Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to…

By the Beast then in this verse, is meant the Roman Antichristian Politic and Ecclesiastic State, Kingdom, Rule, Power, Dominion, Worship, and Government, •wit, the whole Complex Body of Antichrist, who hath his Power, Throne, and •eat Authority given unto him by the Devil, and doth by virtue thereof exercise •oth a Political and Ecclesiastical Government. And this Roman Politic and Ecclesiastic State, is that Antichrist who de•eth the Father and the Son, 1 John 2.•. and that Man of Sin, and Son of •rdition, 2 Thes. 2.3, 4, 9, 10. Who opposeth ⟨p. 22⟩and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, even that Beast that ascended out of the bottomless Pit, and goeth into Perdition, chap. 17.8, 11. As the Beast is the Object of the wrath of God, so the Seat of the Beast is the Subject upon which this fifth Vial of his wrath is poured out.

By the Beast then in this verse, is meant the Roman Antichristian Politick and Ecclesiastick State, Kingdom, Rule, Power, Dominion, Worship, and Government, •wit, the whole Complex Body of Anti•hrist, who hath his Power, Throne, and •eat Authority given unto him by the De•il, and doth by virtue thereof exercise •oth a Political and Ecclesiastical Government. And this Roman Politick and Ec•esiastick State, is that Antichrist who de•eth the Father and the Son, 1 John 2.•. and that Man of Sin, and Son of rdition,