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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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3. For England, whose counterpane he takes to be Laodicea, terming it, luke-warm, vain-glorious Laodicea, concerning it, he saith, he that gathereth the tears of his children into his bottle, knoweth right well, that I could never with dry eyes take a survey of this Laodicea's lamentable condition, but I poured out tears and sighs from the bottom of my heart, when ⟨p. 6⟩I beheld Christs loathing of us, and were it not that out of duty, as a watchman, I dare not betray the salvation of this Church, by not giving warning, I would have held my peace; but my hope is that those which love the truth will hearken and accept, and think, as the truth is, I envy no mans person, honour or greatness: Yet when I perceived that these 7 Churches were propounded for a type of all the Churches among the Gentiles, and withal, saw the order, time and marvellous agreeing of all things together, I durst not perfidiously bury the truth in silence.
3. For England, whose counterpane he takes to be Laodicea, tearming it, luke-warm, vain-glorious Laodicea, concerning it, he saith, he that gathereth the teares of his children into his bottle, knoweth right well, that I could never with dry eyes take a survey of this Laodiceas lamentable condition, but I powred out teares and sighs from the bottom of my heart, when ⟨p. 6⟩I beheld Christs loathing of us, and were it not that out of duty, as a watchman, I dare not betray the salvation of this Church, by not giving warning, I would have held my peace; but my hope is that those which love the truth will hearken and accept, and thinke, as the truth is, I envy no mans person, honour or greatnesse: Yet when I perceived that these 7 Churches were propounded for a type of all the Churches among the Gentiles, and withall, saw the order, time and marvellous agreeing of all things together, I durst not perfidiously bury the truth in silence.
In that Christ saith of this Church, I know thy works, that thou art neither hot nor cold; he observeth, that Christ maketh mention of no one good thing that it hath, the worst of all the 7 (although there were many faithful in it) yet not any so past hope in regard of the outward form and government; which comes to pass not so much through its own default, as by means of the faulty government of the Angels, who have so ordered and governed it, that it was tempered and blended together of strange contraries, a Hoch-pot, not so cold that we would be all Romish, and cleaving to Idolatry and superstition altogether; nor yet so hot that we pursue and admit of a through Reformation; abstaining from grosser sins, well given in Religion, and will serve God so far as they may