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 NAPOLEON IIL 
 
 THE MAN OF PEOPIIECY; 
 
 OR, tHS 
 
 REVIVAL OV TliE FRENCH EMPERORFJlIP 
 
 ANTICIPATED FROM TIlB NECES- 
 
 SITY OF PkOPIIECV' 
 
 BY 
 
 G. S. PABER, B,D. 
 
 HABTBR 0» BlIKBllOftrt nOSftTil A»n tREBE.VDABT Ot SAWB»0»t. 
 
 ** And none of the wicked shall iindergtand ; but the Wise sftcU 
 Undei'stand:^— Daniel xii. 10* 
 
 VmU TltE AMERICAN EDITION* 
 
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yftiNTEI* BY W. C. CHEWETT A CO., KING BThEET EAS'i, 
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 TO 
 
 SIK IIENHY MAETIN, Bart. 
 
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 My dear Sir Henry, 
 
 Tliere is no person, whom, with more 
 perfect satisfaction to myself, I can invite 
 to accompany me in the prophetic con- 
 sideration of a very important subject, 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR&HIP. 
 
 From our frequent correspondence, I 
 am assured of your deep interest in it : 
 and our long friendship has taught me to 
 appreciate the soundness of your judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Through a love to my country, tho 
 topic is, to me, one of deep interest : and 
 I well know that it is scarcely less so to 
 yourself. 
 
 
 4559 
 
4 DEDICATION. 
 
 Tliis difFcrence, however, tliere is be- 
 tween lis. 
 
 You, at joiir age, may well live to see 
 tlie fearful events, whicli, if I mistake not, 
 are now so rapidly coming upon ns : I, on 
 the contrary, in my eightieth year, shall 
 most prol)al)ly be taken away from the 
 evil to come.* 
 
 That evil is coming, I make no doubt ; 
 but it is evil introductory to great good. 
 
 When tlie predicted Antichristian Con- 
 federacy shall have been broken, and 
 when (as was the judgment expressed to 
 myself, many years ago, by tlie late emi- 
 nent Bishop Ilorsley) its mighty arma- 
 ments shall have perished between the 
 eeas in the mountains of Palestine : then 
 will be inaugurated that lioly and happy 
 period, which is usually distinguished by 
 the name of the Millennium. 
 
 In truth, unless the now too plain ob- 
 stacles were removed, the introduction of 
 that happy state upon this earth would 
 
 * [Mr. Faber died January 27th, 1854.] 
 
 
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 DEDICATION. 
 
 5 
 
 he^moml, not to say 2, physical, impos- 
 sibility. Some good men have imagined 
 that, by the gradual increase of know- 
 ledge and religion, we shall glide, as it 
 were, imperceptibly into the promised 
 purity and felicity of the thousand years. 
 But Prophecy speaks a very different 
 language. Our Augean stable must be 
 effectually cleansed, before the World can 
 be fit for the reception of a Pure Uni- 
 versal Church : and the appointed instru- 
 ment of cleansing is widely-spread tribu- 
 lation. 
 
 In this short Treatise, my object has 
 been to avoid all declamation. I have 
 w^ished to aiscuss the subject in a closely- 
 demonstrative form: working, tln-ough- 
 out, from niSTORicAL facts ; and taking, 
 as my general basis, tlie declared palmary 
 FACT, that,, in the time of St. John, the 
 Roman Head or Polity, described as the 
 immediate predecessor of the last of the 
 Seven Roman Polities, was in actual ex- 
 istence. Diffuseness and declamation are 
 a2 
 
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 DEDICATION. 
 
 here manifestly out of place. If we wish 
 to convince, w^e must severely, perhaps 
 almost scholastically, aim at proof. 
 
 The general fault, so far as I can judge, 
 of modern commentators on Prophecy, is 
 their rapidity of jumping to conclusions. 
 Such a mode of writing may p^''haps 
 satisfy tliose, who, to save themselves 
 mental labour, are inclined to take things 
 for granted : but a sober inquirer after 
 truth will eschew superficial statements 
 and rash conclusions, too many of which 
 it has been our lot to witness. He will 
 demand, that a process of sifting should 
 be adopted: and, if he encounters the 
 very reverse, he will incline to a strong 
 feeling of the Increchdus odi. To be 
 useful, a man must not covet a shallow 
 and really contemptible popularity. He 
 must aim at better thmgs. 
 
 Beheve me, my dear Sir Henry, 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 G. S. Faber. 
 
 Sherhurn House, 
 
 December 10, 1852, 
 
PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN 
 EDITION. 
 
 In republisliing, at this time, " The 
 Eevival of the French Emperorship," by 
 the late Eev. G. S. Faber, no apology is 
 needed. 
 
 The striking verification of the predic- 
 tion concerning the Eevival of the French 
 Emperorship, made so long ago as the 
 year 1818, as well as the startling an- 
 nouncements concernig a general Euro- 
 pean war^ make Mr. Faber's work espe- 
 cially interesting at this crisis ; while the 
 author of the " Sacred Calendar of Pro- 
 phecy," and of the works on " Election," 
 "Justification," etc. etc., is sufficiently 
 well known to guarantee any production 
 of his pen from being the mere visionary 
 speculations of a prophetic enthusiast. 
 
 [1 
 
8 
 
 I'KEFACE TO THE 
 
 "Whether they agree or not in its con- 
 clusions, tlie readers of this little work 
 will he constrained to admit the force and 
 pers])icuity Of the style, and especially the 
 cohei*ence which binds every part of the 
 argument together into a consistent whole; 
 vhile none can deny the singular and lit- 
 eral fulfilment which liistory has already 
 given to some of Mr. Faber's predictions 
 drawn from the word of God— nor fiiil to 
 notice how events seem even now shaping 
 themselves, in the way he had indicated 
 BO long before. 
 
 The madness and folly of the Millerites, 
 the wildness and absurdity of some pro- 
 phetic expositors, has bronght discredit 
 on the whole snbject of prophetic study ; 
 but if it be not presumption on his part, 
 the Editor would beg leave to call atten- 
 tion to a distinction on this point, with 
 which he has been often struck in readinir 
 the word of God, and wliich seems to 
 him too much overlooked, that is— that 
 while all knowledge of the Last Day is 
 
AMERICAN LDTTION. 
 
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 reserved o-s one of the secrets of tlie Moat 
 High, yet certainly it seems to be a Rcrip- 
 tnre truth (Dan. xii. 10, 1 Thess. v. 4) that 
 the s])iritually wise shall n'^ecoynJze the 
 irouljled events ivhieh ^^/'^'^t^Ze! it. Any 
 otlier view than tliis is inconsistent with 
 tlie solemn declarations of our Blessed 
 Lord to His disciplesj a? to tl.'.e signa 
 which foreshadow His coming. 
 
 For surely no devout mind can enter- 
 tain the idea for an instant, that his 
 Saviour would he so explicit in giving 
 warniiigs which whe)i the thne came could 
 not ho nnderstood, or in noting signs 
 which could never be perceived ! 
 
 In conclusion it may be remarked, tliat 
 a few foot notes have been added which 
 are distinguished by brackets, and that 
 an addition has been made to the title of 
 the Avork, as the original ^rie of Mr. Faber 
 does not so well announce its peculiar 
 character. 
 
 New York, June 11th, 1859. 
 
 V*',, 
 
PREFACE TO THE CANADIAN 
 EDITION. 
 
 — #- 
 
 This work, which has been out of print 
 a considerable time, is now issued at the 
 request of some who have been struck 
 with the remarkable character of the 
 argument it contains, and who are con- 
 vinced that a perusal of it will, if it does 
 not carry complete conviction as to the 
 correctness of the Author's conclusions, 
 yet lead to serious thought and research 
 on the deeply important subject of which 
 it treats. 
 
 Toronto, Decemler 1st, 1864, 
 
tM 
 
 Revival of the French EMPEnoESiilP 
 
 jf—^ 
 
 The interpreting Angel, who revealed 
 to St. John the Mystery of the Harlot and 
 the Wild-Beast that carried her, declares^ 
 as the prophet himself had already de- 
 cl.ired in a former Vision, that this Synv 
 bol of the Secular Koman Empire was 
 distinguished by Ins having Seven Heads 
 or (in plain English) by his being suc- 
 cessively under the government of Sev^n 
 Forms of Polity. He then subjoins : 
 that Five of those Forms had fallen,^ 
 
 * The forms of Roman Polity ali'eady fallen when 
 Bt. John wrote, are Usually given aa, 1. Kings; 2( 
 Consuls; 3. Dictators; 4." DeeemYirs! 5. MilitftVy 
 
12 
 
 THE BEVIVAL OF T1132 
 
 ■ 
 
 that One was at that time in actual 
 existence^ and that tlie Other had not 
 yet come. 
 
 I. Tlie Angel's declaration, when some- 
 what more correctly translated than in 
 our common version, runs thus ! 
 
 Ilcre is the mind that hath tvlsdom. 
 The Seven Heads are Seven Jfoimtains. 
 where the Wo7}ian sitteth %ipon thetiit 
 Also they arc Seven Kings, The Five 
 have fallen: the One is: the Other hath 
 not yet eonie ^ and when he shall have 
 come^ he must remain only a little thne^ 
 And {relatively to the Wild-Beast that 
 was and is not) he is also an Eighth and 
 yet he is One of the Seven, And he 
 goeth into destrtictio7i. 
 
 St. John's own previous statement, 
 looking retrosjyectivcly^ as Daniel simi* 
 larly looked, to the earliest rise of the 
 Koman Empire out of the figurative Sea 
 of tumults and war, runs, in an abbre- 
 viated form, as follows \ 
 

 PBENCH EMPEEOKSHIP. 13^ 
 
 
 I saw a Wild-Beast rise up out of the 
 
 
 Sea, having Seven Heads. Ant^ I saio 
 
 
 One of his Reads, as it were loounded 
 
 . 
 
 to death 1 and his deadly wound was 
 
 
 healed — the wound hy a sword. And he 
 
 
 . did live. 
 
 
 II, From the Angel's assertion of A 
 
 
 NAKED HISTORICAL FACT, namelj, that One 
 
 
 of the Seven Roman Polities was in ac- 
 
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 t 
 
 tual existence at the time when he spolce, 
 
 / 
 
 we are infallibly certain, that that Form 
 
 5 
 
 was THE EMPEKORSHIP OF THE ROMANS I 
 
 
 and this guiding fact is thus a sure clue 
 
 X 
 
 1 
 
 to the whole prospective part of the 
 
 r 
 
 hierophantic discourse. 
 
 
 1. For the purpose of reaching and 
 
 
 ascertaining the predicted Seventh Pol- 
 
 
 ity, described as the otJver which had not 
 
 \ 
 
 yet co7Re, we must obviously trace the 
 
 \ 
 
 Course of the Polity, declared by the 
 
 
 Angel to have been in actual existence 
 
 \ 
 
 when he conversed with St. John, to its 
 
 
 ultimate Fall or Extinction: because, 
 
 B 
 
 
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14 
 
 THE REVIVAL OP THE 
 
 either at or very shortly heforc, its ex- 
 tinction, we may be quite sure that the 
 Seventh Polity must appear. Here we 
 shall be guided by a succession of indis- 
 putable HISTORICAL FACTS, Commencing 
 from the palmary fact declared by the 
 interpreting Angel. 
 
 (1.) Now the Political Course of the 
 
 ROMAN EMPERORSHIP, wllich dovbtlcSS WaS 
 
 the Polity existing in the time of St. 
 John, down to its ultimate form or com- 
 plete Extinction, must be traced, either 
 through The Entire Empire singly^ or 
 through The East and the West corijoint- 
 ly, or through The East and the West 
 severally, or through The West alone 
 after the Fall of the Empire in the East 
 (2.) The necessity of adverting to this 
 Political Course of the roman emperor- 
 ship is produced by the Principle of 
 ROMAN law, that the Territorial Roman 
 Empire and the Giibernative Iloman 
 Emperorship were^ each alike, a strict 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 15 
 
 UNIT. Hence whatever number oi ^per- 
 sonal Emperors, either in the East, or in 
 the "West, might govern the one Roman 
 Empire, and however that one Empire 
 might be gubernatively arranged in point 
 of division : still those ^^r^o^i^Z Emperors, 
 and that territorial Empire, were, each 
 alike, deemed one, and in koman law, 
 were never held to have departed from 
 the principle of unity. 
 
