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A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…
A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these days of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithful preacher, now with God, for more private use, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these dayes of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithfull preacher, now with God, for more priuate vse, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.
London: printed by T.S. for Nathaniel Newbery, 1622
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.
Whatsoever things were written afore time, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. Rom. 15. 4. And the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his Servants, Reu. 1. 1. was given and written for the comfort of the Church in her latest and greatest troubles, and sharpest afflictions and persecutions; wherein certes Gods love and care of his Church, is abundantly manifested. For not any of the Primitive persecutions, or latter Antichristian Seductions, and bloody Combustions, wherewith at this day the Church is turmoiled: But they are foretold, with their Issue and Events in this Book; that so the chosen and elect of God might not be carried to everlasting perdition, or overwhelmed with sorrow and displeasure in their seeming inextricable temporary calamities.
WHatsoeuer things were written afore time, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might haue hope. Rom. 15. 4. And the Reuelation of Iesus Christ, which God gaue vnto him, to shew vnto his Seruants, Reu. 1. 1. was giuen and written for the comfort of the Church in her latest and greatest troubles, and sharpest afflictions and persecutions; wherein certes Gods loue and care of his Church, is abundantly manifested. For not any of the Primitiue persecutions, or latter Antichristian Seducions, and bloudy Combustions, wherewith at this day the Church is turmoyled: But they are foretold, with their Issue and Euents in this Booke; that so the chosen and elect of God might not be carried to euerlasting perdition, or ouerwhelmed with sorrow and displeasure in their seeming inextricable temporary calamities.
Many Commentaries and Expositions of this Book have been published by very Reverend and excellent learned men, no doubt to the great comfort of Gods people; and therefore the less need there may be imagined to be of any more: but, (besides that this is more brief and plain upon the whole Book then any other; and so is more useful for the most, that have most use of it; if it shall serve but as a watch-word, even now to direct Gods people in their perplexities, whether to have recourse for comfort and consolation, and so incite them to a more diligent reading, and