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Immorality, progress of during the Vials
of French Revolution, iii. 365, 366
Incense-offering, vision of (Apoc. viii. 3.)
i. 302-306.
Indulgences, Papal, immense sale of in
1507, ii. 26; issued by Leo. X., 65-
69; specimen of, sold by Tetzel, 69
Facsimile of, iii. 151
Infanticide in Roman empire, Constan-
tine's attempt to check, i. 173
Infidel philosophers, French, iii. 293
Infidelity, spirit of, answering to the first
of the three frogs, iv. 29-33
Inquisition, the, prepared A.D. 1183, first
institution of A.D. 1233, i. 21; re-orga-
nization of in 1478, ii, 28; cruelties
practised by, prior to Reformation, 28;
re-instituted in the present century, iv.
34, 35

Interdict, Papal, iii. 156, 181

Interrex, Roman, no separate form of
government, iii. 100

Irenæus, his testimony as to the date of
the Apocalypse decisive, i. 25, 35-37,
49; his prophetic views, i. 201, iii. 83,
iv. 308, 538

Isaiah, apocryphal vision of, i. 74
Israel, the twelve tribes of, (Apoc. vii.)
mystical sense of, i. 233-236; appel-
lative of, and promises to, assumed by
the Church corporate established under
Constantine, 240-242; God's Israel,
the 144,000 elected out of, 237, 238

J

James, king, not the discoverer of mean-
ing of Beast's seven heads, iii. 99, iv.
448

Janizaries, massacre of the, iii. 399
Jansen, certain of his propositions con-
demned by the Pope, i. 290
Jehoshaphat, the valley of, prophecy
concerning, iv. 172

Jericho, the mystical, of the New Testa-
ment, i. 323, 324

Jerome, his virtual defence of saint-wor-
ship, i. 311, 312; his view of the pro-
phecies respecting Antichrist and the
consummation, 366-372; his list of
the ten kings, iii. 122
Jerusalem, destruction of, by Titus, 59
-61; on Jews' restoration to be a cup
of trembling to the enemy, iv. 172;
afterwards the Mother Church of the
Christian Universe, 244, its connexion
with the new or heavenly Jerusalem, ib.

Jerusalem, the heavenly, self-applied by
the Romish Church, ii. 80

new, iv. 231-242; not identical
with that of restored Israel, 235; mil-
lennial, 236; objections regarding it an-
swered, "no more sea," 241; "no more
death," 242; no more curse," 242

the symbolic, on the Apoca-
lyptic scene, i. 101, 110; called the
Mount Zion, iii. 258

Jesuits, iii. 182; restoration of, iv. 34
Jesuitism, in France, the preparation of

the French Revolution, iii. 315-324
Jews, mystical meaning of the term in
the Apocalypse, i. 74, 233-236

missions to the, iii. 438; probable
time of their conversion, iv. 110, re-
storation, 172; interest in, a sign of the
times, 268

Jewish Chronology, errors of, iv. 264
John, St. the Evangelist, the writer of
the Apocalypse, i. 1-35; banished to
Patmos, 55-57; his probable reflec-
tions there, 57-71; his representative
character on the Apocalyptic scene,
102, 268-272, 460, 479, ii. 110
Journalism, the age of, iv. 31
Jubilee, the papal institution of, ii. 17,
25; last in 1825, iii. 371
Judgment, on Papal Rome, iv. 107
the final, iv. 247

Judgment day, mention of time of, for-
bidden to the Romish doctors, ii. 83
Judson, the Missionary, iii. 438
Justification by faith alone, held by all
the reformed Churches, ii. 189-191;
strenuously maintained by Claude of
Turin, 225

Justin Martyr, a witness to the authen-
ticity of the Apocalypse, i. 24, 25
Justinian's Decree in favour of Popes,
iii. 135, 170; authorities for it as be-
ginning of the 1260 years, 252-254
Justinian's civil law, iii. 170; its abro-
gation at the French Revolution, 361

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Labarum, the description of, i. 215, 218
Lamb, upon Mount Zion, iii. 258; the
marriage of, iv. 112, 246
Lamb passant, not the Papal flag, iii. 176
Lament over Babylon, iv. 106

Lamps, the seven (Apoc. iv: 5.) i. 85
Lateran Church, the, at Rome, descrip-
tion of, ii. 75

Lateran Council, the 4th, sanctions cru-
sades against heretics, ii. 378; transub-
stantiation, 11; auricular confession, 14

(5th) description of, ii. 75
-86, alluded to in Apoc. xi. 9, 391;
its insults and rejoicing over the dead
bodies of Christ's witnesses, 397-401
Law of Gratian and Valentinian, subject-
ing Western Clergy to Popes, iii. 168
-Valentinian and Theodosius, iii.
169; subjecting the universal Clergy
to the Popes.

