A47607:1535
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.
(a) 1. Because the Beast is expressed in the Masculine Gender, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, and the Beast that was, and is not even HE is the Eight and of the Seven, i. e. He came up by means of the Liberty and large Revenues The Seven Heads, viz. The Christian Emperors gave to the Ch• rch and Church-Men, though a different and distinct sort of Government to all before it, but Mystery Babylon is expressed by the Feminine Gender, a Woman a Whore, Mother of Bar•••; I saw the Woman drunk with the Blood of the Saints, […] And when I saw her I wondered, &c.
(a) 1. Because the Beast is exprest in the Masculine Gender, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, and the Beast that was, and is not even HE is the Eight and of the Seven, i. e. He came up by means of the Liberty and large Revenues The Seven Heads, viz. The Christian Emperors gave to the Ch• rch and Church-Men, though a diff•rent and distinct sort of Government to all before it, but Mystery Babylon is exprest by the Feminine Gender, a Woman a Whore, Mother of Bar•••; I saw the Woman drunk with the Blood of the Saints, 〈…〉 And when I saw her I wondered, &c.
2. The Angel describes them distinct, the one from the other, a Beast and Whore, I John saw them as clearly distinct as a Beast is from her that sits upon him, and I saw a Woman set upon a Scarlet coloured Beast, Rev. 17. 3.