The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

IV. Daubeny-France Pulling Down Usurping Antichrist

CHARLES DAUBENY, LL.B., D.C.L. (1745-1827), in a discourse (1798), on The Fall of Papal Rome, emphasizes the approaching second advent, presenting the past fulfillment of prophecy as assurance of the accomplishment of the remaining unfulfilled portions. He declares that before the Christian faith shall gain that universal prevalence in the world, the great anti-christian power that had exalted itself in the temple of God, “is to be brought down and destroyed”—Antichrist being identified as the “Papal Church of Rome.” ³⁰ Then occur these pas sages: PFF2 774.3

“The Papal power has long been upon the decline. It received an irrecoverable wound at the period of the Protestant Reformation; since which time it has been gradually sinking into an insignificance preparatory to its final extinction. That event has now taken place; an event in which all nations are more or less concerned. For in the accomplishment of an important prophecy, which respects the progress of Christ’s kingdom upon earth, what nation can be uninterested?” ³¹ PFF2 774.4

“We have seen that nation, whose former sovereigns contributed much to the elevation of the Papal throne, now employed as the more immediate instrument in God’s hand, to pull down the idol that has been set up in the Temple.” ³² PFF2 774.5