 (3.) A want of attention to this vital 
 Principle lies at the root of perhaps all 
 the various efforts to identify the Seventh 
 Head or Polity. 
 
 It was assmned, by one commentator 
 after another, that the roman emperor- 
 ship, which confessedly was the head 
 existing when St. John wrote, fell or 
 lecame extinct with the deposition of 
 Aiignstnlus in the year 476 or 479 : and 
 this totally groundless assumption, pro- 
 duced, of course, the necessity of finding 
 
16 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 a Seventh Head to be the successor of 
 tlie supposed fallen Imperial Head. 
 
 For the most part, this Seventh Head 
 was discovered in the Papacy : and since 
 the marked characteristic of the seventh 
 Head was Shortness of Continuance ; by 
 some not very intelligible process, the 
 Papacy was also made into an Eighth 
 Head, though the Symbol is repeatedly 
 said to have had 7io more than Seven 
 Heads. 
 
 I give this, as only one specimen of 
 error out of many : but I may add, that 
 every Scheme, which would discover a 
 Head in the Papacy, exhibits the gross 
 incongruity of making a Spiritual Power 
 to be a Head of a declared Secular Em- 
 pire. 
 
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 * Mr. Mede;with whatever consistency, most justly 
 styles tiie first Wild-Beast the Suular Beast, and the 
 secoiid, the EcclenaMical. 
 
 " Quarum primam decern cornupetam, Secularem ; 
 alteram bicornem, Ecdcskisticum ; si lubet, voea."— 
 Comment, Apoc, in Blblaria, Ojper. p. 408. 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 ir 
 
 (4.) It is a perfectly clear case, tliat, ?/ 
 the Imperial Roman Head fell in the 
 year 476 or 479, we must, about that 
 time, look for the rise of the predicted 
 Seventh Head. 
 
 Hence it is a matter of prime impor- 
 tance to show, evidentially, that, neither 
 
 IN FACTS nor ON THE PRINCIPLE OF ROMAN 
 
 LAW, did the Imperial Eoman Head fall 
 a the deposition of Augustulus. 
 
 2. To the existence of the Legal Sys- 
 tem of UNITY, Hiistory bears iriost ample 
 testimony. 
 
 (1.) On the occasion of the deposal of 
 Augustulus, very remarkable and very 
 decisive was the judgment of the Roman 
 Senate in their Epistle to the Eastern 
 Emperor Zeno. They certainly never 
 suspected, that the roman emperorship 
 itself had fallen, because it had become 
 extinct in tlie Western Division of the 
 ONE Roman Empire. 
 B 2 
 
18 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 Tlie Roman Senate^ "writes the histo- 
 rian, disclaim the necessity^ or even the 
 wish, of continuing any longer the Im- 
 perial Succession in italy : since, in 
 their ojy'tnion, the Majesty of a sole 
 MONARCH is sufficient to jpercade and to 
 protect at the same time, both the east 
 AND the avest. In their oion name, and 
 in the name of the People, they consent, 
 that the seat of universal empire shall 
 he transferred from Rome to Constanti- 
 n^^ple: and they renotmce the right of 
 choosing their blaster. The Repidjlic 
 might safely confide in the civil and 
 onilitary virtues of Odoacer : and they 
 hnmlAy request that the emperor woxdd 
 invest him with the title of Patrician and 
 the ctd ministration of the Diocese of Italy. 
 
 Wliat was the result of this humble 
 request ? Did it at all involve the idea, 
 that the ROMAN emperorship had alto- 
 gether fallen, because it had fallen in the 
 West? We shall see. 
 
FRENCH EMrEROESIIIP. 
 
 19 
 
 The Deputies of the Senate icere re- 
 ceived at Constantinople with some niarlis 
 of dis2:)leasitre and indignation^ and^ 
 lohen they were admitted to the audience 
 of Zeno, he sternly reproached them with 
 their treatment of the tivo Emperors^ 
 Anthemius and Nepos^ whom the east 
 had successively granted to the prayers 
 of Italy. — But the prudent Zeno desert- 
 ed the hopeless cause of his aldicated 
 COLLEAGUE. IHs Vanity was gratified ly 
 the title of sole emperor, and hy the 
 statues erected to his honour in the seve- 
 ral quarters of Rome: he entertcined a 
 friendly^ though ambiguous^ correspon- 
 dence with the Patrician Odoac'er : and 
 he gratefully accepted the imperial en- 
 signs, the sacred ornaments of the Throne 
 and the Palace^ %chich the harharian 
 Odoncer was not umoilling to reynove 
 from the sight of the people.^ 
 
 * Ilist. of Decline, chap, xxxvi. vol. vi. pp. 22*7, 228. 
 
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 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 Thus speaks Ilistorj : and, if we liave 
 not liere a clear recognition of the koman 
 EMrEKORsnir, in the person of the Eastern 
 Emperor Zeno, and thence of tliat Legal 
 Principle which deemed the Emperor and 
 the Emi)ire alike a strict unity by whom- 
 soever and wheresoever the Imperial Dig- 
 nity migl it be claimed and exercised; it 
 is difficult to say, what more we would 
 require in the way of proof 
 
 (2.) Yet more we may have. Let us 
 again hear the voice of History. 
 
 In the lowest ^periods of degeneracy 
 and decay ^ the name of Romans adhered 
 to the last fragments of the Erajjire of 
 Constantinople.'^ 
 
 Accordingly, Laonicus Chalcocondyles, 
 who survived the final siege of the East- 
 ern Capital of the Eoman Empire in 
 the year 1453, states, that the Byzantine 
 Sovereigns alwaj^s claimed and always 
 
 * Illst. of Decline, chap. liii. vol. x. p. 155. 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
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 bore tlic illiisti^ous title of basileus and 
 EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS, aiicl disdained 
 to be styled only Basileus or Emjyevor 
 of the Greelcs!^ 
 
 (3.) In trnth, in tlieir studious as- 
 Eiimption of this style, tliey affected 
 superiority and even exclusiveness. 
 
 Thus, from Luitprand, tlie ambassador 
 of tlie AVestern Eoman Emperor Otho, 
 after the revival of tbe Emperorship by 
 Charlemagne, we learn : that, when the 
 Pope exhorted Nicephorus, by the style 
 of Emjperov of the greeks, to make peace 
 with Otho the august Emperor of the 
 ROMANS ; tlie distinction in the stvle was, 
 at the Court of Constantinople, indig- 
 nantly rejected, as implying, that the old 
 and higher title oi Emperor of the romans 
 was, by the upstart arrogance of the West, 
 refused to its proper legitimate possessor, 
 the Emperor of the Eastern Division of 
 
 * Laqn. Chalc. lib. i. p. 8, cited in Hist, of Declino, 
 chap. liil. vol. x., p. 155. 
 
 k1 
 
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 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
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 tlie Tloman Empire. By tlie gratuitous- 
 ly insulted Orientals, the language was 
 thonght faulty and rash : for they de- 
 dared, that Nlcephorus alone, august 
 and great, was the universal emperor 
 
 OF THE ROMANS.^ 
 
 In tliis protest, tlie Eastern Romans 
 only claimed a title wliicli tliey had al- 
 tvays possessed from the time of the divi- 
 sion of the Empire between the two sons 
 of Theodosius. If the Western Ilonorius 
 wr.s Em/peroT of the Romans, so likewise, 
 on the well-known principle of unity, was 
 the Eastern Arcadius : and the title was 
 borne, by the successors of Arcadius down 
 to the final extinction of the Eastern 
 Empire in the year 1453 by the agency 
 of the Turks. 
 
 On this same Principle it was, that, 
 when Charlemngne, in th? year 800, 
 X'evived the Western Emperorship, it 
 
 P»'l ' ' ■'- — -' I ■■■ 1.1 .1 -■- I . 1 — I II , ■■ ■ ^.^—i . .1. I^^i— .Mil II — ^— — ^— ^ 
 
 * nist, of Decline, chap, xlix,, vol, ix., pp. 193, 194, 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 23 
 
 was rightly felt to be no contradiction, 
 that he should he proclaimed Eiiiperor 
 of the Iiomans, when there was already 
 an Unijyeror of the Eomans at Constan- 
 tinople. The two Emperors in the East 
 and the West had ahuays borne that 
 title : for the Roman Empire was an 
 unit: and the acquired out-standing 
 dominions had ceased to be esteemed 
 meve Provinces to Italy, and were reck- 
 oned integral parts of the one j2;reat 
 Em])ire ; while, conformably, all their 
 inha1)itants were generically known and 
 considered as Romans. 
 
 3. Tlie cause of the amalgamation, by 
 wliicli all the subjects of the entire Ter- 
 ritorial Empire, whether in the East or 
 in the West or in the South, were legally 
 ROMANS, was the ultimate extension of 
 Roman Citizenship, the Jus Cuntatis^ to 
 the WHOLE Empire in its widest expansion. 
 
 This important grant was finally com- 
 pleted by Antoninus Caracalla : but the 
 
 M 
 
 m 
 
u 
 
 THE EEVIVAL OF THE 
 
 plan liad wisely begun to be acted upon 
 by Augustus : and, with tlie gradual ex- 
 tension of THE ROMAN CITY, the number 
 of ROMANS continually increased, until at 
 length all were Romans both in name and 
 in political reality."^ 
 
 It was on this principle that the chief 
 captain said to Paul : Tell me / at't thou 
 a Roman f And, on the same princi- 
 ple, Paul readily answered in the affir- 
 mative. The captain, in that day, had 
 2nirchascd liis Roman Citizenship: but 
 Paul, though a native of Tarsus in the 
 Eastern Division of the Empire, was 
 horn a Iloman. 
 
 4. I may additionally remark, tliat 
 tlie Territorial extent of the koman em 
 PiRE, according to the true legal idea of 
 the term, was long remembered in the 
 East: and it produced its own appro- 
 priate geographical phraseology. 
 
 ■** Hist of DccUae, chap. vi. vol i. p. 255, 267. 
 
Instead of beiiio; tlie name of onlv a 
 Bingle Italian citj, eomEj in consequence 
 of tlie universal extension of Bom an 
 Citi^ensliip, became, when orientally 
 transmuted into koum and thence into 
 RouMAKiArt and roumeliah, the general 
 appellation of the entire Empire in its 
 widest territorial amplitude. 
 
 The Country of roum, says Ebn Al 
 Ouardi writing in the year 995, origin- 
 ally included all the countries from the 
 Atlantic to ConstanUnojple and the Eux- 
 ine : though^ at ^jresent^ the country^ 
 l?ro]perly called koitm and eoumaniaii 
 and RouT^fELiAn, is Thrace and Greece. 
 
 He further says: Constantinojple was 
 the capital of the empire of the Romans ; 
 a7id that Empire^ in its true sense^ com- 
 prehended' many nations of different 
 languages.'^ 
 
 * See D'IIerbelot'8 Eiblioteqtie Orientale, in toe. 
 Rounu vol. V. p. 88, 89. 
 
n 
 
 t«E REVIVAL 01^ Ttm 
 
 This Arabic author is rpite correct ill 
 stating Constantinople to be the Capital 
 of THE ROMAN i:Mpmp: : for, as ^ve have 
 seen, both the Eoman Senate and the 
 Homan People, in their address to Zeno, 
 consented, that the proudly named seat 
 of UNIVERSAL EMPIRE slioiild bc transfer- 
 S'ed from Rome to Constantinople. 
 
