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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.
For the time, it was when the faithful man Antipas was put to death: that is, in such a time wherein persecution was very hot against the Children of God, and yet notwithstanding they started not from their profession.
For the time, it was when the faithfull man Antipas was put to death: that is, in such a time wherein persecution was very hot against the Children of God, and yet notwithstanding they started not from their profession.
Verse 14. Yet for all this, he hath certain things ⟨p. 13⟩against them, which he reprehendeth: namely, that they permitted certain false Prophets amongst them, and did not withstand them, as the Church of Ephesus did, but suffered them to teach dangerous doctrine of Balaam, which taught and maintained bodily whoredom and fornication, whereby the people were brought to Idolatry, of which sort were those amongst them which held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, to wit, that spiritual and bodily whoredom.
Verse 14. Yet for all this, hee hath certaine things ⟨p. 13⟩against them, which he reprehendeth: namely, that they permitted certaine false Prophets amongst them, and did not withstand them, as the Church of Ephesus did, but suffered them to teach dangerous doctrine of Balaam, which taught and maintained bodily whordome and fornication, whereby the people were brought to Idolatry, of which sort were those amongst them which held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, to wit, that spirituall and bodily whoredome.