bly either break through or over-leap it. No dominant power at ROME in any capacity whatever, either foreign or native, can now set up any pretensions to be this "last head" of the beast of the sea. For not only is his whole time expired, with the fullest attestation of all prophetical indications, but the old symbols, the evidences and accompaniments of that dynasty of roman beasts, are all obliterated and lost, the man of sin himself, with all his dexterity at creation and re-creation, (2d. Thess. ii. 9.) being now incapable either to exhibit them, or restore the loss of them. The symbols themselves are such as are incapable of renovation; and though "times and laws" were given into his power, (Dan. vii. 25.) and accordingly did suffer his correction at his will, yet past time, and the fulfilment of prophecy, are things beyond the bounds of the papal omnipotence.-The incapacitating influence of change hath passed upon the POPE himself, as well as upon his kingdom, were he even to be reinstated in his temporal power, as he held it before the revolution; and a throne re-established at ROME for: the politico-ecclesiastical potentate, which no future ebullition of revolutionary madness,

or military ambition from the ABYSS might be likely again to overthrow, yet he could not possibly be any more-"of the seven"-nor yet the eighth in succession; but is absolutely a ninth, and of a different symbolical character, and another prophetical period. *

* Mr. Faber's claim for BUONAPARTE, as a true continuation of the "last head" under the title of the "septimo-octavehead," that is to say, "both the seventh and the eighth in one;" because Mr F-conceives CHARLEMAGNE to have been such, (but upon very precarious grounds), appears to me to be without foundation, and gives a very unsatisfactory solution of this difficulty. The hand of time and the progress of events, since Mr F-wrote, have now removed all its darkness from this knotty point, by putting an end to that last head. The title impressed upon it, "the eighth and of the seven" was designed as a stamp of its sterling value, absolutely inimitable, both before and after the season of its currency. We have now seen the end of it, and therefore assuredly know that Mr Faber's idea is not correct; but that the exclusion of the seventh, or gothic power, as a foreign tyranny, and that of the gallic yoke, for the same reason, is the whole of the mystery. BUONAPARTE was never “an head" of the roman beast, nor at all friendly to him as such; but on the contrary was remarkably (even when there seemed no necessary occasion to oblige him to it, (see 2d. Exod. v. ii. p. 502.) the scourge of God, appointed to hurl him into perdition. He was not even Emperor of ROME, but a king there, purposely to exclude THE POPE from being one

The symbols of the successional powers which were to have dominancy over ROME after the end of the 1260 years, are described also with such strong marks of character, that they are not easily to be misapplied; and must totally exclude even HIS HOLINESS himself, from all pretensions to be the continuation of the last head of the roman beast of the sea, after the pouring of the fifth vial upon him, though he is still the ANTICHRIST in another form, and under a new period of the propheThe palpable intervention of a ninth, and a tyrannical domination over Rome, inflicting symbolical death and PERDITION like the burning flame upon the beast, in his head and whole body, and having itself, numerous

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and like the GоTH he also obtained his power over ROME by conquest. The sword and delusive doctrines, which opened the way before him, were the true apocalyptic signs of the abyss, whence he originated; and the symbolical slaying of the reigning beast, and destruction of all his horns, were the immediate consequences of his rise.-The GOTH wounded his sixth head only unto death, but the gallic tyrant put a period to all possibility of his existence any more as a beast. The heads and horns of Rome are no where now to be found, unless hung up in effigy, in BUONAPARTE's hall of audience at Paris, as memorials of ROME's departed greatness!

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and strong lines of character, attested by many prophecies, and secured by a perpetuity of six years duration, must render both the POPE'S claim, and that of all others, inadmissible, without a violation of prophetical fidelity. (See in "THE SEASON AND TIME," the proof of this, by a grammatical Theorem, and other arguments).

That the POPE might possibly emerge again out of the darkness of the fifth vial, by the effect of future revolutionary movements, which are to fill up the two intervals of the Season and Time with a succession of wonders, (2d. Exod. vol. iii. p. 43-45—173) was a consideration which has not been excluded from my calculations. (2d Exod. vol. iii. p. 65-78-305.) I have even admitted that a restoration to the Pope, of his ecclesiastical powers and dignity in a considerable degree, as the head of his church, might not be improbable, nor inconsistent with prophecy. But I cannot so easily conceive a restitution of his temporal sovereignty, on such conditions at least of independence and security, as would constitute the PAPACY any more an horn of ROME; and yet were even that to be the case,

as I have shewn that he could not be the last legitimate head of the beast; so neither could he be "the little horn," (the eleventh); for he must necessarily now be a twelfth; the little horn, and last head, having both fallen together. I therefore confidently expect that either divine providence will raise up some yet unforeseen obstacles to the restitution of the temporl powers now symbolically defunct, or that they will be loaded with such objections, and palpable inconsistencies with the prophetical descriptions, that their non-identity will be acknowledged by all reasonable judges.

The character of the false prophet of the "Season and Time," is as distinctly drawn as that of the little horn, of the period 1260; and as he is to act a great and conspicuous part in the transactions of his time, as one of the three chiefs of the last confederation; it is impossible to say at present what share even of temporal power may be requisite to his discharge of his apocalyptic function with suitable effect, as coadjutor of the Beast and Dragon of this period. He may be expected to shine in his orbit, but it will be with a lustre, pale, and much eclipsed of its former