mentioned that the whole Papal Church is prophetical.
In her is concentrated the prophecy of Judaism and
Heathenism. Popes who had a peculiar charge,
had also names and numbers correspondent to their
charge. When in Pope Leo XII the apostolic number
was complete he prophesied, as readers must recollect,
according to his Leonine wisdom about a Church Doctor
or Apostle of the higher mission, and after his departure
he had to inspire and bring the man into our school-room,
to sign the most suitable-mysteries on the 90th place
of our catalogue for the excommunication of Popery
from Christ’s Church. And Pope Gregory XVI
had to write the above quoted book, while he was yet
a monk. But by that book the way was opened for
him to the Papal Chair. He prophesied on the
title-page of that book in the first place the triumph
of the Holy See or the Papal Government. And
it triumphed so, when he became Pope that with his
successor the whole miserable machinery is breaking
and breaking, till at length the Church, that is,
the people will triumph by receiving our message of
Peace, by which all kinds of Popery will be abolished
from the Globe. He on the Papal Chair concentrated
in his name and number of the name the whole mystery
of his position. He was Gregory, that means a
watchman, as prophets are called, and he stands as
prophet, in the full number XVI, which is as remarkable
in the developments of Popery as the number 666, so
that the disciples of the Revelator were debating,
whether the spirit had given to their master the number
666, or the number 16 in Revel. xiii: 18, till
the spirit had shown by our instrumentality, that
the number 666 is the principal number in counting
the name and the periods of the duration of the government
of that Beast, but the number 16 comprehends many of
its deep mysteries. The 4th Beast in the 7th
chapter of Daniel was formed gradually into the shape
of the Papal monarchy, and 4 times 4 is the complete
number in which the last ordinary Pope appeared in
his glory; he is the “infallible monarch of
the church,” as he himself has proved while
he was yet a monk, in the above quoted book, that the
Pope is the infallible monarch of the church.
By the means of that book my Lord of truth and righteousness
has opened my eyes, that I commenced to comprehend
the infernal imposition of the dragon and his host,
by which nations were so duped that they believed
the Papal infallibility, holiness and all other abominations
and blasphemies of the living God and his Christ,
and that I have performed and explained what is required
for the abolition of all kinds of Popery. The
number of the Biblical writing mediums or prophets,
whose books are collected in one section of the books
of the Old Testament, is sixteen. They were as
little understood as to who they were and where they
were, as the Popes. The number of the Popes each
of whom appears under the name Gregory or watchman,
is also sixteen, or two times eight. The last
of them or the sixteenth Gregory was the Pope under
whose administration the mysteries were performed
by our instrumentality for the abolition of all kinds
of popery. But he continued to rule in all his
glory and to keep disturbers of his infallible monarchy
in prison. He was the most glorious during the
time, in which the Beast or the Papal monarchy is in
the number eight, Revelation, xvii: 11.