Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Prophecies Relative to Antichrist and the Last Times: Exhibiting the Rise, Character, and Overthrow of That Terrible Power; And a Treatise on the Seven Apocalyptic Vials The enormous Power, or Influence, symbolized by the Beast from thebottomlese jzz't, probably depends on no one mam - s though it has been accommodated hitherto with a leader truly prepared for the work of judgment. In the first reign of the im perial head of the Roman Beast, emperors were set up, and de posedand numbers slain, in thick succession. And it repeatedly seemed as though destruction had fallen upon the Empire Still thatimperial head continued. -t, hat genius of the people con-s inned, which would be governed by nothing short of a military despotism. _and this, we may expect, will be the case, hence; forth, on the Roman earth, till the Millennium. Should revolu tion succeed revolution, it would not alter the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.