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The ruin of RomeThe ruine of Rome
The ruin of Rome: or An exposition upon the whole Revelation Wherein is plainly showed and proved, that the popish religion, together with all the power and authority of Rome, shall ebb and decay still more and more throughout all the churches of Europe, and come to an utter overthrow even in this life before the end of the world. Written especially for the comfort of Protestants, and the daunting of papists, seminary priests, Jesuits, and all that cursed rabble. Published by Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.The ruine of Rome: or An exposition vpon the whole Reuelation Wherein is plainly shewed and proued, that the popish religion, together with all the power and authoritie of Rome, shall ebbe and decay still more and more throughout all the churches of Europe, and come to an vtter ouerthrow euen in this life before the end of the world. Written especially for the comfort of Protestants, and the daunting of papists, seminary priests, Iesuites, and all that cursed rabble. Published by Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by T. Creede for Simon Waterson and Cuthbert Burby, 1603London: printed by T. Creede for Simon Waterson and Cutbert Burby, 1603
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
By the sea here is meant the troublesome state of the nations: as it is taken chap. 4. vers. 6. and chap. 21. vers. 1. For from the boiling, and broiling estate of the former kingdoms and heathen nations, which were as a raging sea, did the Roman Empire spring up, as all stories do witness. And the Prophet ⟨p. 171⟩Daniel doth flatly teach that through the division of the Greek Empire,1 which fell out in the posterity of Alexander the Great,2 especially betwixt his two sons Ptolemeus and Seleucus, this Roman monarchy by degrees made a head, till at last it came to this pitch, which now we shall hear of.
By the sea here is meant the troublesome state of the nations: as it is taken chap. 4. vers. 6. and chap. 21. vers. 1. For from the boyling, and broyling estate of the former kingdomes and heathen nations, which were as a raging sea, did the Roman Empire spring vp, as all stories do witnesse. And the Prophet ⟨p. 171⟩Daniel doth flatly teach that through the diuision of the Greeke Empire,1 which fell out in the posteritie of Alexander the Great,2 especially betwixt his two sonnes Ptolemeus and Seleucus, this Romane monarchie by degrees made a head, till at last it came to this pitch, which now we shall heare of.