swers to the second Apocalyptic Beast, | Conflagration, the mundane (2 Pet. iii. 210; the Jesuit Lacunza's testimony to this, ibid.
Clergy Papal, like 2nd Beast with horns as lamb, speaks as dragon, iii. 210, 211; exercises Pope's authority "before him," 212, 213; including that of mi- racles, 213, 214; transubstantiation, 214; excommunication, 216; enforces worship of the Pope as Christ's vicar, 218
Clinton, Fynes, his chronology of sacred Scripture, and of the world, iv. 703-709 Cloud, investiture with, a proper ensign of Deity, ii. 41; Angel's descent in, ibid.; ascent of the witnesses in the same, 453; white cloud, iv. 11, 12
Clovis, eldest son of the Romish Church, iii. 138
Coena Domini, at feast of, a general ex- communication of heretics, iii. 216 Coinage, Roman, notice of, i. 569-598 Coincidence of time, between Israel's con- version and the saints' resurrection, iv. 163-175; also between the blessedness of the world and the saints' resurrec- tion, 175-184
Coleridge on the paganized Christianity of the 6th century, i. 341; on the signs of a Spirit's going forth, iii. 499 Collyridians, ii. 508
Cologne, account of the heretics burnt at,
A.D. 1147, ii. 285-291; other heretics burnt at, 1163, 291
10), difficulty from it as to the pre-mil- lennial view, iv. 192, 193
Constantine, raised up by God for the de- struction of Paganism, i. 239; his vision of the cross, 240, 241; repeated victo- ries over Pagan emperors, 242; estab- lishes Christianity, 246, 254, 255; his baptism and death, 291, 292; trisection of the Roman world under, 362-364; other notice of, iii. 18 Constantine Copronymus the Byzantine iconoclastic emperor, i. 468 Constantine (the Armenian), originator of the Paulikian sect, ii. 250-255 Constantinople, curious prophecy respect- ing its conquest by the Russians, i. 478; besieged by the Turks, 504; taken by Turkish artillery, 510-512, 531; late conflagrations in, iii. 453
Constantius II, patron of Arianism, iii. 44 Consummation, the, early patristic ex- pectations of, i. 228-231; probable physical changes attending, 249; im- pression of its nearness towards the close of the 6th century, 391-403; again in the 10th century, 470-472; among the Reformers, ii. 134-146; near approaching under the 7th Trum- pet, 491-494
Consummation, notices of its crisis by vari- ous Old Testament prophets, iv. 113-129 Contrast, allusive. See Allusive. Convents, profligacy of the, in 9th cen- tury, i. 473; in 13th, 14th, and 15th, ii 14, 28; Papal fortresses, iv. 629
Colonies, trans-marine, of the Papal Euro- pean powers at French Revolution, iii. 380; first English Protestant, under Elizabeth, ii. 485; late advances of Po-Convention, National, of France, iii. 361. pery in the English Colonies, iii. 508 Colossæ, earthquake at, and date of Paul's Epistle to, i. 45, 547
Colours of horse, white, red, black, livid, pale, realized in the successive æras of Roman empire from St. John to Dio- cletian, i. 205
Comenius, his history of the Bohemian persecutions, ii. 449
Comet, at time of Attila's irruptions, 380; great comet A. D. 1066, at time of first Turkish invasion of Greek em- pire, i. 498
Coming of Christ, signification of the phrase in 2 Thess. ii, 1, 8, iv. 186; its suddenness, 199, 200 Communion of saints, iii. 68 Compostella, shrine of St. James at, ii. 18. Concluding applicatory remarks to the Horæ, iv. 255-274
Concordat, Buonaparte's, with the Pope, iii. 413
Concubinage, clerical, license of, ii. 28 Confession, private, begun in 5th century, i. 409; its evil and abuses, ii. 14, 28 Confessions of the Reformed Churches, ii. 197-199; harmony of, iii. 315, 316 Confessors, Christian, restored by Con- stantine, i. 254, iii. 35 Confirmation, R. C., iii. 258
