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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.
Apoc. Cap. 21. 1▪ And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven, and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more Sea, &c.
Apoc. Cap. 21. 1▪ And I saw a new heauen, and a new earth: for the first heauen, and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more Sea, &c.
We have heard heretofore of the straits of the Church militant, being in warfare in this present world, subject to many troubles and persecutions: yet being defended and protected by God, was not overcome by any of them. Now follows the state of the Church triumphant after this world.
VVEe haue heard heretofore of the straits of the Church militant, being in warfare in this present world, subject to many troubles and persecutions: yet being defended and protected by God, was not ouercome by any of them. Now followes the state of the Church triumphant after this world.
And first, here Saint John sets forth the state of all the world, then of the Church: Even as Moses in the Book of Genesis describes first the beginning and creation of the whole world, and then sets down the condition and state of the Church.