 On the same principle, when tlie 
 Turkish Soliman, about the 3'ear 1074, 
 founded, upon the division of the Turkish 
 Empire after the death of Malek Shah, 
 his new Seljukian Kingdom, ^vhich, 
 invading the J2oman Provrnees of Asia 
 Minor (as Gibbon speaks), extended, 
 from the Euphrates to Constantinoph), 
 and from the Euxine to the confines of 
 Syria ; he denominated it the kingdom of 
 
 ROUM, or THE KINGDOM OF THE ROMANS.* 
 
 So strongly, in short, is tlie Eoman 
 Kame impressed upon tlie Eastern Em- 
 
 *IIist of Decline, clmp. Irli. vol. x. p. 371, 'i1% 
 

 FRENCH EMPERORSHIP, 2T 
 
 . ill 
 
 l^ire^ tliat, to tliis day, tlie Metropolitan 
 
 ital 
 
 Province, which contains Constantinople 
 
 ave 
 
 and Adrian ople, is denominated romanta. 
 
 tlie 
 
 5. Finally, to revert to more early 
 
 mo, 
 
 times, the Sovereignty of the Eastern 
 
 5eat 
 
 Emperor, as emperor of the romans, 
 
 fer- 
 
 and as Lord even of the City from tho 
 
 
 time of Justinian, was twice, more than 
 
 tile 
 
 a century after the deposal of Aiio-ustn- 
 
 )74, 
 
 Ins, acknowledged in the reign of Phocus, 
 
 visli 
 
 and again in the reign of his successor 
 
 lali, 
 
 Heraclius. 
 
 icli, 
 
 A column was erected in Pome, in- 
 
 isia 
 
 scribed with the name of Phocas, as the 
 
 ded, 
 
 perpetual emperor, prince and lord. 
 
 >pb. 
 
 The honorary part of the inscription 
 
 s of 
 
 was subsequently erased by command of 
 
 VI OF 
 
 his Imperial Successor Heraclius: who. 
 
 , * 
 
 ). 
 
 on that occasion, acted with all the au- 
 
 man 
 
 thority of the acknowledged emperor op 
 
 Em- 
 
 the ROMANS. 
 
 
 Previously, however, to this erasure, as 
 
 m. 
 
 w^ learn Ironi BaroniuSj Phocas, in hia 
 
28 
 
 THE EEVIVAL OF THE 
 
 capacity of supreme lokd and emperor, 
 had made, in tlie year 607, a grant of the 
 Pantheon to Pope Boniface.* 
 
 6. The point of rNiTY of the Roman 
 Empire, thus established from History, is 
 yet further estahlished by tlie very signi- 
 ficant conformation of its symbol. 
 
 / saio, says St. John, speaking retro- 
 spectively, of the rise of the Ronum Em- 
 pire, as it had been already beheld by 
 Daniel : 1 saw a Wild Beast rise up out 
 of the S< 'I, having Seven Heads and Ten 
 Horns.— And the Wild Beast, which I 
 saw, was lihe unto a Leopard : and his 
 feet %oere as the feet of a Bear : and his 
 mouth was as the mouth of a Lion. 
 
 Mark the conformation of this most 
 curiously devised symbol : and you will 
 pkhily see, how it exhibits the roman 
 EMPIRE, not as confined to the West, but, 
 
 * T ara indebted for this iaforraatioii to Sir Henry 
 Martin, 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 29 
 
 in its greatest Territorial Extent, as con- 
 stituting ONE EMPIRE. 
 
 The Imperial Head, wliicli is declared 
 bj the Angel to have been in existence 
 when he conversed with St. John, how- 
 ever administered, and wherever locally 
 seated, is the head, either gubernatively 
 or feudally or reputedly, of the legally 
 ONE EMPIRE in its full entirety. 
 
 The Ten Regal Horns describe the 
 AYestern Platform, after it had been di- 
 vided and occupied by the Ten Gothic 
 Nations. 
 
 And the characteristic badcres of the 
 Babylonian Lion and the Medo-Persian 
 Bear and the Macedonian Leopard, bor- 
 rowed from the well-known Vision of 
 Daniel, figure the Eastern Platform of 
 the same one empire, which comprised 
 and absorbed into its unity a large por- 
 tion of the Dominions of the three former 
 Great Empires its predecessors ; the whole 
 constituting, both chronologically and 
 c 2 
 
so 
 
 THE REVIVAL OE THE 
 
 territorially, the one miglity compound 
 Image as beheld by Nebuchadnezzar.* 
 
 Thus does the language of inspiration 
 perfectly agree with the secular testimo- 
 nies of Eoman History and Eoman Law. 
 They all concur in exhibiting the terri- 
 torial ROMAN empire and the presiding 
 EOMAN emperorship as each being deemed 
 A strict unit. 
 
 7. I have been the more full on this 
 subject for various reasons. 
 
 By commentator after commentator, 
 no subject has been so much misunder- 
 stood. 
 
 The fundamental error of fancying the 
 ROMAN EMPERORSHIP itself to liavc ftxllcn, 
 when, by the deposition of August^ilus, 
 it was for a season extinguished in the 
 West, has lamentably obscured the alone 
 true mode of seeking and ascertaining 
 the predicted short-lived Seventh Head. 
 
 * See my Sacred Calendar of Prophecy, book iiL 
 (Chap. I, and book v, cliap, 4. 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSIITP. 
 
 
 Hence, tlie formation of correct ideas 
 is even vitally necessary to a tenable ex- 
 position of the propliecy. 
 
 From want of attention to the present 
 most important matter, all, I will ven- 
 tnre to say, whether my predecessors or 
 my sitcce^sors in prophetic interpretation 
 (so ftir, at least, as I am aware), have 
 totally failed in their varied attempts to 
 ascertain the Seventh Eoman Polity. 
 
 Through the fatal error of pronouncing 
 THE ROMAN EMPERORSHIP to liavc fallen In 
 the fifth century, when, without any ap- 
 pointment of a successor, Augustulus 
 was deposed, they have, almost invaria- 
 bly, looked for the rise of the Seventh 
 Head in a chronologiGally wrong place. 
 That is to say : they have looked for its 
 rise, at or about the time, when the 
 
 ROMAN EMPERORSHIP WaS tllOU(jllt tO haVO 
 
 been extinguished. The jpvmcijgle was 
 right: for, no doubt, the extinction of 
 
 THE ROMAN EMPERORSHIP is a SUre sigU of 
 
32 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 the rise of the Seventh Polity. But the 
 application of the principle was wrong : 
 because it rested upon a palpable error in 
 
 point of FACT. 
 
 I have said almost invariably^ because 
 Mr. Elliott is an exception. But, I fear, 
 he only makes bad worse, and confusion 
 more confounded. In his scheme, the 
 Eoman Emperorship of Augustus /e?^^ at 
 tlie accession of Dioclesian : and the Eo- 
 man Emperorship of Dioclesian he sup- 
 poses to be the short-lived Seventh Head, 
 which was slain by the sword at the 
 accession of Constantino. In what light 
 he views the Koman Emperorship of 
 Constantino and his successors, I do not 
 very clearly understand. But, though 
 the proj^hecy again and again declares, 
 that the symbol had only seven Heads, 
 and never mentions an eighth Head : Mr. 
 Elliott, more liberally, gi\^es it eight dis- 
 tinct Heads, for even in express terms, 
 he pronounces the Papacy to be an eighth 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 33 
 
 HEAD ; thus, in defiance of analogy, and 
 with a numerical accumulation of error 
 upon error, giving a spiritual Head to a 
 confessedly secular Empire, all the pre- 
 ceding Heads of which had been secular/^ 
 
 8. In order, I suppose, to avoid a diffi- 
 culty which is felt to press very sensibly, 
 some, if I recollect aright, would draw 
 a distinction between Pagan Eoman Em- 
 perors and Christian Eoman Emperors : 
 and they argue, that the latter could not 
 properly be viewed as constituting any 
 portion of the Head of an Apostatic 
 Empire. 
 
 On such a theory, the Eoman Emper- 
 orship of Augustus must have fallen, 
 when Constantino established Christiani- 
 ty as the religion of the Empire. But, 
 in that case, where are we to look for a 
 short-lived Pagan Seventh Head ? The 
 reign of the apostate Julian seeroS; very 
 
 * See Hora; Apoc, vol. iii. p. 103-108, 2d edit. 
 
34: 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF TUB 
 
 handsomely, to aiford an answer. Yet 
 how are we to proceed after the death of 
 Julian ? And how, in this sclieme, was 
 the deadly wound, decreed to be inflicted 
 by the sword upon the short-lived Seventh 
 Head, after a certain interval so healed 
 that the slain Head w^as restored to life ? 
 It w^ould be said, I conclude, that the 
 slain Head experienced a Revival, when 
 the Paganism of Julian was restored by 
 the Paganising Christianity of Popery. 
 But this will still leave us floundering 
 hopelessly in a treacherous quagmire. 
 For, as Bishop Newton most justly re- 
 marks, the sa7ne Head, that is mortally 
 wounded, must be restored to life : and 
 such a scheme w^ould make the wound 
 inflicted on the Pagan Emperoi*ship of 
 Julian, to be healed by the rise of the 
 Papacy, thus unwarrantably made, as 
 Mr. Elliott makes it, an eighth Head, 
 albeit the symbol had no more than seven 
 Heads. 
 
FRKNCII EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 35 
 
 Tills theory is worked by an old writer, 
 Dr. II. More, in hmSijtiopsis Frophetica, 
 somewhat ditferently, though not a jot 
 more satisfactorily. 
 
 All the six first kings being pagan, he 
 would make the short-lived seventli king 
 the Line of Christian Emperors before 
 they lapsed into Pagano-Christiaiiisni ; 
 and the eighth king, who is declared to 
 be identical with the seventh king, he 
 supposes to be the same Line of Emper- 
 ors after their lapse. By this arrange- 
 ment, he avoids the gross contradiction of 
 giving to the symbol eight Heads. 
 
 More or less, all the^e various schemes 
 work on a false principle of Chronology 
 opposed to Fact and Eoman Law. 
 
 III. Having now sufficient'^ Mscusscd 
 the theoretically legal and (I may add) 
 symbolically exhibited principle. ^ The 
 Roman Empire in its greatest territorial 
 extent is strictb/ an unit, and, correspon- 
 dently, that The Roman Emperorship, 
 
36 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 hoicsoever or wheresoever indwidnalhj 
 admimstered^ h also an unit, I may i)ro- 
 ceed, tliroiigli a series of iiistokical facts, 
 to trace tlie political course of that Eoinaii 
 Head which the Angel declared to be in 
 actual existence when he conversed with 
 St.Jnhn. 
 
 The ex]^ository advantage of tliis pro- 
 cess is obvious. 
 
 Since the then existing Head was to 
 be followed by another which (as the 
 Angel expressly declares) was still fu- 
 ture, we may be quite certain that, if 
 we trace the course of the Eoman Em- 
 perorsliip to its fall or final extinction, 
 we must inevitably be brought to the 
 time ahout which the Seventh Head 
 would make its appearance : for the 
 prophecy clearly requires, in order that 
 the many-headed symbol should not be 
 without a living Head, that the pre- 
 dicted Seventh Head should rise, either 
 precisely when its predecessor fell, or 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 87 
 
 some very short time lefore .its fall. In 
 short, the tracing of tlie conrse of the 
 Koman Imperial Head must, of very 
 necessity, conduct us to the rise of the 
 Seventh Head. 
 
 1. In the time of Augustus and hk 
 immediate successors, the one Iloman 
 Empire, whether territorially in the 
 West or in the East or in the South, was 
 governed by a single individual. 
 
 2. When, from the vast extent of the 
 Empire, this arrangement w^as found to 
 be inconvenient, because inadequate to 
 the necessities of the case, Dioclesian so 
 modelled the Constitution, that four in- 
 dividuals, with a difference of rank, 
 were simultaneously Emperor's of the 
 Homans : the two elder w^ith the title 
 of Augitsti J the two junior, with the 
 title of Cmsars. 
 
