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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.
By this flight of the woman into the Wilderness for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, set down in the sixth verse, and the persecution whereby the Dragon pursued her that space, is meant those persecutions in general which followed against the whole Church during the continuance of those years, which in the next verses he setteth down particularly and severally.
By this flight of the woman into the Wildernesse for one thousand two hundred and sixty dayes, set downe in the sixt verse, and the persecution whereby the Dragon pursued her that space, is meant those persecutions in generall which followed against the whole Church during the continuance of those yeares, which in the next verses hee setteth downe particularly and seuerally.
And first he setteth down the particular persecution of the Church of the Jews in the thirteenth and fourteenth verses, and then of the Gentiles, in the seventeenth Verse. For the Church of the Jews, the persecution thereof is expressed in that it is said, that he persecuted her that brought forth the man-child, but the Lord delivered her from being devoured of the Dragon.
And first he setteth downe the particular persecution of the Church of the Iewes in the thirteenth and fourteenth verses, and then of the Gentiles, in the seauenteenth Verse. For the Church of the Iewes, the persecution thereof is expressed in that it is said, that he persecuted her that brought forth the man-childe, but the Lord deliuered her from being deuoured of the Dragon.
In that it is said, she being thus pursued, hath for her deliverance, wings given her to fly away into a Desert for two times, a time, and half a time; it notably describeth that strange deliverance of the Children of God which were in Jerusalem, before the overthrow of it, who (as the story witnesseth) being warned by the voice of God from heaven, did withdraw themselves for a time into a City called Pella beyond Jordan, in the Wilderness, where they did continue for the space of three years and a half, until Jerusalem were destroyed.