A

DISSERTATION

ON THE

PROPHECIES,

THAT HAVE BEEN FULFILLED,
ARE NOW FULFILLING,

OR

WILL HEREAFTER BE FULFILLED,

RELATIVE TO THE

GREAT PERIOD OF 1260 YEARS;

THE PAPAL AND MOHAMMEDAN APOSTASIES;

THE TYRANNICAL REIGN OF ANTICHRIST,

OR THE INFIDEL POWER;

AND

+

THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.

By the Rev. GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B.D.

RECTOR OF LONG-NEWTON IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

"Shut up the Words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the end; many
shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Dan. xii. 4.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1818.

Printed by R. & R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, London.

CONTENTS.

'VOL. III.

DISSERT. I.

Respecting the rise and fall of the seventh and eighth apocalyptic

forms of Roman government and the effusion of the fourth and

fifth vials. p. 3.

SECT. I.

Preliminary Observations. p. 3. -

THE Roman Empire, as all agree, is symbolized by the apo-

calyptic seven-headed and ten-horned wild beast: and its first

six heads or forms of government are easily ascertained to be

Kings, Consuls, Dictators, Consular Tribunes, and Roman Em-

perors. p. 3.

I. But it is not equally easy to ascertain the seventh head,

which was future at the time when the apostle wrote.

p. 4.

II. Most protestant expositors, however they may have been

perplexed in the arrangement of the seventh head,

have supposed the eighth and last form of Roman go-

vernment which succeeds it to be the Papacy. But

this opinion is plainly untenable, both on account of