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1550–1617 Scotland

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32 Proposition. Gog is the Pope, and Magog is the Turkes and Mahometanes.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

9 Proposition. Everie Seale must containe the Space of Seven yeares.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

23 Proposition. The Whoore, who in the Revelation is Stiled Spirituall Babylon, is not reallie Babylon, but the verie present Citie of Rome.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

14 Proposition. The day of Gods judgement appears to fall betwixt the yeares of Christ, 1688. and 1700.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

22 Proposition. The Woman clad with the Sunne (chap. 12) is the true Church of God.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

2. Proposition. The Seven Trumpets of the 8. and 9. chapters, and the Seven Vials of the 16. Chapter, are all one.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

7 Proposition. The last of the Seven Seales, and first of the Seven Trumpets or Vials, begin both at once, in An. 71.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

15 Proposition. The 42. moneths, a thousand two hundred and three score propheticall daies, three greate daies and a halfe, and a time, times, and a halfe a time mentioned in Daniel, & in the Revelation, are all one date.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

17 Proposition. The description of the throne of God in the fourth chapter, is not the description of the majestie of God in heaven, but of his true religion, wherein he is authorised and sits in the throne among his holy elect on earth.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

6 Proposition. The first Trumpet or Viall began at the Jubelee, in anno Christi 71.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

30 Proposition. The marke of the Romane beast, is that invisible profession of servitude and obedience, that his subjects hath professed to his Empire, since the first beginning thereof, noted afterward by the Pope, with divers visible markes.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

36 Proposition. The 1260 years of the Antichrists universal raign over Christians, begins about the year of Christ 300. or 316. at the farthest.

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

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