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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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CHAP. VIII.
WE have heard out of the seventh Chapter, how the devils and their instruments, the Roman Emperors, did stop the course of the Gospel, Now in this Chapter we are to hear the woeful effects of the stopping thereof, which was the springing up, and prevailing of manifold errors and heresies in the World. So that the principal scope and drift of this Chapter is to show, that God for the contempt of his Gospel, and great indignities offered to the true professors thereof, did give up the World to blindness, to error, to superstition and heresy: and as the Apostle saith, Because they received not the love of the truth, 1therefore God sent them strong delusions, that they should believe in lies. For as before we have heard how the world was most fearfully punished with external plagues and judgements: So here we are to understand how the same was punished with judgements spiritual and internal, as formerly hath been said upon the stopping of the four winds. For although that spiritual plague was very great, yet these ⟨p. 114⟩spiritual plagues which follow upon the opening of the seventh seal, are far greater. For now we are to hear and understand, not only of the errors and heresies, whereby a way and passage was made by degrees, as it were by certain stairs, for Antichrist to climb up into his cursed chair, and to take possession thereof; but also we are to understand of his very tyranny and Kingdom it self; and also of the Kingdom of the Turk, and the last judgement. For the things contained under the opening of the seventh Seal, do reach unto the end of the world. For the book sealed with seven seals, containeth all the whole matters which were to be revealed.
VVE have heard out of the seventh Chapter, how the divels and their instruments, the Romane Emperours, did stoppe the course of the Gospell, Now in this Chapter we are to heare the wofull effects of the stopping thereof, which was the springing up, and prevailing of manifold errours and heresies in the World. So that the principall scope and drift of this Chapter is to shew, that God for the contempt of his Gospell, and great indignities offered to the true professors thereof, did give up the World to blindnesse, to errour, to superstition and heresie: and as the Apostle sayth, Because they received not the love of the truth,