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A57810	Maromah, the Lord of Rome the Antichrist, finally and fully discover'd his name and the number of his name, hitherto wonderfully hid in the words of Solomon and Isaiah, but now reveal'd beyond all scruple and doubt : to the most seasonable comfort of all the faithful, to the everlasting confusion of Pope and popish ministers, to the vindication, praise and encouragement of all Protestant witnesses, peculiarly [sic] the happy discoverers of the late most horrid Popish Plot : being a second sermon on Prov. XIV. 25, preacht in Istleworth Church on Novemb. 16, 1679 / by William Ramsay, B.D. ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, B.D. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum.	1680 (1680)	Wing R217; ESTC R10342	13,292	37

Maromah The LORD of ROME THE ANTICHRIST Finally and fully Discover'd His NAME and the NUMBER of his Name hitherto wonderfully Hid in the words of SOLOMON and ISAIAH but now Reveal'd beyond all Scruple and Doubt To the most Seasonable Comfort of all the Faithful To the everlasting Confusion of POPE and Popish Ministers To the Vindication Praise and Encouragement of all PROTESTANT WITNESSES peculiarly the Happy DISCOVERERS OF THE LATE MOST Horrid Popish Plot BEING A SECOND SERMON On PROV xiv 25. Preacht in Istleworth Church on Novemb. 16. 1679. By WILLIAM RAMSAY B. D. Lecturer in Istleworth Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Butler Earl of Ossory c. PROV xiv 25. The Original of ●●ue The Witness of Truth delivereth Souls But the Lord of Rome speaketh lies LONDON Printed by J. A. for Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-Press within the South-west Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1680. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY Lord Bishop of LONDON One of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. Health and Happiness from the LORD JESUS CHRIST My LORD TO publish this to the World to present it to your Lordships hands and by your hands to the Church is a Duty of such Exigency that to seek leave to do it or to make Apology for it were as great a Folly as to omit it were a Crime For I present nothing of my own all that if any thing is nothing worth but I present what God in great Wisdom for many Ages laid up in the inmost Treasury of his Prophets peculiarly of Solomon and Isaiah and what now in good Providence he hath discover'd in the Very season of Time The Discovery is his own and nothing is owing to me but I am an hundred fold more than before indebted to his Fatherly Goodness whereof this is not the first Experiment of a Thousand My Lord however this may appear at present I dare here engage my Reputation for ever which is the greatest Engagement can be expected that in a short time this will appear to be of God indeed and every man that knoweth the terms of this Discourse will judge it a vain thing to seek any other Account of the Name or Number of the Beast This is the End of that Great Controversie of the Antichrist Who he is and I hope may prove an effectual end of all Controversie between Protestant and Papist It is the Key of all the Prophecies concerning Antichrist and for ought I know may serve to open all those Mysteries of Scripture Old and New which are yet lockt up Sure I am it will be very comfortable profitable and of present use to the Whole Church I have a greater and fuller Demonstration of this to make in my next Discourse But I would discover the Whole in the same Order to others as God has chosen to discover it to me And I desire the help of all my Fellow-labourers in the Vineyard of Jesus Christ and in the first place the Blessing of God and the assistance of the Great Witness of Truth by your Lordships Prayer and Intercession for My LORD Your Obedient Servant in Jesus Christ William Ramsay A SERMON PREACHED Novemb. 16. 1679. PROV xiv 25. A true Witness delivereth Souls but A deceitful Witness speaketh lies THe Text contains two propositions The first a Character of a True Witness A True Witness delivereth souls The second a Character of a Deceitful Witness A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies In a late discourse we shewed these Characters to be very proper and that they are Prophetical as well as Proverbial The first containing a Prophecy of Jesus Christ of Hed-emeth the Great Witness of Truth whose Office was to deliver Souls The second containing a distinct Prophecy of the Great Witness of Deceit of Antichrist who in direct opposition to Christ comes and is come to destroy souls with lies We asserted also that the Hebrew Word which in the text is rendred A Deceitful Witness doth plainly literally and grammatically signifie The Lord of Rome So that the whole text is to be rendered thus verbatim according to the Hebrew The Witness of Truth delivereth Souls but the Lord of Rome speaketh lies This thing I onely toucht occasionally in that discourse my design then being to justifie the Character and prophecy