Conversion of Israel promised, iv. 163 Convocation of the States-General of France, iii. 349
Corrie, Bishop, iii. 487
Corvey, Chronicle of the Abbey of, ii. 384 Cottian Alps, ii. 221, 244
Councils, early institution of, in 2nd cen- tury, iii. 198; Metropolitan's presidency in, from 4th century, 198, 199
General, early history of, traced; (first eight in Eastern Christendom un- der the Emperors; twelve next in Western Christendom under Popes;) "representatio totius nominis Chris- tiani," iii. 221-224; the members Bi- shops, with a few Presbyters, 222; an- ciently represented in images or pie- tures, 226; originally convened by emperors, 231; this power reclaimed for the reigning emperor from the Popes, by Protestants at time of Council of Trent, 232, 233
Papal General answer to Beast's Image, as representing Papal Christen- dom and the Popes, iii. 227; convened by Roman Pope as Western Patriarch, 227-229; inspired and made to speak by him, 229-233; to laity attendant in, no voice allowed, 229, 230; unscrip- tural dogmas enjoined by, 235, 236;
pronounced death on all that would not worship the Pope, 238, 239; Trentine Council compared by one of the attend- ant Bishops to an image speaking by priest's jugglery, 233; canons of, sworn to by every Romish priest on taking a benefice, iii. 237
Councils General, vain hopes of reforma- tion from, at end of middle age, ii. 35,36 General, 1st of Nice, i. 255, iii. 35; of Constantinople, iii. 57; of Ephe- sus against Nestorius and Chalcedon against Eutyches, i. 418; 2nd of Nice, i. 468; also of Constance, Ferrara, Flo- rence, ii. 35, 36. For Lateran Councils see Lateran.
Provincial, of Toledo, Chalons, Aquis Granum, Paris, Trosly, from 655 to 909 A. D., i. 473: of Arras, Tou- louse, Oxford, &c., 1025-1165, A.D., ii. 268, 426
anti-heretical decrees of, in mid- dle age, ii. 424-426
evangelic, A. D. 529, of Orange and Vaison, ii. 222; of Chantilly A. D. 766, 228, 229; of Valence A. D. 855, 240
Covenant Angel, intervention of, at Re- formation, prefigured in vision of Apoc. X., ii. 40-48
prince of the, Dan. xi. 22, iv.
73, 74 Cowper, the poet, his anticipations imme- diately before the French Revolution, iii. 344, 345; on Whitfield, 323; on the Millennium, iv. 221
Creation, the, its waiting for the mani- festation of the sons of God, iv. 180 Crescent, a Turkish ensign, i. 501, 502 Crespy, peace of, in 1544, ii. 468 Crete, famous for archers and bows, i. 139 -142; Nerva's family came from, 146 conquered by Turks in 1669, ii.
491 Cross, Constantine's vision of the, i. 240,
worship of the, resisted by the Pau- likians, ii. 299
Crown, Roman, distinction from diadem, i. 135-137
the Pope's imperial, account of. See Papal Crown, and Triregno. Crucified, Papal Rome the city where Christ crucified, ii. 433-439 Cruelties against Protestants in France, retaliated on Papists at the Revolution, iii. 371, 372
Crusades, the anti-Turkish, the 1st, i. 507; others, 500, 501
against heretics, ii. 22, 23, 29, 30; proclaimed by Innocent III, 425; suc- ceeded by others sanctioned by 4th La- teran Council, 426; against saints, en- joined by Popes, iii. 191
Chrysostom alludes, though but rarely, to the Apocalypse as Scripture, i. 30; his prophetic views about the Apostasy and Antichrist, i. 389, iii. 99
Cyprian received Apocalypse, i. 27; his martyrdom, 221; on martyr-interces- sion, 343; on the year-day, iii. 281 Cyril, of Jerusalem, the doubtful testi- mony about Apocalypse, i. 29; his pro- phetic views about Antichrist, 389, iii. 99
of Alexandria receives the Apoca- lypse, i. 30
Dæmonolatry of Western Christendom, ii. 8-11, 25, 26
Aapovtov, discussion of the term as used in Scripture, ii. 497-504; as used by writers of the early Church, 504—508 Damasus (Pope), his ode to St. Felix, i.
