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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.
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And the Beast that WAS and IS NOT, even he IS the EIGHTH, chap. 17.11. that is to say, the eighth Head of the Beast, and IS of the SEVEN, which Mystery of Iniquity, that we may with more clearness understand; the Angel told John, that the Beast that carrieth the Woman, had seven Heads, chap. 17.7. which he saith are seven Kings, verse 10. that is to say, seven kinds of political Governors, and forms of Government in the fourth Kingdom, whereof FIVE are fallen, or were past and gone before John's time, namely, 1. Kings, 2. Consuls, 3. Decim-vers, 4. Tribunes, and 5. Dictators: ONE is, to wit, Emperors, who being the sixth head of the Beast, rused and exercised their Dominion over the whose Roman Kingdom in the days of our Saviour and his Apostles; the OTHER is ⟨p. 16⟩not yet come, to wit, the seventh Head of the Beast, that is to say, the seventh King, or kind of Government was not yet in being, when John writ this book of the Revelation; which seventh Head is Popes, for they succeeded the Emperors in the Kingdom and Government of the Roman Empire (as all Historians testify) and have ruled and reigned as Kings.
And the Beast that WAS and IS NOT, even he IS the EIGHTH, chap. 17.11. that is to say, the eighth Head of the Beast, and IS of the SEVEN, which Mystery of Iniquity, that we may with more clearness understand; the Angel told John, that the Beast that carrieth the Woman, had seven Heads, chap. 17.7. which he saith are seven Kings, verse 10. that is to say, seven kinds of political Governours, and forms of Government in the fourth Kingdom, whereof FIVE are fallen, or were past and gone before John's time, namely, 1. Kings, 2. Consuls, 3. Decim-vers, 4. Tribunes, and 5. Dictators: ONE is, to wit, Emperors, who being the sixth head of the Beast, rused and exercised their Dominion over the whose Roman Kingdom in the dayes of our Saviour and his Apostles; the OTHER is ⟨p. 16⟩not yet come, to wit, the seventh Head of the Beast, that is to say, the seventh King, or kind of Government was not yet in being, when John writ this book of the Revelation; which seventh Head is Popes, for they succeeded the Emperors in the Kingdom and Government of the Roman Empire (as all Historians testifie) and have ruled and reigned as Kings.