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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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Moreover, it is said that the kings, 1merchants and mariners shall stand afar off for fear of her torment, and they shall weep and wail when they shall see the smoke of her burning; signifying that the torment and plague of Rome shall be so great, that kings, for all their might, shall not dare to come nigh to rescue her: no, not the king of Spain with all his great might and power; he shall be fain to stand afar off, or rather utterly to forsake her, weeping and wailing as well as ⟨p. 314⟩others, for her most fearful and unrecoverable destruction.
Moreover, it is said that the kings, 1merchants and mariners shall stand afarre off for fear of her torment, and they shall weep and waile when they shall see the smoake of her burning; signifying that the torment and plague of Rome shall be so great, that kings, for all their might, shall not dare to come nigh to rescue her: no, not the king of Spain with all his great might and power; he shall be fain to stand afarre off, or rather utterly to forsake her, weeping and wailing as well as ⟨p. 314⟩others, for her most fearfull and unrecoverable destruction.
- 1V. 10, 15, 18.
But we are to observe in all this, that the holy Ghost useth a figure or kind of speech, which they call a Prosopopoeia, or feigning of a person, whereby the Popish kings being dead and rotten, are brought in lamenting and bewailing the fall of Babylon, as if they were alive again: or else it may be understood of Cardinals and Legates, which are even as kings upon the earth. But it cannot be understood of Christian kings, for they shall be the instruments of God to pull down great Babylon, as we shall hear anon.