Second advent library

.'rwsnvn nfmnnan mn sun uns. 37when the emperor Justinian slibdued theOstrogoths and Arians in Italy, and gavepower to the bishop of Rome to rule over allothers, both east and West, and when thecity of Rome was made the seat of papalpower, and when that power beganto beexercised over the kings of the ancientRoman empire, and a war of exterminationbegan against the saints, who would notyield obedience to the idolatrous worship ofpapacy; then it must have had its rise inA. D. 538, towhich add twelve hundred andsixty, and it will end in A. D. 1798. Wewill now see if the prophecy of the end willwarrant us in the beginning.THE END OF PAPAL DOMINION.Daniel says, {vii.26,) "And they (the tenhorns,orkings) shall take away his (thepope's> dominion, to consume and to destroyit unto the end." W'ho, I ask, canbe so ignorantas not `to know, that thepower or dominion of the waspope takenaway in the year 1798? Two hundred andten years before,or "seven months" inprophecy, England had broken off the yokeof papacy, and some of the German stateshad joined England in the protestant declarationof rights, against the catholic league:but for the year 1798 was reserved the finalstroke, which broke the last link of papaldominion over the kings of the earth, and ll4.