with the DOUBLE SWORD. Thou, therefore, O POPE, art this Beast; for thy wounded head betrays thee. This is the distinguishing mark, whereby thou art known to be the Beast. As Daniel spake of thee, when he described the wilful king who should not "regard the desire of women," or conjugal affection; as St. Paul spake of thee, when he described "the hypocrisy of liars, forbidding to marry;" so St. John spake of thy aversion to marrying, when he lays so much stress upon thy wounded head. Thy zeal for celibacy is not love of chastity. Witness Pope John XII. who was caught in bed with a Roman lady, and knocked in the head,' either by the Devil in person, or by the Devil in the form of the lady's husband. (Letters to Charles Butler, Esq. p. 386.) 'The husband, however,' observes the Poet Laureate, and not the Devil, is mentioned by Ilescas.'

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for thy "deadly wound" has been "healed." Thy predecessor, the sixth or Imperial head, though " as it were wounded to death," in the Emperor Momyllus Augustulus, revived in the Emperor Charlemagne. In like manner thy sixth or Imperial Sacrament, though "as it were wounded to death" by the DOUBLE SWORD, has never been destroyed, but subsists as thy sixth head at the present day.

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for "all the world wonders after thee." It wonders to see thy sixth head "wounded," but not destroyed. It wonders on beholding thee "drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."

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wonders after thee with a great wonder. Thou hast been rightly called STUPOR MUNDI, THE WOnder of THE WORLD. As there have been "Seven Kings of Rome, and thou art "the Eighth," so there have been "Seven Wonders of the World" and thou art "the Eighth."

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for the nations of Europe in worshipping thee, "worship the Dragon which gave power unto" thee. thee. For what is Popery but Christianity Heathenized? What is Popery but Heathenism Christianized? and what is Heathenism but the worship of the Devil?

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for the nations of Europe have for centuries "worshipped" thee, " saying, Who is like unto the POPE? "Who is able to make war with him?" or, as Dr: Barrow expresses

it,

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'Who dares to pull a feather with the Pope? Who dares to withstand his encroachments? wise man will not rather bear much than contest upon such disadvantages, and without probable grounds of success?' Neither the Kings of England, not even the LION-HEARTED RICHARD, nor the Kings of France, not even PHILIPPE AUGUSTE, who was a Prince of UNCOMMON RESOLUTION AND ADDRESS,' nor the Emperors of Germany, nor all the Kings of Europe put together, were able to pull a feather with the Pope.' None were a match for him. None were equal to him. None were "like unto" him. None were able to make war with him."

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for there has been

"given unto thee "a mouth speaking great things

and blasphemies." Thou dost not only set thyself up above all the Kings of the earth, but "thou being a man, makest thyself God." Thou pretendest to be the Vicar of Christ, and dost declare in all thy Bulls that 'whosoever presumes to disobey thy mandate will incur the indignation of Almighty God and his blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.' Surely thou art the Beast, "for thy speech betrayeth thee." Thou hast "a mouth speaking" BULLS. And what are thy BULLS, but "great things and blasphemies"?

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for "power has been given unto thee to continue (practise) forty and two months." The period assigned for thy dominion is, in prophetical language, "a time, times and a half," or three years and a half. This is, prophetically, "forty and two months," or "twelve hundred and threescore days." In other words, thy duration is a period of 1260 years. The Seven Heads which preceded thee continued for no longer a period than 1480 years, i. e. from the year B. c. 753 to the year A. D. 727. But thou hast already existed 1110 years, as "the Eighth" Head of Rome, and hast therefore 150 years yet remaining.

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for during thy reign "the Two Witnesses prophesy clothed in sackcloth." Thou still enforcest image worship, the celibacy of the clergy, and a Latin ritual in the very teeth of Scripture. Thou still preferrest thy Latin Vulgate to the original Hebrew and Greek. Thou still puttest Apocryphal writings and traditions on a level with Scripture. The little Scripture which is

read in thy church is read in an unknown tongue, in a language not understood of the people. The Scriptures have been interdicted and proscribed, wherever thou hast had the power. They have sometimes been burnt in common with Protestants of the human species. Thou claimest the privilege of interpreting them as thou pleasest, and dispensing with them when thou pleasest. Thy prelates at the Council of Trent called the Scriptures a dead letter, dead ink, an inanimate and dumb thing, the black Gospel! And the time will come when thou wilt slay the Witnesses, and be more furious against the Scriptures than thou hast been hitherto.

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for thou dost "open thy mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name." Thou dost blaspheme God the Father by pretending thyself to be the Father of the Christian Church.' Thou dost blaspheme God the Son by making thyself' universal bishop.' Thou dost blaspheme God the Holy Ghost by the title of Vicar of Christ,' and thy pretence to infallibility.' Thou dost blaspheme the unity of the Godhead by the mock-unity of thy church. Thou blasphemest God by changing his laws and making laws quite contrary to them-by making new Sacraments-by making new Articles of Faith-by setting thyself above Scripture-by claiming authority to interpret it as thou pleasest, and to dispense with it when thou pleasest-by affecting divine titles-by receiving adoration in St. Peter's church-by issuing thy Bulls in the name of Almighty God.

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for thou dost open thy mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his tabernacle." Thou blasphemest the human nature of Christ, "the temple of His body," in making it become a crumb of bread literally, and so "see corruption." For For that which entereth in at the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught." What degradation is this to the body of the Blessed Saviour, which was raised on the third day that it might "not see corruption" ! Thou makest the body of Christ liable to be vomited by the Priest, to be dispersed by the wind, or to be eaten by a mouse or other animal! Thou dost also blaspheme the Church of Christ, "the Tabernacle of God," by indentifying it with thine own apostate Church, the Church of Rome. Whereas the Church of Rome is

represented in Scripture as "the habitation of devils, and the abode of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." (Rev. xviii. 2.)

THOU, O POPE, art this Beast; for thou dost

open thy mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme those that dwell in heaven." We have seen that thou blasphemest God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Thou dost also blaspheme the Angels of God, by praying to them, whereas they say unto thee, See thou do it not! Thou blasphemest the Blessed Virgin Mary by making her thy great Mahoz, and offering idolatrous worship to her. Thou blasphemest the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul by issuing thy Bulls in their name, however those Bulls may go in the very teeth of the Apostles, and