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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
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Fourthly, Their hair like women's; showing their effeminateness, in regard of their faces, the shearing of their beards, and their long hair on their heads, and especially their effeminate and filthy manners, in that they were womanish, filthy, and unclean, having no manly manners any ways.
Fourthly, Their haire like womens; shewing their effeminatenesse, in regard of their faces, the shearing of their beards, and their long haire on their heads, and especially their effeminate and filthy manners, in that they were womanish, filthy, and vncleane, hauing no manly manners any wayes.
Fifthly, Their teeth like Lyons; signifying, their greediness and cruelty.
Fiftly, Their teeth like Lyons; signifying, their greedinesse and cruelty.
The time of their continuance to sting, is five months; that is, (according to the account in the second Chapter, and as Daniel also expoundeth it, whom John 1also followeth in this numbering) is for the space of an hundred & fifty years, every day in the month being counted for a year: Which is thought to be in the time of Hildebrand, called Gregory the seventh, which was to begin when Satan was let loose, after that a thousand years after Christ was run out, and which beginning then, ended in the time of Gregory the ninth, in whose time they had gotten the authority ⟨p. 50⟩of the Sword, which the blast of the sixth Angel setteth forth, & which the blast of the fourth Angel showeth they would not have during the hundred and fifty years, otherwise called five months.