of the Witness of Truth which having done I think it necessary by a peculiar discourse to clear that Assertion both for mine own sake because it is my Assertion and I think asserted by none before and also for your sake that they whom I suppose to desire more certain knowledge of the truth of that Assertion may as much as lieth in me be fully satisfied therein But chiefly for the Truth 's sake which hereby will greatly be advantag'd when the false Witness shall be found so distinctly reveal'd For if we can make it plain that the Holy Ghost has couched this Truth in this Proverb and has by the pen of Solomon distinctly nam'd the Lord of Rome as the Deceitful Witness that speaketh lies and that in direct opposition to the Witness of Truth that delivereth Souls if this be made plain it will put an end to all Controversies between other Churches and Rome For the Lord of Rome will not only forfeit his Infallibility that great Shield of his Papacy and Supremacy but the World too will deny him to be the Vicar of Christ and will look upon him as the Great Antichrist and next to Satan the Father of lies This will certainly come to pass if men can once read in express terms of Solomon that as the true Witness which is Christ delivereth Souls so the Lord of Rome speaketh lies Now this with the help of That True Witness we shall shew undeniably not conjecturally to be the express terms of Solomon exprest with all the Circumstances of Wisdom and Truth that became that Spirit by which Solomon wrote or spoke To the full proof whereof premise we 1. That though the Discovery be clear and evident to those that can be brought to understand yet it must not necessarily be evident to all that hear for all that hear cannot be brought to understand So the Discovery of the New World of America was presently evident to all that Columbus could bring thither to see that World but most of other men who would not go to see it would not presently believe it but now that so many have seen it I think almost all men believe it So I shall do my endeavour to bring men to the knowledge of this Truth that by their own understanding it may be evident to them as it is evident to me and when it is evident to Many the rest will believe as they ought 2. When the thing is discover'd it will be certain and evident as we have just now said but the Discovery must not be easie nor obvious nor therefore to be rejected because never yet made This is plain in

the least scruple remaining Yea I know whoever shall seek another Name or Number of the Beast shall seek in vain Nothing is here of my own making Neither Word nor Signification nor Letter nor Number The Word of Maroum is of the Prophets Isa 24 25 26 chapt The Signification of the Word you may see in Buxtorfius and in every Hebrew Lexicon The Letters and the Number of the Letters you have in every Hebrew Alphabet but most distinctly and prophetically in Psal 119. My work was onely this to understand what I read and so to collect it as to give you the understanding I doubt not but more time will give both you and me more understanding But God gave me this and I hope will give as much more as is good for me and this is enough for this time of this matter Let the Text be read thus The Witness of Truth delivereth souls But Maroum The Lord of Rome speaketh lies Then a word or two to that Epithet Speaketh lies The Lord of Rome speaketh Lies two wayes By Himself and by his Emissaries First The Lord of Rome speaketh Lies by himself We shall not undertake to give ye the Number of his Lies as we gave ye the Number of his Name for we might better give the Number of the Starres or of the Sand of the Ocean-shore But as the Starres are reduced to Classes so shall we reduce the Lies of the Lord of Rome to three Classes that is of Doctrine of Discipline and of Manners The first and fundamental Lye of the Doctrine of Maromah is That he has asserted himself Infallible and that he cannot erre when he speaks in his Chair This is the Mother of Lyes and he the Father And with this famous Infallibility he hath begot an innumerable Issue of Lies and hath put them out to be espoused by all Nations and many Nations have been deceiv'd with them these many Ages But thanks be to God and to our Witness of Truth Jesus Christ for he by his Gospel has discover'd these lyes unto us and has deliver'd our Souls from this Witness of Deceit Our Witnesses of Truth which the Lord hath raised up from time to time in the Reformed Churches have confounded Maromah in thousands of Controversies We at Present deny his Assertion of Infallibility and that not from our own mouth but from the Mouth of the Holy Ghost who speaking by Solomon hath said unto us Maromah The Lord of Rome speaketh lies Ergo is not Infallible 2. The Great and Fundamental Lye of his Discipline is this That he is the Vicar and Substitute of Christ The Supreme Lord over the Christian World exalted by Christ over Kings and Princes and over all that is called God on Earth With this his