the Papists are wont absurdly to call themselves Roman Catholics, yet the real name of the com is 666. Four things must concur in the mysterious name, of which we are in quest. It must be the name of the empire symbolized by the ten-munity as distinguished from the horned beast, the name of some individual man, a name borne along with some superstitious badge or mark, by every member of the beast, as a test of communion with his colleague the second beast, under pain of severe ecclesiastical censure, and a name which comprehends in its numerical letters the precise sum of 666. The author conceives that it must be at once the name of an empire of its supposed founder, and of every individual in that empire. This identity of appellation, is found often to Greek church, the Armenian church, or the Abyssinian church, certainly is the Latin church, and indeed they are accustomed to Latinize in every thing. Finally when the sum of its numerical letters is taken in the Greek language,the language in which the Apocalypse was written, and in which therefore the calculation must be made, it wil amount precisely to 666.* With regard to the mark of the beast, the author supposes with Sir isaac Newton that it is the cross occur, particularly in ancient This no less than the name Latinus, times. Thus Ashur is equally the is peculiar to the beast that is, as name of Assyria-of the father of contradistinguished from the beast the Assyrians and of every individ- that was, or the pagan Roman emual Assyrian. But St. John distin-pire. The ancient Roman beast, guishes the name of the beast from despised the cross. The revived all others which have the same tri-Roman beast made it his peculiar ple signification, by informing us badge, introducing it into his standthat it should contain in its numer-ards and sanctioning by an abuse of it, ical letters the sum of 666. the most infernal cruelties, and most fused to bear the name of Latins or childish superstitions. All who re He supposes with Ireneus, and Bishop Newton, that it is Latinus, or according to its ancient orthography both Latin and Greek, Lutei-Romans, and to receive the mark nos. The ten horned beast, whose name is declared to contain the number 666, is certainly the temporal Roman empire. Of this empire the second founder was Romulus-but its first, was Latinus. Latinus therefore is the name of a man. It is also the peculiar name of the western or divided Roman empire, and the distinguishing appellation of every individual in that empire. Though in the victorious days of the republic and empire, this name was almost lost in the more favorite one of Roman, yet it was revived when the beast revived, or the empire was divided into ten kingdoms, and though of the cross, as badges of their communion with the beast, were to be allowed neither to buy nor sell. This has received a literal accomplishment, as the author shews. In order that the close connec tion of the two empires, temporal and spiritual, may the more evi-which reigneth over the kings of dently appear, St. John gives us a double, though united symbol of them both, as they stand leagued together till their final destruction under the last vial at the termination of the 1260 years. See chap. 17. the earth; the woman symbolizes its spiritual empire; her beast, its temporal empire, and both, leagued together to erect both a civil and ecclesiastical tyranny, over both the minds and bodies of men. When the apostle saw a professed church of his meek and lowly master, thus fallen from her high estate, thus corrupted, thus persecuting the faithful, well might he wonder with exceeding great admiration. St. John now proceeds in the 14th chapter of his prophecies and the last of the little book, to describe the state of the true church, during the same period of 1260 years; its great contest with the mystic Babylon at the time of the reformation ; and the judgments of God upon his enemies during the two grand periods, under the seventh trumpet, namely the harvest and the vintage of God's wrath; of which the following is a summary explanation: The 144,000 are the spiritual descendants of the twelve apostles, apostolically multiplied--the two The great secular Roman beast, seven-headed and ten-horned, is represented as closely leagued with a mystic harlot, as he was before connected with the two-horned beast. A harlot is a symbol of an apostate idolatrous church. The many waters on which she sits, or as the angel explains them, the peoples, and multitudes, and nations,and tongues, are equivalent to her sitting upon the beast; for the beast symbolizes the divided Roman empire. The fornication which they have committed with her, is their idolatrous apostacy from the simplicity of the gospel. St. John beheld her in the wilderness—once the chaste spouse of Christ, now polluted with spiritual fornication, and preferring the wilderness of error and sin, to her former appointed place in the inclosed vineyard of the church, triumph-witnesses in the line of faithful being in her adulteries, tyrannizing lievers. They stand on