...following numbers, to make them more perspicuous for the contemplation of the reader. 1. The beast Was and Is not and shall Ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition. 2. It Was, and Is not, and yet /». 3. Five are fallen, and One I», and the Other is not yet come...

...mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her, with seven heads and ten horns. The beast which thou sawest was and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition." That is to say, it is the same beast that the apostle had before seen, rising out of the sea, as described...

...patere non posse. before the foundation of the world," with that parenthesis Revelation xvii. 8 ** whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world." Secondly, A decree which God purposed in himself. We read in one place of " the purpose of God according...

...inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the ii:orld.\ Again ; the Bible says, all they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the Lamb's book of life,/rom before the foundation * Thes. ii. 13. tEph.i, 4. J Mat. xxv. 24. of the world.*...

...and is about to come up from the abyss, and go into destruction : and those who dwell on the earth (whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) will wonder when they behold the beast, which was, and is not, and will appear again. 9 Here is the...

...foreordained before the foundation of the world." " The Lamb slain from the foundation of the " world." " Whose names were not written in " the book of life from the foundation of the " world."2 " In hope of .eternal life, which God, " that cannot lie, promised before the world be"...

...written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." In another place, " Tho beast that thou sawest was and is not, and shall ascend...that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names are not writ ten in the book of life — from the foundation of the world." And in another place, he...

...Lamb, &c. — Rev. xiii. 8. xvii. 18. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world), when they behold, &c. — Rev. xvii. 8. Whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of...

...Lamb, &c. — Rev. xiii. 8. xvii. 18. And they that dwell on the earth 8,hall wonder (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world), when they behold, &c. — Rev. xvii. 8. Whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of...

...foundation of tin world. ••* See on Luke. x. ver. 20. clause 2. ь See on John i. ver. 29. •' The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ; and shall...they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose name« were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,) when they behold the...