4 afterwards granting them the free exercife of their religion; p. 143, 144. Others again to later events, Peter Jurieu to the perfecution of the proteftants by Lewis XIV, Bifhop Lloyd and Whifton to the Duke of Savoy's perfecution of the proteftants in the valleys of Piedmont, and his re-establishing them afterwards; p. 144, 145, 146 In all these cafes there may be fome refemblance, but none of these is the last perfecution, and therefore this prophecy remains yet to be fulfilled; p. 146. When it fhall be accomplished, the fixth trumpet and the fecond woe fhall end; p. 147. An hiftorical deduction to sofhow that there have been fome true witneffes, who have profeffed doctrins contrary to those of the church of Rome, from the feventh century down to the Reformation; p. 147, &c. Witneffes in the eighth century; p. 148, 149, 150. The emperors Leo Ifauricus and Conftantine Copronymus, and the council of Conftantinople; p. 148, 149. Charlemain and the council of Francfort; p. 149, 150. The British churches and Alcuin; p. 150. The council of Forojulio; p.150. Paulinus bifhop of Aquileia; p. 150. Witneffes in the ninth century; p. 150--156. The emperors of the eaft, Nicephorus, Leo Armenius, &c. and the emperors of the weft, Charles the great, and Lewis the pious; p. 151. The council of Paris; p. 151. Agobard archbishop of Lyons; p. 151, 152. Transubstantiation first advanced by Pafchafius Radbertus, and opposed by many learned men; p. 152. Rabanus Maurus; p. 152, 153, Bertramus; p. 153, 154• Johannes Scotus; p. 154. Angilbertus and the church of Milan; p. 155. Claude bishop of Turin; p. 155, 156. Witneffes in the tenth century; 156-161. State of this century; p. 156, 157. The council of Trofly; p. 158. Athelftan; p. 158. Elfere earl of Mercia; p. 159. Heriger and Alfric; p. 159, 160. The council of Rheims; and Gerbert archbishop of Rheims; p. 161. Witneffes in the eleventh century; p. 163-166. State of this century; p. 162. William the conqueror, and William Rufus; p. 162, 163. Heretics of Orleans; p. 163. Heretics in Flanders; p. 163, 164. Berengarius and his followers; p. 164, 165. Ecclefiaftics in Germany, &c; p. 165. The council of Winchefter; p. 166. Witneffes in the twelfth century, p. 166--177. The conftitutions of Clarendon, p. 167. Fluentius; p. 167. St. Bernard; p. 167. Joachim of Calabria; p. 168. Peter de Bruis and Henry his difciple; 168, 169. Arnold of Brefcia, p. 169. The Waldenfes and Albigenfesi; p. 169, 170. Their opinions; p. 171, 172, 173. Teltimonies concerning this fect; p. 173-177. Of Reinerius, the inquifitor-general; p. 174, 175. Of Thuanus; p. 176, 177. Of Mezeray; p. 177. Witneffes in the thirteenth century; p. 177-182. Farther account of the Waldenfes and Albigenfes; Pi 177, 178, 179. Almeric and his difciples; P. 179, 180. William of St. Amour; p. 180. Robert Grofthead or Greathead, bishop of Lincoln; p. 181. Matthew Paris; p. 182. Witneffes in the fourteenth century; p. 182---187. Dante and Petrarch; p. 182. Peter Fitz Caffio1 dorg p. 182. Michael Cæfenas and William Occam; p. 183. Marfilius of Padua; p. 183. In Germany and England the Lollards; p. 183, 184. The famous. John Wickliff; p. 184, 185. The Lollards remonftrance to the parlament p. 186, 187. Witneffes in the fifteenth century; P. 187-195. The followers of Wickliff; p. 187. William Sawtre; p. 187,1188. Thomas 1 Badby; Badby; p. 188. Sir John Oldcastle; p. 188. Prague; p. 189, 190. Opinions of the Bohe- mians or Huffites; p. 190.--194. Jerome Sa- vonarola; p. 194, 195. In the fixteenth century the Reformation; p. 195, 196. Hence an an- fwer to the popifh queftion, Where was your re- ligion before Luther? p. 197. Ver. 15. 16, 17, 18: a fummary account of the seventh trumpet and the third woe, the particulars will be inlarged The right divifion of the Revelation into two ment and illuftration of the former; p. 201, 202. Ver. 19. of the eleventh chapter fhould CHAP. XII. ver. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: the church per- fecuted by the great red dragon: p. 204---209. The church reprefented as a mother bearing children unto Chrift; p. 205. The great red dragon the Heathen Roman empire; p. 206, 207. His jealoufy of the church from the be- ginning; p. 207. But yet the church brought many children unto Chrift, and in time fuch as were promoted to the empire; p. 208. Con- ftantine particularly, who ruled all nations with in in properly afterwards; p. 209. Ver. 7--12: the war in heaven represents the contests between the Heathen and Chriftian religions; p. 209-- 214. The Chriftian prevails over the heathen re- ligion; p. 211. Conftantine himself and the Chrif- tians of his time defcribe his conquefts under the fame image; p. 212, 213. Still new woes, tho' but for a fhort time, threatened to the inhabiters of the earth; p. 214. Ver. 13-17. The dragon depofed still perfecutes the church; p. 214--219. Attempts to reftore the Pagan, and ruin the Chriftian religion; p. 215. The church now under the protection of the empire; p. 216. Her fight afterwards into the wilderness; p. 216, 217. Inundations of barbarous nations excited to overwhelm the Chriftian religion; p. 217, 218. But on the contrary the Heathen conque- rors fubmit to the religion of the conquered Christians; p. 218: Another method of perfe- CHAP. XIII. ver. 110; the defcription of the ten-horned beaft fucceffor to the great red dragon; p. 219-232. All; both papifts and proteftants, agree that the beast represents the Roman empire; Shown to be not Pagan but Chriftian, not imperial but papal Rome; p. 221, 222, 223. How fucceffor to the great red dragon; p. 224. How one of his heads was as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed; p. 224, 225. The world in fubmitting to the religion of the beaft did in effect fubmit again to the religion of the dragon; p. 226. The beaft perfectly like the little horn in Da- niel; p. 226, 227. A general account of his blafphemies and exploits, and how long to pre- making war with the faints, and overcoming them, and fo establishing his authority; p. 229, 230, 231. An admonition to engage attention; P. 231. Something added by way of confolation to the church, p. 232. Ver. 11-18: the defcription of the two-horned beaft; p. 232--249. The ten-horned beaft, the Roman ftate in general, the two-horned beaft the Roman clergy in particular; p. 234. His rife, and power, and authority; p. 234, 235, 236. His pretended miracles; p. 236, 237. His making an image to the beaft; p. 238. What this image of the beaft is; p. 238, 239, 240. His interdicts and excommunications; p. 241---244. The number of the beaft explained; p. 244---249. CHAP. XIV. ver. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; the ftate of the true church in oppofition to that of the beaft; p. 249 ---252. Ver. 6, 7: the firft principal effort towards a reformation in the public oppofition of emperors and bishops to the worship of faints and images in the eighth and ninth centuries; P. 252---256. Ver. 8: another effort by the Waldenfes and Albigenfes, who pronounced the church of Rome to be the apocalyptic Babylon, and denounced her deftruction; p. 256, 257, 258. Ver. 9-13 the third effort by Martin Luther and his fellow reformers, who protefted against all the corruptions of the church of Rome, as deftructive of falvation; p. 258---261. A folemn declaration from heaven to comfort them; p. 261. How the dead were bleffed from henceforth; p. 262---265. Ver. 14--20: reprefent the judgments of God upon the followers and adherents of the beaft under the figures, firft of harvest, then of vintage; p. 265, 266. These judgments yet to be fulfilled; p. 267., CHAP. |