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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.
Another strong argument to confirm the authority of this book, may be taken from the protestation of Jesus Christ in these words; I protest unto every man that heareth the words of the Prophecy of this Book, 1if any man shall add unto those sayings, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this Book. And if any shall diminish of the words of the Book of this Prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of life.
Another strong argument to confirme the authority of this book, may be taken from the protestation of Jesus Christ in these words; I protest unto every man that heareth the words of the Prophesie of this Booke, 1if any man shall adde unto those sayings, God shall adde unto him the plagues that are written in this Booke. And if any shall diminish of the words of the Booke of this Prophesie, God shall take away his part out of the Booke of life.
- 1Cha 22.18
Here we see how Jesus Christ maketh the authority to this Book equal to all other the Oracle of God, to the which it is not lawful for any man to add or detract under pain of condemnation. It maketh much also for the authority of this book, that S. John doth so often repeat, reiterate, and inculcate his own name; I John, I John, I John: I John the Apostle; I John the Evangelist; I John the Divine, showing by all these repetitions, how needful a thing it was that the faithful should be throughly instructed who he was, even one of the Lambs twelve Apostles, and therefore to be void of all suspicion and doubt concerning the authority of ⟨p. 17⟩this book, and not once to imagine it to be any invention of man, or feigned device, sith it was penned by so great an Apostle.