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A55520	An interpretation of the number 666 wherein, not onely the manner, how this number ought to be interpreted, is clearely proved and demonstrated : but it is also shewed [that] this number is an exquisite and perfect character, truly, exactly, and essentially describing that state of government to [which] all other notes of Antichrist doe agree : with all knowne objections solidly and fully answered [that] can be materially made against it / by Francis Potter ...	Potter, Francis, 1594-1678.	1642 (1642)	Wing P3028; ESTC R40657	113,466	230

of cardinals of Rome are the body of the Church To which Ioh. Husse answereth that Christ is the Head and all faithful christians the Body of the Church of Christ To which the said Prelates doe reply as Master Fox relateth by a long and ●edious processe shewing how the Pope is Head and how the Colledge of Cardinals onely and not other Christians are the Body of the Church Acts and Monuments Anno 1414. pag. 589. und 590. and 591. as the Romish Prelats pretend the Colledge of Cardinall to be But I returne from whence I finde my selfe digressing and doe conclude that as all Ecclesiasticall Hierarchy in the Church of Christ against and above which the Cardinals of Rome doe most energetically oppose and advance themselves had it's first originall institution and foundation from the 12 Apostles in Hierusalem so the opposite Hierarchy of Cardinals in the Synagogue of Antichrist had it's first institution and foundation from 25 Parish Priests in Rome CHAP. 20. That the number of the Gates of Rome was 25. COncerning the number of the Gates of the City of Rome according to the sense literall it remaineth yet to be shewed that their number was 25 as the number of the Gates of the materiall Hierusalē either was or is generally received to have been 12. For howsoever the first number of Churches in which Baptisme was administred be by the name of Gates most principally aymed at in the description of the new Hierusalem as according to the sense spirituall I have above shewed yet I cannot but think that the number of the Gates according to the sense literall is also directly intended and that the number of the Gates of Hierusalem was twelve and no more Villanpandus Tom. 3o. a pag. 68 69 where is also exhibited a Map of Hierusalem with this inscription Vera Hierusolimae veteris imago Roma superiorum permissiu cum privilegio summi Pontificis Imperatoris Regis Catholici ac Senatùs veneti c. apparatus urbis templi plainly affirmeth and reciteth them nominatim after this manner 1 Porta fontis 2 Porta stercoris 3 Porta vallis 4 Porta Anguli 5 Porta Ephraim 6 Porta Vetus 7 Porta piscium 8 Porta Benjamin 9 Porta gregis 10 Porta Equarum 11 Porta Aquarum 12 Porta Fiscalis b ●n indice tertio Appendicis ad Civitates Orbis Georgius Braunus and Franciscus Hogenbergius out of Livie and Plinie who lived neere about the time that S. Iohn writ the Revelation doe write thus Portas suburbiorum urbis in universum 24 fuisse refert Plinius Livius tamen ut passim in illius Historia est legere 27 ponit And whereas some editions of Plinie make him to say sometimes that there were 27 Gates in Rome and sometimes 37 this is corrected as an error by Onuphryus lib. description urbis where he writeth thus Siigitur decem has portas quas ab ijs quatuor decem diversas fuisse liquet ipsis adjunxerimus erunt 24 urbis Romae Portae ut Plinium dixisse existimo nam quod vulgati codices habent 27 mendum proculdubio est ex adjectione numerorum aliquot ortum ita ut 12 portae semel numerentur praetereantque ex veteribus septē quae esse desierunt It seems by the differing opinions of Live and Plinie who lived not long the one after the other that the number of the gates of Rome was neer about 25 for plus uno verum esse non potest there can be but one truth it is not probable that either of these Authors was ignorant how many Gates Rome had in their own times If there were 27 when Livy writ but 24 when Plinie writ then it is probable that in this interim there were for some tyme but 25 but it is most likely that as in all great Cities there are Gates some of greater and some of lesser note some publike and some belonging to private houses or Pallaces and some so ambiguously placed and used that it is hard and doubtfull to be determined whether they are to be accounted as Gates of the Citie or not so I say it is most likely that Livie accounted 2 or 3 Gates of lesser note for Gates of the Citie which Pliny thought fit rather to be left out as private passages