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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.
Now to answer the proposition of their argument taken from this place. First it may ⟨p. 176⟩be answered that this place is not to be understood literally, but mystically: as many other things in this book.
Now to answere the proposition of their argument taken from this place. First it may ⟨p. 176⟩be answered that this place is not to be understood literally, but mystically: as many other things in this booke.
Secondly, here is a certain number put for an uncertain, a definite number for an indefinite, which also is usual in this book, as we heard before concerning the sealing of the Tribes, of every Tribe 12000. which maketh 144000. Now no man is so mad as to think there were just so many sealed, and neither more, nor less.
Secondly, here is a certaine number put for an uncertaine, a definite number for an indefinite, which also is usuall in this booke, as we heard before concerning the sealing of the Tribes, of every Tribe 12000. which maketh 144000. Now no man is so mad as to thinke there were just so many sealed, and neither more, nor lesse.
Thirdly, here is an allusion to Daniels weeks, and other prophetical computations, wherein sometimes a day is put for a year, a week for seven years, as in Daniels sevens, and a month for thirty years. So then I conclude that it is extreme folly to interpret this place literally. The curious and frivolous interpretations of this place, and such like in this book, by some writers, I do of purpose omit, as matters untrue, unsound, and unjudicial: for I only in this book seek the sense that is, and not the sense which is not, as hath been said before.