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The ruin of Rome, or, An exposition upon the whole Revelation wherein is plainly…The ruine of Rome, or, An exposition upon the whole Revelation wherein is plainly…
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 ... written especially for the comfort of Protestants and the daunting of papists ... / published by Arthur Dent ; to which is added an epitome of Reverend Mr. Brightman his Exposition upon the Revelation.The ruine of Rome, or, An exposition upon the whole Revelation wherein is plainly shewed and proved that the popish religion, together with all the power and authority of Rome, shall ebbe and decay ... written especially for the comfort of Protestants and the danting of papists ... / published by Authur Dent ; to which is added an epitome of Reverend Mr. Brightman his Exposition upon the Revelation.
London: printed by T.H. and I.Y. for Jo. Waterson, 1644
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Thus then it is; the red Horse with blood, the black Horse with famine, the pale Horse with pestilence, have power given over the fourth part of men to murder, kill, and slay; as all Stories do show, that for the rejecting of Christ and his Church and his Gospel, these plagues were carried as it were on horse-back, over a great part of the world. Now as touching this famine and pestilence which fell out upon the opening of ⟨p. 90⟩the third and fourth seals, they are to be referred unto those times especially, wherein the Huns, Goths and Vandals, and other barbarous Nations which were the wasters of the world, did waste and decay the Roman Empire both far and near. Whereupon grew this famine, scarcity, and pestilence, and strange diseases here spoken of about some 300. years after Christ, and somewhat more.
Thus then it is; the red Horse with bloud, the black Horse with famine, the pale Horse with pestilence, have power given over the fourth part of men to murther, kill, and slay; as all Stories doe shew, that for the rejecting of Christ and his Church and his Gospell, these plagues were carried as it were on horse-back, over a great part of the world. Now as touching this famine and pestilence which fell out upon the opening of ⟨p. 90⟩the third and fourth seales, they are to be referred unto those times especially, wherein the Hunnes, Goths and Vandals, and other barbarous Nations which were the wasters of the world, did waste and decay the Romane Empire both farre and neere. Whereupon grew this famine, scarsitie, and pestilence, and strange diseases heere spoken of about some 300. yeares after Christ, and somewhat more.
And when he had opened the fifth Seal, I saw under the Altar, the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained, &c.
And when he had opened the fift Seale, I saw under the Altar, the soules of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained, &c.