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ABOMINATION of desolation-is twofold. That of the
City JERUSALEM, set up by Vespatian.-i. 32. iii. 60, 69. And that of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH set up by JUSTI- NIAN, iii. 44, 68, 73, 251.-To the latter the Prophetical Periods are to be referred. iii. 249.
ABYSS-or the bottomless Pit—is not local, but mystical. iii, 22, 74, 320, 324, 347-is the symbol of two great revó- lutions of a similar character, iii. 348. Gives existence to the Beast of the last times by its second occurrence, iii. 319. This symbol denotes elevation to supreme power by means of delusion and terror;—or false principles propa- gated by the sword. iii, 324. See Beast,
ANALOGY-of Prophecy, ii. 446.-Of the Plagues of ROME
with those of EGYPT, i. 153, 162, 167, 456, 460,- ii. 57, 69, 84, 90, 105, 117, 125.-Of the Vision of Dry Bones with the First Resurrection, i. 222. ANOINTING of Messiah, i. 157.
ANGEL any instrument of Providence, ii. 41, 194. The three Heralds, of the reformation, ii. 39.-The Ministers of the Vials, ii. 54.-The Mystagogue of the New Jeru- salem, iii. 632.
ANTICHRIST description of i. 238.-Symbols of his domi- nancy i. 249.-ii. 326-his fallen state, i. 416.-His Perdition, i. 297.-Is an HERESIARCH, i. 257. ii. 434. Has Laws and Times given into his hand, i. 246, 252, 266.-Holds the Throne of Iniquity, i. 269.—Is adored i. 249, 422.-Testimony against him by DAVID, i. 391.—üi. 346, (See Psalms.)-By DANIEL, ii. 321, 326.-By ISAIAH, i. 288.-By OUR LORD himself, ii. 266 &c. APOCALYPSE—an inspired collection and exposition of the Prophecies, i. 384.-iii. 531.-Its wise and wonderful construction, iii. 364, 515, 625.-Is chronological, but not historically so, iii. 517.-Illustrates a complex sub- ject by retrospects, with re-introduction and variation of the symbols, iii. 320.—Unity of spirit and manner be. tween DANIEL and St JOHN, iii. 363, 446.
APOSTACY the great, i. 245, 462,-is an object of divine
abhorrence, ii. 238 Its overthrow is in Prophecy con- nected with the rising again of Israel, i. 165,-ii. 165, 218, 229.-The symbol of the Ephah, ii, 238,
ARMAGEDDON battle of ii. 128, 149.
BEAST-the symbol of a secular empire always, 2 Pref. p xxxix. The powers ecclesiastical being otherwise represented. (See Church) The Fourth Beast of DANIEL is the same as the first of the apocalypse, or Beast of the Sea, ii. 319 Is diverse from all other beasts, and at times differs from his former self. (See Wound,--Life, &c) is wounded to the ac- tual death of his sixth head-but lingers under another supposititious, and revives under an eighth, which is truly "of the seven,"As immediate HORN of ROME itself-
and image of the late IMPERIAL DRAGON, he becomes by supremacy the head over the ten confederated Horns, and is indentified with the whole beast. (See Horn, Image, &c.) ii. 22, 184, 336.-iii. 133. 251.-2 Pref. xxiv. xxxi. xxxiv. xxxix.
BEAST of the earth-or second-his origin ii. 23,-iii. 132- affords a basis to prophetical chronology, iii. 344.-His characteristics iii. 135.-is not (as had been supposed) an ecclesiastical power, ii. Pref. xxxviii.-His end, iii. 320, 353.
BEAST of the Abyss-the symbol of the prevailing despotism
of the times subsequent to the 1260 years, and of a rise by delusion and the sword, iii. 327.—is a successional power, like other symbolical Beasts. 2. Pref. xlvi, and clearly a predicted successor to the beast of the sea defunct, iii. 316, 336, 354,-2 Pref. xxx.-Is subjected to the power of the two Prophets, and variously tormented,-2. Pref. xxi. The symbols of this power are as clearly defined, and equally significant as those of the two former, 2. Pref. vii-ii. 111.-iii. 79, 287.-His time of appearance fixed to the near ending of the testimony, 2. Pref. xxvii,—iii. 311.-As that of the first beast was prior to its beginning. BESTIAL System-the rationale of it, iii. 166, 300, 309, 352. -Bestial life consists not in religious principles, but poli- tical power, ii. 27.
