are also shewn in St John's picture of the corrupt church. (Rev. xvii.)

"Thus shall be do in the most strong holds" c.This passage has employed the ingenuity of several commentators to make sense of it. The best translation seems to be that of Bishop Newton, of which the original is susceptible, equally as well as it is of the common rendering. "Thus shall be do to the defenders of mahuzzim," (that is, to their priests,)" together with the strange god, which he shall acknowledge: he shall multiply bonor, and he shall cause them to rule over many, and the earth he shall divide for a reward." "The defenders and champions of MAHUZZIM (says Newton) were the monks, and priests, and bishops,”—the militia of his Holiness; who against many virtuous struggles of the Greek emperors, established (vi et armis, in several councils) the worship of images.For this good service he can never do enough for them. His strange god, and his new superstitions, and the privileges and immunities, the wealth and dignities of his church and

clergy, have in all ages occupied his whole zeal and sagacity for their advancement.The utmost ingenuity and talent has been employed in nothing else but inventing fresh sources of honor, and gain, and power, for "the defenders of MAHUZZIM,"

In order to compare Daniel's account with St. John's, it will be necessary to put together by a brief recapitulation, the whole of what has been collected from these four different views of this mystic potentate, as given above. In chap. second, the ROMAN EMPIRE in general is represented by LEGS of IRON, termi nating below in feet and toes of a base compound. Chap. seventh, it is represented more circumstantially under the type of a BEAST of great strength and cruelty, which at length puts out ten horns, and soon after another little born of notable activity. In point of time this production of these horns corresponds with the feet of the image, and the ten toes. In chap. eighth, further marks of discrimination and character are given of this little horn; his deceivableness of unrighteousness, cruelty and

antichristianism.-And lastly, in chap. eleventh, an enlarged view of his arbitrary and lawless proceedings, his Luciferian pride and blasphemy, his atheistical disregard of any God, yet unaccountably blended with zeal nevertheless for a false one. The celibacy of his priests, and the magnificence of his rewards to them, and the splendour of his worship of mahuzzim.

In the Revelations St. John has given an account of this singular tyrant, (with some additional explanatory circumstances) but upon the whole so very much the same as Daniel, that it is manifest the same original sat for his picture to both of these painters.

Rev. chap. thirteenth, the beast is seen rising out of the sea, and by peculiar marks declared to be the emblematical representation of the ROMAN EMPIRE, and to be still future (with respect to the circumstances of this new power that was to be ingrafted upon it,) at the time when St. John was writing. Here are also the ten borns, or kingdoms, and soon afterwards the image of the beast, answerable to

the little born, blaspheming God, and wearing out the saints, and using the same wicked policy as the horn did. He has also the very same term of duration allotted to him. The same mighty power is committed to him, " but not by his own power," as Daniel had said; for it is a usurped and pretended supremacy over all kindreds and tongues and nations." His zeal and exertions in support of his MAHUZZIM is the very same. He maintains their worship by "destroying wonderfully" all that have the courage to refuse to bow the knee to his Baalim; and by policy causeth craft to prosper in his hand, for he deceives the world into his religion by false miracles, and by peace or fallacious pardons, and a pretended covenant with death, he destroys the souls of many, and to say all in a word, he "stands up against the prince of princes," or becomes a compleat ANTICHRIST.

To these numerous circumstances noticed by both Daniel and St. John, the latter adds several others; particularly his NUMBER, and his MARK, which as they have been discussed

in the course of the foregoing sections, it is unnecessary here to repeat *. But there is one circumstance very particularly instanced by St John respecting his miracles, of which Į have never seen any account given that seemed to me tolerably satisfactory." And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast t.

St. Paul had before given notice that the pretence of miracles would be one (amongst many others) of the signs of the coming of Antichrist," Whose coming is after THE ENERGY OF SATAN with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness."-Both writers agree as to the nature of his miracles and their intent, being only to rivet his own chains of su

* Sect. xix. p. 29.

Rev. xiii. 13.