 The ONE Empire was now divided into 
 four parts, tliough without losing its 
 legal UNITY, 
 
 D 
 
'38 
 
 THE REVIVAL 01 THE 
 
 In their civil government^ says Mr. 
 'Gibbon, the emperors were supposed to 
 exercise the undivided power of the 
 MONARCH : and their edicts^ inscribed 
 ivith their joint names^ were received in 
 all the Provinces^ as promidgated hy 
 their mutual councils and authority, 
 Notwithstanding these precautions^ the 
 Political Union of the Poman World 
 was gradually dissolved : and a p^rin- 
 ciple of division was int/roduced^ which^ 
 m the course of a few years ^ occasioned 
 the ptipetual separation of the Eastern 
 and' Western Empires,^ 
 
 3. On the principle, liowever, of Eo- 
 maii Law, the arranger-^ t of Diocle- 
 sian left untoiiclied the unity of both 
 Empire and Emperorship ; and the 
 theory of unity continued to the very 
 last, notwithstanding the ultimate prac- 
 tical division of the Empire into two 
 distinct sovereignties. 
 
 * Hist, of Decline, chap. xiii. vol. ii. ,p. 168, 169. 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 39 
 
 But the time for this had not then 
 arrived. 
 
 When Dioclesian's quadruple arrange- 
 ments passed away, the Eoman Empire 
 was again governed by a single indivi- 
 dual Emperor of the Romans ; tlie seat 
 of government being transferred from 
 the West to the East, from Rome to 
 Constantinople. 
 
 This undivided rule continued from 
 Constantino to Theodosius. 
 
 4. But, on the death of that great 
 Prince, the Territorial Empire was per- 
 manently divided into East and West ; 
 and his two sons reigned separately in 
 the two Divisions. 
 
 But still the Legal Principle of the 
 UNITY of the Empire and Emperorship 
 of the Romans remained unaffected. 
 
 ArcaJi ;3 and Ilonorius were each 
 Emperor of the Romans / and, theoreti- 
 cally, the East and the West constituted 
 only ONE Roman Empire. 
 
40 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 5. The Eastern Half of the one Em- 
 pire remained nnder the government of 
 a single Roman Emperor, until its final 
 extinction, in the year 1453. 
 
 6. But while the lloman Empcrorsliip 
 thus subsiste<l in the East, it fell in the 
 West by the deposition of Augustulus, 
 in the year 476 or 479 : and thus what 
 remained uf the Empire w^as again go- 
 verned by a SOLE Roman Eynperor *, 
 for, in this character, was Zeno acknow- 
 ledged by tlie Senate and People of 
 Rome. 
 
 7. The Western Branch of the great 
 Roman Tree had not, however, fallen 
 irrevoeahly. 
 
 Such, indeed, was the traditional 
 veneration of the Roman Empire among 
 the Gothici Tribes which partitioned the 
 West, that, from the . year 476 to the 
 year 800, no military chieftain, either in 
 Italy or out of Italy, ventured to as- 
 sume tlie Imperial Title. 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 41 
 
 But, in that last year, the fallen 
 Western Branch was raised again by 
 Charlemagne : and the world once more 
 beheld the unity of the Empire go- 
 verned by tioo individuals, each bearing 
 the style and admitted pre-eminent rank 
 of Emjyeror of the Romans. 
 
 8. In the year 1453, however, by the 
 ultimate complete fall of the Eastern 
 Roman Emfperorsliiv^ no more than a 
 single Roman Emj^erorsMp remained : 
 and in the breaking up of the vast domi- 
 nions of Charlemagne, its seat was trans- 
 ferred from France to Germany ; which, 
 with its feudatory Italian Appendages 
 and the broken Galilean Kingdoms of 
 Burgundy and Aries, was henceforth 
 styled THE holy roman empire. 
 
 Meanwhile its Chief, whose power 
 extended into Italy and a portion of 
 Gaul west of the Rhine alonn: the banks 
 of the Mouse and tlie Moselle, and whose 
 paramount claim of princely superiority 
 D 2 
 
42 
 
 THE EEVIVAL OF THE 
 
 (well sliadowed out by its three Ecclesi- 
 astical Electors being res^jectively deno- 
 minated tlie Chancellors of Italy and 
 Germany and France) extended to the 
 whole Empire, always bore the title of 
 EMPEKOR OF THE ROMANS, and was always 
 deemed the Kaisar, and thus the official 
 successor and representative of Au- 
 gustus.* 
 
 * Amongst those who are supreme, says Sir George 
 Mackenzie, Kings have the preference from Common- 
 wealths ; and amongst kings, the Emperor is allowed 
 the first place, by the famous Ceremonial of Rome, 
 AS succBEmN-Q TO THE ROMAN EMFERORS. — Observa- 
 tions as to I'recedency, chap. i. p. 1. 
 
 Since this was written, a note from ray friend Mr. 
 Bonor.ii, of Durham, respecting the traditionary 
 character of the Roman Emperorship, down to what 
 I deem its ultimate full, has afforded me no small 
 gratification. 
 
 "I am much struck," he says. " with your deduc- 
 tions as to the historical part of the Roman Emperor- 
 ship surviving in the person of the Kaisar. Your 
 well-supported insistence on this point brings to my 
 recollection u sentiment of my father, a Roman by 
 birth, and a well-informed man. This was an in- 
 herited notion of allegiance to the Emperor of Ger- 
 many, as the representative of the past sovereigns 
 of the Roman Empire. He esteemed the Pope's 
 
FRENCH EMPEKOESniP. 
 
 43 
 
 9. Tlins matters continued until the 
 year 1806, when the empeeor^hip of the 
 PwOMANS, or the Head which is declared 
 to have l)een in existence when the 
 Angel conversed with St. Jolni, ulti- 
 matelv fell by the renunciation of the 
 title knd by the abrogation of ali suit 
 and service and all claim of allegiance 
 on the part of the various Feudatories. 
 
 In his act of renouncing tlie ancient 
 Throne and Dignity of the Koinan Em- 
 perorship, tlie last Koman Emperor 
 Francis thus expressed himself: 
 
 "Beiuo; convinced of the impossibility 
 of discharging any longer the duties^ 
 which the impeeial throne imposed 
 
 Temporal Sovereignty the best founded of existing- 
 Dynasties, in consequence of its^ beinj,^ derived by 
 grant from 1 lie Roman Emperor." 
 
 On the same principle of his being the Supreme 
 Head of the old Roman Empire while Ilnoland had 
 been a province of it, I remember to liave some- 
 where seen a curious account of the Emperor of the 
 day aetiinllv conferring an English l^ecrage by ai> 
 English Title. January 29, 1853. 
 
u 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 upon lis, we owe it to our principles to 
 ABDICATE A CEOwiq" wliicli coulcl luive no 
 value in our eyes when we were unable 
 to discharge its duties and deserve the 
 confidence of the Princes Electors of the 
 EMPIRE. Therefore it is, that, consider- 
 ing the bonds which unite us to the Em- 
 pire as dissolved bj the Confederation of 
 the Ehine, we renounce the imperial 
 CROWN, and, bj these presents, absolve 
 the Electors, Princes, and States, Mem- 
 bers of the Supreme Tribunal, and 
 other Magisti:ates, from the duties which 
 unite tliem to us as their legal chief," 
 Alison's Hist, of Europe, vol. v. p. OOO. 
 
 Thus ultimately fell the long-lived 
 Basile'is or Emperorship of the Eomans. 
 Consequently, at or shortly/ lefore its 
 Fall^ we may be sure that the Seventh 
 Eoman Head or Polity would appear. 
 
 10. Here I would observe that all 
 these circumstances in the Political 
 Course of the Eoman Emperorship, are 
 
FRENCH EMPEROESIIIP. 
 
 45 
 
 pure iiTSTORiCxVL FACTS. Whatever de- 
 ductions we may draw from tliem, still, 
 as FACTS, tliey remain unaltered. 
 
 lY. Let us now turn from facts to 
 
 PROPHECY. 
 
 The Head subsisting in the time of 
 St. John ; that is to say, the emperor- 
 ship OF THE RGiiiANS, or, as the Greeks 
 rightly called it, the basileis or king- 
 ship OP THE ROMANS restored after a long 
 abeyance : this Head was to be suc- 
 ceeded, as a Roman Polity, by that other 
 Head, which, when the Angel inter- 
 preted, vras still future, or had not yet 
 come. 
 
 I^ow this Head or SeYei;ith Form of 
 Eoman Polity must be viewed, as start- 
 ing into existence, either simultaneously 
 with the fall of the longlived roman 
 EMPERORSHIP, OT Immediately lefore its 
 fall, and thus intrusively causing its 
 fall : for, if it should not appear until 
 indefinitely after the fall of its prede* 
 
46 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 cessor, we should have the zoological 
 anomaly of a wild-beast continuing to 
 live witliout having any living Head. 
 V. Let us next turn back from pko- 
 
 PIIECY to FACTS. 
 
 The period in which the rise of the 
 Seventh Head must be looked for, is 
 most clearly that in which its predeces- 
 sor fell. Just two years, then, before 
 
 the fall of THE ROMAN EMPERORSHIP itself 
 
 or in the year 1804, started up a new 
 Polity; which, under the new title of 
 
 THE EMPERORSHIP OF THE FRENCH, WaS 
 
 actually master of Eome and Italy, and 
 which not very long afterwards /b/'^^z^^ZZy 
 annexed liome and the Eoman States to 
 its already ample dominions ; a circum- 
 stance necessary to the character of a 
 Eoman Head during some part of its 
 existence, inasmuch as the Prophetic 
 Type is double, the Seven Heads repre- 
 senting botli the Seven Hills of Rome 
 0nd the Seven Polities which should 
 govern the Empire. 
 
FRENClt EMPEEORSniP. 
 
 47 
 
 Hence, with historical facts before 
 me, and those facts viewed in the light 
 of prophecy, and that prophecy concur- 
 ring with CHRONOLOGY, I conld not but, 
 at the time, have a strong internal con- 
 viction that THE EMPERORSHIP OF THE 
 
 FRENCH was that predicted Seventh Eo- 
 man Head, which the Angel declared to 
 have not yet come when he conversed 
 with St. John. 
 
 1. Kevertheless, before publicly ex- 
 pressing my secret conviction, I thought 
 it boiii more reverential and more pru- 
 dent to wait, until the conjectured Se- 
 venth Head should appropriate to itself 
 at least a fairly sufficient number of 
 the characteristics which are said to dis- 
 tinguish it. 
 
 Three of these predicted character- 
 istics were abundantly prominent. 
 
 (1.) The Seventh Head was to con- 
 tinue only a short space of time, thus 
 contrasting very remarkably with its 
 peculiarly long-lived predecessor. 
 
• 
 
 48 THE KEVIVAL OP THE 
 
 
 (2.) It was not simply to fall^ as the 
 
 
 Angel declared that five out of its six 
 
 
 predecessors \\^^ fallen: but it was to 
 
 
 be politically slain hy the sward of milir 
 
 
 iary violence. 
 
 
 (3.) Yet, after some undefined time, it 
 
 
 was to experience a Revival from this 
 
 
 Political Death : for its deadly wound by 
 
 
 the sword was to be healed. 
 
 
 2. The first and third of these charac- 
 teristics may be viewed as explicitly re- 
 vealed: at least, the third is mrtually 
 revealed by the statement, that the 
 Seventh King should continue only a 
 short space, and should afterward reap- 
 pear as a seemingly though not really 
 Eighth King. 
 
 But the second of them, which involves 
 the third, is not specifically mentioned 
 by the Angel in his discourse. We must 
 gather it, therefore, in the way of deduc- 
 tion from the two prophecies, in the thir^ 
 teenth and seventeenth chapters, com- 
 bined together. 
 
mENcii EMi'SEOEsmr. 
 
 49 
 
 k 
 
 « 
 
 The former of tlieae two prophecies in- 
 timates, tliat one of the Seven Heads was 
 wounded to death by a sword and after- 
 ward restored to life by the healing of its 
 deadly wound: but it does not specity 
 which of the Seven Heads should experi- 
 ence this violent Death, to be followed by 
 a remarkable Revival. 
 
