A47607:1250
Zion in distressSion in distress
Zion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Church [sic]Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]
London: printed by George Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Zion.
Sion.
This Beast above (a) twelve hundred years has bin
THis Beast above (a) twelve hundred years has bin
My Mortal Foe, he's called (b) The Man of Sin,
My Mortal Foe, he's call'd (b) The Man of Sin,
(a) The most diligent and industrious Searchers into the Epoch, or Beginning of Antichristo as the learned Mede, Alstedius, Mr. T. L. in his Book entitled A Voice out of the Wilderness, Mr. Brightman, Tillinghast, with several other Eminent Men, seem harmoniously to agree that the Beast began his forty two Months, or one thousand two hundred and sixty (Prophetical) Days or Years, between the years 365. and 455. and therefore must consequently end in a short time. See Mr. Mede, page 600, & 601. To confirm which, the witness of the best Chronologers, Historians and Antiquaries concur; as also the posture ⟨p. 43⟩of the Worlds Affairs, the unusual working of things, and the awakening Providences of God; which makes us hope, as Mr. Withers affirms, That that glorious Revolution will be in this present Age. And though famous Du Moulin, and some Others, speak not of the Popes claiming the Title of Universal Bishop, till about the year 604. or 606. when the Traitor Phocas by the help f Boniface the 3d. murdered the Emperor Mauritius, (in requital of which, the Usurper Phocas gave the said Boniface that blasphemous Title, and decreed that the Roman Church should be head of all Churches; Which Platina a Papist, and a Writer of the Popes Lives agrees to as Beda, de 6 Aetat Mundi, Paul Diacon. rer. Rom. 18. Histor. Longob. lib. 4. 11. Anast. Bibl. Vit. Bond. 3. Ado. Aetat. 6. Reg. Chron. l. 1. Aimon. de gest. Franc. lib. 4. c. 4.) Yet the same Du Moulin seems positively to affirm, that the Persecution of the Church under the Pope, shall have an end in (or about) the Year, 1689. See his Book entitled, The Accomplishment of the Prophecies, Pag. 4. 12. Thus Term once expired (saith he) the Truth that was apprest shall lift up her head afresh, and the Witnesses shall be seen to stand up again, who shall astonish the Church of Rome, &c.