Emperors, whose seat and kingdom they occupy, than of St. PETER the Apostle of Christ? For, I would ask, What humble, poor and despised MAN, like St. PETER, would think of assuming to himself such monstrous and blasphemous Titles, whereby to glorify his Lord and Master Jesus Christ, and of taking a TIARA, or Triple Crown, or Royal Diadem, in addition, more magnificent perhaps than any of those which were worn by the Emperors and Kings of the Roman Earth, up to the time of Louis the XIIth. [See a splendid engraving of the Papal Tiara of Julius II. with the description of it, as set forth in the Voyages of the Sr. A. De La Motraye, Tom. I. chap. ii. p. 30 and 32.] And then to make yet one more allusion to that most unscriptural practice of inculcating Religion in an "unknown tongue." Is not LATIN the Mother Tongue of the Papal Church of Rome at this very hour, although it is a Dead Language in all Europe and the World, yea, even in all ITALY and at ROME itself? The Papal 1" Masses, Prayers, Hymns, Litanies, Canons, Decretals, Bulls, &c. are expressed in LATIN. The Papal Councils speak in Latin. Women themselves pray in Latin. The Holy Scripture is not read in any other Language under Popery, than Latin. The Council of Trent has commanded the Vulgar Latin to be the only authentic Version. The Roman Doctors prefer it to the Hebrew and Greek Text itself, which was written by the Prophets and Apostles: and there 'More's Mystery of Iniquity, Part II. Book i, chap. 15. sect. 8. London, 1706. fore it is conclusive that as the Papists Latinize in every thing, so the Proper and Appellative Name LATEINOS is in every way applicable to Popery. The POPE therefore is the "MAN" who carries the Mark or Name of the Beast, or the Number of his Name, having the descriptive Mark of both Beasts, that is, Sovereign and Pontifical; inasmuch as he is a Latin by Language, a Roman by Election: Exercises all the Power of the First Beast, and is the Image made to the first Beast; for upon the Creation of the Pope, these words are said: Quem Creant, Adorant,' 'whom they create, they adore.' And if the Speech of poor Peter bewrayed him that he was a Galilean, although he endeavoured to conceal it; how much rather does the openly professed LATIN Tongue of the POPE bewray HIM that HE is the Mystical Roman or LATIN MAN of the Secular and Pontifical Empire of modern Rome. Look to it, therefore, O Papist, if, peradventure, thou canst recover thy Pope from the deadly wound which the faithful Martyr Irenæus hath inflicted on thy LATIN HEAD, wherewith he hath (by a Bow drawn at a Venture) smitten thy CHURCH and KINGDOM; thy MITRE and TRIPLE CROWN; thy Latin Roman Man. Prepare then, O Papist, thy Latin Coffin (for the doom of Popery is come, the " 1260 Days" of Years having expired,) and embalm the Effigy of thy Majestic LATIN IDOL, and let thy Asbestos be of true Latin Texture, that the Fire of Vesuvius scorch not his LATIN HOLINESS, for "the smoke of his Torment ascendeth up for ever and ever." O LATIN PAPA, the Church of Christ will mourn thy exit: but only as the Jews of old did that of Herod the Great, after they had escaped from the 1 Circus or Hippodrome at Jericho, in which that Monster had caused them to be imprisoned, commanding that they should be destroyed immediately after his Death; and because of those whom THOU hast shut up in thy INFERNAL INQUISITION, hast tortured, burned, and massacred to the number of three Millions, and others whom thou hast anathematized and turned out of thy LATIN ROMAN CHURCH ; (the great Antichristian "SYNAGOGUE of SATAN ;") because of these, and all other, thy horrible Monstro sities, and " lying wonders; " KNOW that "thy latter end shall be worse than the beginning !" As the Pope of Rome has chosen to be styled: The Vicar of our Saviour Jesus Christ upon Earth,' and yet as he renounces his Baptismal and Family NAMES, and substitutes the vulgar LATIN, for the vernacular Tongue of Rome and Italy, which is ITALIAN; so it is evident that He is an ANONYMOUS MAN; wherefore, it is only consistent with the word of God that he should be branded with the characteristic Mark of "the Man of Sin," "the Son of Perdition," "the Mystery of Iniquity," "the Wicked one," "the Antichrist," for these, and such like terms, may be fairly associated with his most wonderful descriptive, proper, enigmatical and Appellative Name Λατινος. Let him, therefore, be allowed in requital of his most Myste 1 Joseph. Antiqui. Lib. xvii. chap. vi. rious Tyranny, the full enjoyment of his Mock and Blasphemous Titles which he has assumed, (" and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of NAMES of BLASPHEMY,") that he may appear as Monstrous as he is described by St. Paul and St. John, and that his Proper and Appellative Name may be written in HEBREW, GREEK, and LATIN characters .רומיית) ΛΑΤΕΙΝΟΣ. LATEINUS.) upon the Pontifical LABARUM, or Mystical ROMAN STANDARD, and placed in the VATICAN PALACE at ROME, as a STANDARD MEMORIAL of the indubitable NAME of the "MAN," whose NUMBER is xέs', 666: that all EUROPE may exclaim in mock derision : "ECCE HOMO!!" Ecce! 2" NOMEN Bestiæ, aut Numerum NOMINIS say, add the words of Irenæus to those of St. John, and "LATEINOS NOMEN habet Sexcentorum Sexaginta Sex Numerum: et Valde Verisimile est, quoniam novissimum Regnum hoc habet vocabulum. LATINI enim sunt qui NUNC REGNANT: i. e. in the Person and Character of the Pope of Rome, the Appellative of whose Ecclesiastical Kingdom is ROMAN; ("Sacra ROMANA Ecclesia; ") but the NAME of the MAN, (whose "NUMBER is Six Hundred Threescore and Six ") is Aaтêivos, LATEINUS. ΛΑΤΕΙΝΟΣ. 1 Revelations xvii. 3. 2 Revelations xiii. 17, 18. With a little attention we may soon discover by the pompous and most unexampled manner which this LATIN.. "Pontifex Optimus Maximus" ascends the Papal Throne; by the nature of his Papal Proclamation; with the subsequent secular and Ecclesiastical Titles and Fictitious Name which he so Innocently and modestly assumes, that HE is the "MAN," whose "MARK," "NAME," and "NUMBER" are referred to by St. John; and thus we are well assured, that the EVENT is the sure Interpreter of the Prophecy. will only be necessary, therefore, to give an Historical Account of the Election, Proclamation, and Coronation of Pope INNOCENT XIII, who succeeded CLEMENT XI, (as recorded by Edward Wright, Esq., who was an eye-witness of the Ceremonies,) as conclusive on this subject. It T |