 To determine this point, we must re- 
 sort to the latter of the two propheciesj 
 combinins: it with Historical Matter of 
 Fact. 
 
 That latter prophecy distinctly tells 
 ns, that F'lve out of the Seven Heads had 
 fallen : a term plainly used in contradis- 
 tinction to violent death hy the sword of 
 a military enemy. 
 
 ■ Hence the question of which Head out 
 of the Seven, is immediately reduced to 
 the more simple question. Whether the 
 intended svwrd-slain Head is the Head 
 which existed when St. John ivrote^ or 
 that other Head which had not then come. 
 
60 
 
 TtIF, REVlVAt 0** TltTl 
 
 Now this latter question is promptly 
 answered by history* 
 
 The Roman Emperorship, existing from 
 the time of St. John down to the year 
 1806, was not elain hj the sword^ hnt fell 
 throiTgli a formal abdication. Tlierefore, 
 plainly, the Seventh Head, which was 
 still future when the Angel interpreted, 
 must be the Head destined to receive a 
 deadly wound from the sword of military 
 violence. 
 
 Thus, finally, we come to the inevitable 
 conclusion, that, if the French Emperor- 
 ship J^, as I inwardly conjectured at its 
 first rise, the predicted Seventh Head, it 
 must^ after continuing a short time only, 
 be violently slain by the svv^ord. 
 
 Under such circumstances, I patiently 
 waited to see, whether my conjecture 
 would be confirmed, or confuted, by facts. 
 
 yi. The wonderful career of the French 
 Emperor seemed, for a season, likely to 
 confute my conjecture. 
 
FKENOH EMPEROUSIIIP, 
 
 51 
 
 "Witli tlio excoptiou of Britain ancl 
 Russia, all Europe was trodden beneath 
 the hoof of the most intolerable military 
 despotism : and, when a son was born to 
 Kapoleon while yet in the strength and 
 vigor of life, desr.- anticipated no end 
 to the baleful tyranny. 
 
 I began to think, that my conjecture 
 must have been erroneous: though, on 
 FIXED TRiNciPLES of prophctic intcrpreta-. 
 tion combined with the fact that the old 
 Boman Emperorship had indisputably 
 fallen^ I c(»ald form no clear idea how it 
 was 2>088iUe that I could be mistaken in 
 my conjecture. 
 
 Kor was I mistaken. The French 
 Emperorship, after astonishing and terri^ 
 fying all Europe, was destined to experi^ 
 enee a reverse. It continued only the 
 very short period of eleven years : and 
 then, rising as it had done in the year 
 I804j it wasj in the year 1815, aftej' hav« 
 
52 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 ing been severely tliougli not mortally 
 wounded in the year 1814, finally slain 
 by the sword of military violence. 
 
 These were simple facts, quite unde- 
 niable : and* with such facts before me, I 
 conceived, as to their true character, in- 
 spired PROPHECY to be their best commen- 
 tator. I could not doubt, that the pre- 
 dicted Seventh Head was the French 
 
 EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 yil. The true sense of the prophecy 
 now bef e us is doubly continued : for 
 it is delivered in a sort of dujMcate 
 
 form. 
 
 1. The Seventh Head, the last in the 
 series, starts suddenly into active vitality : 
 and thus continues and completes the 
 fated series of Seven Heads. 
 
 Next, it is mortally wounded by the 
 sword of violence. 
 
 And, then, by having its mortal wound 
 liealed, it experiences an extraordinary 
 revival, and enters upon a new course of 
 
FKENCII EMPEEOESIIIP. 
 
 63 
 
 existence, apjyarently as an Eiglitli Polity, 
 but really as the restored Seventh.'^ 
 
 2. NoAv an Empire must cease to exist 
 as an Empire, wlien its last and therefore 
 sole existing Head is violently struck 
 down by the sword of war. 
 
 And it plainly will reexist, should that 
 last Head be restored to political power, 
 and acquire its former dominant position. 
 
 If this be represented symbolically, the 
 animal, which is employed as the symbol 
 of an Empire thus circumstanced, will 
 appear, first to exist, next to cease to exist ; 
 and tlien to exist afresh, 
 
 3. Such is exactly tlie case with the 
 symbol employed to represent, as all 
 allowed, the Secular Eoman Empire. 
 
 Tlie Wild-Beast was, and is not, and 
 shall he. 
 
 *[Every reader of the newspapers of the clay, must 
 be aware how strenuously Louis Napoleon has striven 
 to identify his regime with that of his great uncle, 
 and to obliterate from the soil of France every trace 
 of the intervening; reiirus.l 
 
 E 2 ■' 
 
54: 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 That is to say: just as the Seventh 
 Head, first lived, then was slain, and 
 then was restored to life; so the symbo- 
 lical Wild-Beast, of which it remained 
 the sole Head, first existed, then ceased to 
 exist, and then reexisted. 
 
 4. In each form of speech alike, the 
 representation is strictly based upon 
 zoological propriety. 
 
 So long as a Wild-Beast has a living 
 Head, he himself lives : if his Head be 
 wounded to death, he himself dies : and, 
 if his slain Head be revived, he himself is 
 revived also. 
 
 Agreeably to this ; so long as an Em- 
 pire has a living and acting Political 
 Head, the Empire is or exists : if it be 
 deprived of its Political Head it ceases, 
 as an Empire, to exist : and, if its Poli- 
 tical Head be- restored, it then, as an Em- 
 pire, reexists. 
 
 5. A¥itli this double pRornETicAL com- 
 ment upon notorious political facts, I 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 55 
 
 no longer felt any doubt, that the French 
 Eniperorsliip was the predicted Seventh 
 
 Head. 
 
 It sprang np at the very time required 
 by chronology; namely, immediately 
 before the fall of the old Eoman Empe- 
 rorship ; and history attested, that it 
 had appropriated the two first prophetic 
 marks ; ii&.me\j Shortness of Continuance, 
 and Political Death hj the Sword of 
 Military Violence, 
 
 •YIII. But this conviction, firmly based 
 upon FACTS, inevitably produced a very 
 important anticipation. 
 
 1. If the French Emperorship were in- 
 deed the predicted Sevienth Roman Head : 
 then, as it had been destroyed by the 
 Sword, so, of very necessity, it must be 
 raised up again to political vitality. 
 
 2. Such an anticipation, accordingly, I 
 first put forth in the year 1818, or three 
 years after the violent extinction of the 
 French Emperorship. This will be found 
 
66 
 
 THE EEVIVAL OF THE 
 
 ill a Supplemental Yoliime to my earlier 
 publication entitled A Dissertation on 
 the Prophecies relative to the great j^eriod 
 of 1260 years / and, as my conviction re- 
 mained unaltered, because it was founded, 
 not upon mere conjectui'e^ but upon unde- 
 niable FACTS which had become a part of 
 history; I, twice again, unhesitatingly 
 put forth the same confident anticipation, 
 in the years 1828 and 1814, in the first 
 and second editions of my Sacred Cal- 
 endar of I\ophecy.^ 
 
 * See my Dissertation on the 1260 years, vol. iii.p. 
 3-115, and my Sacred Calendar, book v. ch. 4, § III. 
 
 There is a passage bearing on the Revival of the 
 French Emperorship, still later than tlie three dates 
 of 1818, 1828, and 1844. In the Tenth Letter of my 
 little work on Secessions to Popery, bearing date 
 April 8, 184(), I thus express myself: 
 
 " The effort, so conspicuously now making both in 
 England and on the Cojjtinent, to resuscitate the 
 Apostas}', is, I believe, chronologically the last : nor 
 is it anything more than might have been anticipated, 
 from the sure, though madly slighted, voice of Pro- 
 phecy. The Ottoman Empire totters to its fall; and 
 the throo spirits of Hellish Infidelity, Despotism 
 springing out of Anarchy, and Jesuitical Popery, are 
 
FKENCII EMPERORSHIP, 
 
 57 
 
 • • « 
 
 111. 
 
 3. "We liave now seen tlie exact accom- 
 plishment of the well-fonnded anticipa- 
 tion. 
 
 The short-lived and sword-slain French 
 Emperorship has been revived ; and thus 
 a most illustrious attestation to the pre- 
 scient accuracy of the divinely inspired 
 Book of the Apocalypse has been afforded. 
 
 already cnga<?ed in their allied predicted vocation. 
 The peace of Europe and of the World apparently 
 rests npon the life of a single wise old man.^ When 
 the obstacle presented by this modern Sobrino shall 
 have been removed, the demons of discord, now 
 scarcely repressed, will be let loose. Revolution will 
 elevate*^ the successful soldier, the revived Buona- 
 parte, of the day, to the Imperial throne of Military 
 Despotism.* Then will follow that fearful material 
 Universal Wrr, which is foretold by all the prophets, 
 as occurrinj]^ at the Time of the End and synchroni- 
 cally with the Restore.oion of Israel. And then Po- 
 pery, buddihi^ as it has ever done into Lawlessness 
 and Infidelity, partly through the loathliness of its 
 own corruptions, and partly through such desperate 
 arguments as constitute at once the del icice and tho 
 forlorn hope of Mr. Newman and the Romish Priest- 
 hood ; then Popery, allied with the great God-deny- 
 ing Antichrist ; the False Romisli Prophet associated 
 
 * [This reads more like History thftn Propbecy.] 
 
58 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 IX. But tlie anticipation of the kevi^ 
 
 VAL OF the FRENCH EMPERORSHIP, draWS 
 
 after it, with increased evidence, yet 
 another anticipation : that, I mean, of its 
 TOTAL DESTRUCTION, simnltancoHsly with 
 the apostatic Secular Eoman Empire, of 
 which it is the Seventh and Last Head. 
 
 1. The Healing of the Mortal Wound 
 coincides with the Symbol's Eestoration 
 to a new term of Political Existence. But 
 the MODE of that Restoration and Eevival 
 is definitely marked out in this wonderful 
 Prophecy, and must in no wise be preter- 
 mitted. 
 
 with Apostatic Secular Empire under its last govern- 
 ing Head; will, by some extraordinary process of 
 violence, come to its end, none helping it." Letter 
 X. p, 244, 245, published for the Protestant Associar 
 tion by Dalton, 28 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross. 
 
 By the modern Sobrino of the year 1846, I meant 
 Louis Phil Vj pa. I felt assured, that his death would 
 open the fiv^od-gates of anarchy : but I thought, that 
 his wisdom would ijestrain the tempest as long as he 
 lived. Here I was mistaken. He was dethroned in 
 the year 1848, and the storm broke out before Wa 
 (ii9fttli, 
 
 id 
 
 Hi 
 
 a. 
 
 A 
 
 V 
 h 
 
 a 
 a 
 
 P 
 o 
 
 I 
 e 
 
JP^RENCH DMPERORSllIf . 
 
 59 
 
 
 It is said : The 'WilchBeast vms^ and 
 is not, and yet shall he, 
 
 The MODE of this predicted tdp^rrrat k 
 Bet forth in the earlier form of the vatici- 
 nation. 
 
 The Wild-Beast that tho^t sawest, was^ 
 and is not^ and shall ascend out of the 
 ahyss. 
 
 Here, the shall be is defined as an 
 
 ASCENT OUT OE THE ABYSS. 
 
 2. St. John had already beheld, retros- 
 pectively, that ascent of the Roman Em- 
 pire out of the troubled sea, which Daniel 
 had long previously beheld. 
 
 But, when the Apostle wrote, a second 
 and then future ascent from the great 
 abyss was to be accomplished by the Em- 
 pire, as it returned to its renewed state 
 of existence under its revived Seventh 
 Head. 
 
