Number of the Beast, and the Mark of his Name! In the service of the Mass the Mark of the Beast is made no less than SIXTY-TWO TIMES ! Not only does the number 666 pass upon the Mass, because ΠΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΜΙΣΣΑ (POPISH MASS) contains the number 666, but the name רומיי+ exactly describes it. It is performed in the ROMAN language-by a Priest af the ROMAN Church-of which ROMAN Church the Communicants profess to be members. And the mark + the very mark of the name +" occurs no less than SIXTY-TWO TIMES. After the gradual both priest and people make the sign of the Cross, first, upon their foreheads: secondly, upon their mouths: thirdly upon their breasts: and thus each stands confessedly with the name רומיי+ and the mark + upon his forehead. We have observed that the more Popish the service the more frequent the mark +. We pass over the service for blessing the font, in which the Priest divides the water and breathes upon it in the shape of a cross, and the other Popish services of the Romish Church; and we proceed to the Bull of Pope Leo XII. to the King of Spain in the year 1828. Nothing can be more thoroughly Popish than the following list of DAYS ON WHICH A SOUL MAY BE LIBERATED FROM PURGATORY. + Septuagesima Sunday. + Tuesday after the first Sunday in Lent. The Friday and Saturday after the fifth Sunday + The Wednesday in Easter-week. + The Thursday and Saturday in Whitsun-week. No wonder that these days are distinguished by the mark+, the mark of the name + ". Does the Pope really believe that souls can be delivered from Purgatory on these days? and if not, what is the Pope? The whole Bull is given by Mr. Mendham in the appendix to the memoirs of the Council of Trent. + So fond are the Jesuits of the Sign of the Cross, that Father Garasse speaking of the name of Jesus, usually represented thus, Is, says, Some take away the Cross, and read the simple characters IHS, which is Jesus stripped and robbed.' Amongst the Jesuits to have a crucifix placed in the hands after death is a mark of membership. If any thing more were necessary to show that the Sign of the Cross is the Mark of the Beast, it is the fact that the arms of the INQUISITION are- -a CROSS between an olive branch and a sword. Thus the Sign of the Cross is the Heraldic Mark of the Inquisition! We have seen that it is the Mark of the Name of the Beast (Romii +.) We have seen that it is the mark of Popish superstition, as exemplified in the ritual of the Mass. It is also the badge of Popish tyranny. What sign was that which Roman Catholics assumed in their exterminating CRUSADES against the Waldenses and Albigenses? What sign was that with which they signed themselves? What badge was that which they fastened on their garments? THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. How little did these persecutors think that this very Mark was the Mark of the Beast, and the Mark of his Name! that each ROMAN Catholic, who wore this badge, had the Name ROMAN or ROMAN+; and that the Number of this Name in Hebrew is exactly 666! + PART V. I. ADDRESS TO ROMAN CATHOLICS. You have seen that the Pope is the Beast, that he is "the Eighth," and "is of the seven." You have seen his heads; his horns; his horns; his crowns; and the name of blasphemy upon his heads. You have seen that he is like unto a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion; that he is the Vicar, not of Jesus Christ, but of the Dragon, who has given him his power, and his seat, and great authority. You have seen his wounded head, and all the world wondering after him. You have seen the whole world worshipping the Dragon, who gave the Pope his power; you have seen them worshipping the Pope, saying, Who is like unto the Pope? who is able to make war with him?' You have seen that his dominion is to last 1260 years, and that he was "the Eighth" in the year 727. You have seen that the first vial was poured out in the year 1789, and the fifth in the year 1798. Transpose these figures, and you have the fatal year 1987, when the seventh vial will be poured out, and the 1260 years terminate. You have seen that the Pope has a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and opens it in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his Tabernacle, and them which dwell in heaven. You have seen that he not only blasphemes the Tabernacle or Church of God by calling real Christians Heretics, but has made war with them and overcome them. You have seen that the Pope is possessed of CATHOLIC or Universal power; and that power has been given him over ALL kindreds, and tongues and nations. You have seen how suited Popery is to the carnal unconverted heart of man, and that all that dwell upon the earth worship the Pope, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. You have seen the Pope leading into captivity; you have seen him going into captivity. You have seen him killing with the sword; you have seen him perishing with the sword. You have seen the Society of Jesus coming up out of the earth, having two horns like a LAMB, but speaking like a DRAGON. You have seen them exercising all the power of the Pope before him, in his presence and with his sanction, and causing the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the Pope, and to promise true obedience to him, as successor to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus |