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cnars1~'| :mmm counts. 8)ofthe evil power of empire; kingdoms, states, orrepublics,yet He who rules over all, will, in the end, destroyall these powers, and himself reign King of kings andLord over all. "And the ten homs which thou sawestupon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shallmake her desolate and naked, and cut her flesh, and burnher with fire."This text has been literally accomplished within a fewyears; and those kingdoms which were ofthe ten, kingdomswhich first gave power to the beast, have of latepersecuted and destroyed her, who is the abominationofthe whole earth. Vi/itness the transactions of GreatBritain, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Naples, andTuscany, the Seven Kingdoms which were not pluckedup by the little horn; each of these nations have in theirturn resisted the -power and pretensions of the Pope ofRome, until his civil authority is reduced to a cipher inall these kingdoms. "For God hath inputtheir heartsto fulfil his will, and to agree and givetheir ki domunto the beast, until the words oi' God shall be t`ulii%e¢L"Then must the Papal beast, the image of Paganism, benumbered and finished, and like aweighty millgstunesunk' in the deep, he must with the Pagan beast sinkforever and ever.Thus we see the two beasts, although supported lay thelamepower, "the great red dragonor Roman om,"exercising the same authorityover the bodies an soulsof men, partaking of the same spirit of Satan, made likeeach other, one bein but an image of the other, havin-the same names of blasphemy on their heads, and bothhaving, at the close of their times, the same ben horns,and both have, and are to have, their civil powerdestroyed by the same ten horns. Yet we see them keptseparate and distinct. Pagan Rome must reign histime, and then the ten homs, or kings, would take awaythe "daily sacritice abomination," and in his steadthe "abomination that maketh desoplace ate." The lastabomination was numbered in the same chapter whereour text is found, "forty and two months." And whynot usgive the number ofthe first beast? He has:*Let him that hath understanding count the number of