A Revelation of the Apocalypse, Chapter 17
CHAP. 17.
AND ther came one of the ſeven Angels which had the ſeven vials, & talked with me, ſaying unto me, come, I wil shew thee the damnation of the great whore that ſitteth upon many waters.
2 With whom the Kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitans of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he caryed me away into the wilderneſſe in the Spirit, and J ſaw a woman ſit upon a skarlet coloured Beaſt, full of names of blaſphemy, which had ſeven heads and ten hornes.
4 And the woman was arayed in purple, and skarlet, and gilded with golde and pretious ſtones, and pearles, and had a cup of golde in her hand, full of abominations, and filthines of her fornication.
5 And in her forehead was a name written, a Myſterie, that great Babylon, that mother of whoredomes, and abhominations of the earth.
6 And I ſaw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saincts, & with the blood of the Martyrs of Ieſus: and when I ſaw her, J wondred with great marveile.
7 Then the Angel ſayd unto mee, wherfore marvaileſt thou? J wil ſhew th eeth… myſterie of the woman, and of that Beaſt, that beareth her, which hath ſeven heads and ten hornes.
8 The Beaſt that thou haſt ſeen, was, and is not, and ſhal aſcend out of the bottomleſſe pit, and ſhall goe into perdition, and they that dwel on the earth ſhall wonder, (whoſe names are not written in the book of life, from the foundation of the world,) when they behold the Beaſt that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 Here is the minde that hath wiſedome: the ſeaven heads are ſeven mountaines, wheron the woman ſitteth.
10 They are alſo ſeven Kings, five are fallen, one is, and an other is not yet come: and when he ſhall come, he muſt continue a ſhort ſpace.
11 And the Beaſt which was, and is not, is even the eight, and is one of thoſe ſeven, and goeth into deſtruction.
12 And the ten hornes, which thou ſaweſt are ten Kings, which yet have not received a Kingdome, but ſhal receive power as Kings one houre with the Beaſt.
13 Theſe have one minde, and ſhall give their power and authority to the Beaſt.
14 Theſe ſhall fight with the Lambe, and the Lambe ſhall overcome them: for he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, and they that are on his ſide, called and choſen, and faithful.
15 After he ſayd unto mee, the waters which thou ſaweſt, where the whore ſitteth, are people, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the tenne hornes which thou ſaweſt upon the Beaſt, are they that ſhall hate the whore, and ſhall make her deſolate and naked, and ſhall eate her fleſh, & burne her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hartes to fulfill his will, and to conſent and give their Kingdome to the Beaſt, until the words of God be fulfilled.
18 And the woman, which thou ſaweſt is that great citie, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth.