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And besides if the Government that Rome was under, from the Time that Augustulus abdicated, to the Time when the Pope was confirmed in his temporal Dominion, ⟨p. 139⟩was meant by that seventh Head that was to be between the Imperial Head and the Papal, there would doubtless have been two different Heads mentioned, instead of one, between the Emperor and the Pope; viz. First, the Gothic Princes, which reigned near an 100 Years; Secondly, the Exarchs of Ravenna, which governed for about 185 Years. The Gothic Kingdom was much more properly a distinct Government from the Imperial, than the Exarchate of Ravenna. For during the Exarchate, Rome was under the Government of the Emperor, as much as it was in Constantine's Time.

And besides if the Government that Rome was under, from the Time that Augustulus abdicated, to the Time when the Pope was confirmed in his temporal Dominion, ⟨p. 139⟩was meant by that seventh Head that was to be between the Imperial Head and the Papal, there would doubtless have been two different Heads mention'd, instead of one, between the Emperor and the Pope; viz. First, the Gothick Princes, which reigned near an 100 Years; Secondly, the Exarchs of Ravenna, which governed for about 185 Years. The Gothick Kingdom was much more properly a distinct Government from the Imperial, than the Exarchate of Ravenna. For during the Exarchate, Rome was under the Government of the Emperor, as much as it was in Constantine's Time.

In Rev. xvii.12. 'tis said, the ten Horns are ten Kings, which are to receive Power as Kings one Hour with the Beast, or (as Mr. Lowman says it ought to have been translated) the same Hour or Point of Time with the Beast. This will not allow the Time when Antichrist first receives Power as King, to be so late as Mr. Lowman supposes. This Division of the Empire into many Kingdoms, denoted by the Number Ten, was about the Year 456, after Gensericus had taken the City of Rome: But Mr. Lowman places the Beginning of the Reign of Antichrist in the Year 756, which is 300 Years later. I know, such an Expression as in one Hour, or the same Hour, may allow some Latitude; but surely not such a Latitude as this. This is a much longer Time, than it was from the Time of the Vision to Constantine; muh longer than the Space of all the first six Seals; longer than it was from Christ's Ascension to Constantine; and near as long as the Time of all the Reigns of the Heathen Emperors put together, from Augustus Caesar to Constantine. An Hour is every where, in the other Place in this Book of Revelation,