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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.
Some of good judgement in the truth have gathered from this place, that the very city of Rome shall be burnt with fire, which assuredly may well be: but this I am sure of, that the phrase of burning with fire doth in the Prophets always signify an utter destruction and desolation of a city or a kingdom;1 and therefore it followeth, that Rome shall be utterly destroyed.
Some of good judgement in the truth have gathered from this place, that the very city of Rome shall be burnt with fire, which assuredly may well be: but this I am sure of, that the phrase of burning with fire doth in the Prophets alwaies signifie an utter destruction and desolation of a city or a kingdom;1 and therefore it followeth, that Rome shall be utterly destroyed.
- 1Amos 5.6.
But behold yet a stronger and plainer proof. For Saint John saith,1 A mighty Angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, With such a violence shall that great city Babylon be cast down, and shall be found no more. All men know, that old ⟨p. 308⟩Babylon in Chaldea was destroyed by the Medes and Persians long before Saint John wrote this book; and therefore that is not here meant: but the new Babylon, which is Rome, as before hath been proved. The phrases of speech, and the signs which the Prophets used to declare the destruction and desolation of old Babylon, are here alluded unto the destruction of Rome. For we read in the Prophecy of Jeremiah, that the Prophet having written in a book all the evil that should come upon Babel, for holding Gods people so long in most miserable captivity,