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thefe ten horns or kingdoms where to be fought, 460. the opinion of authors about them, 460. &c. Rome, that church a furprising mystery of iniquity, III. 1. its herefies and fchifms of long continuance, 2. the power of the pope of Rome foretold in fcripture, 3. when Rome was governed by the Exarch of Ravenna, 95. refembles Egypt in her punishment as well as in her crimes, 274. her fall compared to Babylon, 285. her ftate and condition, 286. the character of the great whore of Babylon more proper to modern than ancient Rome, 288, 289. her fitting upon a fcarlet-coloured beast with feven heads and ten horns, 289, 290. her ornament, 290-292. her inchanting cup, 292. her inscription upon her forehead, 293,-296. her being drunk with the blood of the faints, 296, 297. what fignified by the feven heads and ten horns, 300, 301. 304, 305. the prophecies relating to the church of Rome the most effential part of the Revelation, 370. its corruptions and innovations foretold, 372-378. her clergy like the fcribes and pharifees in feveral inftances, 380-384. their ufurped power foretold, and the place and perfons pointed out, 370, 384-393. the time of its power foretold, 393. its deftruction will certainly come, 400-414.

S.

SALADIN, proclamed fultan in Egypt, II. 329. befieges and takes Jerufalem, ibid. 330. compels the Christians there to redeem their lives, 330.

Saracens, defcended from Ifhmael, I. 39, 53- as locufts overspread the earth, III. 98. when they made their greatest conquefts, 109. See Arabians.

Sardis, the capital of Lydia, III. 36. at present in ruins, ibid. in a deplorable state as to religion, 37.

Savonarola, his zealous preaching and writing against the vices of the Roman clergy, III. 194. endures imprisonment, tortures and death with conftancy, 195.

Sawtree, a parish priest, firft burnt for herefy in England, III. 187, 188.

Scopas, his great fuccefs in Cole-Syria and Paleftine, II. 113. is afterwards forced to furrender to Antiochus,

114.

Scotus

Scotus Johannes, writes upon the Eucharift by the com-
mand of the emperor, III. 154. his opinion against the
doctrine of tranfubftantiation, ibid. invited to England
by king Alfred, and preferred, ibid.

Scriptures, the fulfilment of the prophecies a convincing
argument of their divinity, I. 310, 311, friendly, to
liberty, 312, 313. and the love of our country, II. 81.
82.

Seals, the book fealed with seven feals, III. 48, 49. the Son
of God only found worthy to open it, 49. the feven
feals fignify fo many periods of prophecy, ibid. the first
memorable for conqueft, 50. its commencement and
continuance, 52-56. the third feal for what charac-
terized, 56. the fourth feal for what diftinguished, 60.
the fifth feal remarkable for the tenth general perfecu-
tion, 66, 67, 68. the fixth feal for great changes and
revolutions, 69, 70. its continuance from Conftantine
to Theodofius, 81. the feventh feal diftinguished by the
founding of feven trumpets, 82, 83. feals foretold the
ftate of the Roman empire before it became Chriftian,
84.

Seleucidæ and Lagidæ, not the fourth kingdom mentioned
in Daniel, I. 417, 418, 453, 458...

Seleucia, renders Babylon defolate, I. 299. is called Ba-
bylon by several authors, ibid.

Seleucus, the first of Syria a moft potent king, II. 94
95.

Seleucus Ceraunus, his fhort and inglorious reign, II. 102,
103.

Seleucus Callinicus, his fons and their pompous appellations,
II. 102, 103.

Seleucus Philopator, fucceeds his father Antiochus, II. 125.
a raiser of taxes all his days, ibid. fends his treasurer.
to commit facrilege in the temple of Jerufalem, 126. is
deftroyed by him, 127.

Septimius Severus, a juft and provident emperor, III. 57.

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Shalmanefer, carried the ten tribes into captivity, I. 248.
Shaw (Dr.) his account of the Arabians, I. 54, 55. of
Palestine, 228, 229. 230. of Tyre, 348, 349.
Shem and Japheth, their good behaviour upon their father's
drunkenness, I. II. the bleffings promifed upon them

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and their pofterity, 24, 25, 26. how fulfilled both informer and latter times, 26, 27. III. 416. the promise of Japheth's dwelling in the tents of Shem explained, and fulfilled, I. 27, 28, 29.

Sherlock (Bp.) his expofition of Jacob's prophecy chiefly followed, I. 94, &c.

Shiloh, fhown to be the Meffiah in the various fenfes of the word, I. 99, 100.

Sidon, an ancient city, celebrated by Homer and other poets,

I. 319.

Simeon and Levi, Jacob's prophecy about thefe two tribes, and how fulfilled, I. 90, &c.

Smyrna, the fecond epiftle to the feven churches addreffed to them, III. 32. its fituation and commerce, 32. its present state as to religion, 32, 33.

