The second Position.
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The second Position.
That by this great City Babylon (the Mother of all the abominations of the earth) is understood Rome.
THat by this great City Babylon (the Mother of all the abominations of the earth) is understood Rome.
Proof.
1. BY the clear Testimony of Scripture, in the seventeen Chapter of the Revelation; where this City is described unto us, First by the situation; that it is seated upon seven Hills, (v. 9. 18.) and then by the largeness of the Dominion thereof; That it is that great City that ruleth over the Kings of the earth, (v. 18.) Now that by these two marks Rome was most notoriously known in the Apostles days, may appear even by the Roman Poets, who describe Rome just after ⟨p. 4⟩the same manner, asd Ovid; Sed quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Montibus, imperii Roma Deumque locus.
1. BY the clear Testimony of Scripture, in the seventeen Chapter of the Revelation; where this City is described unto us, First by the situation; that it is seated upon seven Hills, (v. 9. 18.) and then by the largeness of the Dominion thereof; That it is that great Citie that ruleth over the Kings of the earth, (v. 18.) Now that by these two marks Rome was most notoriously known in the Apostles dayes, may appear even by the Romane Poets, who describe Rome just after ⟨p. 4⟩