Second advent library

''56nissannrlon on 'nmIf the 'church of Rome is the little hom,we know his dominion is taken away, thetwelve hundred and sixty years are passed,and I amright in my calculations.lf the pope of Rome is the man of sin, weknow he has been revealed, lived out hisday, and is now "consuming" by the gospellight; and waits only the gloriouscoming of the Son of man to be utterly destroed.Ify the apocalyptic beast is the church ofRome," we know she reigns over no kingsnow; but that she who has led kings in captivechains, has in her turn been captive totheir pover; and the forty-two months arefulfilled, and .my numbers must be true.If the "mother of harlots" is the Romanchurch, we well do know the kings ofEurope have taken away her power, haveeaten her flesh, and the twelve hundred andsixty years of her cxaltation are finished;and tlien my reckonings~must be sure.If the two testaments are the two witnesses,it is well known theyare not clothedin sackcloth, and the twelve hundred andsixty years of their prophesying are fulfilled,and I cannot see how Lam mistaken, if thistime is fulfilled;The clturch in the wilderness. lf the woman,in Revelation xii. 6, 14, means anychurch now in Christendom, it would bevery diiiicult to tell how theycan now besaid to bein the wilderness; and if she is