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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07226	A revelation of the Revelation wherein is contayned, a most true, plaine, and briefe manifestation of the meaning and scope of all the Reuelation, and of euery mystery of the same : whereby the pope is most plainely declared and proued to bee Antichrist / by Thomas Mason ...	Mason, Thomas, 1580-1619?	1619 (1619)	STC 17623; ESTC S1299	31,570	120

A REVELATION OF THE REVELATION Wherein is contayned a most true plaine and briefe manifestation of the meaning and scope of all the Reuelation and of euery Mystery of the same Whereby the Pope is most plainely declared and proued to bee Antichrist BY THOMAS MASON Preacher of the word of God at Odyham in the County of South Printed at London by G. Eld. 1619. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY KING IAMES by the especiall Grace of God of Great Britaine France and Ireland King and in all causes whether Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill next vnder CHRIST supreme Head and a most faithfull Defender of the true Catholique and Apostolique Faith in all his Realmes and Dominions Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed Most Excellent Soueraigne HAuing attained vnto some certaintie of the scope and meaning of the Reuelation and of the Mysteries thereof by earnest prayer pervsing of Expositors and conference of the Prophesies therof with the Ecclesiasticall Histories and being desirous to inlighten others I haue cōpiled in as briefe and easie manner as I could deuise the true scope and meaning of the same and of euery Mysterie thereof And being well assured that as God gaue vnto the Kingly Prophet Dauid a rich measure of his Spirit so he hath bequeathed vnto your Highnesse most abundantly his holy Ghost so that none more knoweth the minde of Christ then you Maiesty doth Which imboldened me to dedicate this my Worke vnto your Highnesse most humbly crauing that this little shew of my dutifull loue vnto your Maiestie may obtaine pardon for my too much boldnesse so as it is my bounden dutie I will neuer cease to offer vppe supplications vnto God and vnto Iesus Christ for the dewe of his Spirit to be daily distilled into your Royall heart for your direction and that God would alwayes charge his holy Angels for the preseruation of your Maiesties person and of our most gracious Queene our most Royall Prince and all your Highnesse Kingly Progenie Your Maiesties most faithfull and dutifull Subiect THOMAS MASON THE EPISTLE to the Reader FOr the better vnderstanding of the Reuelation Christian Reader I would haue thee to obserue in the three first Chapters the then present estate of the seauen Churches and in the fourth and fifth Chapters the vision of Saint Iohn in Heauen in what manner hee receiued the generall Reuelation from Christs ascension vntill his comming vnto iudgement in the sixt and seauenth Chapters the estate of the Church vnder the Idolatrous Emperours vntill the Christian Emperour Constantine his time and the flourishing of the estate thereof by him and in the eighth ninth and tenth Chapters the estate of the Church vnder the Emperors that were after Constantine and the Popes how men became as cold as hayle in true Religion and as hot as fire to maintaine superstitions to the shedding of blood and how the Emperours signified by the great Mountaine tooke part with the superstitious with a burning zeale persecuting those that would not consent to their superstitions The great Starre that fell from Heauen as bitter as worme-wood was the falling of the Bishop of Rome from Christ and his word to mainetaine superstitions and for that purpose was exalted of the Emperours aboue all other Bishops The second Starre is the Popes which exalted themselues aboue all the Emperours and Kings and filled the world with their mighty Locusts that is Cardinalls Popish Bishops and their officers Abbots Friers and such like and when these were multiplied as the sands of the sea the Diuell that was bound for a thousand yeares from Constantine his time is let loose obtaineth these innumerable company of Locusts to take his part and persecuted the Saints by these Antichristian Locusts martyred more then euer hee did by the idolatrous Emperours yet Christ and his Saints obtaine the victory And from the beginning of the eleuenth Chapter vnto the end of the Booke are prophesied againe the very same things of Antichrist but much more largely and with other similitudes In the eleuenth Chapter the superstitious are called the Courts and the faithfull the temple and Saint Iohn is commanded not to mete the Courts but to cast them out and it is prophesied that they shall tread the holy Citty which is the faithfull vnder their feete 1260. yeares In the twelfth Chapter the Emperours which before are called a great mountaine are heere called a great red Dragon and are prophesied to be they which shall be the greatest cause of the treading vnder foote the Children of God all this time of the 1260. yeares In the thirteenth Chapter the Popes that were called two Starres before are called two beasts the first Beast the Emperours shall set aboue all other Bishops of purpose to maintaine superstitions and to tread the faithfull vnder their feete all the said time of 1260. yeares and for this purpose the Dragon shall giue him his power and authority The second Beast which had two hornes like the Lambe is the second Starre as before which is the Pope when hee tooke vpon him not onely to bee the whole ruler in spirituall matters but to bee King of all Kings as Christ is and exalted himselfe aboue the Emperours All the other Chaptors vnto the end declare the manner of the destruction of Antichrist and of Rome and the flourishing of the Gospell after Rome shall be destroyed vntill Christs comming to iudgement As Christ foretolde the destruction of Ieausalem and truely at his time appointed performed it so surely bath Christ Prophesied and as truely in his time will accomplish the destruction of Rome and as a whole yeare before the destruction of Ierusalem there was seene an extraordinary Blazing Starre so the Blazing Starre that now so strangely appeareth seemeth to manifest Gods fiery indignation against Rome which shall shortly destroy it and to bee a forewarning vnto all men that they flye from her false Doctrines lest they be pertakers of her punishments and that all Kings and the Children of God should haue their hearts inflamed like the flaming Starre against that abhominable Strumpet to gather themselues to battell against her and burne her with fire And because euery one of Gods Children must claime by a liuely faith as perticular vnto himselfe all the generall promises of Christ so we ought to apply the generall iudgements of God euery one vnto his owne soule Let vs therefore examine our hearts whether wee retaine there any Poposh superstition or sinne against any of Gods commandements vnrepented of for against such that will not repent the Lords anger burneth like the blazing Starre But if wee flie by true repentance and a liuely faith and catch hold of the blood of Iesus Christ to wash away our sinnes and of his righteousnesse to couer our imperfections then may wee with ioy looke vpon this blazing Starre and prayse God for declaring his fierce wrath against Antichrist and sinners and for hastening to reuenge the blood of his Saints and that the time