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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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I conclude therefore, that for as much as this Prophecy is of such excellent contents, therefore the use and necessity of it must needs be very great. And for this cause John is willed and commanded by Alpha and Omega to write the things which he had seen, the things that were, and the things that shall come hereafter, By the things which he had seen, is meant that glorious vision mentioned in the first Chapter, wherein Jesus Christ did appear unto him in the middest of the seven golden Candlesticks,1 in most glorious manner, as is there described. And all this was in the Isle of Patmos, where John was first called and authorized to this work, and therefore he is willed first of all, to record this vision which he had already seen.
I conclude therefore, that for as much as this Prophesie is of such excellent contents, therefore the use and necessity of it must needes be very great. And for this cause Iohn is willed and commanded by Alpha and Omega to write the things which he had seene, the things that were, and the things that shall come hereafter, By the things which he had seene, is meant that glorious vision mentioned in the first Chapter, wherein Jesus Christ did appeare unto him in the middest of the seven golden Candlesticks,1 in most glorious manner, as is there described. And all this was in the Isle of Pathmos, where Iohn was first called and authorized to this worke, and therefore he is willed first of all, to record this vision which hee had already seene.
- 1•erse. 13.•4.15.16.
By the things that are, he meaneth the present state of the seven Churches of Asia, which were then the most flourishing Churches in the World, as they are described in the second and third Chapters; and in them the estate of all other Churches.