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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 1: Apocalyptical MYSTERIES, The First Part, Touching the two WITNESSES.
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 our LORD Jesus Christ gave the like Description of the fourth Monarchy, or Roman Kingdom, unto his Servant John, under the similitude of a Beast, namely, […] great red Dragon, Revel. 12.3. Which Beast was terrible and monstrous, (as that which Daniel saw) all spotted like a Leopard, his feet like a Bear, and his mouth a• the mouth of a Lyon, chap. 13.3. with seven Heads and ten Horns, chap. 17.3. ascending out of the bottomless Pit, and goeth into Perdition, v. 8. And this is the Beast which shall kill the Witnesses, chap. 11.7.
And our LORD Jesus Christ gave the like Description of the fourth Monarchy, or Roman Kingdom, unto his Servant John, under the similitude of a Beast, namely, 〈…〉 great red Dragon, Revel. 12.3. Which Beast was terrible and monstrous, (as that which Daniel saw) all spotted like a Leopard, his feet like a Bear, and his mouth a• the mouth of a Lyon, chap. 13.3. with seven Heads and ten Horns, chap. 17.3. ascending out of the bottomless Pit, and goeth into Perdition, v. 8. And this is the Beast which shall kill the VVitnesses, chap. 11.7.
The Beast in this Prophecy is sometimes mentioned alone, without any distinction, and then we are thereby to understand the whole complex Body of the Roman Antichristian Politic & Ecclesiastic State and Government, as chap. 14.9, 11. And in other places of this Book the Beast is mentioned with some other, as if he were two, as the Beast that rose out of the Sea, and the Beast that rose out of the Earth, chap. 13.1, 11. Beast and Woman, chap. 17.3. the Beast and the false Prophet, chap. 19.20. And thereby we are to understand a •wo-fold Power mixed and exercised together, that is to say, by the Beast is meant •he Political, and by the Woman, the Ecclesiastical Power of the Roman Government.