 3. The Sea and the Abyss (ill Ideally 
 expressed, in our common English Ver- 
 sion, the Bottomless Pit) are the same. 
 
60 
 
 mU liEVlVAL Ot^ TllliJ 
 
 They are syiionj^mous terms, by wlncli 
 tlie deej) and vast Assemblage of Oceanic 
 Waters is alike designated.'^ 
 
 4. Here we may mark tlie precise ex- 
 actness of tlie completion. , 
 
 To say notlii ng of the long preceding 
 revolutionary and ever-changing period 
 which may justly be described as com- 
 mencing in the year 1789, all Continen- 
 tal Europe, beginning with France herself, 
 was convulsed with the madness of revo- 
 lution, during the eventful year 1848. 
 
 The sight of what was then, occurring, 
 viewed as a portentous sign of the times, 
 convinced me, that we must be on the 
 very eve of the predicted healing of the 
 deadlv wound throudi which the defunct 
 
 * See a valuable discussion of the sense of the word 
 n^vaaoQ in Stt'phan. Tliesaur. voc. BvBoq, or an 
 abridgment of it in Seapul. Lexic. The Ocean was 
 so called from its supposed fathomless de[)th. In 
 Rev. ix. '2, a spiracle, communicating with tlie Ocean, 
 is spoken of. Tartarus or Gehenna was reputed to 
 bi3 beneath it. See ReV. ss. 2, 14, and Healod. 
 Theogon. ver, 721'744» 
 
I'KENcit mtp^mmmv. 
 
 01 
 
 wlncli 
 ceanic 
 
 ise ex- 
 
 period 
 i com- 
 itineil" 
 lerself, 
 - revo- 
 
 irrlng, 
 
 tunes 
 
 ) 
 
 on t/ie 
 of the 
 Lofunct 
 
 :he word 
 S, or an 
 .'ean was 
 [)th. In 
 e Ocean, 
 piitecl to 
 Healod. 
 
 W Ud-Beast should be restored to Political 
 Existence : in other Words, I felt assured, 
 
 that TltEl KEVlVAL OF TllE FRENCH EM" 
 
 rEKORSiiiP Was close at hand. 
 
 X. In this assurance I was coniii'med 
 by the necessity of cijrokology. 
 
 1. There is, I think, scarcely a reason- 
 able doubt, that the prophetic period of 
 1,260 years commenced in the year 604, 
 and consequently tliat it will expire in 
 the now rapidly approaching year 1864. 
 
 But PKOPiiECY required, that Yitality 
 should be restored to the defunct Roman 
 Empire and to its sword-slain Seventh- 
 Head previous to the expiration of Ihe 
 period: because, otherwise, the part to 
 be played by the apostate Empire under 
 its then revived Seventh Head, namely, 
 the Forming a Orand Confederacy 
 against the Truth of the Pure Gospel 
 and the Engaging in the fearful War of 
 Opinion for the purpose of suppressing 
 itj could not be accomplished. 
 
62 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 Every year, tlierefore, that brouglit HS 
 nearer to the year 1864, rendered that 
 ^jpeidy Eevival of the French Emperor- 
 ship a probable circumstance. 
 
 Accordingly, we now see it revived, 
 about some twelve years, hefore the year 
 1804: and we may see, moreover, an 
 evident preparation throughout Papal 
 Europe, with a diabolically increased 
 animosity against the principles of the 
 blessed Eeformation, for the predicted 
 War of Opinion /^ Popery allied with 
 Infidelity and Secular Despotism, against 
 the Profession of that better Form of 
 Sound Scriptural Eeligion which was 
 disinterred in the sixteenth century. 
 
 2. This dreadful AYar, which I fear is 
 at our very doors, will, as we may gather 
 from the oracle of the Sixth Apocalyptic 
 
 * [A friend mentions the fact th<at this phrase has 
 been frequently applied by the papers to the present 
 war in Europe (June, ]859)]. 
 
FRENCH EMPEKORSniP. 
 
 ea 
 
 Vial, commence in Europe 'before'^ the 
 close of the 1260 years : but, at their 
 close, it will pass into Palestine, and 
 there continue during the short term 
 which Daniel calls The Time of the End ^ 
 and which coincides with the Semnth 
 AjpooahjptiG Vial. 
 
 XI. We now come to that other anti- 
 cipation, which, as I have briefly stated, 
 the necessity of prophecy demands ; 
 namely, the sure destruction of the 
 
 SHORT-LIVED AND SWORD-SLAIN AND AGAIN 
 REVIVEi> SEVENTH HEAD OR SEVENTH ROMAN 
 POLITY. 
 
 1. This is the last matter in the Angel's 
 , prophetic summary of the destinies of the 
 Secular Eoman Empire. 
 
 The Wild Beast^ that thou sawest, waSy 
 
 * [If this be a guess, it is a pretty bold one, with, 
 a margin of only 10 years allowed ; nor would it 
 arise from un anticipation of difficuUies in Turkey^ 
 which did not grow serious before May 5, 1853, whilQ 
 Mr. Faber puts the termiuatioa of the 1200 years Uk 
 1864.] 
 
u 
 
 THE RKVIVAL OF THE 
 
 and is not, and shall ascend otd of the 
 ctbyss : and tie is about to go into des- 
 truction. 
 
 2. Of course, the same fate must befall 
 the Last and Seventh Head : for the 
 Wild-Beast himself could not go into 
 destruction, while his now only Head 
 should escajpe destruction. But, on this 
 ' point, we are not left to a deduction : the 
 
 prophecy is explicit. 
 
 The One is: the Other hath not yet 
 come : and, when he shall have come, he 
 must remain only a little time. And 
 {relatively to the Wild-Beast that was 
 and is not) he is also an Eighth: and 
 yet he is One of the Seven. And he 
 
 GOETH INTO DESTRUCTION. 
 
 3. Hence it is quite clear, that, if the 
 French Emperorship be the short-lived 
 and sword-slain and revived Seventh 
 Head; of which, in the present day, 
 there can scarcely, I think, be a reason- 
 able doubt : then we must anticipate his 
 
niENCn EMPEEOESniP. 
 
 65 
 
 8ure and certain destruction along with 
 tliat of the long-tolerated Eoman Empire. 
 
 4. The language of rRoniECY is won- 
 derfully precise upon this point : so that 
 there is, in truth, no room for doubt o: 
 mistake. 
 
 In all the predictions which respect it, 
 the Empire, under its last Head, is in full 
 activity for evil. But, most plainly, such 
 could not \ye the case, unless both the 
 Empire and its last Head had been 
 restored to political life from their tem- 
 porary political death produced by the 
 infliction of the deadly wound. 
 
 5. Nor will the armaments of tlie 
 Secular Empire alone perish. 
 
 With them, will be associated that 
 author of all spiritual and temporal evil, 
 the False Roman Prophet. 
 
 This is distinctly specified by St. John : 
 and the same catastrophe is harmoniously 
 predicted by Daniel. 
 
 There is considerable reason to believe, 
 F 2 
 
66 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 that the final destruction of the irreclaim- 
 able Anti-christian Powers will be effected 
 by Volcanic Agency: and, from some 
 prophecies, particularly that contained in 
 the last chapter of Zechariah, no person 
 can be blamed for expecting a literal 
 though only temporary manifestation of 
 our Lord on the summit of the Mount of 
 Olives. 
 
 But these matters are discussed most 
 fully in my Sacred Calendar of Prophe- 
 cy : so that I may well be spared the 
 task of superfluous rej^etition. 
 
 XII. In brief, I may tlius sum up the 
 matter. 
 
 We are distinctly taught, that the 
 Polity, thus triply characterized by Short- 
 ness of Continuance, and Death hy the 
 Sword of Military Violence, and Remval 
 from the Death thus inflicted, will go, 
 together w^ith the Empire of w^liich it is 
 the Seventh Head, into utter destruc- 
 tion 
 
FRENCH EMPEKORSIIIP. 
 
 67 
 
 1. The TIME, fixed for this destruction, 
 is the close of the brief period : which 
 immediately follows the expiration of the 
 1260 years ; which is known as The 
 Time of the End ; which is the Season 
 of Effusion of the Seventh Yial ; and 
 whicii, in detail, is described, with won- 
 derful particularity, in the last five verses 
 of the eleventh chs^pter of the Book of 
 Daniel. 
 
 2. The GEOGRAPHICAL REGION, marked 
 out for this destruction, is Palestine. 
 
 3. And the particular locality in 
 Palestine, still more definitely specified, 
 is the Yicinity of Jerusalem and the 
 Mount of Olives and the Dead Sea. 
 
 XIII. On the whole, we are compelled 
 to draw the following Anticipative Coa- 
 cluftion. 
 
 If I have correctly placed the termina- 
 tion of the 1260 years in the year 1864:, 
 we may expect, in no great length of 
 time, the commencement of a General 
 
6S 
 
 THE EEVIVAL OF THE 
 
 War* a War of Opinion, in Europe: 
 and, wlien we consider the baleful perfec- 
 tion to wliich the Military Art of Destruc- 
 tion has now been carried, we may readily 
 understand the force of the declaration^ 
 that, in the latter scenes of this interne- 
 cive war which open out at the close of 
 the 1260 years and at the commencement 
 of the Time of the End, synchronically 
 with the Deliverance of Daniel's People ; 
 there shall he a time of trouble such as 
 never was since there was a nation. 
 
 XIV. We are naturally led to ask, 
 with no small feeling of awe, what will 
 be the ftite of England in these now 
 rapidly approaching calamities ? 
 
 1. I should have felt no fear for my 
 
 * [What is thought of the present European .war, 
 may be shown by an extract from a Berliii letter of 
 May 24th, 1859. 
 
 "The war will not be confined even within the 
 bounds of an ordinary war waged with skilled armies, 
 by arbitrary governments ; it will become revolution- 
 ary, and overturn most of the European thrones."] 
 
 1 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 69 
 
 country, had we been nationally faith ful 
 to our God, had we walked by the confi- 
 dence of Faith and not by the glimmer- 
 ing of a fancied Expediency^ had we pre- 
 ferred the trustful policy of David to the 
 imaginary political wisdom of Jeroboam. 
 
 2. But we have not done oO. 
 
 Forgetting our many mercies expe- 
 rienced during a long and arduous con- 
 test, we have fearfully, on the infidel 
 principle of political expediency, in- 
 sulted God to his very face. 
 
 Both in Church and State, from the 
 Crown down to the lowest Burgess in 
 Parliament, we had solemnly declared 
 the Popish Apostasy to be superstitious 
 AND idolatrous: and then, by way of 
 shewing our gratitude and our faith, we 
 first formed a close political junction with 
 Popery, and then, as if labouring with 
 wretched industry to make bad still 
 worse, we actually endowed, with a scan- 
 dalous waste of the public funds, a large 
 
70 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 Institution for the more extended training 
 of persons, who, by our oim shewing, 
 were to be active teachers of a system of 
 IDOLATRY ; which very system, by retain- 
 ing the phraseology of our wiser fore- 
 fathers, we had affected to reprobate. 
 
 If we obstinately persevere in this vile 
 policy, which, after all, is now pretty gene- 
 rally felt and confessed to have not been 
 even expedient, what can we expect but 
 that mry destruction, which is so plainly 
 announced, even in the very midst of a 
 merciful exhortation to cast from us the 
 accursed thing ? 
 
 Come out of her, Qny peojple, that ye he 
 not partakers of her sins, and that ye 
 
 RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES. 
 
 Here we are not only forbidden to par- 
 take of her sins, but we are likewise 
 assured that we shall partake of her 
 PLAGUES if we do not come out of her.^ 
 
 3. "With such a denunciation sounding 
 in our ears (for, be it obs wed, Papists aa 
 
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FEENCII E:^rPERORSniP. 
 
 71 
 
 well as Protestants have been constrained 
 to admit that the mystic Babylon can 
 only be Eome), how great must be our 
 infatuated folly, if we still persevere in 
 petting and cockering and munificently 
 patronising what we ourseVues have de- 
 clared to be IDOLATRY IN THE FORM OF 
 POPERY.* 
 
 We all know, what has been the con- 
 sequence of our impious madness : even 
 those wise men of this world, our libe- 
 ralising Expediency-Mongers, have been 
 constrained to admit, that the event of 
 their boasted experiment has practically 
 demonstrated their wisdom to have been 
 stark folly. 
 
