B03979:74
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.
The Street of the great City is some noted Street, (as a Market-Street) or some ⟨p. 23⟩eminent Street, (as Cheap-side) or some open Street or place (as Smithfield) within or without the great City, under the Dominion and Government thereof.
By this Street we are to understand some •minent Part of Mystical Babylon, and Kingdom of the Beast, viz. some of the ten Kingdoms which appertain unto the Dominion of the Beast, and not his whole Kingdom, •or the whole City: It is not said in the Streets of the great City, but in the Street, to wit, the most eminent Kingdom for the Testimony of Jesus Christ, even that Nation where the Witnesses have most eminently born their Testimony against Antichrist.
The place being spoken of by way of eminency, must be understood either in relation •o the Witnesses, or in respect unto the Beast that kills them, or to both: Now take either of these, or both together, and it signifies not the whole Witnesses, nor the whole Kingdom of Babylon, but a part thereof. Not the whole Kingdom of Babylon, because upon the rising and ascending of the Witnesses, there is but a part of the Kingdom of Babylon falls, And the tenth part of the City fell, vers. 13. which is that part here meant by this Street.
The place being spoken of by way of eminency, must be understood either in relation •o the Witnesses, or in respect unto the Beast that kills them, or to both: Now take either of these, or both together, and it signifies not the whole Witnesses, nor the whole Kingdom of Babylon, but a part thereof. Not the whole Kingdom of Babylon, because pon the rising and ascending of the Witnesses, there is but a part of the Kingdom of Babylon falls, And the tenth part of the City fell, vers. 13. which is that part here meant by this Street.