open the feals, 177-179. the vifions of the fix feals confidered; 180-195. the feventh feal opened, 199. it comprehends more events than the former feals, 200. the feven trumpets, 200— 271. vifion of the great red dragon, 274-283. of the ten horned beast, 233-291. of the two horned beast, 291–301. the feven vials, 312-312. the fall of spiritual Babylon or Rome, 222-348. the millennium, 348-358. the general refurrection and judgment, and new heaven and earth, 360, &c.
Roman empire compared to a terrible beaft without a name, I. 260-263. this beaft had ten horns, 263. these ten horns or kingdoms where to be fought, 265. the opinion of authors about them, 265, &c.
Rome, that church a surprising mystery of iniquity, II. 150. its herefies and fchifms of long continuance, 150. the power of the pope of Rome foretold in fcripture, 151. when Rome was governed by the Exarch of Ravenna, 207. resembles Egypt in her punishment as well as in her crimes, 315. her fall compared to Babylon, 322. her ftate and condition, 322. the character of the great whore of Babylon, more proper to modern than ancient Rome, 324. her fitting upon a fcarlet-colored beaft with feven heads and ten horns, 325. her ornament, 325. her inchanting cup, 326. her in- fcription upon her forehead, 326-328. her being drunk with the blood of the faints, 328, 329. what fignified by the seven heads and ten horns, 331-335. the prophecies relating to the church of Rome the most effential part of the Revela tion, 374. its corruptions and innovations foretold, 374- 378. her clergy like the Scribes and Pharifees in feveral inftances, 380-382. their ufurped power foretold, and the place and perfons pointed out, 374, 382-387. the time of its power foretold, 387. its destruction will certainly come, 391—
SALADIN, proclaimed fultan in Egypt, II. 66. befieges and takes Jerufalem, ibid. compels the Chriftians there to redeem their lives, ibid.
Saracens defcended from Ifhmael, I. 22, 31. as locufts over- fpread the earth, II. 209. when they made their greatest con- quefts, 215. See Arabians.
Sardis, the capital of Lydia, II. 171. at present in ruins, 172. in a deplorable ftate as to religion, ibid.
Savonarola, his zealous preaching and writing against the vices of the Roman clergy, II. 267. endures imprifonment, tortures and death with conftancy, ibid.
Sawtree, a parish priest, first burnt for heresy in England, II. 263.
Scopas, his great fuccefs in Cale-Syria and Palestine, I. 353. is afterwards forced to furrender to Antiochus, 354.
Scotus Johannes, writes upon the Eucharift by the command of the emperor, II. 243. his opinion against the doctrin of tran- fubftantiation, ibid. invited to England by king Alfred, and preferred, ibid.
Scriptures, the fulfilment of the prophecies a convincing argument of their divinity, I. 178. friendly to liberty, 180. and the love of our country, 334.
Seals, the book fealed with feven feals, II. 179. the Son of God only found worthy to open it, ibid. the feven feals fignify fo many periods of prophecy, ibid. the first memorable for con- queft, 180. the fecond its commencement and continuance, 182-184. the third feal for what characterized, 184. the fourth feal for what diftinguished, 187. the fifth feal remark- able for the tenth general perfecution, 190-192. the fixth feal for great changes and revolutions, 192, 193. its con- tinuance from Conftantine to Theodofius, 199, the seventh feal diftinguished by the founding of feven trumpets, 200, 201. feals foretold the ftate of the Roman empire before it became Chriftian, 201.
Seleucida and Lagidæ, not the fourth kingdom mentioned in Daniel, I. 240, 261, 264.
Seleucia, renders Babylon defolate, I, 172, is called Babylon by feveral authors, ibid.
Seleucus, the first of Syria a moft potent king, I. 341, 342. Seleucus Ceraunus, his fhort and inglorious reign, I. 347.
Seleucus Callinicus, his fons and their pompous. appellations,
Seleucus Philopator, fucceeds his father Antiochus, I. 360. a raifer of taxes all his days, ibid. fends his treasurer to commit facrilege in the temple of Jerufalem, 361. is deftroyed by him, ibid. Septimius Severus, a just and provident emperor, II. 185, &c. Shalmanefer, carried the ten tribes into captivity, I. 142. Shaw (Dr.) his account of the Arabians, I. 32. of Palestine, 131, 132. of Tyre, 199, 200.
Shem and Japheth, their good behaviour on their father's drunkenness, I. 6. the bleflings promised upon them and their pofterity, 14. how fulfilled both in former and latter times, 15, 16. II, 400. the promises of Japheth's dwelling in the tents of Shem explained and fulfilled, I. 16, 17.
Sherlock (Bp.) his exposition of Jacob's propliecy chiefly followed, I. 55, &c.
Shiloh, fhown to be the Meffiah in the various fenfes of the word, I. 57-59.
Sidon, an ancient city, celebrated by Homer and other poets, I.
Simeon and Levi, Jacob's prophecy about these two tribes, and how fulfilled, I. 52, &c,
Smyrna, the fecond epifle to the feven churches addreffed to them, II, 169. its fituation and commerce, ibid. its present ftate as to religion, ibid.
Soul, that it grew prophetic near death, an opinion of great anti- quity, I. 49, 50.
South and North, kings of, who to be understood by them, I. 341, 397, 398.
Star out of Jacob, and a scepter out of Ifrael, that prophecy ex- plained, I. 76-81.
Spirit, the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit often described by fprings of water, I. 299.
Spon (Dr.) his remark about the church of Philadelphia, II.
States or nations, feldom ruined without preceding figns, II. 25, 26, many awful figns from the fins of this nation,
Sulpicius Severus, his expofition of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, I. 250, 251.
TACITUS, his account of the prodigies before the deftruc-
tion of Jerufalem, II. 18.
