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1. Because the Beast that Mystery Babylon rides on, is the eighth Head, or last Ruling-Power of that City that is seated upon seven Hills, which must be Rome Papal, because the whole Race of Rome Heathen was gone off, before the eighth Head came up. — The sixth Head was in John's Time; the seventh was to come, and continue but a short Space, The Beast that carrier the Woman, viz. Babylon, is of the seventh, but is the eighth, and shall be the last; for he goeth into Perdition. This being so evident from the Letter of the Text, needs nothing more to confirm it. Now that Rome Heathen was not the last Part of the Romish Power, is not only the full and joint Consent of all Writers upon this Subject, but is so evident to all the Christian World, that it would be Vanity it self to make a Show of Proof. The Conclusion then is this: If the very last Part of the Roman Power carries the Woman Babylon, and that the Heathen State of Rome went off before, and was not the last; then Babylon could not terminate in Rome Heathen, but must come down to Rome Papal. See Rev. 17.3, 7, 9, 11.

2. If Babylon be totally terminated in Rome Heathen, then the Book of the Apocalypse is of little use to the latter Ages of the Christian World: For if the whole Transactions relating to the Persecution of the Church, and the Slaughter and Destruction of God's Enemies, did end in Rome Heathen, then it served only to give a characteristical Account of a Beast and Whore that was grown old, and ready to go off the Stage; but hath wholly left us in the dark, and given us no notice at all of that horrible Confusion, and bloody Persecutions, which have reigned in the Christian World for more than a thousand Years last past; which for Length of Time, Numbers of Murders, and Manner of Cruelties, hath out-done all the Wickedness of Rome in its Heathen State. Which is not at all likely, that a Vision should be given, and a Revelation made, and called so, about a State that was almost expired, and the most great and principal Part wholly left out, and said nothing to. Who can imagine, that a careful Saviour should be so full in his Discoveries to the Jewish Church, concerning their Sufferings, and the Time under Egypt, and Babylon Literal; and be so short and lean to his Gospel-Church, to leave them altogether without any written Prospect, or extraordinary Prophet, to inform them what should come to pass in the World, from the going off of the Power of Rome Heathen, to the end of all the Churches Troubles, which have already lasted above a thousand Years? The Conceit of which is fit but for two Ranks of Men to receive, viz. the Roman-Catholics, and such Protestants as look for Antichrist to come at the end of the World, after the