Daniel's prophecy of the little horn of the he-goat (Dan. viii.), iii. 427–447. See He-goat.
last prophecy (Dan. xi. xii.), iv. 55-112; occasion of, 55-58; first half of, to xi. 30, fulfilled in the contests of the Ptolemies and the Seleucidæ, 59- 79; second half of, to end of Dan. xii., 79-112
Daniel, prophetic periods of, iv. 109-112; also ii. 129, 131 Dante, ii. 37
Date of Apocalypse. See Apocalypse. Days, (year-days,) the 280 to Constantine, iii. 19; the 1260 of woman in wilder- ness, 68; and of Gentiles treading the Holy City, and Beast's reign, ii. 215, iii. 160-163, 298-305; also of the 1260, 1290, and 1335 of Dan. xii., 279, iv. 109-112
Death of Witnesses. See Witnesses. Death, rider of 4th Apocalyptic horse, i. 191; desolator of Roman empire in 4th century, 203
Decius, the emperor, determines to crush Christianity, i. 220
Deliverance of God's people, as "written in the book," iv. 109
Democratic principles of French Revolu- tion, iii. 349, 350; previously those of the Jesuits, 368–370; dissemination of, 375; infect the symbolic sea, 377, 378; united with spirit of infidelity, &c., 497 Denarius, Roman adulteration of, in the 3rd century, i. 181, 182
"Desert place," the characteristic locality of the Papal Harlot, iv. 36-40, iii. 552
"Desire of Women" (Dan. xi. 37), what? iv. 92
Desolation, abomination of, applied to
Saracens, i. 449. See Abomination. Ataßolos, scriptural use of the word, as contrasted with dauovov, ii. 497-508 Diadem, diaonua, first adopted by the Roman emperors, not till Diocletian, in lieu of the crown, or σTεavos, i. 136, iii. 535-547
Diadems on the Dragon's heads, iii. 15; of the ten Romano-Gothic kings, 144
Aa0kn, in the sense of covenant, Sir L. Shadwell on, ii, 573-576 Διλειτρον of Alexander Severus, i. 184 ; also ib. Appendix, 594 (= weight of choenix of wheat).
Dioceses, 13 ecclesiastical, under Constan- tine, iii. 22
Diocletian, founder of a new empire, i. 199, 208; his change of Roman govern- ment, iii. 124, 125; persecution of Christians under, i. 209, 210; his death, i. 244; further noticed, iii. 17 Diognetus, epistle to, i. 102 Dionysius of Alexandria, an impugner of the genuineness of the Apocalypse, i. 3-7, 26
Disciplina arcani, i. 294
Divisions of Roman empire at different times, i. 361
"Doctrines of dæmons" (1 Tim. iv. 1), ii. 508, iii. 103
Doddridge, Dr., iii. 321
Domingo, St., its revolt from, and war with France, from 1792 to 1804, iii. 378 Dominicans, the rise of, and vain hopes from, ii. 34; their corruption, 35 Domitian, the Apocalypse written under, i. 32-40, 44-48; persecution of Chris- tians by, 213, 214
Dove over Pope in Papal medals, in sign
of Holy Ghost, iii. 182; over General Councils, 234
Draconic spirit of modern infidelity, iii. 616-631
Dragon, a Roman standard, iii. 14, 15
the great red, or devil acting in Roman Heathen power, iii. 13, 14, 20, 21 Constantine's picture of dragon under cross, iii. 31; medals with similar device, ibid.; triumphant songs over, 34-38
Spirit from mouth of, under 6th Vial, iii. 497; bound 1000 years, iv. 132 ejected from heaven, persecutes the woman the Church, iii. 42—45 Drought, spiritual, of Christendom, ii. 161, 407
Drying up of the Euphrates, a sign of the times. See Euphrates.