but perhaps a third man which had been to set downe his opinion concerning the number of the Gates of Rome in those times would have taken one of those 3 Gates into the number which Pliny left out and have left out 2 of those 3 Gates which Livie tooke in and so doing it is likely he might have spoken more truely then either of them For when Authors of equall credit and estimation are of different opinions it is more safe to goe betweene them both if there be any medium then to joyne with either But I confesse all this proveth but a probability at the most that the number of the Gates of Rome was 25. I am content therefore that Onuphryus that learned Roman Antiquary who and who only as far as I know hath written a peculiar Tract concerning the Gates of Rome shall decide this Question It is evident by those words of Onuphryus which are last aboue recited that he affirmeth the number of the Gates of Rome in the time of Pliny to have been 24 at the least but it is plaine that among all those Porta Triumphalis is not numbred and therefore Onuphrius presently after when he rehearseth nominatim all those 24 Gates above spoken of addeth this Gate in the last place as a Gate of the City although not one of the former number number saying expresly Porta triumphalis extra numerum And whereas afterwards he nameth two other Gates which are Porta fenestralis Palatii and Porta Stercoraria he saith of the first Porta fenestralis Palatii non urbis sed potius Palatii fuisse crediderim and of the second Porta Stercoraria non urbis sed Capitolii plainly excluding these two last Gates from being of the number of the Gates of the City and plainly adding Porta triumphalis to the former number as one of the Gates of the City as not onely other authors doe account it but a ●●●ip Roma 〈…〉 pag. 54 elsewhere also as well as in this place himselfe affirmeth it to be as these his words doe witnesse Pars muri antiquitùs per medium Burgum girabat habebat duas portas Aureliam Triumphalem But for the greater evidence of this truth I will here set downe the names of these Gates recited by Onuphrius in manner following 1 Porta flumentana 2 Porta Collatina 3 Porta Quirinalis 4 Porta Viminalis 5 Porta Gabinia 1 Porta Esquilina 2 Porta Coelimontana 3 Porta Latina Divers of these Gates were called by other names also a● Onuphrius sheweth 4 Porta Capena 5 Porta Ostiensis 1 Porta Portuensis 2 Porta Janiculensis 3 Porta Sextimiana 4 Porta Aurelia 5 Porta Querquetularia 1 Porta Piacularis 2 Porta

quiden reverá non tam nominis Bestiae quàm Bestiae ipsius numerus est quomod● etiam statim vocatur Numerus autem nominis ide● tantùm dicitur quòd nominis Bestiae li●e●is in numeros relatis Deoita disponen●e contineatur Com Apocal. Cantabrigrae nup●r editus Nomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 numerum conficit à Sp sancto notatum numerum autem mysticum quo indicatur cusus prosapiae si● Bestia Idem pag. 216. divers learned Interpreters doe willingly acknowledge But as touching the chiefe and principall meaning that there may be found out such a kinde of interpretation as may be warranted by an expresse Example in the holy Scriptures And such an Interpretation as the precedent subsequent words of the text may not onely seem to admit of but necessarily to inforce and such an interpretation as doth essentially and accurately describe that state of government to which all other notes of Antichrist agree there is no way more probable or more agreeable to reason nor any way lesse repugnant to the writings of the chiefest interpreters then to prosecute the grounds already laid by those who haue indeavoured to finde out the mystery contained in this number by comparing it with the number 144 to which this number 666 is as it were the anti-numerus must therefore be interpreted after the same manner and in the same particulars applyed to the Synagogue of Antichrist as the number 144 ought to be interpreted and as it is in the Scriptures applied to the Church of Christ CAP. 2. That the mystery of the number 144 which is the number opposed to 666 consists in the square root of it which is 12 and that therefore the mystery of 666 must be in the square root of it also ANd now concerning the manner how this number 144 ought to be interpreted it is already agreed upon as it were by a general consent as well of the ancient as of the later interpreters that the only or at least the chief cause why this number was chosen rather then any other to be the measure of the wall of the celestiall Jerusalem is because this number is raised and