Lawless One, the, iii. 80, 86 ; characteris-
tic of the Popes, 148
Leighton, Archbishop, iii. 272
Leo X., his assumption to the Papal
throne, and splendid ceremonial ii. 49
-59; ascription of Christ's honors and
offices to, 54-55, 77-81; his voice
as a lion roaring, 84, his death, 193
Lesson, the Noble, of the Waldenses,

enquiry into its date, ii. 328-343; its
probable author, 340-342; extracts
from, 350-354, 374; given in full,
468

Let, the, or hindrance, to Antichrist's
development, iii 84; its removal, 145
Licentiousness in France, the result of
the Papal system, and preparative
to the Revolution, iii. 317
Licinius the Emperor, iii. 16, 21
Lightning-struck places anciently deem-
ed accursed, iii. 181. So with Papal
anathemas.

Literature, revival of, in the 15th cen-
tury, vain so any moral reformation, ii.
33, 34

Living creatures, the four, of Ezekiel, i.
88, 89; Romish application of, 92
Locusts, the Apocalyptic, (Apoc. ix.) i.
407-414; æra of their settlement, 437
Lollard's, the witnessing of and the perse-

cution by the Roman Pontiffs, ii. 380
Lombards, a horn of the Beast, iii. 121;
plucked up, 141

Luther, the master spirit of the Refor-
mation, ii. 89; his early struggles, 90;
enters a monastery, 91--93; comforted
by Staupitz, 94-96; his discovery of
Christ the Saviour, 96, 97; appointed
a Doctor of Divinity at Wittenberg,
98; publishes his Theses against in-
dulgences, 100; discovers the Pope to
be Antichrist, 118, 119; burns the
Papal Bull that excommunicates him,
120; his impression as to the near-
ness of Christ's kingdom, 132-136;

takes the office and title of Evangelist,
160-171

Lyonnese Martyrs, the, i. 25

M

Mahomet, the fallen star of Apoc. ix. I;
i. 419-423; his birth and family, 420
-422; origin of his imposture, 422,
423; his key, 423, 424
Mahommedism, rise of, i. 416; progress
of, during the first woe, 424-426
Mahuzzim, meaning of, iv. 151, 156, 157
Man of Sin, identical with the Apoca-
lyptic Beast's eighth head, iii. 76, 87;
apparently a succession or class, 80;
how to be manifested, 84, 86
Manchild, the sun-clothed woman's, born,
&c., iii. 10, 11

Manicheism, false charge of, against the

Paulikians, ii. 292, 451-467; more
applicable to the Church of Rome, 293
Manifestation of the sons of God, iv. 216
Martin of Tours, superstitious reverence
of, i. 309; his notion about Antichrist,
368
MapTupia, sense of the word (Apoe. xi.
7) ii. 369; completion of, by the Wit-
nesses, 367, 368

Martyrium, or Martyr Church, i. 315
Martyrs, æra of, i. 186, 197; cry for
vengeance under 5th Seal, 198-202;
memorials of early Christian in the
catacombs at Rome, 201; investiture
of the, with white robes, 208–210

further notice of honours paid
them, iii. 25; worship of begun in 4th
century, 305-316
Martyn, Henry, iii. 438

Mary, Virgin, progress to worship of,
ii. 305; in Italy, iii. 362, 364; after
Peace of Paris, iv. 158. (See Virgin.)
Maxentius, iii. 16
Maximian, iii. 15
Maximin, iii. 16

Megiddo, derivation of the name, iv. 86
Mehemet Ali, his revolt against the Tur-
kish Sultan, iii. 400

Melancthon, his opinion as to the near-
ness of the second Advent, ii. 137—
139

Melito, Bishop of Sardis, his testimony
to the Apocalypse, i. 26

Mendicant orders, origin of, ii. 31; their
vices and hypocrisy, 32

Messiah's kingdom predicted by David,
iv. 203

Metropolitan Bishops, iii. 166, 168
Michael, ii. 128; iii. 21

Michaelis, an impugner of the genuine-
ness of the Apocalypse, i. 3, 8
Milan, edict of, by Constantine, iii. 16, 19
Millennary, termination of the sixth, iv.
256; the seventh, ib

