...vote of a multitude, efpecially a multitude of (laves. — 1 8. " And the woman which thoa faweft, is that great " city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." This city muft be Rome, for no other rul'd over the kings of the earth in St Johns time ; not, to mention...

...unto the beafl ; and fl all make war -witli the Lamb t and ^ 18. And the woman which thou fa-weft, is that great city, -which reigneth over the kings of the earth. So that this beaft is plainly the Roman empire : and the woman that fitteth upon her, is the great...

...kingdom unto the beaft, until the words of God lhall be fulfilled, 18 And the woman which thou faweft, is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. • It was not thought fufficient to reprefent thefe things only in vifion ; and therefore the angel,...

...9, — 14. The feven heads, fays he, are feven mountains on which the woman fitlet h : and the woman is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth, ver. 18. Here the angel dire&s our attention to a city built on feven out both who he fliould be, and...

...we are ftrongly inclined to think will occur in 1796. Verfe 1 8. " And the woman which'thou faweft, is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The word " great" muft necefiarily refer to chap. xvii. ver. 5. This is confirmed by ver. 2, in the...

...apparent. Firjt, Therefore, I do thus reafon out of the Seventeenth chapter and laft verfe, * Babylon is that great, city which reigneth ' over the kings of the earth:' but there was no other city which did reign over the Kings of the earth when John wrote this book,...

...xvii. 18, the woman feated on the fcarlet-coloured beaft is faid to be Revealed Religion . 427 be " that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." And Rome was then the feat of almoft univerfal empire. It is alfo faid (Rev. xvii. 9), that the " feven...

...kingdom unto the beaft, until the words of God jhall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou fawejt, is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. To this Prophecy, the completion of which is fo manifeftly going on ftep by ftep before our eyes, I...

...beajl that carried her are feven mountains on which the woman Jltteth, and the woman which thou fawejl is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth, Rome is well known to be built upon fever* hills ; and at the time when this revelation wascommunicated...

...ftill obferve this wholefome counfel. Ibid. troverfy, he adds, ver. 1 8. " The woman thou " fawefl is that great city which reigneth over " the kings of the earth j" a character applicable to Rome only, termed in the days of the Apoftle John, the Miftrefs of the...