of the descendants of the three Patriarchs of Arabia, Joctan, Ishmael and Esau,

p. 54.—Esau and his nation of importance as well as the nation of Jacob, p. 54.

Ishmael considered, p. 56.-Reason why the two predicted nations of Isaac

and Ishmael should have been kept so long distinct, p. 57.-Isaac's posterity

traced in the two separated branches of Esau and Jacob, p. 60.-Probable rea-

son of Rebekah's conduct with respect to Jacob and Esau, p. 64.-The sepa-

rate blessings of the two brothers, p. 65.-Esau's marriage with a daughter of

Ishmael, p. 70.-The Nabatheans, his descendants, p. 72.-Characters of Ish-

mael and Esau in the New Testament, p. 72.-Probability of their descendants

being actors in the predicted warfare of the Christian period, p. 73.-Esau's

name forgotten in Mount Seir and Idumæa, in the second century, but his

descendants by Ishmael's daughter spreading in the interior of Arabia, under

the name of Nabatheans, p. 74.-Ishmael's and Esau's blessings stated and

verified, p. 75.-Petra, the ancient capital of Esau's posterity, recently dis-

covered by Burkhardt, p. 75.-Improbability that Esau's posterity should be-

come extinct in all its three branches, before the last days, p. 76.-The Jewish

Rabbis trace Edom to Rome, p. 77.-Probability, from the statement of Bry-

done, that a grandson of Esau, and a colony of Chaldeans, settled in Sicily, p.

77.-The yoke of Jacob passing from the neck of Esau, during the tyranny

of Rome, and the subsequent dominion of the Saracens, p. 79.— The two`

Arabian Patriarchs, Ishmael and Esau, both inimical to the true inheritors, p.

80.-The fulfilment of their persecution and hatred to be looked for in the

future deeds of their disappointed progeny, p. 80.-Verified in the prophet of

Arabia, p. 80.-Ishmael's descendants Archers.-The prophecy respecting

them in Jacob's blessing to Joseph fulfilled in the conduct of the Saracens

towards the Jews, p. 81.-The same persecuting spirit evinced to this day,

p. 81. The contrasted blessings of Esau and Jacob, the one having a sword

but no wine, the other wine but no sword, p. 82.-Corn and wine bestowed

upon Jacob's posterity in a mystic manner, p. 82.-The posterity of Jacob

commemorating their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt, by the feast

of unleavened bread, and the drink offering of wine, p. 83.-The sacramental

memento of bread and wine under the Christian dispensation, p. 84.-The

Mahometan incapable of being nourished or sustained by these ordinances,

p. 85.-Isaac's blessing of corn probably includes the hidden manna promised

in the Testament to him that overcometh, p. 86.—Obadiah treats in his whole

chapter of Edom and his confederacy, p. 86.-The revelation of the man of

sin in the last days, p. 87.

CHAPTER IV.

TWELFTH OF REVELATIONS.

The widely extended apostasy, which, in spite of the agency of Noah, succeeded

the Deluge, argues a spirit of active rebellion still existing in the world, p. 90.

-Bondage of the people of God, p. 91.-Their complaints as set forth in the

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Psalms, p. 91.-Twelfth of Revelations, p. 93.-Two distinct sections visible

in this chapter, betokening either different periods, or different stations, of

the persecutions of the church, p. 95.—The first unfolds a scene which passes

in heaven, and appears to describe the resistance of Satan to the birth of

Christ, and his being cast out in consequence upon the earth, p. 95.-The se-

cond relates scenes which really pass upon earth, and the station points us to

Rome, p. 96.—Antichristian spirit there. This corroborated even by Gibbon,

p. 96.-Quotation from the Pictorial Bible showing the original Romans to

have been a colony of Edomites, p. 97.-Similar idea brought forward by

Brydone, and by the authors of the Ancient History, p. 98.-Corroborated

by Isaac's blessing to Esau, p. 98.-The red horse in the Revelations, p.