Lye he has got the Crowns of Kings and Emperours into his hand and has brought Kings and Emperours under his feet and disposeth of them and of their Kingdoms as he pleaseth giveth the Life of Kings into the hands of Murderers and the Murderers of Kings are his Martyrs Massacres of Nations are his Holy Leagues and the most hellish Plots are the most meritorious Works of his best beloved Sons and Subjects But Now this Lye is laid open to the World Maromah is proved to be the Deceitful Witness directly opposite to the Witness of Truth which is Christ and therefore the Antichrist and not the Vicar of Christ Yea his own mouth betrayes him for he professedly exalts himself above all on Earth Therefore he 's the Maroum whose Number is 666. And of him it is written Maromah speaketh lies 3. The Great and fundamental Lye of his Manners is this that he styles himself The most Holy and The most Humble too even The Servant of the Servants of God But certainly he 's the most unholy and the most proud the most destructive and the most abominable evil among men and therefore termed by the Holy Ghost not a Man but a Beast And the Bishops of Rome since they were Maroums that is since they usurp'd Supremacy have been the most cruel bloody most filthy and abominable Beasts in Nature that the name of Beast was never so agreeable to any thing on Earth as to the Popes of Rome Gregory the Great was the first who took that Title of The Servant of the Servants of God not in a spirit of Humility but of the greatest Pride and Envy For the Emperour preferring John Jejunator Patriarch of Constantinople before Gregory and giving John the title of Universal Bishop Gregory oppenly opposing Johns Supremacy took it upon himself the best way he could by the equivocal Title of Servant of the Servants of God In the mean time neglecting no Stratagems to promote his Supreme Authority For which sole end he sent his Agents Austin and the other Monks into England to lay the foundation of his Usurpations there So that of a truth Gregory was the First Maroum at least in plot and design but his Successour Boniface the third was an open and profest One who obtain'd of Phocas Emperour the Title of Supreme Bishop and Lord of the Church And the Usurpation had such success that Boniface the Eighth in solemn Jubilee Attired one day in Pontificalibus another in Imperialibus with two Swords before him made Proclamation that he was Supreme Lord and Emperour of the Whole World and Accursed all the Kings of the Earth that subjected not their Kingdoms to him So egregious is that Lye of the Title of Most Holy and of the Servant of the Servants of God that since the time of that most ambitious Hypocrite Gregory the Great there has not reign'd One Pope but what has been a monstrous Beast in Manners All monstrous in Pride Covetousness Rebellion Deceit Usurpation and Impostures And Most profest Atheists Whoremongers Sodomites Simoniacks Blood-shedders Incendiaries so unwearied in plotting and raising Warres among Christian Kings and Princes murdering the Fathers by the Sons and Brother by Brother Soveraigns by Subjects and one Neighbouring Prince by another that we read in History more Christian and Royal Blood shed by the Popes of Rome than ever was shed by all the Enemies of the Church of God since God had a Church on earth While then the Pope acts thus most bloodily and most beastly and yet calls himself Most Holy We answer from the Holy Ghost Maromah The Lord of Rome speaketh lies Lastly He lyeth by his Emissaries For these are taught and teach That to Lye and Equivocate is their Duty when it serves their Masters turn Therefore they Equivocate in their Names and Habits and Professions changing them every day and often in a day as the weather of their Affairs changeth They equivocate in their Doctrines resolving their Cases and Controversies as may serve to engage all manner of Proselytes They Equivocate at the Barr of Justice holding Murders and Massacres to be just and no Oaths so lawful as such as serve to conceal their Plots They Equivocate on their private death-beds and give up their Ghost with Oaths of Equivocation as is certain of Tresham's Case in King James his time acknowledged by Garnet himself What wonder then if they dye on the Gallows with Oaths of Equivocation We are sure the Murderers of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey dyed with Lyes or which is the most deceitful kind of lyes with Equivocation and horrid Execration denying that bloody Fact We are sure they dyed Lying What wonder if the Plotters dyed in a lying or equivocating Denyal of the Plot. We are sure Ireland dyed Lying why not the Rest especially Gawen who in his last words tells ye of Material Prolocution a new and fine way of Deceit when a Jesuit may speak what words he will but means nothing but the sound of the words but leaves the hearer to give what signification he will and to deceive himself if he will Si vult decipi decipiatur I think it necessary says the Jesuit to speak