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this moment ; yec wouM it not have t>eea poswble to coovince the sceptical, who rtqoircs visible demonstrattoo, nor even to guide the sjiuritual, who are apt to loie tbenisebres in v^ruc* myMirtsm, nor id anyway to gttets at or determiue the duratioti of ttus io- tcnral preparatory to the crins, bad it not be to for the great historical &ots coiktained io the first pait of Ihc vial cooceraiBg the river Euphrates, to which every eye is at present tniDed ; and which on all thease accounts we mtut be both diligent and patieot to anfold. Now, tD entering upon the conuderation of thn twelfth Ten«. whieh cOQCcmetfa the river E |Ati^i it is ikecessary before tii. thai yon abonhfi tmderstand that this book of the Afoealypae is wriuen tfaronghont in arabolkallangni^ wliidi be iDtetpreted ftiMn an aaple and exact of the other Scriptnwa> from which Umm symbols am derived ; and being so inter- pmad. mnsi be nfonosly nsed in tbe saine mn deYuitxi^aBaaethrangibaMthewboteof the book. fcr mxm^iK tbe kmM «itb tbeamceef this panphcticnl himofree dinmnof ibn I I tV^ thk DKriso vp op the £ui»huatl4. £^& in three different forms, we mual in every case interpret it according to the explanation of the uigel in tUr xviitb chap. " The sctcd heads are aerea mouRtainft on which the woman nitteth, aod [these] aresevefl king*," " And the woman wliich thou sawest is that great city vvhich rcii^ncth oTcr the kings of the eartb." '* And the ten horns which thou sawest arc te& kings — and shall give their power and strength unto the beast,*' I say, therefore, that Rome, upon lift seven hills, with ita seven'fnh] mircesHion of soven^i^i he^dshipx therein, and its outward conjunction of ten king- doms, is the iaterpretatton of th^t emblem which God hath given; and that wherever it occurs, whether in the Apocalypse or Daniel, it mt^Et be thus, end no otherwise underHtood. And fora^ much aa upon the forehead of th^t woman, who is hcrr declared to he ihu city of Rome, was written, " BA&rtoK the oueat, thk uothek or HARLOT« AVD AnOUITif AXIOMS OF THE llARTH." we likewise infer, that wherever Babylon is made mention of in this prophecy, as tt is very fre- quently, we are to understand not the literal Ba- bylon, which haxl ceased to be a city in the times of the viMon, bi^t Ronip which, in the puqtose of God, was foreord^ned to serve for Uie church of Christ tlie same office of tediou!^ and cruel impri* sonment that Babylon had served for the Je^i^h nation; and Rome, not in the sense of power and govemtnent which the beast symboliseth, bu