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'Tis true, some Regard is had in the Prophecies to the City of Rome, the City built on seven Hills: Which being the Fountain of all Rule and Authority in the Roman Monarchy, and the capital City of the Empire, from whence the whole Empire was denominated, and the Place where the Head of the Empire usually resided, was properly made use of by the Angel, Rev. xvii.9, 18. to show what Empire Antichrist should rule over, and what City he should usually reside in. And this is all that can be meant by the Words of the Angel; and not that those Streets and Walls, and that very Ground, were such main and essential Things in what the Prophecy intended by the Beast; That when ⟨p. 143⟩Antichrist's Dominion began in that Place, then the Beast ceases. For if so, then it will follow, that the Beast had his Head wounded to Death a second Time, and ceased to be, when the Popes resided at Avignon in France, for the best Part of a Century; when not only the Popes did not reside in Rome, nor in any Part of St. Peter's Patrimony, nor any Part of Italy; but some of them were neither Romans, nor Italians. Tho' the Angel says of the great Whore, Rev. xvii.18. The Woman which thou sawest, is that great City which reigns over the Kings of the Earth: yet by the City, in this Case, is not meant so much what was contained within those Roman Walls, as the Roman Empire; as is evident by Chap. xi.8. And their dead Bodies shall lie in the Street of the great City, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt. Here, by the great City, neither Mr Lowman himself, nor I suppose any other Protestan• •••erpreter, understands the City of Rome, strictly speaking, but the Roman Monarchy.

'Tis true, some Regard is had in the Prophecies to the City of Rome, the City built on seven Hills: Which being the Fountain of all Rule and Authority in the Roman Monarchy, and the capital City of the Empire, from whence the whole Empire was denominated, and the Place where the Head of the Empire usually resided, was properly made use of by the Angel, Rev. xvii.9, 18. to shew what Empire Antichrist should rule over, and what City he should usually reside in. And this is all that can be meant by the Words of the Angel; and not that those Streets and Walls, and that very Ground, were such main and essential Things in what the Prophecy intended by the Beast; That when