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God is very careful not to reckon his own People among the Gentiles, the visible Subjects of Satan; Num. xxiii.9. The People shall not be reckoned among the Nations. God won't enrol them with them; if they happen to be among them, he will be careful to set a Mark upon ⟨p. 135⟩them, as a Note of Distinction; Rev. vii.3. &c. when God is reckoning up his own People, he leaves out those that have been noted for Idolatry. As among the Tribes that were sealed Rev. viii. those idolatrous Tribes of Ephraim and Dan are left out, and in the Genealogy of Christ, Matth. i. those Princes that were chiefly noted for Idolatry, are left out. Much more would God be careful not to reckon his own People, especially such christian Princes as have been the most eminent Instruments of overthrowing Idolatry, amongst Idolaters, and as Members and Heads of that Kingdom that is noted in Scripture as the most notorious and infamous of all, for abominable Idolatry, and Opposition and Cruelty to the true Worshippers of God. And especially not to reckon them as properly belonging to one of those seven Heads of this Monarchy, of which very Heads it is particularly noted that they had on them the Names of Blasphemy; (Rev. xiii.1.) which Mr. Lowman himself supposes to signify Idolatry. It was therefore worthy of God, agreeable to his Manner, and what might well be expected, that when he was reckoning u• the several successive Heads of this Beast, and Constantine and his Successors came in the Way, and there was Occasion to mention them, to set a Mark, or Note of Distinction on them, signifying that they did not properly belong to the Beast, nor were to be reckoned as belonging to his Heads; and therefore are to be skipped over in the Reckoning; and Antichrist, tho' the eighth Head of the Roman Empire, is to be reckoned the seventh Head of the Beast. This appears to me abundantly the most just and natural Interpretation of Rev. xvii.10, 11