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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.
And a principal cause is this, that she had played the Harlot through her Idolatry with the Princes of the earth. Then he setteth down the marks of her destruction, both which go before, and which come after.
And a principall cause is this, that she had played the Harlot through her Idolatrie with the Princes of the earth. Then he setteth downe the markes of her destruction, both which goe before, and which come after.
Before: that God would give his children that were there warning before, whereby they might know of it, that so they might come forth, lest they▪ should fall in that great destruction, as before we heard he did to the Saints in Jerusalem, by giving them warning to avoid from thence, which they did, flying into the City of Pella in the wilderness.
Before: that God would giue his children that were there warning before, whereby they might know of it, that so they might come forth, lest they▪ should fall in that great destruction, as before we heard hee did to the Saints in Ierusalem, by giuing them warning to auoide from thence, which they did, flying into the City of Pella in the wildernesse.
The marks following the destruction, generally, the lamentation of the friends of the City of Rome, ⟨p. 113⟩and principally the Kings of the earth, when they shall see the smoke of her, mount up to heaven; by smoke, is meant the continual remembrance of that destruction: for albeit, after it is said by the Angel that threw the stone into the Sea, that it should never be remembered any more; he meaneth not that it should be clean forgotten to have been, but only so forgotten as it should never have place again, by which it might be remembered; like as it came to pass in Sodom, howbeit the memory thereof should otherwise be perpetual.