Syrian kings. And the wilful king of the last ten verses I can understand of nothing but the great Antichrist of the last ages. This alone is a sufficiently explicit declaration, that his Lordship conceived the wilful king to be the subject of all the last ten verses of the 11th chapter, and that he did not refer the six last of those ten verses to the king of the north, as Mr. Whitaker maintains that we ought to do. If however the declaration contained in the Bishop's letter to me required any explanation, a most full explanation of it would be found in his Lordship's letter to Mr. King on Isaiah xviii. He there scruples not to avow his belief, that in the monstrous tyranny of infidel France, he beheld the rise of the Antichrist of the West, or at least of a principal and conspicuous branch of Antichrist: and to this Antichrist thus interpreted, the Antichrist depicted in Dan. xi. 36-39, he unreservedly ascribes the whole expedition into Palestine, foretold in Dan. xi. 40-45; adding, in perfect harmony with ver. 45, that he thinks there is ground for believing, as the early fathers believed, "that Palestine is the stage on which Antichrist, in the height of his impiety, will perish."* Thus it appears, that his Lordship held the very opinion which drew upon me the censure of Mr. Whitaker. He supposed Daniel's wilful king to be the great Antichrist of the last ages; he supposed the great Antichrist of the last ages to be infidel France; and he supposed, that the expedition into Palestine would be undertaken by the great Antichrist or the wilful king, and consequently not by the king of the north. Nov. 24, 1806. *See Bp. Horsley's Letter on Isaiah xviii. p. 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 86, 87, 88, 98, 103, 104, 105, and see the citation from this letter in the second volume of the present work. CONTENTS. THE 1260 years cannot have any connection with the persecutions pagan Rome, p. 25.-They are the period of the dominance of the great Apostacy, and of the reign of the two little horns, p. 27.- They comprehend likewise towards their conclusion the tyranny of the Infidel king, who was destined to arise after the era of the Re- formation, p. 35.-At the end of the 1260 years all these enemies of God will be destroyed, and the restoration of the Jews will com- mence, p. 36. These matters are predicted in four of the prophecies of Daniel. 1. The dream of Nebuchadnezzar. 2. The vision of the four beasts. 3. The vision of the ram and the he-goat. 4. The latter end of the prophecy of the Scripture of truth, p. 36.-With these four prophecies the Apocalypse is closely connected, p. 46.— This grand chronological prediction contains a history of the Church of Christ from the days of St. John to the end of the world, p. 47.-It is divided into three successive periods of seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven vials, p. 48.-Under the three last trumpets the period of 1260 days is comprehended; the final trumpet containing the seven vials, p. 49. This period is equal to the whole duration of the great two-fold Apostacy in its dominant state, p. 49.-The History of the Apostacy is detailed in two distinct parallel prophetic lines, p. 50,- The little book contains the peculiar history of the Western Apos- tacy under all the three woe-trumpets, p. 51.-Under the last woe- trumpet Antichrist is fully revealed, p. 52.-This last woe-trumpet comprehends along with its seven vials two remarkable periods of God's wrath, the harvest and the vintage, p. 54. The harvest syn- chronizes with the three first vials; and the vintage with the last vial, p. 55. After all the vials have been poured out, and the enemies of the Lord have been destroyed, the Millennium will commence, p. 56.-Points of correspondence between the prophecies of Daniel CHAP. II. Symbols typifyat once both temporal and spiritual things, provided the matters thus typified have a mutual relation and correspondence, p. 63! Symbols may be reduced into various classes.-1. Heaven, with its subordinate symbols, p. 64.-2. Earth, with its subordinate symbols, p. 65-3. A city, with its subordinate symbols, p. 68.-4. A woman, p. 72.-5. A vine, p. 73.-6. A beast, with its subordinate symbols, p. 73. CHAP. III. Concerning the scriptural phrases of the latter days, the last days, and the time of the end. In the old Testament, the phrases of the latter days and the last days, are synonymous; for the original expression, thus variously translated, is the end of days, p. 77.-The end of days denotes pri marily any time yet to come, but secondarily the period of the Millennium, p. 78.-In the new Testament, the last days, when not spoken of prophetically, signify, the whole period of the Gospel dispensation, p. 80.-But, when the latter days, and the last days, are spoken of prophetically, then they bear two entirely distinct significations, p. 80. In this case, the latter days import the reign of superstition, which continues during the greater part of the Apostacy: while the last days mean the reign of Atheism and Infidelity, which openly commences under the last woe-trumpet towards the termination of the Apostacy, p. 81. The propriety of this distinction appears from a survey of the dif. ferent prophecies professedly descriptive of the latter days and the last days, p. 82.-What we are to understand by the term Antichrist, p. 87. The time of the end is the termination of the 1260 days; and it apparently extends through the 75 years, which intervene between that termination and the commencement of the Millennium, being the period of God's great controversy with his enemies, p. 91. ›Concerning the two first prophecies of Daniel, and the little horn 'of the fourth beast, 1 From the days of Nebuchadnezzar to the commencement of the Millennium, there are to be no more than four empires, universal so far as the Church is concerned: the Babylonian; the Medo-Persian; the Macedonian; and the Roman, p. 98.