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as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Verse 16. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead.

Verse 17.

"And that no man might buy or fell, fave he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Verse 18. "Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is fix hundred three score and fix."

In Gibbons hiftory, we read, that Clovis, the king of the Franks, the narrow limits of whofe kingdom were confined to the Island of the Batavians, with the ancient diocefes of Tournay and Arras, conquered three kings, viz. * Syagrius, the King of the Alemanni, and Gundobald.

This agrees with the Prophecy of Daniel"And he shall fubdue three kings;" alfo with ver. 11, "And I beheld another beaft coming up." It is very remarkable that the extent of the dominions of the fucceffors of Clovis, at the time the king* Gib. Vol. vi. p. 312, 315, 328.

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dom was declared independent of the Roman Empire, in A. D. 536, was nearly the fame as the dominions now fubject to the Government of France. The original Government was Monarchical, out of which fprung two others, correfponding with Verse 11, "And he had two horns," viz.

ELECTIVE MONARCHY,

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REPUBLIC.

"The lamb and the dragon." The latter reprefents the evils committed in the different stages during the two æras. The former is an emblem of their profeffions that all their actions were for the happiness of mankind.

The mode of government adopted on the late Revolution in France, bears, certainly, a very striking likeness to that of Rome, at the period hereafter mentioned. The French have befides endeavoured to establish the fame fyftem univerfally. And moreover have fulfilled the prophecy in chap.

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xi. v. 7, by killing the witneffes: and the words of Daniel, in chap. vii, v. 25, " And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and fhall wear out the Saints of the Moft High, and think to change times and laws: And they shall be given into his hand, until a time, and times, and the dividing of time." And after committing the above atrocities, they formed a New Calendar, and have been for fome time endeavouring to form a Conftitution. Now to the declaration of Our Saviour in Matthew, chap. xxiv. verfe 15, "When ye therefore fhall fee the abomination of defolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy Place." which may be faid to be fulfilled by the clamours of the French people, viz. *No more altars! no more priests! no other God but the God of Nature!!! and by their requeft to the Convention that the church of Notre Dame be changed into a temple confecrated to reafon and truth: and moreover by a grand † festival dedicated to Reafon and Truth which was celebrated at the ci-devant cathedral at Paris. In the middle of this church was erected a mount, and on it a very plain temple, the facade of which bore the following infcription: "A la Philofophie." The torch of truth

* Talma. p. 152. October 16, 1793. P. 157.

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was on the fummit of the mount, upon the altar of reafon, fpreading light. The Convention and all the constituted authorities affifted at the ceremony.

The number 666 is given, that we may be enabled to find out ift. The name of the empire. 2dly, The conftitution of that empire, the image of which was to be adopted by the beast; and 3dly The name of the Empire in which this event was to take place. We fhall therefore take Lateinos [Greek] the name of a man, who was king of the Latins, and from whom the founder of Rome was defcended, which will give us 666; and the government of Rome from Romulus to its capture by the rebel Marius, A. R. 666; and we shall take Chlodovechus or Chlodoveus, by flinging away the cht and read it Ludovicus, (the true latin) for LEWIS.

+ Gib. Vol. 6, p. 310, For the ch. expreffes only the Ger. man aspiration; and the true name is not different from Luduin, or Lewis. (Mem de l'Acadamie des Inscriptions. Tom. 20. p. 68.

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