99.-Probable cause of the dragon's enmity, p. 100.-Satan's doubt of our

Lord's identity, p. 101.--Division of opinion upon that identity in different

descriptions of persons, p. 101.-Mahometanism Satan's device to lower our

Saviour after the decline of Paganism, p. 103.—Mahomet's implacability

against the Jews. Inconsistency of this with his professed design, that of

extirpating Idolatry, p. 103.—A preternatural enmity and antichristian spirit

discernible in his religion, p. 105.-The dragon gives his power and strength

to a new beast, p. 105.-The dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, dis-

tinctly named in the sixteenth of Revelations, p. 106.—The restricted power

of the antichristian party, p. 107. The events related in the Book of Reve-

lations future to the birth of Christianity, p. 107.-The destruction of Jeru-

salem, the ten persecutions, and the violence of the Mahometan warriors, p.

108.-The last of these fulfils the woe mentioned in the 10th verse of the

third chapter, p. 108.-Antichrist, a character attributed to the Pope, but

more applicable to Mahomet, p. 109.-Quotation from Newton on the Pro-

phecies, containing a statement of the opinions of the Fathers respecting

Antichrist, p. 110.-Probable reason why this character was attributed to the

Pope, p. 113.

CHAPTER V.

THIRTEENTH OF REVELATIONS.

The thirteenth of Revelations, p. 115.-An Image of the former Roman

tyranny rising in the Papistical head, p. 118.—An approaching dominion, so

extraordinary as the Saracenic, more likely to be portrayed by St. John, as

a future event, than either the past or present Roman empire, p. 119.-A

portrait of the past or present of no service in the manifestation of prescience,

p. 119. That of the Saracenic empire of infinite service, p. 119.-Appa-

rently, however, a reserved prophecy, and by what means, p. 119.-

The universal beast of this chapter, like unto a leopard, his predecessor. The

Saracenic empire spread nearly over the same ground, and possessed the

same warlike character as the Roman, p. 120.-The seven heads of the

Caliphate, p. 120.-Their blasphemous character, p. 120.-Transfer of the

dragon's power to the blasphemous beast of this chapter, p. 121.-Probable

advantage gained by Satan from Adam's fall, p. 122.-Our Saviour's rejec-

tion of his proffered temptation, p. 122.-Satan's disappointed ambition

prompting him to give his power to some form of rebellion, acting particu-

larly against the Saviour, p. 122.-The Saracenic such a power, p. 122.-

The horses of Zechariah considered, p. 123.-The wounded head of the

beast verified at Rome in the year 476, by the sword of the northern

nations, and the preaching of the Gospel, p. 125.-Revives in the Papacy,

p. 126.-The open enmity of the great beast of this chapter, p. 127.-Never

fulfilled by the Roman power, but accurately verified by the Mahometan,

p. 127. The Churches of Rome and Constantinople, in spite of their

dereliction, depositaries of the truth, p. 128.-Fulfilling the symbols of

Zechariah, p. 128.-Notified also in the Apocalypse (ch. xi.), p. 129.-Men

not permitted to hurt them, p. 129.-Proofs of this from history and revela-

tion, p. 130.-Improbability that St. John would so strongly characterise the

Roman empire as blasphemous, when there was another to succeed it which

would so much more deserve the title, p. 132.-Reason of the prophetic repre-

sentation having been applied to Rome, p. 132.-The necessity that four em-

pires of notoriety should be found to have arisen in chronological order, upon

the site of the Metallic Image, subsequent to the time of Daniel's vision,

p. 133. And that the last empire should be in a state of open rebellion

against the Father and the Son, p. 133.—All this, to a certain extent, ful-

filled by the Mahometan empire, p. 133.

CHAPTER VI.

CONTINUATION OF THE THIRTEENTH OF

REVELATIONS.