-These are doubly symbolized by the different parts of a large human image, and by four distinct beasts, p. 98. The last or Roman beast is described as having ten horns, and a little horn rising up among and behind them, p.. 99 The history of the little horn is not an epitome of the whole history of Antichrist, considered as Papal, Mohammedan, and In ............ fidel, p. 102-Nor is the little horn itself revolutionary France, p. 106. On the contrary, it is the Papacy, p. 117.-Yet it cannot be the temporal kingdom of the Papacy; but must be that spiritual kingdom of the Bishop of Rome, which, small as it originally was, grew at length into a catholic spiritual empire, symbolized by the second beast of the Apocalypse, p. 117.-It was to arise during the period that the Roman empire was divided into ten kingdoms, p. 119. It was to be harmless during the first part of its existence; but, after the saints had been given by the secular power into its hand, it was to become an universal ecclesiastical tyrant, utterly offensive in the eyes of God, p. 119.-At that period of their being thus given into its hand, the 1260 days of the great Apostacy of the man of sin, considered in its dominant state, commenced, p. 120.-Exact correspondence of the character of the little horn with the character of the Papacy, p. 127.-The three horns, which were to be plucked up before the little horn, are not the Greek sovereignty in Italy, the kingdom of the Lombards, and the western imperial authority in Italy, p. 131.-Neither are they the Exarchate of Ravenna, the kingdom of the Lombards, and the state of Rome, p. 132.-But they are the kingdom of the Heruli, the kingdom of the Ostrogoths, and the kingdom of the Lombards, p. 135.-The body of the fourth beast comprehends the whole Roman empire, both in the East and in the West, p. 144.But the ten horns are to be sought for only in the West, p. 144.For the Constantinopolitan Emperor was the representative of the sixth head, and consequently cannot be esteemed one of the ten horns likewise, p. 145.-The ten horns are the ten kingdoms, into which the Empire was originally divided, p. 148. Concerning the vision of the ram and the he-goat, and the little horn of the he-goat. ་་ The ram symbolizes the same power as the bear in the preceding vision; and the he-goat, the same as the leopard: the ram therefore is the Medo-Persian empire; and the he-goat, the Macedonian, p. 149. The great horn of the he-goat is the imperial dynasty of Alexander, p. 150.-His four horns are the four Greek kingdoms erected by Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus, p. 150.The little horn of the he-goat is not Antiochus Epiphanes, p. 151.Neither is it the Roman power in Macedon and the East, p. 151.Nor is it a compound symbol, typifying at once Antiochus Epiphanes, the Roman power in the East, Mohammedism, and the infidel republic of France, p. 158. But it relates to Mohammedism alone: because nothing, except the spiritual empire of Mohammed, corresponds with it in every particular, local, circumstantial, and chronological, p. 159. The tyrannical reign of both the spiritual little horns, Papal and Mohammedan, is to be dated from the same year 606, p. 168.The propriety of fixing upon this date shewn, both from the circumstance of the saints having been delivered into the hand of the Papal horn in this very year, and from its being the only date which will make all the prophetic numbers of Daniel harmonize together, p. 164.-Date of the vision of the ram and the he-goat ascertained by a computation deduced from the year 606, p. 173.-The character of the little horn of the he-goat perfectly corresponds with the character of Mohammedism in every particular, p. 185.-Whencé it is concluded, that it symbolizes Mohammedism and nothing but Mohammedism, p. 211. CHAP. VI. Concerning Daniel's last vision, and the king who magnified himself above every god. The first part of this prophecy is both unconnected with the period of the 1260 days, and has been so amply and satisfactorily explained by Bp. Newton, that it is impossible to add any new observations to those which he has already made, p. 212.-But the second part is attended with considerable difficulties, p. 213.-What power did Daniel mean to describe under the character of the king, who was to magnify himself above every god? p. 213. He is not a compound power, including both the Eastern Emperors and Western Popes, p. 213, 216. Neither is he a double type; relating primarily to the Papacy, and ultimately either to Mohammedism or Infidelity, p. 214, 233.What are we to understand by his disregarding the desire of women p. 225. He cannot be the same power as the man of sin, p. 230.The power, which he typifies, must be sought for after the Reforma tion, as appears from the chronological series of events detailed by Daniel previous to the first mention of him, p. 221, 234.-It must likewise be sought for, as is manifest from the character of the king, in the last days of Atheism and Infidelity, p. 225.-The king however is not to be, like the mockers of the last days, any single individual, but a nation composed of individuals who openly profess the principles of the mockers, p. 238.-This nation is revolutionary France, the long-predicted Antichrist, p. 240.-The Atheism of France, p. 241. Her worship, notwithstanding this Atheism, of a foreign god and tutelary deities, p. 241.-In what manner she caused her foreign god, and the upholders of her tutelary deities, to rule over many, p. 243.-In what manner she honoured them with desirable things, p. 247.—In what manner she has divided the land among the upholders of her tutelary deities for a price, p. 248.-Although the principles of Antichrist were working even in the apostolic age, yet eventually the main cause of his success in propagating his blasphemous opinions was the corruption of the truth by Popery, p. 249. It was predicted however, that some of those, who had clean escaped from them that live in error, should be deluded by the false teachers of the last days, p. 251. This accordingly has happened in various protestant coun trics, p. 251. The possible objection, that the French have again |