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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
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.
They are said to stand upon the four corners of the Earth, because power was given them to plague, not some one or two Countries, but the Universal World, both East, West, North, and South.
They are sayd to stand upon the foure corners of the Earth, because power was given them to plague, not some one or two Countries, but the Universall World, both East, West, North, and South.
The blowing of the winds doth very fitly represent the preaching of the Gospel, and that heavenly inspiration and breathing of the Holy Ghost which goeth with it. Wind is so taken, Joh. 3. where our Lord Jesus saith, The wind bloweth where it listeth, &c. So is every man that is borne of the Spirit. And again in the fourth of the Cantic. in these words; Arise, O North, and come O South, and blow on my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Where it plainly appeareth, that the Church craveth the inspiration of the Spirit, that her fruits may abound: For what can be meant by these winds which she wisheth to blow upon her garden, but the breathings of Gods Spirit and Word? It followeth then, that if the blowing of the winds in the Scriptures do signify ⟨p. 103⟩the breathing of Gods grace, and holy Spirit, that the stopping of the winds by a reason of the contraries, doth here signify the stopping of the same, and the deprivation of all heavenly blessings. So that it is clear, that a spiritual plague is here represented, which also is the more apparent, because here is such a special proviso and care had for the Churches safety, that it might not be infected with this spiritual contagion. Now all this doth plainly fore-prophesy, not only the stopping of the course of the Gospel: but even the utter taking of it away from the World, for their great contempt thereof, and the horrible murdering and massacring of all the true professors of it: according as it came to pass afterward in the prevailing first of Heresies, and afterward of the Popish and Mahometish Religion, as in the two next Chapters following shall plainly appear.