mount Zion, over the irresolute, and drunk with or the true Church; and as the fulthe blood of the saints and martyrs lowers of the beast, have the mark of Jesus" The woman" is decla-and name of the beast ;.so have these red to be "that great city which the seal of God impressed, and the reigneth over the kings of the name of God written on their foreearth." The city must be the em- heads. They alone are able to learn. fire of Rome. Pagan Rome, how-the new song of the heavenly harpers. ever it cannot be, because a harlot because they alone are the worshipinvariably represents a church ofpers of the one true God, through the God, once pure, now apostate. Itone true mediator Jesus Christ. must then be papal Rome. This is further evident from the fact that the ten kings, spoken of in this connection, had not in the time of the prophet, received a kingdom as yet. This grand compound hyeroglyphic of the woman and her beast, represents the whole of the great city Their exultation subsisting along with great temporal adversity is. purely of a spiritual nature. They are virgins undefiled with women, inasmuch as they are free from the pollutions of idolatry. They follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth resolutely adhering to the religion of Christ. They are redeemed from gospel was his only weapon. He boldly maintained its doctrines ; called upon men to renounce their vanities, and published a German translation of the Bible. among men, by the almighty power of divine grace. They are considered as the first fruits of Christianity unto God and the Lamb, an earnest of a more plentiful harvest, By the second angel who profirst at the Reformation, and after- claims the fall of Babylon, the Auwards at the Millennium. In their thor conceives that Calvin, and the mouth was found no guile, for they reformed continental churches, in handle not the word of God deceit-distinction from the Lutheran, are fully, but faithfully, and simply de- peculiarly intended. Not hesi clare the way of everlasting life,tating like Luther at once to throw And they are without fault before the throne of God, having washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb; God not imputing their trespasses unto them, but accounting them as if they had never sinned through the imputed righteousness of Christ, who was made sin for them, in or-hour of his judgment is come, this der that they might be made the righteousness of God. Such is the state of the depressed church before the Reformation; of the faithful worshippers whom history mentions in every age, patiently exulting in their sufferings on mount Zion in the presence of the Lamb. We next behold another angel (or Christian minister) suddenly appearing in the very midst of the symbolical heaven, and bearing the everlasting gospel. This striking type answers in every particular to the dawn of the reformation Heaven signifies either the church or the state, according as it is taken in a spiritual or secular sense. In the first sense Luther appeared in the midst of heaven; being an Augustine monk, and continuing for a time in communion with the church of Rome. In the other sense he also appeared in the midst of heaven, proclaiming his doctrine before the emperor, and the princes of the empire assembled in open diet. The off the yoke of the church of Rome, they avowedly came out of her and were separate, and scrupled not to apply to her the name Babylon, and to denounce against her the future dreadful judgments of God. By the same figure of speech that the first angel cried, that the second angel proclaims, that Babylon is fallen. The sentence is as certain as if it were already executed: whence after the manner of the ancient prophets, the present tense is used instead of the future. The third angel, the author supposes to represent the insular church of England, which is not in all points professedly either Lutheran, or Calvinistic. For more than a century after the reformation, did the writings of the English divines, according to the description of the thinl angel's office, denounce the vengence of heaven, against those who still partook of the abominations of the apostate Roman beast, and loudly called upon the whole, world to come out of the harlot city, lest they should drink of the wine of the wrath of God. Gloriously successful as the reformation eventually was, the patience of the saints was severely tried during its progress. Great was the increase, which the noble army of the martyrs then received. Hence they had need of that consol atory declaration, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, &c. termined to inflict a judgment which should subdue their obAs the little book comprehends stinacy, and constrain them to the whole period of 1260 years, it accelerate the departure of his was necessary to notice the sounding people from the land. This of the third woe trumpet, which, was a judgment no less terlike its two fellows, Is comprehended rible and afflictive, than destroyin that period. The prophet there-ing all the first born in the land As