his manners nor in his language did he affect any regard for morality or decency; and one of the earliest acts of his pontificate was, to celebrate, with scandalous magnificence, in his own palace, the marriage of his daughter Lucretia.  On one occasion this prodigy of vice gave a splendid entertainment, within the walls of the Vatican, to no less than fifty public prostitutes at once, and that in the presence of his daughter Lucretia, at which entertainment deeds of darkness were done, over which decency must throw a veil; and yet this monster of vice was, according to Papist ... the vicar of God upon earth, and was addressed by the title of HIS HOLINESS!!” But why stir this cesspool of filth any longer?  Is not that church of which Alexander VI. was for eleven years the crowned and anointed head—­a necessary link in the boasted chain of holy apostolical succession, the pretended vicar of Christ upon earth—­is it not, I ask, fitly described by the pen of inspiration “MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,” as she reeled onward in the career of ages, “drunken with the blood of the saints”?

    7.  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel?  I
    will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that
    carriest her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

8.  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition:  and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

    9.  And here is the mind which hath wisdom.  The seven heads are
    seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

    10.  And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is, and
    the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue
    a short space.

    11.  And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth,
    and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

    12.  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which
    have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one
    hour with the beast.

    13.  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength
    unto the beast.

    14.  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
    overcome them:  for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings:  and
    they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

The angel promises to explain “the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carried her.”  The beast is the same as the secular beast with seven heads and ten horns, described in chapter 13.  An explanation of its heads and horns has already been given.  The expression “the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth, and there are seven kings,” requires further explanation.