these words but I mean no such thing Thus the Life and Death of an Emissary of Rome is Lying Equivocation or as the Martyrs of lyes have taught us Material Prolocution As Christ is the great Author of Truth and came to bear witness to the Truth and to save all by the Truth Even so it is apparent that the Lord of Rome walks in direct Opposition to Christ is the great Author of Deceit and by all methods of Lying seeks to deceive all Therefore the Lord of Rome is the Antichrist And of him in opposition to the Christ Solomon prophesied A true Witness delivereth Souls but Maromah the Lord of Rome speaketh Lies Let us pray O God who hast laid up great treasures of Wisdom in the Scriptures of thy holy Prophets and revealest them in due season to those that seek the Truth in love So by the Books of Jeremy thou gavest Daniel understanding to count the Number of the years of the time of thy Mercy to Jerusalem and now by the Books of thy Prophets Solomon and Isaiah thou hast given us the understanding to count the Number of the Name of the Witness of Deceit who deceiveth the Nations We bless and praise and magnifie thy Name and beseech thee for thy Names sake let not the Miracles of thy Mercy be lost upon us and continue graciously still to preserve us our King and Nations from the Plots and Deceits of the Wicked that thy Name may be great that thy Gospel may prevail in this and all the Kingdoms of the Earth by the Merits of the Great Witness of Truth JESUS CHRIST Amen FINIS MIrmah Or The Deceitful Witness A Prophecy of Solomon now first and seasonably discovered wherein the Deceitful Witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all And our Protestant Witnesses are Justified Praised and Defended chiefly the late happy Discoverers of the Romish Plots and Deceits Being a Sermon Preached Novemb. 5. on Prov. 14.25 By William Ramsay Lecturer in Istleworth and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory Sold by Benjamin Billingsley at the Printing-Press within the Southwest Piazza of the Royal Exchange

respect of all Prophecies as Christ observ'd to his Apostles Mat. 24.15 speaking of Daniels Prophecy of the Abomination of desolation Whoso readeth saith Christ let him understand As if Christ had said Many have read that Prophecy and you have read it but who hath understood it None but I tell ye now plainly that it is the utter Destruction of Jerusalem which you shall live to see Even so many have read this Prophecy of Solomon but it follows not that any hath understood it till the appointed time which I shall shew ye is now But this Prophetical obscurity is most peculiar to our case which contains the Discovery of the Name of Antichrist and of the Number of his Name For of this very thing it is written by the Prophet himself who speaks most of this matter Rev. 13.18 Here is wisdom says the Great Prophet John Let him that hath understanding count the Number c. Beloved be ye so far from expecting something obvious to every man that readeth that rather reject ye this Assertion if ye find not both Wisdom and Understanding in it yet not my wisdom or the wisdom of man but the wisdom of the Holy Ghost who knew how to couch so valuable a Prophecy under the contemptible covert of a single term of Solomon And now to discover it by a contemptible Instrument when the very time calls for it Nay not the Wisdom only but the Goodness of God is apparent in these long concealments of prophetical Truths and the open Revelation of them in their proper times For instance had Solomon writ in vulgar and obvious terms that the Lord of Rome speaketh lies Then had Solomon's Books at least if not all the old Scriptures been burnt by the Lords of Rome without some extraordinary Miracles of preservation which did not so become divine Wisdom who knew how to order the matter better without them Again had Solomon writ this in terms obvious to every Reader or had it been discover'd before the time then such Lords of Rome as have been Witnesses of Truth had been branded with an undue Character Now then is the time that this Prophecy should be discover'd and first here in England for here first by the most wonderful Discoveries that ever were made in the world the Lord of Rome appears to be indeed that Great Witness of deceit who speaketh lies and by Lies destroyeth those Souls which the great Witness of Truth came to deliver Proceed we directly to the Discovery The thing to be discovered lyes hid in the Hebrew term which in the Text is render'd A deceitful Witness The Hebrew term is in the first Original written with these four letters onely M. R. M. H Now the Hebrews till above four hundred years after Christ writ no Vowels in their words as a e i o or u but writ the Consonants only and understood the Vowels Which Custom of that Language God himself was the Author of when he gave his Law to Moses written without distinction of Vowels and I cannot doubt but the Divine Wisdom appointed it so to this very end that many things and prophecies