 Why, then, do we still linger in the 
 
 * Even if Popery were not Idolatry, our audacious 
 insult of Almighty God, would be, as an insult, by 
 no means diminished. We have declared Popery to 
 be Idolatry : and then, in defiance of God, we patron- 
 ise and endow it. Verily, in the present state of 
 public matters, we are made to cat the fruit of our 
 own devices. Our sin has justly become our punish- 
 ment. 
 
72 
 
 THE EEyiVAL OF THE 
 
 street of the Great City^ wliicli, by un- 
 reservedly approving of the dicta ot the 
 infamous Alphonso Liguori, has shewn 
 that no appellation of ignominy can be 
 misapplied ? 
 
 If we retrace our steps, I have still, 
 through God's infinite mercy, no fear for 
 England in the approaching day of trial, 
 But, if we advance in our mad career, or 
 even if we complacently halt at the pre- 
 sent point of our folly, we have every 
 thing to fear. 
 
 Let us come with clean hands into the 
 Court of God's Judgment : and we shall 
 be safe. But, if we come with hands 
 idolatrously defiled, what can we antici- 
 pate save A PARTICIPATION OF THE PLAGUES 
 
 which are impending over Babylon both 
 Secular and Ecclesiastical. 
 
 XY. In conclusion, it will be uselul to 
 note the various steps of the predicted 
 Eevival of the French Emperorship : for 
 dates are always satisfactory in marking 
 the accomplishment of Prophecy, 
 
FRENCH EMPEEORSHIP. 
 
 73 
 
 Dec. IO5 1848. Louis Napoleon is 
 voted into a professedly constitutional 
 Presidentship by ahout 6,000,000 suf- 
 frages. 
 
 Dec. 2, 1851. He violently dissolves 
 the factious assembly, which was pre- 
 paring his ruin, and which was meditating 
 a return to all the murderous atrocities of 
 Jacobinism : and then, throwing oif the 
 old tyranny of the unprincipled Metro- 
 polis, he boldly appeals to the Nation at 
 large. 
 
 Dec. 20, 1851. lie is voted into an 
 Absolute Dictatorship, still under the 
 name of a Presidentship, by about 
 7,000,000 suffrages. 
 
 Nov. 4, 1852. He accepts the Sena- 
 tus Consultum proposed to be laid before 
 the People. It ran thus. The Nation 
 wishes the reestablishment of the Imperial 
 Dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon^ 
 with hereditary succession to his direct 
 legitimate or adoptive line: and gives 
 
 G 
 
74 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 Mm the right to regulate the order of 
 suGcession to the throne in the Bonaparte 
 Faifnily. 
 
 JN'ov. 21, 22, 1852. The Nation votes 
 
 for A REVIVAL OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR- 
 SHIP, in tlie person of Louis Napoleon, 
 by about 8,000,000 suffrages. 
 
 Dec. 1, 1852. The votes of the Na- 
 tion are examined and ratified by the 
 Senate, and are then submitted to the 
 President for his acceptance. He ac- 
 cepts the Imperial Dignity at the hands 
 of the Nation, their wish being expressed 
 by an almost universal vote in the afiir- 
 mative. 
 
 Dec. 2, 1852. The revival of the 
 FRENCH EMPERORSHIP is proclaimed in 
 Paris. 
 
 Dec. 5, 1852. The revival of the 
 FRENCH EMPERORSHIP is proclaimed in 
 the Provinces. 
 
 XVI. Thus the emperorship of the 
 FRENCH, originally established in the 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSHIP. 
 
 75 
 
 year 1804, mortally wounded by the 
 sword in tlie year 1816, and revived in 
 the year 1852, has appropriated to it- 
 self ALL the predicted characteristics, 
 save THE STILL FUTURE LAST, by which 
 the Seventh Roman Head, whenever 
 it should appear, might be certainly 
 recognized. 
 
 1. That predicted Seventh Head had 
 not yet come in the time of St. John. 
 
 2. It was to occupy the place of the 
 Head which then existed^ namely, the 
 Basileis or Emperorship of the Romans. 
 
 eS. In its quality of being a Roman 
 Head, it was, during some parts of its 
 existence, to have the Sovereignty and 
 Possession of Home: for, the type be- 
 ing doiible^ representing at once both 
 the Seven Mountains of Rome and the 
 Seven Polities which should govern the 
 Empire, no Polity can be a Roman 
 Head, unless it fulfils the condition 
 required by the double Type. 
 
76 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 ■ 
 
 4. It was to continue only a short 
 sjpace of time. 
 
 5. It was to be Mortally wounded hy 
 the Sicord of Military Violence : a 
 death thus broadly contradistiiigirished 
 from only The Full of all the other 
 Heads. 
 
 6. It was to experience an extraor- 
 dinary Bevival^ so that it should appear 
 as an eighth Polity, though really no 
 more than the seventh restored to poli- 
 tical life by the healing of its deadly 
 wound. 
 
 7. It was to emerge^ while its deadly 
 wound was in the course of heing liealed, 
 out of the figuratwe Ocea/nic Abyss of 
 Turhidence and Revolutionary Furor^ 
 along with the politically defunct Em- 
 pire of which it was the Seventh and 
 Last Head. * 
 
 8. It was to reviwe previous to the 
 expiration of the 1260 years : for, other- 
 wise, it could not act its predicted part 
 
FRENCH EMPERORSIITP. 
 
 77 
 
 short 
 
 led hy 
 
 ce : a 
 
 irislied 
 
 other 
 
 Hraor- 
 appear 
 lly no 
 ) poli- 
 leadly 
 
 leadly 
 'lealed, 
 ijss of 
 Ficror, 
 t Em- 
 Ii and 
 
 to the 
 other- 
 id part 
 
 after that term should have expired. 
 But there is abundant reason to pro- 
 nounce, that the 1260 years will expire 
 in the year 1864. Therefore, in addition 
 to otlier signs of the times, we had, as 
 we approached the year 1864, the Chro- 
 nological Warning, that we could not be 
 far removed from the predicted Revival. 
 XYII. All these eight particulars, 
 marked down as characterising the 
 Seventh head, have now been minute- 
 ly fulfilled in the empeeokship of the 
 
 FRENCH. 
 
 They prove therefore, with a force 
 of demonstration little short of Mathe- 
 matical, that THE EMPERORSHIP OF THE 
 
 FRENCH is the Predicted Seventh Head 
 of the Symbol or the Predicted Seventh 
 Form of Roman Polity. 
 
 XYIIL From what I deemed the 
 
 NeceBsity of Prophecy^ full thirty-four 
 
 years ago, or in the year 1818, and 
 
 again, with unabated confidence in the 
 
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78 
 
 THE REVIVAL OF THE 
 
 justice of my premises, in the years 
 1828 and 1844, and 1846, I anticipated 
 THE EEvivAL which WO havo now seen. 
 Nor was this anticipation rashly put 
 forth in the crude form of a presump- 
 tuous guess : but it was sohdly based 
 upon FACTS compared with prophecy. 
 Hence there is small wonder in its 
 having been accomplishc "'. 
 
 I should add, as serving to explain 
 what I mean, that, had I ventured to 
 anticipate the revival of the irench 
 EMPERORSHIP in any particular Indi- 
 mdual^ I should justly have incurred 
 the very charge of presumption which I 
 most anxiously deprecate. 
 
 As I repeatedly state in my Sacred 
 Calendar of Prophecy / with very few 
 exceptions. Inspired Prophecy treats, not 
 of Individuals, but of Nations or States 
 or Communities. 
 
 Hence, though I felt morally sure, 
 
 that THE FRENCH EMPERORSHIP WOUld. 
 
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 FRENCH EMPEROESHIP. 
 
 79 
 
 bv^oner or later be revived, I expressly 
 utated, that the prediction would equal- 
 ly receive a full accomplishment, whether 
 the Individual was a representative of 
 the first French Emperor or the success- 
 ful Soldier of the day. Pure unauthor- 
 ized conjecture led me internally to deem 
 the latter the most probable mode of 
 Revivrl: fact has demonstrated, that 
 such a conjecture was erroneous. 
 
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APPENDIX I. 
 
 It has been suggested to me by a very 
 well-read and intelligent friend, that I 
 might have usefully noticed an objec- 
 tion, which has been made to my iden- 
 tification of the French Emperorship 
 with the Seventh Roman Head. 
 
 The objection was this. 
 
 To tbe character of a Eoman Head, 
 the having Rome for its Capital is m- 
 dispmisalle. But of the French Em- 
 perorship, Paris, not Rome, was the 
 Capital. Therefore the French Emper- 
 orship cannot be the Se\'enth Roman 
 Head. 
 
 While my friend advised me to notice 
 this objection, he himself pointed out its 
 
82 
 
 APPENDIX I. 
 
 palpable futility : inasmuch as Diocle- 
 gian, wliom no one could deny to be the 
 acting representative of a Eoman Head, 
 made IS'icomedia, not Eome, his Capital. 
 
 I was fully aware, that the objection 
 had been made by Mr. Elliott in his 
 Horae Apocalypticae, vol. iii. p. 95, 2d 
 edition: but, in truth, I deemed it at 
 once so shallow and so inconsistent with 
 his own scheme, that I thought any 
 notice of it a work of supererogation. 
 Yet, since, where one reader will sift a 
 bold assertion, at least a dozen will take 
 it for granted^ I have judged my friend's 
 suggestion to be judicious, and I have 
 attended to it accordingly. 
 
 I. As Mede long since observed on 
 Eev. xvii. 9, 10, there cannot be a 
 doubt, that the Seven Heads are du- 
 plex TYPus, a double type: importing, 
 primarily, the Seven Mountains upon 
 which Borne was huilt ; and, secondari- 
 ly, Seven forms of Boman Polity, 
 
APPENDIX I. 
 
 83 
 
 Hence it is quite clear that the Seven 
 Heads must stand connected with the 
 Seven Mountains: but the question, 
 IIoiv far connected, must be determined 
 by History, which is ever the best inter- 
 preter of Prophecy. 
 
 1. Xow History determines, that, to 
 the character of a Eoman Head, neither 
 the Constaiit Sovereignty of Borne, nor 
 the Making Rome its Capital.^ is, in any 
 wise, essential. 
 
 The SOLE requisite is the Possession 
 of the Sovereignty of Eome"^ during 
 some period or other of any given Head's 
 existence. 
 
 This fulfils the Double Type by bring- 
 ing the Roman Head into direct connec- 
 tion with a Roman Mountain. 
 
 2. As for the necessity of Roms leiag 
 
 [* The reader will remember the almost "r. -mnt- 
 able expedition of the French against the ivoraan re- 
 public;, and the possession of the city of Kome by the 
 soldiers of Louis Napoleon, during all the ^".it ten 
 years j 
 
84 
 
 APPENDIX I. 
 
 the Capital of a Boman Polity^ which 
 is the basis of Mr. Elliott's very crude 
 objection, History knows nothing of it. 
 
 Rome, as my friend justly observed, 
 and as Mr. Gibbon fully attests, was not 
 the Capital of Dioclesian, whose Sovere- 
 ignty Mr. Elliott himself though in a 
 fashion most hopelessly untenable, pro- 
 nounces to be a distinct Eoman Head. 
 The Capital of that Prince was l^icome- 
 dia and subordmately Milan : and, as Mr. 
 Gi])bon justly remarks, shortly after the 
 time of Dioclesian, Bo'ine ceased to he 
 the Cajntal of the Fm/pire by the perma- 
 nent transference of that character to 
 Byzantium or Constantinople."^' 
 
 * Mr. Elliott, on his professed principle, would, I 
 suppose, employ this change of capital as o proof, 
 that Constantino and his successors in th(i r.ew Me- 
 tropolis could not be viewed as representing the 
 Roman Imperial Head. Something of that sort would 
 seem necessary to a scheme, which acparates the brief 
 Emperorship of Dioclesian and his Colleagues from 
 the Roman Emperorship of Augustus, and which 
 makes it the distinct short-lived fc^eveuth Head that 
 
APPENDIX I. 
 
