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

Now I say, if you take this latter computation, which also the Text doth, then if you reckon from 395. years, and add to that 1260. years, putting these two together, they will expire in the year, that shall be according to the Roman account 1655. I will not be two confident, because I am not a Prophet, nor the Son of a Prophet to foretell things to come, but so far as God helps by Scripture light, about the time 1655. there will be then such a blow given to this beast, and to the head of this beast, which is Pontifex maximus, as that we shall see a further gradual accomplishment and fulfilling of this Prophecy here. You must not think it strange that some Prophecies receive a gradual accomplishment; Sometimes you have a Prophecy of the 70. years captivity, which is accomplished by the redemption of the Church out of Babel; yet a more full accomplishment shall be when the Church shall be delivered from this whore of Rome, and the Church of the Jews shall be called again. So it is here, according to the different computation of time, the wise God hath all seasons in his hand, he doth foresee, and foretell to his people when they shall come to pass: So that though the arm of his glorious power be broken, and his bones broken, that he is nothing that beast in power that he was, and hath not been since the sending of that dreadful excommunication, which was thought to be so dangerous to the famous Princess I spake of; yet a power he hath over many Churches, and the power given him by the ten horns, they are not all broken; as in Chap. 11. 13. The tenth part of the City fell by reason of the earthquake: There was such a fall, that a tenth part fell, but yet a great part stands still to this day in some measure, that will take their Religion from him as they see cause, but not all in Religion neither, for the King of France will not yield to the Council of Trent to this day; it falling out that his Ambassadors did not sit in the chief place, he will not authorize that Council: Thus is his power broken, but yet it continues in some measure till a further accomplishment of it, but for two or three years I cannot limit that, for there may ⟨p. 94⟩be some uncertainty by reason of the variation of Chronicles that have sometimes more, sometimes less in the beginning and ending of the Reign of Princes:

Now I say, if you take this latter computation, which also the Text doth, then if you reckon from 395. years, and adde to that 1260. years, putting these two together, they will expire in the yeare, that shall be according to the Roman account 1655. I will not be two confident, because I am not a Prophet, nor the Son of a Prophet to foretell things to come, but so far as God helps by Scripture light, about the time 1655. there will be then such a blow given to this beast, and to the head of this beast, which is Pontifex maximus, as that we shall see a further gradual accomplishment and fulfilling of this Prophecy here. You must not think it strange that some Prophecies receive a graduall accomplishment; Sometimes you have a Prophecy of the 70. yeares captivity, which is accomplished by the redemption of the Church out of Babell; yet a more full accomplishment shall be when the Church shall be delivered from this whore of Rome, and the Church of the Jewes shall be called againe. So it is here, according to the different computation of time, the wise God hath all seasons in his hand, he doth foresee, and foretell to his people when they shall come to passe: So that though the arme of his glorious power be broken, and his bones broken, that he is nothing that beast in power that he was, and hath not been since the sending of that dreadfull excommunication, which was thought to be so dangerous to the famous Princesse I spake of; yet a power he hath over many Churches, and the power given him by the ten horns, they are not all broken; as in Chap. 11. 13. The tenth part of the City fell by reason of the earthquake: There was such a fall, that a tenth part fell, but yet a great part stands still to this day in some measure, that will take their Religion from him as they see cause, but not all in Religion neither, for the King of France will not yield to the Councell of Trent to this day; it falling out that his Ambassadors did not sit in the cheife place, he will not authorize that Councell: Thus is his power broken, but yet it continues in some measure till a further accomplishment of it, but for two or three years I cannot limit that, for there may