might lye hid in that obscure Writing till a proper time to be discover'd And so it came to pass for the Christians discovering daily more and more testimonies of the Truth from the Old Scriptures and confounding the obstinate Jews with their own writings the Masorethans that they might either change or obscure such places in Scripture as plainly made for the Christians against them found out this trick of writing Vowels which however in it self a perfection of writing yet was in them but a trick of corrupting and several places which they could not corrupt they utterly rejected even the whole Book of Daniel and consulted to serve Isaiah so but publick shame could not permit that But Prophecies of the nature of the Text which lay hid in close Coverts of words admitting another vulgar sence as this word Mirmah doth such they could not attempt to change for they could not suspect any prophecy in them and I know there are more in the Scripture and there may be many more which I know not in which the Wisdom of God shines wonderfully to him that understandeth and his gracious Providence to preserve his Truth from them that would suppress it utterly were it in their skill and power These Masorethans added their points and vowels to all the Words of the Old Testament Ann. Chr. 479. twelve hundred years agoe at the most From this 'T is plain that the Vowels of this word Mirmah are not of Divine Authority unless we have other authority than that of the Masorethans But the Letters of the word being originally written by Solomon are of Divine Authority that is M. R. M. H which Letters according to the exact analogy of the Hebrew reading make the entire word of Maromah of which Mirmah is only a contraction for the Word Maromah gives every letter its Vowel but the word Mirmah casts out the middle-vowel O from the letter R and for the long vowel A puts the short vowel i and so draws together three Syllables into two Maromah into Mirmah So that the whole difference is from the Vowels only which as all confess are not Divine Scripture If then the Letters which are certainly of Divine authority contain in them a more profitable Truth than what is exprest by the Masorethans pointing of it and if that Truth be plainly confirm'd by other Scriptures then without all doubt we ought to embrace that Truth and to use the words of the Holy Ghost to the greatest advantage of it So seeing the Scripture of the Holy Ghost is really and literally Maromah as well as Mirmah we may read Maromah as well as Mirmah yea rather Maromah than Mirmah if Maromah be more significant and conform to the Holy Ghost in the other Scriptures as we shall shew it is We reject not the word Mirmah no But We preferre the Word Maromah for reasons to be given and we retain the word Mirmah which in its vulgar use signifies Deceit and so was a most fit word to conceal the Prophecy included in Maromah which Mirmah too includes in its radical signification yea is the same Word essentially with Maromah and is the same word letter for letter in the Original writing of Solomon which was the writing of the Holy Ghost It was necessary then it should be read Mirmah till the discovery of the Prophecy of Maromah contained in it But when the Kernel must be produced then the Shell must be broken Then leave we Mirmah as the Shell and prove we the property of Maromah Maromah literally and grammatically according to exact Lexico-graphy and Etymology of the Hebrew tongue and which is more according to the style of the Prophets Old and New signifies the Lord of Rome I will first prove the grammatical and then the prophetical signification of the Word The Grammatical signification is apparent three wayes

Judgement of God upon Rome calling the Romans chap. 24.4 The haughty people of the earth The Hebrew word is Meroum ham haärets that is The Maromah people of the earth or the People of Maroum or Maromah The Lord of Rome or it may be render'd the Maroum of the people of the earth that is the Roman Lord of the people of the earth or the Supreme Lord of the People of the earth For we shewed that Maroum is the true Original writing or pronunciation of the Word And v. 21. It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall punish the host of the High ones that are on high and the Kings of of the earth upon the earth The Hebrew calls it Zeba hammaroum bammaroum that is verbatim The host of the high One in the high One he will punish Maroum in Maroum that is the Lord of Rome in his own person or he will punish the high Lord of Rome in the high City of Rome and all the Kings of the earth that join with him and Chap. 26.5 He bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty City he layeth it low The Hebrew is Joshebë Maroum the inhabitants of Maroum that is the people of the Lord of Rome or the people of the high or proud City of Rome Then Maroum is a prophetical term for Antichrist which I might shew in many more places but I shall shew it agreeable to the style of Christ too and of his