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Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to…
Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to wit, of Christ, and of Antichrist, expounded. Wherein is contained some things necessary for the saints in this present generation to know ... By H.K. a servant of Jesus Christ.
London : s.n., Printed 1667
Part 2: Apocalyptical MYSTERIES. The Second Part, Touching the Seven VIALS.
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 the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Seat of the Beast, vers. 10.
By the Seat of the Beast we are to understand the Place, even the principal place where the Beast doth exercise his Power and great Authority; which is Rome, and also all other great Cities where the Beast hath his Residence, his Throne, his Courts, and exerciseth his Grandeur and great Authority. The City of Rome is the seve• Mountains on which the Woman, that is, Mystical Babylon, sitteth, chap. 17.5, 9. And the Seat of the Beast being distinct from his Power and Authority, as it is, chap. 13.2. it must be interpreted of the place […] the Beast's Residence, where his Throne […] placed, and his Power and great Authori•• is principally exercised.
By the Seat of the Beast we are to understand the Place, even the principal place where the Beast doth exercise his Power and great Authority; which is Rome, and also all other great Cities where the Beast hath his Residence, his Throne, his Courts, and exerciseth his Grandeur and great Authority. The City of Rome is the seve• Mountains on which the Woman, that is, Mystical Babylon, sitteth, chap. 17.5, 9. And the Seat of the Beast being distinct from his Power and Authority, as it is, chap. 13.2. it must be interpreted of the place 〈…〉 the Beast's Residence, where his Throne 〈…〉 placed, and his Power and great Authori•• is principally exercised.
The effects of this fifth Vial are four.