Soul, that it grew prophetic near death, an opinion of great antiquity, I. 85, 86, 87.

South and North, kings of, who to be understood by them, II. 93, 189, 190.

Star out of Jacob, and a scepter out of Ifrael, that prophecy explained, I. 130-139.

Spirit, the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit often described by fprings of water, II. 23.

Spon, (Dr.) his remark about the church of Philadelphia, III. 38.

States or nations, feldom ruined without preceding figns, II. 261, 262. many awful figns from the fins of this nation, 262.

Sulpicius Severus, his expofition of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, I. 434, 435, 436.

T.

TACITUS, his account of the prodigies before the deftruction of Jerufalem, II. 249.

Tamerlane, his great conquefts, II. 332. vifits Jerufalem, ibid.

Tertullian, his opinion of the Man of Sin, II. 413. of the millennium, III. 339.

Theodoret, too much promotes the worship of Saints, II. 451, 452, 453.

Thuanus, his character of the Waldenfes, III. 175-177. his account of their fufferings and difperfion, 178, 179.

Thyatira,

Thyatira, a Chriftian church formerly there, this denied by fome heretics, III. 35. its prefent condition an effect of the divine judgments for their fins, 36.

his

Titus, furrounds Jerufalem with a wall, II. 272. commands the city and temple to be deftroyed, 315. wonderful prefervation at the fiege, 351.

Toledo, that council ordered the children of the Jews to be taken from them, I. 194.

Trajan and Severus, their attempts against Arabia repelled in an extraordinary manner, I. 51, 52. the wars and flaughters in the reigns of Trajan and his fucceffors, III. 53. the Jews fubdued by him, ibid.

Trofly, that council's good regulations, III. 158. differs from the fpirit and principles of the council of Trent, ibid. Trumpets, the feven periods diftinguished by the found of feven trumpets, III. 83. filence of half an hour previous to their founding, ibid. forefhew the condition of the Roman empire after it became Chriftian, 84. the defign of the trumpets, ibid. the events at the founding of the first trumpets, 85-87. at the founding of the fecond, 87-90. at the founding of the third, 90-92. at the founding of the fourth, 92, 93. the three following diftinguished by the name of the woe-trumpets, 95. the events at the founding of the fifth, 97-112. at the founding of the fixth trumpet, 113. an account of the feventh trumpet, 198, &c.

Turks, a part of Daniel's prophecy supposed to refer to the deftruction of their empire, II. 201-208. their four kingdoms on the river Euphrates, III. 113-117. their numerous armies, efpecially their cavalry, 120. their delight in fcarlet, blue and yellow, 121. the use of great guns and gun-powder among them, 122, 123. their power to do hurt by their tails, 123, 124. See Oth

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Tyre, prophecies concerning it, I. 314-351. Its fall predicted by Ifaiah, and Ezekiel, 314, the prophecies relate to both old and new Tyre, 314, 315, 316. a very ancient city, 316, 317, 318. the daughter of Sydon, but in time excelled the mother, 318, 319, 320. in a flourishing condition when the prophet foretels her deftruction for her wickedness, 330-333. the particulars included

included in the prophecies about it, 323, 324. the city taken and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans, 324-327. the inhabitants to pafs over the Mediterranean, but to find no reft, 327-332. the city to be reftored after feventy years, 332, 333, 334. to be taken and deftroyed again, 334-339. the people to forfake idolatry and become converts to the true religion, 339-343. the city at laft to be totally deftroyed and become a place for fifhers to fpread their nets upon, 343. thefe prophecies to be fulfilled by degrees, 343, 344. a fhort account from the time of Nebuchadnezzar to the prefent time, 345, 346, 347. the accounts given by three writers, 347-350. this account concluded with reflections upon trade, 350, 351.

V.

VIALS, feven, a preparatory vifion to their being poured out, III. 268, 274. thefe feven plagues or vials belong to the laft trumpet, and not yet fulfilled, 270, 271, 272. feven angels appointed to pour out the feven vials, 272, 273, 274. the commiffion to pour them out, 274. the firft vial or plague, 275. the fecond and third, 275, 276, 277. the fourth, 277, 278. the fifth, 279. the fixth, 279-283. the feventh and faft, 283, 284, 285.

Vitringa, his opinion about a passage in Balaam's prophecy, I. 133. a moft excellent commentator upon Ifaiah, 340. one of the beft interpreters of the Revelation, III. 8. Voltaire, his account of the prefent ftate of Palestine, I. 223. an agreeable yet a fuperficial writer, III. 4.

W.

W Aldenfes and Albigences, witneffes for the truth in

the twelfth century, III. 169. their rife and opinions, 170-173. teftimonies concerning them, 173-177. are very much perfecuted, and fly into other countries, 178, 179. pronounce the church of Rome to be apocalyptic Babylon, 258.

Warburton, his expofition of the ftar out of Jacob, and fcepter out of Ifrael, I. 138. his account of the figurative

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