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be forced to acknowledge that in respect to the neigh- 

 bouring potentates he is even singtdis impar." 



Fleming, in deducing his calculations as to the 

 Papacy, says at p. 49. : 



" This Judgment {fifth vial) will probably begin about 

 the year 1794, and expire about A c. 1848 : so that the 

 duration of it, upon this supposition, will be for the space 

 of 54 years. For I do not suppose that seeing the Pope 

 received tlie title of Supreme Bishop no sooner than Ann. 

 606, he cannot be supposed to have any vial poured upon 

 his Seat immediately, so as to ruin his authority so sig- 

 nally as this Judgment must be supposed to do until the 

 year 1848, which is the date of 1260 years in prophetical 

 account when they are reckoned from' Ann. 606. But yet 

 we are not to imagine that this vial will totally destroy 

 the Papacy, tho' it will exceedingly weaken it ; for we 

 find this still in being and alive when the next vial is 

 poured out." 



Now it is again not a little remarkable, that 

 from 1848 to 1850 took place the revolution at 

 Rome, the flight of the Pope to Gaeta, his resi- 

 dence there, and his having been brought back to 

 Rome only through the power of France. It 

 cannot be said that the Pope's authority and the 

 Papacy were "destroyed" by this revolution, 

 though they were certainly at that time on the 

 very brink of perdition ; but that they have been 

 since " exceedingly weakened" by it, no one can 

 doubt, seeing the troubles which are presently 

 occurring from the disturbed and unsatisfactory 

 position of Italian affairs both in Church and 

 State. The events which likewise happened in 

 the abdication of Louis Philippe, and the new suc- 

 cession to the French throne (all of which cannot 

 be dilated on) ; as also the humbled condition of 

 the Pope when made prisoner by Napoleon Bona- 

 parte during the period of the currency of the 

 above-mentioned fifty-four years prior to 1848, 

 and the inauguration of the emperor's son as King 

 of Rome, with otlier historical points that might 

 be stated, may in whole be regarded as proofs of 

 the singular shrewdness of Fleming in scanning 

 those mysterious books, in the study of which he 

 had been successful beyond every commentator 

 who had handled them. 



It appears to be the opinion of Fleming (p. 49.) 

 that the ^'^ sixth vial will be poured out on the 

 Mahometan Anti-Christ," and that the " seventh 

 viaV more particularly relates to " Rome or mys- 

 tical Babylon;" "these two vials as it were one 

 continued, the first running into the second, and 

 the second completeing the first" — " only you may 

 observe (p. 50.) that the first of these will proba- 

 bly take up most of the time between the year 

 1848 and the year 2000." — "Supposing, then, 

 that the Turkish monarchy should be totally de- 

 stroyed (p. 51.) between 184-8 and 1900, we may 

 justly assign 70 or 80 years longer to the end of 

 the 6th seal, and about 20 or 30 at most to the 

 last." _ Lately, the "sick man" only escaped de- 

 struction from the paws of the Bear ; and though 



the invalid may have had a turn in his complaint, 

 and be again looking better, it cannot be doubted 

 that he carries within himself the seeds of his early 

 dissolution. 



The author's reasonings on these topics are too 

 long to be here followed out ; but if his discrimi- 

 nation in arguing from the past be taken into 

 account, it is probable he may yet be found one 

 of the most judicious interpreters of the future. 

 At the expiry of the " seventh vial," he considers 

 that " the blessed millennium of Christ's spiritual 

 reign on earth will begin" — say, year 2000. 

 Other students of prophecy, posterior to Fleming, 

 have placed the commencement of this event re- 

 spectively in 1866, 1947,2300. If will be for 

 those then alive carefully to watch these epochs 

 and the signs of the times. Under the dominion 

 of peace — the diffusion of education, secular and 

 religious, along with the rapid improvements 

 making in art and science — who can say what 

 mighty things may not be effected to usher in this 

 happy day for the human race ? G. N. 



BIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. 



(2°'» S. i. 472.) 



Joseph Trapp, D.D. Born in 1679 ; in 1695 

 he was entered a commoner of Wadhara College, 

 and, in 1696, was admitted a scholar of the same 

 house. He proceeded B.A. 1699; M.A. 1702; 

 D.D. by diploma, 1727. In 1704, he was chosen 

 a Fellow; in 1708, he was appointed the first 

 professor of poetry ; and in 1711, chaplain to Sir 

 Constantine Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 

 He died Nov. 22, 1747. A list of his publications, 

 forty-eight in number, will be found in Chalmers's 

 Biographical Dictionary. 



Philip Bisse, of New College, Oxford ; B.A. 

 1690; M.A. 1693; B. and D.D. 1705; conse- 

 crated Bishop of 8t. David's, Nov. 19, 1710; 

 translated to Hereford, Feb. 16, 1713. He died 

 at Westminster, Sept. 6, 1724. He published A 

 Sermon at the Anniversary of the Sons of the 

 Clergy, Dec. 2, 1708 ; and A Fast Sermon preached 

 before the House of Commons, London, 1710. 



Thomas Gore, born at Alderton, Wilts, 1631, 

 became a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, 

 in May 1647. After he had continued there more 

 than three years, and had performed his exercise 

 for the degree of B.A., he retired to Lincoln's Inn, 

 and afterwards to his patrimony at Alderton ; 

 where he died March 31, 1684. His publications 

 were : — 



1. A Table shewing how to Blazon a Coat ten several 

 Ways, 1655 ; a single sheet, copied from Feme. 



2. Series Alphabetica, Latino- Anglica, Nominum Gen- 

 tilitiorum, sive Cognominum plurimarum Familianim, 

 qu£e multos per annos in Anglia floruere, Oxon., 1667, 8vo. 



3. Catalogus in certa Capita, seu Classes, plerorumque 



