Vulgar words in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (Page 1)
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_Alexander_ the great having conquered all the _Persian_ Empire, and some part of _India_, died at _Babylon_ a month before the summer Solstice, in the year of _Nabonassar_ 425: and his captains gave the monarchy to his bastard brother _Philip Aridæus_, a man disturbed in his understanding; and made _Perdiccas_ administrator of the kingdom.
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This is the substance of what _Peter_ says in the first chapter; and then in the second he proceeds to describe, out of this _sure word of Prophecy_, how there should arise in the Church _false Prophets_, or _false teachers_, expressed collectively in the _Apocalypse_ by the name of the false Prophet; who should _bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them_, which is the character of _Antichrist_: _And many_, saith he, _shall follow their lusts_ [18]; they that dwell on the earth [19] shall be deceived by the false Prophet, and be made drunk with the wine of the Whore's fornication, _by reason of whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed_; for [20] the Beast is full of blasphemy: _and thro' covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandize of you_; for these are the Merchants of the Earth, who trade with the great Whore, and their merchandize [21] is all things of price, with the bodies and souls of men: _whose judgment--lingreth not, and their damnation [22] slumbreth not_, but shall surely come upon them at the last day suddenly, as the flood upon _the old world_, and fire and brimstone upon _Sodom_ and _Gomorrha_, when the just shall be delivered [23] like _Lot_; for _the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished_, in the lake of fire; _but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness_, [24] being made drunk with the wine of the Whore's fornication; who _despise dominion, and are not afraid to blaspheme glories_; for the beast opened his mouth against God [25] to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
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_These, as natural brute beasts_, the ten-horned beast and two-horned beast, or false Prophet, _made to be taken and destroyed_, in the lake of fire, _blaspheme the things they understand not_:--they count it pleasure to riot in the day-time--sporting themselves with their own deceivings, while they feast [26] with you, _having eyes full of an [27] Adulteress_: for the kingdoms of the beast live deliciously with the great Whore, and the nations are made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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The same thing is signified by the two Goats, upon whose foreheads the High-Priest yearly, on the day of expiation, lays the two lots inscribed, _For God_ and _For _Azazel__; God's lot signifying the people who are sealed with the name of God in their foreheads; and the lot _Azazel_, which was sent into the wilderness, representing those who receive the mark and name of the Beast, and go into the wilderness with the great Whore.
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For the glorious woman in heaven, the remnant of whole seed kept the commandments of God, and had the testimony of _Jesus_, continued the same woman in outward form after her flight into the wilderness, whereby she quitted her former sincerity and piety, and became the great Whore.
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When the primitive Church catholick, represented by _the woman in heaven_, apostatized, and became divided into two corrupt Churches, represented by the _whore of _Babylon__ and the _two-horned Beast_, the 144000 _who were sealed out of all the twelve tribes_, became the _two Witnesses_, in opposition to those two false Churches: and the name of _two Witnesses_ once imposed, remains to the true Church of God in all times and places to the end of the Prophecy.
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These have one mind_, being all of the whore's religion, _and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast.
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And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues_, composing her Beast.
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_And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the Beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire_, at the end of the 1260 days.