Dutch United Provinces, seven, auswer- ing to the seven chiliads of the city (Apoc. xi. 13), ii. 478-481
Eagle, the great, applied to Theodosius the Great, iii. 52, 55-57 Earth, the Roman, in the Apocalyptic scenery, i. 103; literally meant in Apoc. viii. 7, i. 359. See Sea.
to be burned up, iv. 201; stored with fire, 202
swallowed the flood, iii. 63. Earthquake, symbolic, of 6th Seal, i. 237; fulfilment of, 243-246; the symbol il- lustrated from other Scriptures, 247, 248 previous to the 1st Trumpet sounding, i. 367, 373; of the Reforma-
tion, ii. 471, 472; of the French Revo- lution, iii. 349, 350 Earthquake physical, before destruction of Jerusalem, iii. 347; in Roman empire before the Gothic Woe, i. 374; in Syria in 1822, iii. 452, 453; to precede the Millennium, iv. 201
East, Angel rising from, i. 274
kings from the, iii. 455-460 Easter-day, the Lord's day, Kar' ¿çoxny, i. 69
Eck, his disputation with Luther, ii. 120; his fears soon after, 461
Eclipses at the destruction of Jerusalem, i. 55, iii. 347, 348
Edicts against German Pietists, iii. 323 Edward the 6th's Catechism, iv. 260 Egbert, Archbishop, of 8th century, his attempt to revive preaching, ii. 160 Egypt subdued by the Turks in 1517, iv. 105
its late contest with the Turks, iii. 451
a figurative appellation of Papal Rome, ii. 435-440
HKOVσa, the true reading in Apoc. xi. 12, ii. 463
Elders, the twenty-four (Apoc. iv, 4), i. 86, 87; their last act, iv. 46, 50 Elect, Church of, iii. 309 Election by grace, Augustinian doctrine of, i. 306, 314; its contrariety to an ecclesiastical system of salvation, 314—— 316; its accordance with the doctrine of the Jansenists, 316, 317; and of the Anglican Church, 317
Elephant made to do homage to Leo X, ii. 70
Elias, tradition of house of, iv. 701 Elizabeth, Queen of England, gives God glory, ii, 484
Emadeddin, extract from, on Thogrul Beg's investiture, i. 525
Emancipation Act, Roman Catholic, iii. 504, iv. 255, 256
Emperor, Christian, no head to Dragon or Beast, iii. 120
Emperor, Roman, or Imperator, its mean- See Rome.
Emperors humbled before Popes, iii. 175 -178, 186-188
Emperorship, badges of, presented to Ro- man Emperor, iii. 127
Empires, the four great, iii. 88; heathen and patristic testimonies respecting, i. 229, 389, 429, iii. 88
England, the tenth part of "the city" (Apoc. xi. 13), ii. 472-475; establish- ment of Protestant Church in, 475; the bulwark of Protestantism, 485; her escape from revolutionary principles, iii. 477-479; her duty as the promulgator of the true evangelical Protestant faith, iv. 255, 256
Eviavros, prophetic value of, as a measure of time, i. 521
ETIVIKIOV of Christians on establishment | Fathers, the ancient Christian; for their
of Christianity, iii. 32-39; significant notice of martyrs in it, 39
Epiphanius receives the Apocalypse, i. 30;
on date of, 38; worthless character of
his testimony, 38, 39
views on Prophecy, see Prophecy and Apocalyptic Interpretation.
Fatímites, the, i. 465
Felix, patron saint of Pauliuus, i. 334 Fenelon, iii. 70
Epistles to the seven Churches. See Feuerbach, his narrative of the trial of the
Churches.