the Israelites of Egypt. fore does notice it but reserving a more particular account of the judgments included under it, for consideration under the seven vials, he here arranges them under the two grand divisions of the harvest, and the vintage. What particular events are signified by these, Bishop Newton justly observed could not be determined in his day, they being then future. But it has fallen to our lot to hear the voice of the third woe, and to behold in the French Revolution, the dreadful scenes of the harvest. But a more dreadful prospect is before us. The days of the vintage are yet future, For the time hath not yet arrived, when the great controversy of God with the nations shall be carried on between the two seas, in the neighborhood of the glorious holy mountain in the blood-stained vale of Megiddo. [To be continued.] lived among the Egyptians, without some mark of distinction, they would be exposed to the slaughter of the destroying angel. As a signal or token, God commanded Moses to direct the Israelites to kill a lamb, a male of the first year, without spot, and strike the blood upon the two side posts, and on the upper post of the houses in which they were to eat the flesh, not breaking a bone, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, with their loins girded, their shoes on their feet and staves in their hand. This blood thus sprink led was a token that the Israelites resided in the house, and the angel destroyed them not. This was a perpetual ordinance to the house of Israel. In this institution, we have an instructive representation of evangelical subjects. In this lamb, we have typically exhibited the Explanation of Scriptural Types. Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. In the nature of the Lamb, innocent and patient, we see the benevolent and amiable nature of him who was meek and lowly in heart, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who was holy, harmless and undefiled. The lamb furnished raiment and food; and Christ supplies us with white raiment to hide our guilt and shame, and meat which endures to eter nal life. The lamb was killed the blood of Christ arrests avenging justice from the souls which are sprinkled with it.They shall be mine, says God, in the day that I make up my jewels. O, the precious and availing blood of Jesus! May we experience its saving efficacy! Amen. 2. The PILLAR OF CLOUD and FIRE typical. and roasted in the fire; and God's lamb must suffer and be slain. The blood of the lamb must be sprinkled with hyssop upon the posts of the door; and the blood of Christ must be sprinkled on all the powers and affections of the soul. The lamb must be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; and Christ must be received in sincerity and truth, and faith attended with peni-proceed through a pathless detence and contrition for sin.- sert to the land promised to their The Israelites were to attend fathers. On this occasion God this institution with their loins conducted them by a very singu girded, their feet shod, and their lar phenomenon, a pillar of staves in their hands, and this cloud and fire. This was a was a perpetual statute through-visible symbol of the divine maout their generations; and Christ jesty and presence, and at the must be received with a prepa-same time was typical of evanration of soul to follow him in gelical subjects. The Israelites, delivered from their Egyptian bondge, were to the regeneration, and enter on (1.) Is not the Deity in scripthe spiritual journey for the pro-ture, frequently represented by mised land; and the church, fire, that pure and subtile eleChristians, are to shew forth ment? and doth not the cloud the Lord's death till he come, aptly represent the imbecility by attending his supper, the and frailty of human nature, gospel passover feast, prepared which is crushed before the to proceed for the heavenly Ca-moth, and at its best estate is naan. When the lamb was slain and his blood sprinkled on the door posts, the power of Pharaoh and strength of Egypt were virtually dissolved; and when the blood of Christ is sprinkled on the soul by faith, it destroys the dominion of Satan and sin, and purifies the conscience from dead works to serve the living God; and when Christ shed his blood on the cross, he spoiled the principalities and powers of darkness. When the angel, destroying the first born of Egypt, saw the blood of the lamb on the posts of the door, he passed by the Israelites and destroyed them not; and vanity? When therefore the Lord came to the Israelites in a pillar of cloud and fire, did it not typify the great mystery godliness, God manifest in the flesh? Was not the pillar of cloud and fire abiding with the Israelites, a lively emblem of the WORD, made flesh and dwelling among us? Especially when we consider, (2.) That this cloud was a pillar of fire and gave light by night, so that the Israelites, in the midst of darkness, by its kind aid, had light in their dwellings; and Christ is the true light. By his advent, spiritually, the people that sat in darkness have |