1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

the Pope, who claim to exercise this great authority by
hi crazy title to St. Peter'a chair.
We have now arrived to the end of the third division
of the angel's history ; for the next verse tells us, * and
at the time of the end," meanino the end of his power, to
tread on the church by his cizl authorit , or reigu over
the Lings of the anh, and to dispose ofYland. for gain
1 have brought you down, my kind hearer, through n
long rophetic history of more than 2200 years, md
landelf ou to the year -4. D. 1708, when the Pope of
Rome foBt his civil power. In the beginning of the
year 1798, on the 15th of Feb~ary, a French general,
Berthier, entered Rome with a French army without
resistance, deposed the Pope, abolished the Pa$ government,
and erected the republic of Italy. The Pope,
being taken prisoner, was carried a prisoner by them
first to Sienna in Tuscany, from thence to Florence,
afterwards to Grenoble, and then to Valence, in France,
where he died on the 1% of Auguef 1799, since which
time the Pope of Rome hw exercised no more of his
former power over any of the kings in Europe, or the
Protestant church. We shall now close our lecture on
this history for the present, resewin the remainder of
Gabriel's Wresting bibtory for moier lecture.