Kingdom of the papacy (Manning, The temporal power of the vicar of Jesus Christ, 2nd ed., 1862)

Text: "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Daniel 7:7,8

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[...] The conversion of the empire to Christianity, and then its removal, its banishment into the far East, freed the Vicar of Jesus Christ from temporal subjection; and then, by the action of the same Providence, he was clothed with the prerogatives of a true and proper local sovereignty over that state and territory and people so committed to his charge. From that hour, which I might say was fifteen hundred years ago, or, to speak within limit, I will say was twelve hundred, the Supreme Pontiff has been a true and proper sovereign, exercising the prerogatives of royalty committed to him by the will of God over the people to whom he is father in all things both spiritual and temporal.

   This order, divinely founded, divinely unfolded, and divinely sustained, in my belief, can never be dissolved. The ends of the world will come upon it, and the light of the Second Advent will find it as it is; [...]

Manning, Henry Edward, The temporal power of the vicar of Jesus Christ, 2nd ed., w. a preface, London: Burns & Lambert; Bayswater: W. Knowles, 1862, p. 182-183.

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