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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.
Stories do report, that Rome hath been sundry times destroyed by the Goths and Vandals, and others: yea, once fired and quite burnt up; but afterward built and raised up again by the Emperors: But ⟨p. 310⟩here the holy Ghost saith expressly, that it shall have a final fall, and an unrecoverable destruction. For can a mil-stone cast into the bottom of the sea ever be got up again? No, no, it is impossible. Therefore let the Jesuits and seminary Priests do what they can, they shall never set up Rome again, they shall never restore her to her former state and dignity; they shall never repair her credit again. Let the Pope, and Cardinals, and the King of Spain, and all the world, and all the Devils in hell join together, they shall never get up this millstone out of the bottom of the sea. For the Angel hath cast it in with such a violence, that no power of man shall ever fetch it out again.
Stories doe report, that Rome hath been sundry times destroyed by the Gothes and Vandals, and others: yea, once fired and quite burnt up; but afterward built and raised up againe by the Emperors: But ⟨p. 310⟩here the holy Ghost saith expressely, that it shall have a finall fall, and an unrecoverable destruction. For can a mil-stone cast into the bottome of the sea ever be got up againe? No, no, it is impossible. Therefore let the Jesuites and seminary Priests doe what they can, they shall never set up Rome againe, they shall never restore her to her former state and dignity; they shall never repaire her credit againe. Let the Pope, and Cardinals, and the King of Spain, and all the world, and all the Divels in hell joine together, they shall never get up this milstone out of the bottome of the sea. For the Angel hath cast it in with such a violence, that no power of man shall ever fetch it out again.
True it is indeed, that the Jesuits bestir them, and the seminary Priests and Papists do work apace in all lands, and adventure themselves in most desperate manner to recover again the credit of Popery, and to set up again the dignity and the power of the Pope, and the glory of their Church and city, and their bold enterprises do make many even to doubt that they will again one day prevail: But assuredly we are to make full reckoning, that although