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

Thus if you take this Scripture as Brightman takes it, from ⟨p. 92⟩Constantine's coming to the Crown, it will expire then about the time when the Bull came forth against Q•: Eliz. and as they thought would be sufficient to blast her, and all the Huguenots with her: But yet that makes but one beginning and ending of this account, whereas the Text makes two; for in Chap. 12. 6. when the child was caught up to God, and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, then there was a great battle; that battle lasted 90 years, and then was the Devil cast out of Heaven, and his Flamens, and Arch-flamens were blasted with him, they had no power in Theodosius time: from that time the Dragon was cast out of Heaven, and persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child, and there was given to her two wings of a great Eagle, that she might flee into the wilderness: Now I say according to this, there is another computation of this time, there was no more place found for him in heaven wch was in the year 395. for two or three years, we must not pinch much; it is hard to keep exact account by reason of taking up one year from the Predecessor, which in so many years come to sometimes more, sometimes less: Now if you shall take the Computation from that time, (tis true from Constantine's time, the Church might fly into the wilderness; for it is true, the Church is made a wilderness if you set the doors of the Church so wide and pull down the walls, that whereas before, it was a Garden enclosed, Cant. 4. 12. now you let in vast territories, bring in the whole world, now you make it Catholic; now though it had no Catholic power; a Garden is made a wilderness if you pull down the pales, take down the narrow watch of Officers, and let in all men that will thrust in ambitiously to gratify them; The Church was full of covetousness, whoredoms, adulteries, deceivers, haters of God, and the true power of Godliness, even in his time, and so forward, was almost worn out, and never was so in all the time of persecution; but after that the Bishop of Rome had taken the stile of Pontifex maximus, and Theodosius slept with his Fathers, then the Church grew more transcendently Catholic, and that they thought he would be Lord Paramount; but yet his transcendent power did ⟨p. 93⟩spring as he was chief Bishop, then he was universal Bishop, for his power grew by degrees;)