furnish us with the precise arithmetical Number,'
appropriate Mark,' and appellative Name' of
the number Beast, is Aarewos, Lateinos, the ortho-
graphy of which is proved to be correct, and to be in
every other respect answerable to the general scope
of the Prophecies of St. John and St. Paul; being
the Proper Name of a Man, namely, 1 LATINUS,
who was King of Latium or Italy, and the founder
of the ancient Kingdom of the Latins, called after
his Name, Latium, (and afterwards Rome,) whence
comes the Latin NAME, Race, and Language,
which was formerly spoken throughout all Europe;
and more Proof than this is not necessary in any
argument. It is absolutely indispensable that the
Name of the Man should in all particulars identify
the character of the second Beast (as the true Image
of the First,) who is an acknowledged 2 Ecclesias-
tical Superior of the very Highest Order and
Degree-the pseudo-Christian PONTIFEX MAXI-
MUS' even the Man of the Latin, or Roman, or
Italian Church and Kingdom, who 3" SITTETH
(according to prediction) "in the Temple of God"
(at Rome)" shewing himself that HE is God;" of
ancient Roman Idolatries, of Heathen Mythology,
impudently introduced into the Church under Chris-
tian names; that He is the God-Man of Romanists
-their Idol, their Image, their Pope, Papa, or
Father; that He is the ecclesiastical founder of
modern Hierarchical Rome with its present Papistical

1 Virgil. Æneid. Lib. vii. line 45. ibid. Lib. I. line 6.
2 Rev. xiii. 11.

3 2 Thess. ii. 4.

which has

form of Government, a similar form to never before existed in the known world. That He, therefore, is "the Man of Sin,” "The Son of Perdition,' "The wicked one," spoken of by St. Paul, The Antichrist of St. John, and the very MAN, whose enigmatical Number is xs', or " Six hundred threescore and six." And, therefore, notwithstanding the number of profound Greek authors who have been quoted by Dr. Adam Clarke with an intent to nullify the orthography of Irenæus in his use of the DIPHTHONG or broad et ord in the Name Aarêivos, he has utterly failed. The learning of Cardinal Bellarmine moreover has been added to the List of his authorities:- Bellarmine the Jesuit (as the Doctor writes) objected against Aarêivos Λατινος being the Name intended in the prophecy from its orthography; for, says he, it should be written Aarivos. That the objection of the learned Jesuit has very great force, is evident from every Greek writer extant, who has used the Greek word Latinus, in all of whom it is uniformly found without the diphthong. See Hesiod, Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Strabo, Plutarch, Dio Cassius, Photius, the Byzantine historians, &c.'

From this array of ancient classical authors, supported by Bellarmine, it would appear, at first sight, morally impossible to advance any thing further towards establishing the name Aarêivos; but the question at issue is not whether any of the before named Authors have ever used the diphthong or broad & or when writing the Name Aareivos; but whether such

orthography was acknowledged as legitimate among the ANCIENT GREEKS and ANCIENT ROMANS in NAMES of MEN, &c.? That it was both customary and legitimate to use the Diphthong or broad e or

can be proved by a number of the most indisputable ancient authorities. Therefore it matters not in the least whether any such authors as those named by Dr. Clarke have ever used the Diphthong or not. The simple fact to be established is, whether such orthography was considered genuine in the time of Irenæus; and, if it ever was legitimate, we may suppose it probable in his Days, because he has unhesitatingly used the diphthong, or broad e, or din two several NAMES out of THREE, pertaining to the same number' 666,' viz. Aarêivos and Têitav, and as IRENEUS (the beginning of whose name is written by Eusebius with the Diphthong e, Espnvasos,) was one of the Christian Fathers, and wrote professedly "Contra omnes Hæreses," it would seem a gross inconsistency for him to select Two Names out of Three, the orthography of which was disputable. It will be therefore my grand object to bring forward such ancient authorities under the head of the Diphthong e vel as shall establish the COMMON USE of the broad e ord beyond all further doubt or controversy for that which the Ancients used, and which can be proved incontrovertibly from many classical Authors extant, from Lexicons, from Medals, &c. cannot be set aside by modern Commentators, let their learning be ever so great. When Dr. Clarke and others have proved that the authorities

produced in favour of the Diphthong or broad or el are not sufficient, nay even abundant, to establish the ancient uses of the Diphthong in the name Aareivos, it will be time enough to give up the Point; till then, I shall consider myself fully justified in vindicating the Orthography of Irenæus in the ancient classical use of the epsilon (e) with the iota () as a ord, or the iota circumflexed as î, (which latter is generally, if not always, equivalent to a Diphthong,) against the various pseudo-opinions of Dr. Adam Clarke, Mr. Faber, Cardinal Bellarmine, Grotius, and a host of other writers. That Dr. Clarke should have selected Cardinal Bellarmine, the most subtle of all Jesuits in the world, the very mouth piece of the POPE OF ROME, with the intent to nullify the orthography of Irenæus in the use of the e in Aarêtvos, is most astonishing, (much more so indeed than that Professor Lee of Cambridge should have chosen the subtle demi-papistical Archbishop Laud, with a view to set aside the Number xes', 666, by confronting it with the spurious Number xs', 616). Because Bellarmine had a special self-interest to support at Rome, as Cardinal Secretary of State to the Pope, in which he could not more effectually serve His Holiness,' and the whole Church of Rome,' than by endeavouring to set aside the orthography of Irenæus on THIS POINT; for this Arch-Jesuist had most assuredly found out that if the orthography of this all-important Name Aarêivos were ONCE established BEYOND CONTROVERSY, the consequences would be that

IT could apply to NONE OTHER CHURCH in the world than his own LATIN CHURCH and usurped HIERARCHY, and that it would, according to prediction, lead to its downfall. Bellarmine, therefore, could not be looked upon as a disinterested Man, especially when it is duly considered that the LATIN or Roman Church claims to herself, universality, and will admit of no ecclesiastical Rival or Superior; for, what is said by Papists of the Church of St. John Lateran at Rome, is equally said of the Pope at his Installation and Coronation-" Omnium in Urbe atque in Orbe Ecclesiarum Mater atque Caput." Of all Churches in the City and the World-The Mother and the Head; so upon the Papal Coronation are these presumptuous Titles of Blasphemy conferred Accipe Tiaram, tribus coronis ornatum, et scias Te esse Patrem Principum et Regum, Rectorem Orbis, in Terrâ Vicarium Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi: cui Honor est, et Gloria in Sæcula Sæculorum. Amen." 'Receive Thou the Tiara, adorned with THREE CROWNS, and KNOW THYSELF to be FATHER of PRINCES and of KINGS, RULEr of THE WORLD, upon Earth Vicar of our Saviour Jesus Christ: to whom be Honour and Glory for ever and ever. Amen.'

It is evident to me that Irenæus never doubted for one moment the integrity of the orthography of the Name AxTeivos, because he has made use of a second Name Teitav, TEITAN, which is liable to the same orthographical objection respecting the Dipthong d and were there no other authorities extant to

or el,