Erasmus, ii. 37
Erastianism, iv. 267
Epnuia, or desert of the Roman Cam-
pagna, iii. 552, iv. 32-36 Eunapius the Sophist, his charge of relic- worship against the Christians of the 4th century, i. 335
Euphrates river, the four angels bound in, i. 495; and loosed from, 496-498, 505, 506; drying up of, iii. 447-454; the drying of, a sign now visible of the last times, iv. 240
Eusebius, questioned the apostolic author- ship of the Apocalypse, i. 28; gives it a Domitianic date, 35; his glowing an- ticipations of the future on Constantine's establishment of Christianity, i. 256 Evangelic missions, æra of, iii. 461, 476- 490
Evangelist, Luther's title of. See Luther. Events, origin of all, in the Apocalypse, from the throne of God, i. 107 Everlasting gospel, Angel flying with, iii. 461; fulfilled, 483, 484, 490 Evervinus, his letter to St. Bernard re- specting the heretics burnt in 1147 at Cologne, ii, 285-290
Evidence of the Horæ, review of, in proof of our nearness to the end, iv. 226-234, 735
Evil spirits, present locality of, i. 440 Excommunication, early form of, ii. 187,
of Papists by Protest- ants at Reformation, ii. 187, 199 Exhumation of heretics' bodies by Papal law, ii. 453, 454
Exorcisms in baptism in the 4th century, i. 280
Expectation of Christ's speedy coming,
with the apostles, i. 54; with the early Fathers, 230; at the end of 6th century, 400; in 10th century, 470; at the formation, ii. 134-145
Priest Reimbauer, iii. 507
Firmament, Apocalyptic, symbol of, i. 103; dissolution of Pagan, under 6th Seal, i. 237, 246-248
Firstborn and Firstfruits, iii. 282 Flood, the symbolic, out of dragon's mouth, iii. 59, 60; fulfilled in Pagan and Arian Goths' invasion, 60, 61; actual, at the time of the Gothic irruption, 348 Flying Angels, the three. See Angels. Forewarnings (near end of 6th century) of the first coming Woe, i. 386-416; from fall of Rome's ancient empire, 387-395; from supposed end, or near ending of the world's 6000 years, 395-398; from the afflictions of the times, 398-401
Foster, Rev. H., his "Mahomedanism Unveiled," i. 442; his Geography of Arabia, 446 "Four parts
" of the earth the true read- ing in 4th Seal, i. 201, 202 Foxe, John, the Reformer, his expectation of Christ's speedy coming, ii. 144, 145 Franciscan friars, rise of, and hopes from, ii. 34; corruption of, 35 Franke, iii. 321
Frankfort, great council of, against image- worship (A.D. 794), ii. 229
Frederic, Emperor, persecuting edict of, A.D. 1225, ii. 386
French wars of the Revolution on the
Rhine, Po, and Danube, iii. 381-388 French Revolution. See Revolution. Frogs, the three, out of the mouth of Dra- gon, of Beast, and of False Prophet, or spirits of infidelity, popery, and priest- craft, let loose ere the close of the 6th Vial, iii. 492-495:-that of the Dragon, 497-503; of the Beast, 503-516; of the False Prophet, 516-532
three, the old arms of France," iii. 533, iv. 653
"From henceforth" the dead blessed, iv.
Re-Fruit-trees not cut down by Saracens, con- trasted with Gothic ravages, i. 453 Fulgentius, an Augustinian, ii. 223
Exposure of Papal Rome, iv. 28-35 Extortion, ancient Roman laws against, i. Furlongs, the 1600, iv. 17
Extreme unction, iii. 259
"Eyes as of a man," iii. 89, 173 Ezekiel's 390 days' lying on his side, iii. 268
Fairbairn on Prophecy, iv. 691 "Faithful and True," title of Christ, iv. 53 False Prophet, or two-horned lamb-like Beast, see Beast; the judgment of, iv.
Famine, great, under Gallienus, i. 192
Future, Apocalyptic prefigurations of, iv. 54, 55
Futurist counter-scheme à priori inadmis- sible, examined and refuted. See Apo- calyptic Counter-Schemes.
