. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . Chap. XTii: 11 And I beheld another beast comingup out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb,and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseih all the power of the first beastbefore him, and causeth the earth and them which dwelltherein to worship the first beast, whose deadly woundwas healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he makethfire come down from heaven on the earth in the sightof men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth bythe means of thos
. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . Chap. XTii: 11 And I beheld another beast comingup out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb,and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseih all the power of the first beastbefore him, and causeth the earth and them which dwelltherein to worship the first beast, whose deadly woundwas healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he makethfire come down from heaven on the earth in the sightof men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth bythe means of those miracles which he had power to doin the sight of the beast ; saying to them that dwell onthe earth, that they should make an image to the beastwhich had the wound by a sword, and did live. The regular and secular clergy, undertheir respective generals and bishops, arethe two horns, or ecclesiastical kingdoms ofthe papal catholic empire. IMAGE or THE BEAST. 369. 15 And he had powerto give life unto the im-age of the beast, thatthe image of the beastshould both speak, andcause that as many aswould not worship theimage of the beastshould be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great,rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in theirright hand, or in their foreheads ; 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he thathad the mark, or the name of the beast, or the numberof his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understandingcount the number of the beast : for it is the number ofa man j and his number is six hundred three score andsix. The false prophet, i. e. hierarchal Rome,clothed the image or effigy of secularpapal Rome with ancient imperial digni-ty. The pope was the creature of theclergy, who claimed, not only imperi-al dignity, but infallibiHty. The nameand number of this beast has been a mat-ter of much speculation, and it is a mat-ter of doubt whether he that has under-standing enough, has yet been found, to count t
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