built upon the number 12 which being multiplied into it selfe produceth this square number 144. For as this number 144 is raised and built upon the number of 12 onely and cannot possibly admit of any other number to be the root and basis of it as is evidently knowne to all that have skill in Arithmetick to count numbers and extract the roots of them so neither can the Church of Christ admit of any other foundation then that which is already laid by the 12 Apostles As therefore this number 144 is built upon 12 unities so is the Church of Christ upon the 12 Apostles And as the number of 12 is more conspicuous and remarkable in this number 144 then any other number because it measureth not onely the bottome or root but the sides and rankes of it also as will plainly appeare to any one that considereth and counteth the sides and unities of this square figure following where the number 144 is set down in due order the unities being placed according to right angles and equall distances one from another I say therefore as the number of 12 is more conspicuous and remarkeable in this figurated number consisting of 144 vnities then any other number soe it is evident that the number of 12 is more conspicuous and remarkeable in the Church of God then any other number whatsoever And hence it is that this number 12 is rehearsed and repeated above one hundred forty and foure times in the Scriptures and is in them so often used and in so many and so diverse particulars applied by the spirit to things pertaining to the Church that we cannot but acknowledge this number to be chosen and as it were affected by the Holy Ghost rather then any other And although the number 144 may truly bee said to be Gods number in a more particular manner then many other numbers used in the Scriptures because it representeth the figure of the Citty and in generall the forme and structure of the Church and Hierarchie thereof as shall be shewed yet it cannot so properly be called Gods number as the number 12 which almost in all materiall respects is applicable to the Church and is used in the Scriptures alwaies as numerus certus pro certo and not as numerus certus proincerto in which sense it must needs be granted that the number 144 doth signify and represent the Church in generall For it is not in it selfe being wholy considered applicable as the number 12 is to any particular times persons or places or other particular things mentioned in the Scriptures but only in respect of the root or basis of it which is 12. For there were 12 Tribes not 144 and 12 gates in Jerusalem not 144 and 12 Apostles not 144. And so it may be said of many other things And whereas the number 144 is no where mentioned in the Scriptures but only in the 21 of the Revelation it must needs be granted that it is not there said to be the measure of the Wall which doth in that place signify the spirituall building of Gods Church because there then were or at any time should be precisely so many no more faithfull Christians or living stones built upon the 12 foundations there named but that we might thence learne that how great or how little soever the number of faithfull Christians should be yet they must be all built upon the foundation of the 12 Apostles as the number 144 is built upon 12 unities And hence that is evident which most interpreters grant that this number 144 was chosen to be the measure of the wall of the new Ierusalem for this reason only or for this reason chiefly because it is the only square number which can be raised and built upon 12 unities as is clearly known to all those that haue understanding to extract the roots of numbers CHAP. 3. The manner of the interpretation more clearely yet cursorily proposed An introduction to the true interpretation of the number 144 and the measures of the new Hierusalem AND now although I may take this for granted for the reasons above rehearsed that this number 144 is not in it selfe any way particularly to be applied to Gods Church and people but only in respect of the number 12 which is the root and basis of it and so might accordingly proceed shewing that the number 666 is not in it selfe applicable to any Times Names Persons Places or other circumstances belonging to Antichrist as many vainely and fruitlessely have endeavoured to find out but only that the root of this number 666 whatsoever number it be must be the number which is in many particular respects applicable to the kingdome of Antichrist and that as the number 12 which is the square root of 144 is more properly said to be Gods number then