If, then, the beginning of the twelve hundred and sixty years of the
reign of Antichrist is to be dated from the year 727, their end will
fall near the year 2000 after Christ; and at the end of the 6000th
year of the world, according to a very early tradition of Jews and
Christians, and even of Heathens, great changes and revolutions
are expected both in the natural and in the moral world; and there
remaineth, according to the words of the apostle, (Heb. iv. 9.) a sab-
batism or holy rest to the people of God.
IV. What Daniel hath described under the character of the little
horn, and the blasphemous king; what St. Paul hath described
under the character of the man of sin, the son of perdition ; what St.