Millennium, the, iv. 175; opinion of the
earlier Fathers concerning, 177, of Au-
gustine, 179, 183; of Grotius and Ham-

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GENERAL INDEX.

mond, 179, 184; of Gipps, 181, 185;
of Professor Bush, 181, 185; of
Whitby, Vitringa, and Faber, 182, 186;
introductory events to, 223, 231;
the glorious state of, 244; sequel to, 247
Milner, Rev. J. iii. 433

Missionary action of the Church pre-
figured, iii. 412; fulfilled, 427-440;
societies, 433, 434; interest in, a sign
of the times, iv. 268
Miracles, lying, of Antichrist predicted,
iii. 81

false, of Romish priests, ii. 15
Monks, subject to the Pope, with their
abbots, as vassals, iii. 172; the Pope's
great supporters, 182

Months, the 5 of second Woe, i. 431-
439

Moon, symbol in the Apocalyptic hea-
ven, i. 102. See Sun.

a sandal to the travailing woman,

iii. 8
Mortality under the 4th Seal, i. 176–180
"Mother and Mistress," the title of
Rome, iv. 96.

Mouth, the Beast's great, iii. 75.
Myriads of myriads, i. 478
"Mystery of Iniquity," iii. 81; contras
ted with the "Mystery of Godliness,"
153, 154

66

Mystery," the superscription of Rome,
iv. 95, 96

268 .meaning of the word, i מוֹפְתִים

N

Name and number of the Beast. See
Beast

Nantes, edict of, and its revocation, ii.
424

Napoleon. See Buonaparte
National Assembly. See Assembly
National Convention. See Convention
Nations, the," angry," iii. 285; restless-
ness of, a sign of the times, iv. 269
Naval victories of England, in wars of
the French Revolution, iii. 329
Navarino, battle of, iii. 399

Nearness of the consummation, iv. 249;
causes of former errors about it, 252
Nebuchadnezzar, his seven times, iv. 264
Neology in the German churches, iii. 269
Nero, the first imperial persecutor of
Christianity, i. 190

Nerva, the Emperor, of Cretan, extrac-

tion, and founder of the Roman-Cre-
tico-imperial line, i. 140

Nestorius, opposed to the Virgin Mary's
title of OEOTOKOS, i. 393
Nestorian Syrians, in China, ancient mo-
nument of, i. 35

New Jerusalem, iv. 231-243

New Song, the, of the Reformation, iii.
267

Newman, Rev. J., his mistake respecting
a passage in Isaiah, ii. 196

Newton, Sir I., erroneous opinions of,
respecting the date of the Apocalypse,
i. 37, 41-47

Newton, Rev. J. of Olney, iii. 438
Nice, Council. See Councils.
Number. See Beast.

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Oath, the, of the Angel, (Apoc. x.) ii.
122-143

Odoacer, abolishes the office of Emperor
of Rome, i. 359; his kingdom, iii. 119;
does not wear the diadem, 123
Olive-trees, the two (Apol. xi. 4.),
meaning of the symbol, ii. 200, 201
Ominous presentiments of the French
Revolution, iii. 291, 300

"One hour" (or at same time) with
Beast, iii. 68

Opisthographism of Apocalypse, i. 105;
iii. 4

Oracles, Popes' decrees so called, ii. 108
Ordination clerical, early ceremonial of
the traditio instrumenti, ii. 161, power
of, rightly assumed by the Reformed
non-episcopal Churches, 171-177;
and recognized by the Church of Eng-
land, 175, 176; often anciently con-
ferred by Chorepiscopi, 172-174
Origen, received the Apocalypse, i. 30;
his Hexapla, 194; his hermeneutic
principle of αναγωγη, iv. 303
Orleans, Council of, a. D. 1022, account
of certain heretics condemned by, ii.
247-254; their noble testimony, 254
Philip Duke of, his immora-

lity, iii. 318
Ostrogoths, a horn of the Beast, iii. 121;
plucked up, 142.

