The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2, Table of contents – Doctrine 2
The Chapters. ¶The contentes of the seconde parte.
THe .xi. Chaptre begynneth. Fo. 4. wherin Iohan measureth the temple / the aultre / and thē that worshippe therin. The .ii. wytnesses do their appoynted offyces / the Beast makynge warre agaynst them and sleynge them. A greate earthquake foloweth / and the seconde wo ys past.
¶The .xii. Chaptre begynneth. fo. 21. wherin the seuenth Angell bloweth hys trō pet. In heauen apereth a woman all clothed with the sunne / whom the Dragon diuerselye vereth. Michael fighteth with the Dragon and ouercometh hym. The woman fleeth into the wyldernesse and there ys preserued.
¶The xiii. Chaptre begynneth. Fol. 43. wherin a Beast ryseth out of the see with seuen heades and ten hornes / receyuinge auctoryte of the Dragon. One of hys heades ys wounded and healed agayne. Another beast commeth out of the earthe with .ii. hornes / which deceyueth the eartlye dwellers / and rayseth vp an Image lyke vntounto the Beast. In the ende ys coū ted the nombre of the Beast.
¶ The .xiiii. Chaptre begynneth. fo. 74. wherin the lābe standeth vponupon the moū te Syon / and the vndefyled congregacyon with him. An Angell sheweth the euerlastynge gospell / an other declareth the fall of the greate whore. An other ys cō maunded with his syckle to cutte downe the grapes of the vyneyarde.
¶The .xv. Chaptre begynneth. Fo. 94. wherin Iohan seeth the seuen Angels / hauynge the seuen last plages of the wrathe of God. On the glassye see standeth menne hauynge the harpes of God / and they synge the songe of Moyses / and the songe of the lābe. The tabernacle of testymonye is seane in heauen.
¶The .xvi. Chaptre begynneth. Fo. 114. wherin the seuē Angels poure out their vyalles of Gods wrathe. The first vponupon the earthe. The seconde vpō the see. The thirde vpō the ryuers. The fourth on the sunne. The fift vponupon the seate of the Beast. The sixte vponupon the greate flood Euphrates. And the seuenth into the ayre.
¶The .xvii. Chaptre begynneth. fol. iii. wherin an Angell sheweth vntounto Iohan the iudgemēt of the great whore / which sitteth vponupon the Beast. He descrybeth both her and the Beast at large. Fynally he sheweth the meanynge both of his heades & hornes / with other greate mysteryes more.
¶ Marke in the .xiiii. Chaptre / the. 75. ād 88. leafe. the .ii. Images sett clerelye out of ordre by the onlye neglygence of the printers.
¶The poore persecuted churche of Christe / or immaculate spowse of the lambe.
Apoca. 12.
¶The Dragon was wrothe with the woman which fledde into the wyldernesse / and went and made warre with the remnaunte of her sede which kepe the commaundemente of God and hauehave the testymonye of Iesus Christ.
¶The proude paynted churche of the pope / or synnefull Synagoge of Sathan.
Apoca. 17.
¶I sawe a woman sytt vponupon a rose coloured Beast / full of names of blasphemye / decked with golde preciouse stone / and pearles / with whome the Kynges of the earthe committed whoredome / and the inha…iters of the earthe are dronken with the wyne of her fornycacyon.
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