Apostles Maroum as every Lexicon will shew ye signifies him that exalts himself on high Now this is the very distinctive term that Christ and S. Paul have used for Antichrist Christ Luk. 14.11 Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted Which though it obviously be understood of every proud or humble man yet is primarily to be understood of the Exaltation of Christ because of his voluntary Humility and of the destruction of Antichrist because of his proud Usurpations Paul following the style of Christ speaks plainly of Antichrist and calls him the Maroum 2 Thess 2.4 Who exalteth himself above all This is the Maroum The Lord of Rome who has made himself Supreme that is Maroum exalted over all What need we say more We have said this to satisfie Criticks in Grammar and Style But if any man be not satisfied with this we have yet an undenyable Argument that Maroum the Lord of Rome is The Antichrist and that Maroum is his Name Even the Argument of the Holy Ghost Rev. 13.18 His Number is six hundred threescore and six We shall shew this so clearly that no scruple can remain and you shall see that here is Wisdom even the Wisdom of God to preserve his Truth in a Word and here is Understanding without errour to count the Number of the Beast And that ye may know how plain it is to be counted I shall give first an Example of the like work As it is foretold of Antichrist that the Number of his Name shall be 666. so was it foretold of Jesus that the Number of his Name should be 888. See we then how the Name of Jesus makes up that number of 888. and then if the Name Maroum make up in like manner the Number of 666. then our work is done The Name of Jesus in the Greek tongue has six letters ι η δ ο υ ς These six letters make the Number of 888 thus ι 10. η 8. δ 200. ο 70. υ 400. ς again 200. These put together make 888. 200 and 200 and 400 make 800. and 70 and 10 make 80. and the η 8. Even so does this Name of Maroum make the Number of 666. For it contains originally as we shewed ye four letters M R V M. no more and no less Now in the Hebrew account M. stands for forty R. as the twentieth letter in Order is twenty See Psal 119.123 the twentieth part there 's sixty of our Number in the two first letters V. is the sixth letter in the Alphabet and makes the odd 6 and M. final that is M. as it is shapen in the end of a word for so in the Hebrew it has a peculiar shape stands alwayes for six hundred So ye have the whole Number of the Beast 666. in the Name of Maroum just as ye had 888. in the Name of Jesus Thus you see the Prophecy of John fulfill'd concerning the Number of the Name of Antichrist after the very example as the Prophecy of the Sybilla was fulfilled concerning the Number of the Name of Jesus In both you see the Wisdom of God that can preserve the Truth and foretell things to come in a single Name and you see in both understanding given to men to count the Mysterious Numbers of Mysterious Persons Christ the Great Witness of Truth and Antichrist the great Witness of Deceit There remains a petty Scruple or two 1. Why was not the Name of Antichrist to be number'd in Greek as the Name of Jesus The answer is easie The Uniformity is better as it is For as Christ an Hebrew was number'd in Greek so Antichrist a Roman is number'd in Hebrew If ye ask why not an Hebrew in Hebrew and a Roman in Roman I answer First perhaps to prevent suspicion lest if the Names had been number'd in their Mother-tongues it might be taken for an Invention of their own Mother or Countrey There is secondly another good reason Christ was sent to the Nations to teach them the Wisdom of God therefore his Name was to be numbred in the language of the Wisdom of the Nations which then was the Greek tongue But now Antichrist is the great Witness and Lord of Babylon spiritually so called therefore his Name is number'd in the Babylonian Language for as we said Maromah in both ends and Maroum too in the first Syllable are Hebrew words in a Babylonian dialect So all things are proper 2. A Scruple may be made Why is not Antichrists Name to be number'd an Individual Name seeing the Name of Jesus is individual I answer There is but One Christ Individual and therefore his Name must needs be individual But Antichrists are many but the greatest of Antichrists is the Lord of Rome that Lord of Rome which exalteth himself as Supreme above all and because there is but One at a time though many at once may fight for it the many that succeed one another are by succession made One but cannot be One individual so no individual name of Antichrist can be number'd but a Specifical Name Now the most specifical Name that can be thought on is this of Maroum or Maromah or Lord of Rome which is also to say Lord exalted over all Or Lord supreme Therefore we have rightly chosen this Name to number and we know we have chosen aright For as we know the Name of Christ by the Number of 888. so we know the Name of Antichrist by the revealed Number of 666. Rest we then here for I know not