An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

Now for these 42. months.] I would not busy my self in needless speculations: but I find not any word of God a needless speculation for the Church to search into, and understand. We have had this number three or four times before: For it is the same number, of which it is said, The Gentiles shall tread under foot the holy City forty two months, Rev. 11. 2. And 42. months, if they be dissolved into days, make up just the sum of a thousand two hundred and threescore days, allowing thirty days to a month as the old account was wont to do, which is the same time of the two Witnesses prophesying, clothed in sack-cloth, Rev. 11. 3. And the same time of a thousand two hundred and threescore days, or forty two months, is just the computation of three years and an half; that is, a time, and times, and half a time; which time it is said the woman fled into the wilderness, and was nourished there, Rev. 12. 6. So that all these are manifest to be contemporary (as they call it) to begin together in the same period of time, and to end together; The Beasts rising and continuing in power 42. months: The Gentiles (which is the Roman Catholic Church) treading down the true Church of God forty two months: And the two Witnesses prophesying in sack-cloth 1260. days: And the woman's flight into the wilderness, and her continuance and abode there 1260. days, where she was nourished by the prophesying of those two Witnesses: So that expound aright one of these, and you clear the right Interpretation of all. Three questions therefore may be enquired into to open the durance or continuance of the authority of this Beast.

Now for these 42. moneths.] I would not busie my selfe in needlesse speculations: but I finde not any word of God a neednesse speculation for the Church to search into, and understand. We have had this number three or foure times before: For it is the same number, of which it is said, The Gentiles shall tread under foot the holy City forty two moneths, Rev. 11. 2. And 42. moneths, if they be dissolved into dayes, make up just the sum of a thousand two hundred and threescore days, allowing thirty dayes to a moneth as the old account was wont to do, which is the same time of the two Witnesses prophecying, cloathed in sack-cloath,