The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises, List – Treatise 1
A Table of the Concluſions introductiue to the Reuelation, and proued in the firſt Treatiſe.
The firſt Treatiſe, is an introduction to the knowledge of the Reuelation, expounding by proofe and demonſtration the meaning of
Dates and chiefe reckonings laid vnderunder tearmes.
Vulgare and vſed, ſuch as
generally, a day for a year a week for ſeuen years, a monethmonth for 30. yeares, and a yeare for a yeare of yeares. or three hundred & three ſcore yea es, proved in the 1 propoſition.
particularly 12. moneths 1260. propheticall daies: three great dayes and an half, and a time, times, and half a time, prooued to be all one date, propoſition 15. and euerie one of them to meane a thouſand, two hundred and threeſcore Iulian yeares, propoſition. 16.
New and ſtrange, wherewith is dated
the hiſtorie of S. Iohn his daies, vnderunder the tearms of 7. ſeales, whereof the firſte begins, An. Chri 29. prop. 8. the laſt An. Chriſti, 71. propoſition 7. and euerie one of them indureth ſeuen yeares, as is prooued by the ninth propoſition.
The prophecy to the worldes end, wherof
The progres is dated by 7. trumpets, or 7. vials which both ar proued to be one propoſition 2. and euerie one of them doeth endure 245. yeares, gathered by the thirde and fourth propoſitions, and prooued by the fift propoſition: and the firſt beginneth, Anno. Chriſti. 71. propoſition 6. and the laſt beginneth, an. Chriſt. 1541. and ends Anno. 1786. at the fartheſt. prop. 10.
The ende and laſt daies, are dated by 7. thunders. & 7. Angels of Gods harueſt, both proued to be one, prop. 11. & to beginne Anno Chriſti, 1541. prop. 12. & eueryevery one of the firſt three that goeth before the day of iudgement, to indure 49 yeares, prop. 13. making the latter day to fall betwixt the years of Chriſt 1688. and 1700. by prop. 14
Affaires and chiefe matters concerning
Gods ſeruantes. whoſe true and holie
Church with her contents is tearmed Gods Temple in heauen, Pro. 20 and a woman cled with the Sunne, prop. 22.
Religion is tearmed God his throne in heuen, pro. 17. whereof the written word is teſtified by the two witneſſes, prooued prop. 21. to be the two Teſtaments, whereof
The twenty four books of the olde Teſtament, are called the twenty foure Elders, propoſition 18.
The foure Evangels of the new Teſtament are called the foure beaſtes, propoſition 19.
Gods greateſt enemies, as
Sathan who is bound a 1000. years, beginning An. 300. prop. 34. yet bond but only from raiſing of vniuerſal warres, prop. 35.
Wicked kingdoms which are ſet out vnderunder the tearmes of
Two nations, Gog and Magog prooved [by the thirtie & two propoſition] to bee the Papiſtes and Mahometans, whoſe armies are all one with thoſe of the ſixt trumpette or viall, as is proved in the thirtie three propoſit.
Two Beaſts
A two horned beaſt, ſignifying the Antichriſt only, by the twentie fiue propoſition, who is proved to bee the Pope, by the twentie ſixe propoſition, whoſe raign of a thouſand, two hundred ſixtie yeares, beginneth anno Chriſti 300. or 316. at the fartheſt, propoſition, 36.
A ten horned beaſt, ſignifying, by the twentie foure propoſition, the whole Latine or Romane Empire, with the Antichriſt deſcending of the ſame, of which Romane or Latine Empire, the ſeat and Metropolitan… Citie, Rome, is meaned and repreſented by Babylon in the twentie three propoſition. To this ten horned beaſt and Roman or Latine Empire [as is proued in the twentie ſeuen propoſition] appertaineth
An Image, prooued by the 28 propoſition, to be theſe degenerate princes that onelie in name and ſhewe, are Romane Emperours.
A mark, prooued by prop. 30. to be the league of ſeruitude profeſsed to the Romanes, by their ſubiects noted afterwarde by the Pope with viſible marks, which, by the 31. prop. are foreign & croſſes of all kinds.
A name, prooued by the twentie nine propoſition. to be the name of the Latine or Romane Empire, foreign
A number of 666. aſſigned by the text.
Theſe Propoſitiōs ar ſet in this table after their natural order, but in the tretiſe follovving, they ar placed demōſtratiuely, to the effect eueryevery propoſition may be proued by the former propoſitions.