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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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Many acts, edicts, and injunctions are set forth in sundry nations and kingdoms of Europe to destroy, root out, and deface all monuments of idolatry and superstition, which Antichrist had erected in all kingdoms.
Many acts, edicts, and injunctions are set forth in sundry nations and kingdomes of Europe to destroy, root out, and deface all monuments of idolatry and superstition, which Antichrist had erected in all kingdomes.
Now the Popes which were honoured as gods in the earth, are counted and adjudged as the most vile and abominable creatures that live upon the earth. Doth not all this experimentally show that Babylon is fallen, and that Babylon doth fall by degrees? It is very palpable, we need no further proof for this second point. But here we are further to observe, that the Jesuits, perceiving the great decay of Rome, and the continual drying of their Euphrates, do bestir them to stop the leak,1 that it might not dry up altogether. Even as when men let out the waters of great fish-ponds, so as the water waxeth low, we see the fishes skip and plunge, and take on wonderfully: So the ⟨p. 291⟩Jesuits, perceiving the waters of their Romish Euphrates to impair and dry up daily, do mightily take on, digging and searching every day to open the springs, and to find out some fresh fountains to maintain their great fish-pond, and to keep the waters deep enough, that there may be no safe passage over for the kings of the earth to come and take their great Babylon. All this doth appear out of the 16th chapter of this Prophecy: where S. John in a vision seeth three unclean spirits like frogs, 2coming out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false Prophet. By which frogs the holy Ghost meaneth the Jesuits and seminary Priests,3