A spiritual difference between the people who chose to worship the Antichris-

tian beast, and those who declined it, p. 136.-The people, who worshipped

the dragon and the beast, had no part in the Lamb's book of life, being

plainly another seed, p. 137.-Extensive prevalence of the enmity between

the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent, p. 138.-The multiplied

conception, p. 139.-Decline or recession of the beast, exemplified in the

decline of the Roman and Saracenic empires, p. 140.-Some epoch of time to

be sought for, from which we may date the actual existence of the beast, (the

Saracenic empire,) p. 141.-Investigation of this point, especially as con-

nected with the transmission of Mahometan power and spirit into the

Turkish horn, p. 143.-More reasonable to ascribe ten horns to the living

and reigning Saracenic empire, than to advert to the ten horns of the extinct

empire of Rome, p. 145.—The beast with two horns considered, p. 146.—

The little horn of Daniel represents the Papacy. Another horn however is

probably included in his elaborate description of the fourth beast, p. 147.-

The two horns of the Apocalypse, a probable illustration of these two sup-

posed horns of Daniel, p. 149.—Other distinguished powers in Europe besides

the Papacy, and such as have had a great deal to do with the Christian war-

fare, p. 151.-Examination of Daniel's apparent repetitions in his vision of

the fourth beast, p. 151.-Part of the vision applicable to the Pope, part not,

p. 153. Neither the Pope of Rome, nor the Patriarch of Constantinople,

seem equal to fulfil the character of the beast with two horns. A much

stronger exemplification of personal Antichristianity may therefore be

looked for, p. 154.-Apparent want of connection between the three sub-

jects on earth, which may be foreshown by the two-horned beast, namely,

the Pope, the Patriarch, and the Sultan, p. 154.-Consideration of the ap-

proaching Antichristian scourge described in the eighth chapter of Daniel, p.

156.-Shewn to be the Turkish horn rather than the Papal, p. 157.—He

acts not by his own power, p. 158.-The Mahometan beast still in practice,

in the Roman seat at Constantinople, by the delegation of the Sacerdotal

power to the Turks, p. 159.-The woman on the scarlet-coloured beast, full

of names of blasphemy, clearly points to the professors of the Mahometan

religion, p. 164.-Illustrated by Esau's name of Edom (red,) p. 165.-Disso-

lution of the state of Palestine by a power, springing from the serpent's root at

Babylon, and coming from the north, p. 166.-The aggregate beast will again

rise into power for a short time, p. 166. Probable necessity of this, in

order to purify the two imperially founded churches, p. 166.-The three

Antichristian spirits will, in the last conflicts, act against each other, p. 167.

-The mark of the beast. Guilt of receiving that mark, p. 167.-Modern

indifference to be guarded against; but kindliness of feeling towards the

deceived party recommended, p. 168.-Intolerance and cruelty of the Papal

superstition, and its inefficiency as a corrector of the public morals, p. 169.-

The number of the beast applied to Mahomet. Conclusion, p. 171.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY.

"In the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly."

JEREMIAH, ch. xxiii. v. 20.

The evil spirit conspicuously portrayed in the Holy Scriptures, p. 2.-Change effected in the moral government of the world by the fall of man, p. 2.Increase of worldly knowledge in the present day, calling for, and encouraging, a farther and deeper investigation of the Bible, p. 3.-The New Testament throwing light upon the temporary obscurity of the Old Testament prophecies, p. 5.—Sir Isaac Newton's opinion of prophecy, p. 5.-Instance of this in the explanation given by subsequent revelations, of the wickedness of the old world, and prevalent idolatry of the new, p. 7.-Opinion of St. Chrysostom stated respecting St. Paul's especial communications to the Ephesians, p. 9.-Consideration of the predestinated children, p. 10. The wheat and tares, p. 11.-The multiplied conception, and the sorrow consequent upon it, p. 12.-Cain and Abel, p. 13—The substitute, provided for murdered Abel, requisite as a revival or perpetuation of the good seed, p. 14.-Three different seeds in the world, p. 15.—Cain's progeny specially marked, p. 16.—The cause why the worship of God did not preeminently succeed in the new world, traced in the nature of the three sons of Noah, p. 17.-From their progeny arose the predicted empires of Daniel, p. 18.—The wickedness of these nations only to be accounted for upon the principle of Satan's ascendancy in the new world, as well as in the old, p. 19.-Gradual but increasing spread of the good seed, p. 20.--Their long oppression, p. 21.—Instanced in the destruction of the

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