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…

Having opened and expounded the two first Woes which fell out upon the blowing of the fifth and sixth Trumpet, containing the two great plagues of Popery and Turkism, wherewith the World was punished many hundred years: now in this Chapter we are to hear of good news, and great comfort, after so much sorrow. For ⟨p. 158⟩here Jesus Christ cometh down from heaven to deliver his poor afflicted Church, and to be revenged of all his cruel enemies. For now before the third and last woe, containing the greatest plague of all upon the World, which is, the last Judgement: wherein the wicked shall be tormented in hell fire for ever, both in body and soul, I say, before the blowing of the seventh Trumpet, by the seventh Angel, of which we shall hear in the next Chapter. Now in the mean time is showed in this Chapter, what care God had for his little flock, which no doubt were hid in those days, and did not appear and yet were scattered in corners, even in the middest of the darkness of Popery, and the most furious and hellish rage of the Turkish armies. And therefore the principal scope and drift of this Chapter, is to show how the Gospel should be preached in many Kingdoms, now after this general darkness, for the discovering and overthrow, both of Popery and Turkism, and to show what should fall out in the Church now in the middle time, before the seventh and last Trumpet blow: for then cometh the last Judgement, as the Angel sweareth in this Chapter, verse, 6, 7.

HAving opened and expounded the two first Woes which fell out upon the blowing of the fift and sixt Trumpet, containing the two great plagues of Popery and Turcisme, wherewith the World was punished many hundred yeeres: now in this Chapter we are to heare of good newes, and great comfort, after so much sorrow. For ⟨p. 158⟩heere Jesus Christ commeth down from heaven to deliver his poore afflicted Church, and to be revenged of all his cruell enemies. For now before the third and last woe, containing the greatest plague of all upon the World, which is, the last Judgement: wherein the wicked shallbe tormented in hell fire for ever, both in body and soule, I say, before the blowing of the seventh Trumpet, by the seventh Angell, of which we shall heare in the next Chapter. Now in the meane time is shewed in this Chapter, what care God had for his little flocke, which no doubt were hid in those daies, and did not appeare and yet were scattered in corners, even in the middest of the darknesse of Popery, and the most furious and hellish rage of the Turkish armies. And therefore the principall scope and drift of this Chapter, is to shew how the Gospell should be preached in many Kingdomes, now after this generall darkenesse, for the discovering and overthrow, both of Popery and Turcisme, and to shew what should fall out in the Church now in the middle time, before the seventh and last Trumpet blow: for then commeth the last Judgement, as the Angell sweareth in this Chapter, verse, 6, 7.