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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.
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.
The time of their continuance to sting, is fiue moneths; that is, (according to the account in the second Chapter, and as Daniel also expoundeth it, whom Iohn 1also followeth in this numbring) is for the space of an hundreth & fifty yeares, euery day in the moneth being counted for a yeere: Which is thought to be in the time of Hildebrand, called Gregorie the seauenth, which was to begin when Sathan was let loose, after that a thousand yeeres after Christ was runne out, and which beginning then, ended in the time of Gregorie the ninth, in whose time they had gotten the authoritie ⟨p. 50⟩of the Sword, which the blast of the sixt Angel setteth forth, & which the blast of the fourth Angel sheweth they would not haue during the hundred and fifty yeeres, otherwise called fiue moneths.
- 1Chap. 2. 10.
They were harnessed with habergeons, as of iron; noting, that by their privileges and prerogatives they were so defenced, that none could almost touch them, by any occasions; as the Bishop must have about sixty witnesses against him, to accuse him, otherwise he is not to be convinced; the Priests must also have a great number of Accusers, and they must not be judged by any Magistrate of the Temporality, but by one of the Clergy.