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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.
These are compared to Gentiles in two respects: First, in regard of profaneness, for they are as profane as the Heathen. Secondly, in respect of persecuting the truth: for Hypocrites and Atheists are as forward in persecuting the people of God as the Heathen Emperors, which persecuted the Church by the space of 300. years. All comes in this, that when the Church should be gathered and built by the preaching of the Gospel, God would have all Papists, Atheists, and Hypocrites shut out.
These are compared to Gentiles in two respects: First, in regard of prophanesse, for they are as prophane as the Heathen. Secondly, in respect of persecuting the truth: for Hypocrites and Atheists are as forward in persecuting the people of God as the Heathen Emperours, which persecuted the Church by the space of 300. yeares. All comes in this, that when the Church should be gathered and built by the preaching of the Gospell, God would have all Papists, Atheists, and Hypocrites shut out.
Moreover, here is the second reason yielded, why the outward Court should be cast out, and not measured; to wit, because they should tread the holy City under foot, forty and two months: that is, they should persecute the Church all the time of Antichrists reign, For forty two months in this Verse: and 1260. days in the next Verse: and three days and a half Verse 9. and time, times, and half a time, in the twelve Chapter, the fourteenth Verse, and 1260. days, the twelve Chapter, the sixth verse, do signify all one ⟨p. 175⟩thing, which is the short reign of Antichrist; for these months, these days, and these times, do every one of them make three years and an half, For who knoweth not that forty two months make just three years and an half, and that 1260. days, maketh even so much also: and by time he meaneth a year, by times, two year, and by half a time, half a year. Now the reason why Antichrists reign is numbered by days, months and half times, and all amounting but to three years and a half, is to note the short continuance thereof, for the comfort of the Church, as appeareth more fully and plainly in sundry places of this Prophecy, where it is set down in plain words, that Antichrist should reign but a short time; for what is five or six hundred years in comparison of eternity.