Othmans, Turks revived under the, i. 473
Our present position, iv. 249, &c.
Oxford, Council of, (A. D. 1160) account
of the Publicani condemned by, ii. 270
-272

Oxford Tractarianism, a voice of the false
prophet, iv. 45; its character and doc-
trine, 46-56; circumstantials of its
advances, 56

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Palm-branches, use of in early Church, i.
256; sculptured on early Christian
martyrs' tombs, 275, iv. 558
Palm-bearing vision (Apoc. vii. 9) pros-
pective, i. 276-278; its doctrinal
meaning, i. 279; realized in Augus-
tine's doctrinal views, 285

Papal triple crown and mitre, ii. 51;
iii. 158, 171

Papias, a believer in the genuineness of
the Apocalypse, i. 20-24
Parallelism of the two Apocalyptic series
of visions, within and without, iii. 2,
279
Passagini, appellation of Paulikians, ex-
plained as meaning pilgrims, ii. 314
Patmos, Isle of, scene of John's banish-
ment, and of the Apocalyptic visions, i.
55-72

Patriarchs, Constantinopolitan, contrast-
ed with Roman Popes, iii. 127
Paulikians, sketch of their earlier eastern
history, ii. 233-246

origin of the name, ii. 235;

its changes, 245

continued line of, through-
out the middle ages, ii. 247-275

their protest against prevail-
ing superstitions, 278; view of the
Churches established as apostate, 279,
280; conversancy with Scripture,
281-285; moral excellence of, 279
-283; fortitude in suffering, 287-
292

true witnesses for Christ, ii.
275-312; correspond to the figured
Apocalyptic Witnesses, ii. 276-293

sundry charges of heresy
against refuted, ii. 292–312.

- special charge of Manicheism
against, examined and refuted, ii. 451
--467
Paulinus, early advocates of patron saints,
i. 309

Peace, interval, of, in Europe, before the
French Revolution, or 7th Trumpet
sounding, iii. 293

Pepin's donation to the Popes, iii. 143
Persian kings, Dan. xi. iv. 120
Pestilence, great, A.D. 250-265, in the
Roman Empire, i. 176
Peter's Patrimony, iii. 143

statue in St. Peter's at Rome,
once Jupiter's, iii. 151

Peter de Bruys, ii. 269; tenets of his
followers, 261-263

Petrus Siculus, his mission to, and charges
against, the Paulikians, ii. 244
Phenomena, physical, before the French
Revolution, iii. 294--298

Philosophy of history, Romish, iv. 267;
Apocalyptic, iv. 273
Phocas's pillar, iii. 255

decree in favour of Popes, iii.
137, authorities for it as a commencing
date to the 1260 years, 251-253

Phylactery, baptismal, i. 251, 252; true,
249-256

Pilate staircase, the, at Rome, ii. 97
Pilgrimages to saints' tombs, in the 4th
century, i. 310; in the middle ages, ii.
13, 17, 25

Pitt, Mr., dies of a broken heart, iii. 430
Plague-boil of Egypt, iii. 303

Plants, instances of the appropriate use of
emblematically in Scripture, i. 397
Пλатeiα (Aрос. xi. 8), answers to Rome,
ii. 390, 391

general council, (A.D.
1512-17) assembled in, ii. 391

scene of the Witnesses,
exposure and death, ii. 391-401
Political ascendancy of Roman Christen-
dom, a sign of the times, iv. 268
Polycarp, his testimony to the Apoca-
lypse, 18-20; his martyrdom, i. 198
-200

Poor men of Lyons, ii. 317, 340, &c.
See Waldenses.

Popery, spirit of, revived after wars of
French Revolution, iii. 364-373, iv.
33. See Frogs.

Pope Pius VI. imprisoned and exiled,
iii. 353

Pope Leo. X. addressed as God, ii. 63;
by the Portuguese ambassadors, ii.
70, 71

universal earthly supremacy, as-
sumed by, ii. 70—74

excommunicated by Luther and the
Reformers, ii. 190, 191

Popes, the Beast's eighth, or revived
seventh head, iii 111

progress of their ecclesiastical power,
iii. 126, &c.; primacy, first as bishops
of the imperial metropolis, 127, 128;
next as Peter's successors, with power
of the keys, 128-131; then as Vice-
Christ, or Antichrist, 133

Pope's claim of supremacy over kingdoms,
iii. 148 (also ii. 70)

claim to Christ's honors, titles, and
offices, iii. 149 (also ii. 54-57)
husband to Church, iii. 150 (also
ii. 51, iv. 94)

above scripture, iii. 149, with
power of Heaven, purgatory, and Hell,
151; command angels, ib. (also ii. 18)
Vice-God, and so as God, iii. 152,
153; sit on the high altar to be adored,
153

Bulls called oracles, iii. 154 (also
ii. 108)

only head to Church, iii. 157
blasphemies against saints, and per-
secution of them, iii. 158, 159

king's submission to, iii. 155, 156;
people's submission, 157

recognition of absolute power over
clergy, first by Wilfrid, called Boniface,
then by all the Western Clergy, iii.
171

GENERAL INDEX.