BICHENO Mr.-his singular computation of the Millennium &c. 2 Pref. xxvii.
BLASPHEMY-characteristic of Rome, both before and after her Conversion, ii. 24.-Constructive, ii, 183, 257.-lite- ral, i. 250, 422,-ii. 142,-Names of, ii. 24, 184.-Blas- phemy of modern Jews, iii. 192, 221, 268, 566. BLINDNESS-spiritual of Jews i. 80,-Of Antichristians, i.
283. ii. 94. 457,—becomes judicial, i. 307, S13—ii. 52, iii. 119. (See Delusion, Dementation.)-forms no excep- tion against the righteousness of God, iii. 222. Blindness to the signs of the times inexcusable, ii. 460. iii. 198. BLOOD--divine vengeance for, ii. 75, 228--Civil wars and great bloodshed, will characterise the wrath of God against Popery, i. 345, ii, 219, 542,—Blood dissolved a symbol of ANARCHY, ii. 64.--Persecution or drunkenness with Blood, i. 321. ii. 71, 177, 294.-is retorted upon the perse- cutors, ii. 474, 545,
BREAKER-The appointed minister of the third woe--has overthrown the GREAT IMAGE, ii. 499, 523. (See Stone, Scourge.) Is a successional power, the monarch of the ABYSS, and not any individual man, 2 Pref. xxii.—iii. 316.--Applicable first to BUONAPARTE, ii. 447, 463, iii. 310. 2 Pref. xxiv. Originates like MOHAMMED, from the Abyss, and rises by similar means, ii. 450. iii. 22. Emblems by which the Breaker is prefigured, ii. 472, &c,
BUONAPARTE- verifies the Prophecies by his fall--as he had
previously done by his elevation, and abuse of power, 2, Pref. xxii. xxxiv-ii. 502. iii. 293, 310.
CALCULATIONS--prophetical-have been often erroneous, iii, 88, 97.--The possibility of attaining to greater correctness iii. 106, 250. Of BENGELIUS, iii. 99, 108, 178. Of BURTON, iii. 433. Of BICHENO, 2 Pref. xxvii, CAPTIVITY and sword--retributive i. 313. ii. 439, iii. 144, 2 Pref. xxii. (See Blood.)
CHRIST--Divine nature of--i. 115, 139, 167. iii. 609. King- dom of ii. 374, 397, 431. (See Messiah, Jerusalem:)— will not reign personally on earth, iii. 389. Symbols of, in
his war with ANTICHRIST, ii. 141, 165.--as coming from EDOM, ii. 228.
CHRONOLOGY of the prophetical times, iii. 65. (See Time,
CHURCH--never represented under the symbol of a Beast, 2
Pref. xxxix. But under that of a woman, ii. 240. The Primitive church, ii. 13. The Apostate, ii. 172, 200, 491. The reformed, ii. 409. The Bride, or repentant Jewish church in union with the general conversion, iii. 602, 636, 642. Encomium of the church of England, ii. 395. The CHURCH of CHRIST, as protesting against the Beast, is also represented as two witnesses (which see)-- symbols necessarily varying with the altered circumstances of their subject, i. 186. ii, 240, 521. iii. 525.
CITY, The Holy ii. 9. The great ii. 163, 191. iii. 28. CLAIMS and Pretensions--though false, are the objects of Pro- phecy, ii. 26, 93, 323. (See Horn.) CLAY--miry, what? ii. 358, 363, 368. COELIBACY--popish, i. 464. ii. 363.
COMMANDMENTS of God, mutilated and changed, i. 252, 266. ii. 276, 332.--Sacraments defiled, ii. 97, 203, 291.-per- verted by the Jews, i. 183.
CONTROVERSY of Sion--in the 50th Psalm, CHRIST'S plea against the Jewish apostates, iii. 222,-against the AN- TICHRISTIANS, ii. 346.—The decision of it, ii. 132, 152, 225, 559.-It synchronises with the Vials and Session of Judgment.
CONVERSION of the Jews--impossible until the time fixed, and known only unto God, 1 Pref. p. iv.-iii. 191, 227, 503, 628.-Of Papists not any more to be expected, 2 Pref. x.-ii. 433, 612, 616.-Of the Gentiles now begun, 2. Pref. xliii.-It will not be universal and complete, though very general, iii. 209, 404, 519, 607. The conversion
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