The HORNS upon the bodies of three of the Beasts-The Minor Kingdoms into which three of the ruling kingdoms of the world were divisible. These minor symbols, or subdivisions of the prophetic Earth, are likewise confined each to a certain territory, and form a complete subdivision of the territory of these ruling kingdoms, into as many parts as there are horns upon each beast*.

THE HEADS OF A BEAST-The Rulers of a Kingdom or Empiret.

The IMAGE (or likeness) of the FOURTH BEAST or TEMPORAL ROMAN EMPIREThe Temporal Sovereignty assumed by the Papacy+.

WILD BEASTS of a different description, mentioned in the Apocalypse as the Two-HORNED BEAST OF THE EARTH§, and the SCARLET-COLoured BEAST OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT ||, savage in nature and bestial in principle,―The Papal and Infidel Powers, enemies and persecutors of the Church.

The CHASTE WOMAN, the spouse of Christ, -The True Church (considered as an esta

* Rev. xii. 3. xiii. 1. xvii. 3, 7, 12, 16. Dan. vii. 7, 8, 20, 24. † Rev. xii. 3. xiii. 1, 3. xvii. 9-11. Dan. vii. 6. Rev. xiii. 14, 15. xiv. 9, 11. xv. 2. xvi. 2. xix. 20. xx. 4. § Rev. xii. 11. xiv. 9, 11. xv. 2. xx. 4. || Rev. xi. 7. xvi. 10, 13. xix. 19, 20.

blishment), bringing forth spiritual children to Christ. She is said to reside in the wilderness for 1260 years, which is typical of her being, during that period, in a barren and unproductive state*. This symbol is similar to that of the Holy City Jerusalem.

The SEED OF THE WOMAN-True Believers in Christ, or the spiritual members of his body†.

FORNICATION-The Forsaking of the Worship of the True God to Worship Idols‡.

THE UNCHASTE WOMAN, or the Great Harlot-The Papacy which has turned the nations to Idolatry, or Spiritual Fornication §.

The KINGS OF THE EARTH who have committed fornication with her-The Rulers of the Papal Nations.

The UNDEFILED WITH WOMEN-The Protestant Nation, which professes the pure doctrines of the Gospel, and which is uncontaminated by the pollutions of the Papacy ¶.

The GREAT CITY BABYLON, built and established upon earth-The earth-The Papacy, being an establishment of great extent. This city is

* Rev. xii. 1-end. xix. 7. xxi. 2, 9. xxii. 17. † Rev. xii. 4, 5, 17. Exod. xxxiv. 15, 16. Deut. xxxi. 16. Ezek. vi. 9. xvi. &c. &c. § Rev, xvii. xix. 2. || Rev. xvii. 2. xviii, 3, 9. ¶Rev. xiv. 4.

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founded upon a corrupt worship of the true God*.

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The GREAT CITY called SODOM and EGYPT -INFIDELITY or Unbelief, exhibiting (in revolutionary France) the lust of Sodom, and the spiritual blindness, of Egypt,-by which also our Lord was once literally, and has since been spiritually "crucifiedt."

The HOLY CITY JERUSALEM, including the Temple The Visible Church of Christ, whose empire and influence will begin when Sodom, Egypt, and Babylon, are destroyed, This is a city whose foundations are sure, for it is founded upon a reliance on the covenant of grace, and on a knowledge of the true God. During the period of 1260 years, the whole of this city is trodden under foot of the Gentiles, excepting the interior courts of its temple. In its future glorious and paradisiacle or heavenly state, when purified from sin, and renovated in holiness, it is called the New Jerusalem..

THE TEMPLE consists of three parts, THE OUTER COURT, or the Court of the Gentiles, which is common to all the Inhabitants of the City, and represents the body of those who are Professors of Religion only, and do not belong to the spiritual Church §.

* Rev. xi. 13. xiv. 8, 20. xvi. 19. xvii. 5, 18. xviii. 2, 10, 16, 18, 21. + Rev. xi. 8. Rev. iii. 12. xi. 2. xxi. 2,

10. xxii. 14, 19. Gal. iv. 25, 26. § Rev. xi. 2.

The HOLY PLACE, or Second Court of the Temple, where none but the Priests might enter, represents the Spiritual Church upon earth, or the body of the true worshippers of Christ, who are "made kings and priests unto God*" Immediately before the door of the Holy Place was situated the altar of burnt-offering, representing that there is no admittance into the true Church, but through faith in the merits of the death and sacrifice of Christ. The Holy Place had no light from without, being illuminated only by the candlestick with seven lamps, which typified the Spirit of God; thus the Spiritual Church derives all its light from the illumination of the Holy Spirit. In the Holy Place was the altar of incense; by this is implied, that it is in the Church of Christ alone that acceptable prayer is offered up: there likewise was placed the shew-bread, of which the priests alone might eat, typifying that bread of life, by which the Church of Christ is fed.-THOSE that wORSHIP in the INNER COURT of the TEMPLE are the same as "the Seed of the Woman," the Individual Members of the Spiritual Churcht. THE HOLY OF HOLIES was a type of Heaven, the place of the immediate presence of God, and of his throne. THE TEMPLE IN HEAVEN

* Rev. xi. 1. xv. 8.

† Rev. xi. 1.

in the Apocalypse means the Holy of Holies, and symbolically represents the Church in Heaven*. In the New Jerusalem there will be no Templet, for the Temple will then be identified with the Holy City; there will be no part peculiarly holy, for all will be holy; The Church in Heaven will descend to Earth, and God will dwell with men. The whole earth will be the Temple of Christ, and the whole Temple the Holy of Holies.

The LIVING CREATURES which surround the Throne-The Church in Heaven. This symbol is taken from the appearance of the twelve Tribes, as usually encamped round the Tabernacle in four companies§, under the four banners of the tribes of Judah, Ephraim, Reuben, and Dan, having upon them the figures of a Lion, an Ox, a Man, and an Eagle||.

INCENSE, OF SWEET ODOURS-The Prayers of the Saints which ascend up to Heaven, and are acceptable to God. None might offer the incense who was not of the seed of Aaron; this typifying, that by Christ alone we can approach unto God; for God seen out of Christ is to sinners a consuming fire ¶.

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* Rev. xiv. 15. xv. 5, 6. xvi. 1, 17. † Rev. xxi. 22.

Rev. xxi. 2, 3. § See Whiston, Sir Isaac Newton, &c. Rev. iv. 6-9. v. 6—14. vi. 1–7. vii. 11. xiv. 3. xv. 7. xix. Rev. v. 8. viii. 3, 4. Pea, cxli. 2. Mal. i. 11. Luke

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