretics burnt at Cologne,
ií. 264-269

Evidence of the Hora, review of, iv. 1 -
24; of the Seals, 2-7; of the Sealing
Vision, 8; of the Trumpets, 12; of the
Witnesses, 17; of the Beast, 19; of the
Vials, 23

Evil spirits, present locality of, i. 414
"Eyes as of a man," iii. 75, 145′′
Excommunication, Papal, iii. 148, 151,
180

Exposure of Papal Rome, iv. 91-101

F.

"Faithful and True," Christ the, iv. 113
False Prophet, or two horned lamblike
Beast, see Beast; the judgment of, iv.
114

Fatimites, the, i. 440

Fig Tree, the, budding of, iv. 270
Firmament, Apocalyptic, symbol of, i.
102; dissolution of Pagan, under 6th
Seal, i. 211-226

Flood, the, out of dragon's mouth, iii.
47-49; in the time of the Gothic ir-
ruption, 297

Flying Angel, the 1st, iii. 409, 434; the
2nd, iv. 67-69; the 3rd, 71
Franciscan friars, rise of, ii, 32
Franke, iii. 272

Frankfort, great council of, (A.D. 794)
ii. 219

French wars on the Rhine, Po, and
Danube, iii. 333

French Revolution. See Revolution.
Frogs, the three Spirits of infidelity,
popery, and priestcraft, let loose under
6th vial, iv. 26, 27, 70, 88; described,
29, 33, 45, et seq.

the "old arms of France," iv. 64, 65
Fulgentius, ii. 214
Furlongs, the 1600, iv. 84
Future Apocalyptic prefigurations of, iv.
70-115; preparation for, 270

2Q

G

Gabriel, perhaps the "strong Angel" of
Apoc. v. 2, i. 94
Galerius, his persecution of Christians, i.

185; his edict of toleration, 209, 218;
iii. 16; his remorse and death, i. 218
Gathering of saints to Christ, iii. 80
Genseric, his conquests in the Mediterra-
nean, i. 355, 356

Gentiles, court of the (Apoc. xi.) symbo-
lic meaning of, ii. 181

Geological structure of the earth illustra-
tive of its predicted destruction by fire,
iv. 228

Gibbon, an excellent illustrator of the
Apocalyptic prophecy, 116
Glassy sea, song by the, iii. 286, 414,
424; interpretation of, 418-426
Glory, primary vision of the heavenly, i.
83-86

Gnostic heresy, two branches of, i. 66, 68
God, "all that is so called," (2 Thess. ii.
4.) iii. 82

Gog and Magog, prophecy of, iv. 171
Gorres, his view of the spiritual progres-
sion of Christendom, ii. 23
Gospel-preaching, duty of, enforced in
Scripture, ii. 152 -154; progressive
neglect of, in the Christian Church,
154-160; revival of, at the Reforma-
tion, 160-170

Goths, ravages of the, under the first four
Trumpets, i. 326-349, 361

Grace, Augustinian doctrines of, i. 281-
287

Greek insurrection, iii. 396; remarkable

chronological parallelism concerning, 398
Gregory the Great, i. 362; his belief in
the nearness of the judgment, 375, 376;
his expectation of Antichrist's coming,
376-378; iii. 164

Gregory Thaumaturgus, i. 310

Gregory Nazianzen, his opinion respect-
ing the Apocalypse doubtful, i. 32, 33

H

Hail, symbol of, in 1st Trumpet, i. 344,
353; and at the 7th Trumpet's sound-
ing, iii. 288

Hailstorm, iii. 295, 298; iv. 89
Hall, bishop, iii, 272

Harlot, Papal Rome represented by the,
iv. 93, 95, 484-487

Harmony of the Reformed Confessions,
iii. 267

Harpers. See Glassy Sea

Harvest of the earth, iv. 75; emblematic

of judgment, 76; reaped by the Son of
man, 79

Heaven, the firmamental, of the Apoca-
lyptic scenery, i. 102; figurations in,
211, 296; half-hour's silence in, 293-
302; dragon and woman existent in,
simultaneously, iii. 10, 14, 15
Heber, bishop, iii. 438

He-goat, of Dan. viii. signification of, iii.
377; his horns, 378; little horn of, 379;
historical fulfilment of, 382; applica-
tion to the Popedom inadmissible, ib.
Heptarchy, English, a kind of monarchy,
iii. 118

Heretics, (so called by the Romanists)
adjudged to the flames, ii. 379; tongues
of to be cut out, 379; supposed total
extinction of at the opening of the 16th
century, 381, 382, 394-397; denied
Christian burial, 398, 399; rejoicings
at Rome on their supposed extinction,
400, 401

Hermas, book of, i. 10-12

High Churchmen, who are the true? iv.
284

Hippolytus, his commentary on the Apo-
calypse, i. 29, 30; his martyrdom, 195;
his views of the prophecies of the fu-
ture, 206; ii. 85, 372; iii. 55, 114; iv.
300

Holland, Protestant republic of, its rise,
ii. 422

"Holiness, His," the Pope's self-appro-
priated appellation, iii, 150
Hooker, iii. 272

Hopkins, bishop, iii. 272

Horn, little, of Daniel's 4th Beast, iden-
tical with 8th head of Apocalyptic
Beast, iii. 72, 75. (See He-goat)
Horms, ten of the Beast, iii. 114, 124;
three plucked up before the Popes, 140
-143

Horns of golden altar connected with
rites of atonement, i. 457

Horse, symbolic meaning of, i. 121–123;
white horse of Apoc. xix., iv. 113
Horse-tails, Turkish badge of, i. 485—

488

Hour day month and year, the prophetic
period, fulfilment of, i. 489-500'; fur-
ther notice of, iv. 265

Howe, iii. 272

Hugonots, persecution of, iii. 319
Hundred, &c. 144,000, their mystic num-

bers and sealing, i. 237, 238; character
and history, 247-250; their square
number compared with the cube of the
New Jerusalem, 274; seen with
Lamb on Mount Zion, iii. 266; obser-
vation of, 258; contrasted with the
followers of Antichrist, 258 : their
character, 271

Huns, ravages of, under Attila, i. 356-
358

Hurricane, in the West Indies, before
French Revolution, iii. 294

Huss, his dream at Constance, ii. 403,
404 ; his prophecy, 404

Hussites, Bohemian, ii. 28, 381,94396

I

Ignatius, probable allusions to the Apoca-
lypse in his writings, i. 12-18;
Bishop of Antioch while St. John in
Patmos, 63; his martyrdom, 193, 199
Image, Nebuchadnezzar's, i. 403-406
Image of Beast, iii. 183-201; various

former interpretations of, 183, 184;
means Papal General Councils as re-
presentations of the Beast, or Papal
Christendom, and its head the Pope,
192 ; (Council of Trent actually liken-
ed to speaking image, 195;) which
convened by Pope as Western Patri-
arch, through the Papal Bishops, 191;
inspired by him, 193; made to de-
nounce death to whoever would not
worship the Beast, or Popes, 197-201
(See Councils.)

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