He does great wonders in the sight of that beast; he causes men to worship that beast; he leads them to make an image to that beast; and he causes all to receive a mark, which is the mark of that beast.

These palpable evidences of co-operation with the papal power, led Eld.

J.Litch, about 1842, to write concerning the two-horned beast thus:-- "I think it is a power yet to be developed or made manifest, as an accomplice of the papacy in subjecting the world." To understand what would be an image of the papacy, we must first form a definite idea of what constitutes the papacy itself.

Papal supremacy dates from the time when the decree of Justinian, constituting the pope the head of the church and the corrector of heretics, was carried into effect, in 538.

The papacy, then, was a church clothed with civil power, an ecclesiastical body, having authority to punish all dissenters with confiscation, imprisonment, torture, and death.