Gabriel, perhaps the "strong Angel" of Apoc. v. 2, i. 95; in Dan. x., iv. 57 Galerius, his persecution of Christians, i. 209; his edict of toleration, 235, 244, iii. 17; his remorse and death, i. 244 Gathering of saints to Christ, iii. 92
Genseric, his conquests in the Mediterra-
nean, i. 378-380, 619, 620, iii. 137 Gentiles, symbolic court of the (Apoc. xi.), meaning of, ii. 185
Geological structure of the earth illustra- tive of its predicted destruction by fire, iv. 202
Gerbert of Rheims, his saying about the Pope, ii. 78
Germanic empire of the middle age, ii. 5 emperor, sun of, eclipsed under
the 4th Vial, iii. 390, 391 Germanus, St. (Bishop of the 7th cen- tury), specimen of his Mariolatry, ii. 330-332
Gibbon, an excellent illustrator of the Apocalyptic prophecy, i. 116, 117 Gieseler's Paulikian Marcionitic theory refuted, ii. 543-550
Glassy sea, or crystal firmament, before the throne, i. 84, 85
mixt with fire, harpers' song by, iii. 336; what the sea, 468-472; the harpers' song by it, 472-475; fulfil- ment of song, 488-490
Glory, primary vision of the heavenly, i. 82-86
Gnostic heresy, two branches of, i. 62, 63 Gnostics, antichristian, i. 64-66, iii. 107, 185 Goat.
Gobet, constitutional bishop of Paris, at time of French Revolution, iii. 362 God, "all that is so called" (2 Thess. ii. 4), iii. 98
"whom his fathers knew not" (Dan. xi. 38), iv. 98, 99, iii. 185 Gog and Magog, prophecy of, iv. 119–124 Gorres, his incorrect view of the spiritual progression of Christendom, ii. 23, 24; his sketch of the Gothic inundation, iii. 62
Gospel-preaching, duty of, enforced in Scripture, ii. 155, 156; progressive neg- lect of, in the Christian Church, 157- 162; revival of, at the Reformation, 163-173
Goths, ravages of the, under the first four Trumpets, i. 373-385
Gottschale, A.D. 846-868, ii. 240, 241 Grace, Augustinian doctrines of, i. 306- 313
Greek insurrection against Turks, iii. 448
-450; remarkable chronological paral- lelism concerning, 448, 449 Gregory I, or the Great, i. 386, iii. 169;
his belief in the nearness of the judg- ment, i. 399-401; his expectation of Antichrist's coming as close at hand, and views respecting Antichrist, 401- 404, iii. 197
his patronage of images in Churches, ii. 224, 225
his asserted miracles, iii. 166 - II, Pope, patron of image-wor- ship, anathematizes the iconoclastic emperor Leo, ii. 226
Hallelujah on Babylon's fall, iv. 49 Harlot, Papal Rome represented by the, iv. 28-35
Harmony of the Reformed Confessions, iii. 316
Haroun al Raschid, i. 469
Harpers by the glassy sea, iii. 477. See Glassy Sea.
Harpings, in Apocalyptic temple, of "a new song" (sc. at the Reformation), iii. 311-315
in old Jewish temple, at its dedi- cation or reformation, 313, 314 Harvest of the earth, iv. 7; emblematie of judgment, 8-10; reaped by the Son of man, 11
Heads, seven, of Beast. See Beast. Heathen testimonies about the four em- pires, i. 429, iii. 88
Heaven, the firmamental, of the Apoca- lyptic scenery, i. 103; figurations in 237; half-hour's silence in, 322-326; dragon and woman existent in, simulta- neously, iii. 11, 15, 16 Heber, Bishop, iii. 487 Hegel, Pantheism, iii. 631 Hegira, æra of, i. 447
He-goat, of Dan. viii. the Macedonian power, iii. 427; his great horn broken into four lesser horns, 428; little horn of, 428-432; historical application to Antiochus Epiphanes or the Popedom inadmissible, 432-436; meant of the Turks, 437-442; the time of the cleans- ing of the temple from it to begin at the end of 2300 year-days from the epoch of the ram's supremacy, iii. 443-447; ful- filled in drying up of Turkish power, begun A.D. 1820, under the 6th Vial, 447-454
Hengstenberg, Professor, iv. 684-690 Henriciani, followers of Henry, condemn ed at Council of Lombers in 1165, ii. 294
Henry of Lausanne and Thoulouse, seized
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