Tamerlane, his great conquefts, II. 67. vifits Jerufalem, ibid. Tertullian, his opinion of the Man of Sin, II. 114. of the millen- nium, 356.
Theodoret, too much promotes the worship of faints, II. 137,
Thuanus, his character of the Waldenses, II. 255–257. his ac- count of their fufferings and difperfion, 257, 258.
Thyatira, a Chriftian church formerly there, this denied by fome heretics, II. 171. its prefent condition an effect of the divine judgments for their fins, ibid.
Titus, furrounds Jerufalem with a wall, II. 32. commands the city and temple to be deftroyed, 57. his wonderful preserva- tion at the siege, 78.
Toledo, that council ordered the children of the Jews to be taken from them, I, 112,
Trajan and Severus, their attempts against Arabia repelled in an extraordinary manner, I. 30. the wars and flaughters in the reigns of Trajan and his fucceffors, II. 182. the Jews fubdued by him, ibid.
Trofly, that council's good regulations, II. 245. differs from the fpiri and principles of the council of Trent, ibid.
Trumpets, the feven periods diftinguished by the sound of seven trumpets, II. 200. filence of half an hour previous to their founding, ibid. forefhow the condition of the Roman empire after it became Chriftian, 201. the defign of the trumpets, ibid. the events at the founding of the first trumpet, 201, 203. at the founding of the fecond, 203, 204. at the founding of the third, 205, 206. at the founding of the fourth, 206, 207. the three following diftinguished by the name of the woe- trumpets, 208. the events at the founding of the fifth, 209— 217. at the founding of the fixth trumpet, 218. an account of the seventh trumpet, 269, &c.
Turks, a part of Daniel's prophecy fuppofed to refer to the de- ftruction of their empire, 1. 405–409. their four kingdoms on the river Euphrates, II. 218, 219. their numerous armies, efpecially their cavalry, 222. their delight in fcarlet, blue and yellow, 223. the ufe of great guns and gun-powder among them, 223, 224. their power to do hurt by their tails, 224. See Othmans.
Tyre, prophecies concerning it, I. 180-202. Its fall predicted by Ifaiah and Ezekiel, 180. the prophecies relate to both old and new Tyre, 180, 181. a very ancient city, 182. the daughter of Sidon, but in time excelled the mother, 183. in a florishing condition when the prophet foretels her deftruction for her wickedness, 184. the particulars included in the prophecies about it, 184, 185. the city taken and deftroyed by Nebuchad- nezzar and the Chaldeans, 185-187. the inhabitants to pass over the Mediterranean, but to find no reft, 188-190. the the city to be reftored after feventy years, 190-192. to be taken and destroyed again, 192-197. the people to forsake idolatry and become converts to the true religion, 194, 195, the city at laft to be totally deftroyed and become a place for fifhers to spread their nets upon, 197. thefe prophecies to be fulfilled by degrees, 197. a fhort account from the time of Nebuchadnezzar to the present time, 197-199. the accounts given by three writers, 199, 200. this account concluded with reflections upon trade, 200, 201.
VIALS, feven, a preparatory vifion to their being poured out, II. 312-315. thefe feven plagues or vials belong to the last trumpet, and not yet fulfilled, 313, 314. feven angels appointed to pour out the feven vials, 314, 315. the com- miffion to pour them out, 315. the first vial or plague, 316,
the fecond and third, 316, 317. the fourth, $18. the fifth, 318. the fixth, 319, 320. the seventh and last, 320, 321.
Vitrimga, his opinion about a paffage in Balaam's prophe y, I. 77. a most excellent commentator upon Ifaiah. 195. one of the best interpreters of the Revelation, II. 154.
Voltaire, his account of the present state of Palestine, I. 128. an agreeable yet a fuperficial writer, II. 152.
Aldenfes and Albigenfes, witneffes for the truth in the twelfth century, II. 252. their rife and opinions, 252- 254. teftimonies concerning them, 254-257. are very much perfecuted, and fly into other countries, 257. pronounce the church of Rome to be apocalyptic Babylon, 306.
Warburton, his expofition of the far out of Jacob, and fcepter out of Ifrael, I. 80. his account of the figurative language used in foretelling the deftruction of Jerufalem, II. 52, &c. Wetstein, his explication of the Man of Sin refuted, II. 99, 100. complimented his understanding to cardinal Quirini, 100. Wheeler, his account of Smyrna, II. 169. he esteems an English prieft an evangelift, 170. his obfervation about the judgments on the seven churches of Afia, 174.
Whitby, his fcheme about the Man of Sin perplexed and confused, II. 97. and refuted, 97-99. profeffes not to understand the Revelation, 152.
White Horse, our Saviour cometh forth riding on one, II. 345. a token of victory over his enemies, 347.
White Throne, the general refurrection and judgment reprefented by it, II. 360.
Wickliff, preaches against the doctrins and lives of the clergy, II. 261. his books read in the colleges at Oxford, ibid. after his death his doctrins condemned, books burnt, and body dug up and burnt, 263. his followers however not difcouraged, ibid. Witneffes, protest against the corruptions of religion, II. 231. why faid to be two witneffes, ibid. to prophefy in fackcloth during the grand corruption, ibid. the character of these witnesses, and of the power and effect of their preaching, 232, 233. their passion, death, refurrection, and afcenfion, 233- 235. the prophecy about the witneffes applied by fome to John Hufs and Jerome of Prague, 235, and by others to the Proteftants of the league of Smalcald, 235, 236. alfo to the maffacre of the Proteftants in France, 236, 237. others to later events, to the Proteftants in the valleys of Piedmont, 237. an hiftorical deduction fhewing true witneffes against the church of Rome from the feventh century to the Reformation, 238, &c. witneffes in the eighth century, 239-241. in the
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