Author: Robert Chambers

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781458925268

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... it is that I find myself extremely straitened, in discoursing of so great a subject in so narrow a compass. All, therefore, that I can say here will amount to a few short hints only, though perhaps no inconsiderable ones. Seeing, therefore, as I said before in the fourth postulatum, it is plain, from Rev. xvii. 10, that the imperial government was the regnant head of the Roman Beast at the time of the vision, we have only the two following heads to consider, as to their rise and duration. Let these things, therefore, be minded here: --1. That the seventh head, or king of Rome (as I hinged before), whose character is, that he was immediately to succeed to the imperial government, and to continue but a short space (Rev. xvii. 10), that, I say, this government could be no other than that of the kingdom of the Ostro-Goths in Italy. For it is plain that the imperial dignity was extinguished in Italy and in the western parts of the empire, by Odoacer, the king of the Heruli, who forced Augustulus, the last sprig of an emperor, to abdicate his throne and power in the year 475, or 476 as others say; and though this Odoacer was soon destroyed by Theodoric, the king of the Ostro-Goths, yet the same form of regal government was continued by Theodoric and his successors; and though this kingdom continued for nearly eighty years, reckoning from Odoacer to Teias, yet the angel might justly call this a short time; for so it was, if compared either with the preceding imperial or succeeding Papal government; which suggests a very strong argument against some who would make this seventh king to denote the Oriental Empire, which, as it began long before this time, so it lasted many centuries afterwards, and was not totally extinct till Mohammed the Great's time, in the year 1453; a..

Download or read book An Expository Outline of the 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', [by R Chambers] with a Notice of the Author's 'Explanations' written by Robert Chambers and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... it is that I find myself extremely straitened, in discoursing of so great a subject in so narrow a compass. All, therefore, that I can say here will amount to a few short hints only, though perhaps no inconsiderable ones. Seeing, therefore, as I said before in the fourth postulatum, it is plain, from Rev. xvii. 10, that the imperial government was the regnant head of the Roman Beast at the time of the vision, we have only the two following heads to consider, as to their rise and duration. Let these things, therefore, be minded here: --1. That the seventh head, or king of Rome (as I hinged before), whose character is, that he was immediately to succeed to the imperial government, and to continue but a short space (Rev. xvii. 10), that, I say, this government could be no other than that of the kingdom of the Ostro-Goths in Italy. For it is plain that the imperial dignity was extinguished in Italy and in the western parts of the empire, by Odoacer, the king of the Heruli, who forced Augustulus, the last sprig of an emperor, to abdicate his throne and power in the year 475, or 476 as others say; and though this Odoacer was soon destroyed by Theodoric, the king of the Ostro-Goths, yet the same form of regal government was continued by Theodoric and his successors; and though this kingdom continued for nearly eighty years, reckoning from Odoacer to Teias, yet the angel might justly call this a short time; for so it was, if compared either with the preceding imperial or succeeding Papal government; which suggests a very strong argument against some who would make this seventh king to denote the Oriental Empire, which, as it began long before this time, so it lasted many centuries afterwards, and was not totally extinct till Mohammed the Great's time, in the year 1453; a..