 85 
 
 3. The fate of the Eoman Emperor- 
 ship, ' subsequent to Constantirie and his 
 immediate successors, equally shews, that 
 the P€rj)etual Possession of Home is not 
 essential to the character of a Eoman 
 Head. 
 
 After the fall of the Western Roman 
 Emperorship (not of the Eoman Emper 
 orship ITSELF, be It observed), tlie sole 
 remaining representative of that Emper- 
 orship, namely, the Eastern Eoman Em- 
 peror whose Capital was Constantinople, 
 may be said to have lost all real Posses- 
 sion of Eome : and, though the Dominion 
 of Italy w\as recovered by Justinian, it 
 was ultimately lost, even in name, in the 
 year 728. 
 
 was future in the time of St. John. We shall soon 
 see, how such an extraordinary speculation, respect 
 iug which Mr. Elliott boldly professes both himself 
 and his readers to have satisfied themselves, will quad- 
 rate with his own principL^ of the NfiCEssiTY of Rome 
 being always the Capital of a Roman Head, on which 
 he professedly founds his objec'lon to mi/ views. 
 
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86 
 
 APPENDIX I, 
 
 II. Thus sJiallow was Mr. Elliott's 
 cljection, that the French Emperorship 
 COULD NOT be the Seventh Head, because 
 it did not make Eome its Capital. But 
 what shall we say to his inconsistency f 
 
 While he denies that the French Em- 
 perorship can be the Seventh Eoman 
 Head ; beccuise^ though it fulfilled the 
 prophetic requisition of obtaining the 
 Sovereignty of Rome, Paris^ not Rome^ 
 was the Capital : he actually would dis- 
 sociate the Emperorship of Dioclesian 
 from the Emperorship of Augustus pure- 
 ly on the ground of an internal political 
 arrangement, and thus erect it into a dis- 
 tinct Seventh Head ; though the Capital 
 of this incongruously fancied Seventh 
 Head was, not Rome, but Nicomedia ! 
 
 III. In his various new interpreta- 
 tions of Prophecy, Mr. Elliott is far too 
 hasty and too inconsecutive to be a safe 
 guide. They will not bear the opera- 
 tion of what I have called sifting. 
 
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 But, to this hastiness in jumping to 
 conclusions, he has added, what, under 
 one aspect, is still worse. 
 
 In the first edition of his IlarcB Apo- 
 ealyptiow, he repeatedly censured me, 
 on the ground of my havij)g put forth 
 sundry most absurd interpretations, 
 which he duly particularised. Now, 
 would it be believed, that, without a 
 single excejption^ every one of these 
 depreciating charges was totally un- 
 founded ! When remonstrated with on 
 his unjustifiable conduct, he replied that 
 he had not my Sacred Calendar of 
 Prophecy before him at the time, and- 
 that he had written from memory alone \ 
 
 In his second edition, these ground- 
 less charges were tacitly omitted; and 
 here, when he had my Work before 
 him, and did not trust to his memory, I 
 certainly cannot complain, that he has 
 ascribed to me opinions whi«jh I never 
 advocated; for, sure enough, I main- 
 
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 Mr. Elliott is warranted in rejecting my 
 
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 of the Seventh Head, I reject it, not 
 because Dioclesian made Nicomedia, in- 
 stead of Rome, his Capital, but on a 
 totally different groimd. In fine, I con- 
 eider his untenable objection as the only 
 objection which can be urged against 
 7ny exposition ; and, therefore, I crave 
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 " Now, in the pageant whicli was pre- 
 sented to tlie eyes of St. John, the Wild- 
 Beast appeared to revive, in consequence 
 iff his deadly wound being healed. But 
 it is manifest, that no such sight could 
 have been beheld by the Apostle, unless 
 the ideiitical wound was healed, which 
 had produced the death of the Wild- 
 Beast. The wound, however, which waa 
 thus healed, was the wound which was 
 inflicted on the shart-lived seventh 
 Head. Therefore, the wounded short- 
 lived SEVENTH Head must have appeared 
 ta St. John to be the particidar Head 
 which was healed. But the wounded 
 short-lived seventh Head has been shewn 
 to be the short-lived feench emperok- 
 snip, which was wounded to death by 
 the sword of England. Therefore the 
 FRENCH EMPERORSHIP is that mortally 
 wounded seventh Head, whose deadly 
 
 wound is destined to be healed. 
 
 '- Thus we are apparently led, by the 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 93 
 
 speaking machinery of tlie pictured 
 hieroglyphic, to a very important con- 
 clusion : the conclusion, namely, that; 
 the SEVENTH Head, which was inortaUy 
 wounded hy the sword, is the identical 
 Head' which is destined to he healed. 
 
 " l!^or am I here presuming to play 
 the prophet. So far from it, I simply 
 state either the very words of the pro- 
 phecy, or the inspired description of 
 what St. John beheld in the picture- 
 history. 
 
 " The SEVENTH Head, then, being the 
 Head which was mortally wounded by 
 the sword, is the Head which is des- 
 tined to be healed. But, when this 
 deadly wound is healed, then the Wild- 
 Beast revives. Consequently, if we 
 turn from the hieroglyphic to the Angel's 
 interpretation of it, the Eighth Form of 
 Roman Government, under which the 
 Wild-Beast ascends from the Abyss in- 
 stinct with renovated life, or under 
 
94 
 
 APPENDIX II. 
 
 which the Empire commences its third 
 predicted term of re-existence ; th t 
 Eighth Form of Eoman Government, 
 which is declared to be One of the pre- 
 ceding Seven (so that the symbol should 
 have no more than Seven heads), must 
 be the same as the short-lived seventh 
 Form ; the same, therefore, as the 
 
 FRENCH EMPEKORSHIP. 
 
 " Here I would have it most carefully 
 noted, that, with some very few special 
 exceptions, the Prophetic Muse stoops 
 not, in her lofty flight, to notice the fates 
 and fortunes of mere indwiduals. 
 
 " To this general principle in its appli- 
 cation to hieroglyphical picture-history, 
 I know but a single exception ; and 
 even that exception is more apparent 
 than real. I subjoin the apjparent ex- 
 ception. 
 
 " The short-lived Seventh Head of the 
 Eoman Wild-Beast was represented, 
 from first to last, by a single Indivi- 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 95 
 
 laud / whence the actions of the Indivi- 
 dual and the actions of the Head are 
 necessarily coincident throughout. But 
 still, in absolute strictness, I should not 
 say, that the Seventh Head symbolised 
 the French Emperor Napoleon^ but the 
 French Fmperorship of which he hap- 
 pened to be the sole administrator. 
 
 " On these solid grounds, I deem the 
 future destipy of the Individual, who 
 now wears out his hours on a sea-ffirt 
 rock in the midst of the Atlantic, quite 
 beneath the particular regard of the 
 Prophetic Muse. Whenever the French 
 EMPERORSHIP is rcvivcd, it is less than of 
 the least consequence whether it be re- 
 vived by Napoleon himself or by the son 
 of Xapo^ ^on, or by any other military 
 adventurer. The naked pact of its 
 revival is, I fear, but too plainly fore- 
 told by the Voice of Inspiration ; but 
 
 THE TIME when, and THE PERSON BY 
 
 WHOM, are alike uncertaiix. 
 
96 
 
 APPENDIX 11. 
 
 " The liise of the Eighth Form^ in 
 the verbal interpretation of the Angel, 
 corresponds witli the Healing of the 
 sword-slain Head in the pictured hiero- 
 glyphic. For, by the Healing, the 
 Wild-Beast is restored to life : just as, 
 by the liise, the Empire is restored to 
 a state of political existence. But the 
 sword-slain Head, tlius destined to be 
 healed, is the frencu emperorship : and, 
 according to the Angel's interpretation, 
 the literal mode, in which it will be 
 healed, is by the rise of an Eighth Form 
 of Eoman Government, which, however, 
 is to be the same as One of the preceding 
 Seven. The French emperorship, there- 
 fore, will be hea^ d by the Rise of that 
 Eiffhth Form, with wdiich One of the 
 preceding Seven will identify itself. 
 Now it plainly cannot be thus healed, 
 unless* that jparticular Form out of the 
 preceding Seven, which is to be the 
 SAME as the yet future Eighth, shall be 
 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 97 
 
 THE 
 
 tlie Seventh Form, or ttte frencii em- 
 perorship: because, it tlie yet future 
 Eightli were any other One out of the 
 preceding Seven, the Seventh Form or 
 THE FRENCH emperorship plainly could 
 not be healed by its Eise. 
 
 "Hence the grand Conclusion from 
 the whole is immediately brought out : 
 
 "The predicted yet future eighth 
 form of roman government will be the 
 
 revived FRENCII EMPERORSHIP." 
 
 Supplemental Third Yolume to a Dis- 
 sertation on the Prophecies. Dissert, i. 
 sect. 4, pp. 78-92. Eivingtons, St. Paul's 
 Church Yard, a.d. 1818. 
 
 11. I believe I am not the only person 
 who, in one form or anotlier, has antici- 
 pated tlie Future from the Past. 
 
 Mr. Fleming's case, or what has been 
 called his prediction, is well known. 
 To mention the living were inviduous; 
 but, both Mr. Fleming, whose anticipa- 
 tic n of the first French Eevolution at a 
 
 
98 
 
 APPENDIX II. 
 
 specified time was confirmed, at least in 
 a fashion, by the events ; and others, 
 likewise, who have anticipated what 
 they deem the Eise of a Personal Anti- 
 christ, who should be the Sovereign of 
 Kome and the Chief of the restored 
 French Empire ; all these strike me, 
 whatever may be thought of the younger 
 I^Tapoleon, as having arrived at their 
 conclusions from no legitimate and in- 
 telligible premises. 
 
 Hence, to whatever extent their anti- 
 cipations may have been, or may be 
 hereafter, verified, I cannot view such 
 anticipations in any other light, than 
 that of wholly unauthorised, and, there- 
 fore, mere luchy, specimens of pure 
 guesswork. But, in truth, when sifted, 
 they can scarcely be said to possess even 
 that character. Not only are the grounds 
 imtenable, but the accomplishment of 
 the guess is defective and imperfect. 
 This, however, was only to be expected. 
 
 J^- 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 99 
 
 when tlie anticipation rested upon no 
 solid preparatory basis. 
 
 In my own case, I have adduced un- 
 deniable Historical Facts, and have com- 
 bined them with Chronology. Thus, 
 after severely laying a good foundation, 
 I severely built upon it my anticipation. 
 And, so far as I could judge, the antici- 
 pation, to which I was irresistibly drawn 
 by a sort of evidential compulsion, could 
 not be disputed, even lefore its accom- 
 plishment, without impugning both 
 History and Chronology. On this fixed 
 principle, I have never changed my 
 opinion, nor have I deviated a single 
 iota from my now fully-accomplished 
 anticipation, since it was first published 
 to the WorF i the year 1818. 
 
 ni. The vviiole argument for the long 
 expected Eevival of the French Em- 
 perorship, I have given as clearly and as 
 cogently as I could, 33ut "v.. \a bc con- 
 nected with, and so implicatea in, a vei^ 
 
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 large portion of ray Sacked Calenda/r of 
 ProjpKecy, through which portion it runs 
 like a necessary and continuous thread, 
 that, for a full apprehension of its al- 
 most mathematical force, that Work 
 should be read together with and com- 
 binedly with the present. 
 
 ly. On the simple principle of com- 
 mon honesty, I have never been either 
 ashamed or unwilling to confess error 
 when I was conscious that I had fallen 
 into it. This more than once happened 
 in my first Publication on Prophecy. 
 But so well, through experience, did I 
 consider and sift the points of my Sacred 
 Calendar^ that, although I have duly 
 read almost every modern Work on the 
 subject, for the purpose of correcting 
 myself, if necessary, I have literally had 
 nothing to retract smce jtJxe.J^ook was 
 oTiginally publish^'d;,in fclie year' 1828. 
 
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