Pope, double headship in Western Chris-
endom; over clergy (or second Apo-
calyptic Beast) as Patriarch: over
kings and people (the first Beast) as
Christ's Vicar or Antichrist, iii. 173,
174; signified respectively by Papal
mitre and triple crown, 174

Popedom and Rome, the subject of the
5th Vial, iii. 347

Portents preceding the destruction of
Jerusalem, i. 59

in the age of Justinian, i. 374
Portugal, king of, his magnificent pre-
sents to Leo X. ii. 69

Prætorian guards, revolutionary licence
of at Rome, i. 148, 149
Pragmatic sanction, use of the term, ii. 8]
Prayers for the dead, origin of, i. 382
Preparation for the future, iv. 270
Presents given and received by Leo X.,
ii. 70; also 399, 400

Present position, our, as to the mundane
chronology, iv. 249

Priesthood, power of the, under the Rom-
ish system, i. 384-386

impurity of, i. 447, ii. 13–27;
their open heathenism immediately
before Reformation, ii. 36
Priestcraft, spirit of, iv. 44 (See Frogs.)
Primasius, an eminent early commenta-
tor on the Apocalypse, i. 40; iv. 332

-336

Printing, restrictions imposed upon by
Leo X., ii. 83-85

Pro-consuls, provincial, i. 158; their pro-
fession of equity, 168; their oppressive
administration, i. 169; and its conse-
quences to the empire, 170-177
Pro-dictators, Roman, no separate form
of government, iii. 99

Promises to the world, of a time of
blessedness, iv. 196-210
Propaganda, Papal, revenue of, and pro-
ceedings, iv. 43

Prosopopæia, scripture symbols founded
on, i. 401, 402

Προσκυνέα, the term applied to the wor-
ship of saints by the Romish Church,
ii. 10

Προφητεύω, true meaning of the word,
ii. 147-150

Protestants, meaning of word same as
Witnesses, ii. 404; union of, at Smal-
cald, 406, 409

attempted subjugation of, by
Charles Vth, ii. 412

political elevation of, in Ger-
many, ii. 413; and in England, ii.
417

Ptolemies, their contests with the Seleu-

cidæ, as predicted in Dan. xi.; iv. 122
-138

Publikani, a name given to the Pauli-
kians, and why? ii. 245
Purgatory, establishment of the doctrine
in the Romish Church, 382-384

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Reign, millennial, of the saints, iv. 178;
their reign for ever, 249
Relics, early worship of, i. 309
Repentance, not effected by the judg-
ments of the Vials, iii. 345, 361-363
Restitution edict, A.D. 1626, ii. 424
Restoration of all things, iv. 211

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Rest of the dead," Apoc. xx. 5, signi-
fication of the phrase, iv. 189
Resurrection, the first, iv. 179-222;
literal, 186-190

of the just, premillennial,

arguments to prove, iv. 192-221
the order of, iv. 219
the general, iv. 248

of the Witnesses, ii. 401
Retrogression in Apocalyptic visions, iii.
2,277

Revival of Popery after wars of French
Revolution, iii. 364–374
Revolution, French, the offspring of the
Papal system, iii. 314-323

its general corres-
pondence with the symbols of the 7th
Trumpet, iii. 283--290

noisome ulcer of,

iii. 307
Rhine, confederation of the, iii. 335, 342
Rivers and fountains, signification of the
figure, i. 329-333; iii. 305, 333
Robinson, Rev. T. iii. 433

Rod, iron, of Roman Christian emperors
against Pagans, iii. 20

Rogation days, institution of, i. 354
Rome, derivation of the name, i. 404
state of early Christian church at,
i. 64

Pagan, empire of, its prosperity,
(A.D. 96-180) i. 129-132; its fall, 221

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