# Poems, Sacred and Moral/The Reformation: an Ode

THE
REFORMATION:
AN ODE.
* ↑ Revelations, chap. ix. ver. I-II.
* ↑ Revelations, chap. ix. ver. 13, to the end.
* ↑ The Western Roman Empire; which was not converted to Christianity until some time after the establishment of the Gospel in the Eastern Empire.
* ↑ "And the Dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." Revelations, chap. xiii. ver. 2.
* ↑ "And the ten kings—have one mind, and shall give their strength and power unto the beast." Revelations, chap. xvii. ver. 12, 13. See also ver. 17, 18.
* ↑ He is described as having "A mouth speaking very great things, and a look more stout than his fellows." Daniel, chap. vii. ver. 20.
* ↑ The Papal claims to dethrone sovereigns and distribute kingdoms are well known. The Pontiff Eugene IV. about the year 1438, issued a Bull granting to the Portuguese all the countries which they should discover from Cape Non in Africa to the confines of India. See Robertson's History of America, 4th edit. vol. i. p. 59-61. In the year 1493, Pope Alexander VI. made a similar grant of America to the Spanish monarchs. And, to prevent this grant from interfering with his predecessor's donation to Portugal, he drew an imaginary line along the sea from pole to pole an hundred leagues to the Westward of the Azores; and bestowed all to the East of this line on the Portuguese, and all to the West of it on the Spaniards. Ibid. p. 140.
* ↑ "There shall come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that He is God." 2 Thess. chap. ii. ver. 4. See also Revelations, chap. xiii. ver. 6.; and Daniel, chap. vii. ver. 25.; and chap. xi. ver. 36.
* ↑ See Revelations, chap. xvii. ver. 9. and 18.
* ↑ "And I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus." Rev. ch. xvii. ver. 6.
* ↑ The 1260 years specified as the term of the Papal dominion. Revelations, chap. xi. ver. 2, 3.—Chap. xii. ver. 6. 14.—Chap. xiii. ver. 5. Daniel, chap. vii. ver. 25.;—chap. xii. ver. 7.
* ↑ "—The great city" (Rome) "where also our Lord was crucified," figuratively, in the perversion of his religion, and the persecution of his faithful servants. So it is said in the Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. vi. ver. 6.—concerning apostatising Christians; "They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame."
* ↑ "And her smoke rose up for ever and ever." Revelations, chap. xix. ver. 3. See also chap. xvii. ver. 16-18.; and chap. xviii. ver. 8, 9. 18.
* ↑ "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Revelations, chap. xviii. ver. 4.
* ↑ Codan Wave. Sinus Codanus, the Baltic Sea, dividing Cimbria, or Denmark, from the ancient Scania, or Scandinavia, comprehending Sweden and Norway.
* ↑ Instruments of pretended miracles.
* ↑ Acts, chap. 2.
* ↑ ———μαλα ῶολλα μεταξυ Ουρεα τε σκιοεντα, θαλασσα τε ηχηεσσα.Hom.
* ↑ At the Reformation, the Scriptures were translated into various modern languages for general use.
* ↑ See Zech. chap. xii. ver. 10.