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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the number 144 because it is a number which God would have conspicuous and remarkable in the founding of his Church and divers other respects both above that and all other numbers so in like manner that number which is the square root of the number 666 must more properly belong to Antichrist then the number 666 as a number which Antichrist would have conspicuous remarkable both in the founding of his Kingdome and also in divers other respects above any other number whatsoever although I say I might proceed to prosecute these grounds already laid and taken for granted by learned interpreters to shew what number is the root of the number 666 and how it doth accurately and essentially describe and characterize the Citty State and Hierarchie of Antichrist yet least J might seem to some to build that which I am fully perswaded and resolved to be a certaine infallible truth upon weake unsure grounds I will therefore yet farther cleare the manner of this interpretation before J touch the truth of its application And first that I may not rely upon the bare authority of others concerning the true and naturall exposition of the number 144 which in the 21 of the Revelation in which place onely it is named is said to be the measure of the wall of the new Ierusalem J will endeavour to make it manifest to such as have understanding and to such as will not shut their eyes against it that howsoever the number 144 is there expressed yet the number 12 is chiefly intended And that I may make this to appeare it is necessary that I say something of the Vision it selfe in generall pointing at that which this glorious structure of the new Jerusalem doth shadow forth unto us Concerning which although I am not ignorant that many ancient interpreters have affirmed that the glorious and happy estate of the Church triumphant in heaven is here set forth unto us yet as Mr Forbes and very a R●pertus in Apoc. Victorinus Pictaviensis qui scripsit Commētaria in Apoc. vixit anno 300. B. B. 1. 2. 10. Tom. 3. pag. 142. Andreas Episcop Caesariae in his Commētaries on the R●vel saith that this vision is typus p●aesen●is Ecclesiae many other writers both ancient and modern have observed all things in this Vision mentioned are so exactly applicable to the Church militant here on earth that almost from every line word there may be an argument drawn to prove that the Church militant and not the Church triumphant is chiefly by this description to be understood J should digresse too farr if I should stay to make this truth evident by such particular instances as might be brought out of the text And because J suppose it is sufficiently knowne to all those who have seriously studied to find out the true meaning of this Vision I will therefore instance only in the measures and numbers which as they seem most to disagree from this my interpretation so are they most to my purpose endeavouring to find out such a true and naturall exposition of them as shall not only be agreeable to the scope of the Vision in generall but also necessarily inforced by the words of the text immediatly going before and following after And although I know that this exposition which I shall bring will not seem probable to many that read it yet will I set it down howsoever lest upon their second and better consideration of such reasons probabilities as are brought for it they should judge it rather to be received then any other Especially being all other interpretations which are usually given of these measures are for the most part frivolous and frigid and such as carry such a kinde of emptinesse with them as is not agreeable to that weight of matter which seems to ballance the other parts of this Vision CHAP. 4. A disquisition concerning the Interpretation of the 16 and 17 verses of the 21 Chapter of the Revelation and a new exposition of the measures of the new Hierusalem THE words of the Text in which these measures of the City and Wall are expressed are these which follow in the 21 of the Revelation 16. And the City lyeth foure square and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the City with the reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the heighth of it are equall 17. And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty and foure Cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the Angell First it is to be considered that the furlongs and cubits here used by the Angell are in the last words said to be the measure of a man Wherefore it is diligently to be considered and enquired how many kindes of measuring by furlongs and cubits are used by men For there can no other cause be imagined why these words mensura hominis quae est angeli should have been added but that they should be an exposition to the former and as it were an answer to such doubts and objections as might arise from them It is likely therefore that the true interpretation of these words will be as a key to open all that is spoken concerning the measures above named Now if it had been said the cubits are the cubits of a man or the furlongs are the furlongs of a man then it had been probable that these words were added lest the just length of the furlongs or cubits should have been mistaken but forasmuch as it is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is the Measure of a man which the Angell useth The words seem to intimate that the danger of mistaking lieth rather in misunderstanding the manner of measuring by furlongs and cubits then in mistaking the true length of the measures which are named And if so then that manner of measuring which is here meant is not that which is most commonly used among men or in the scriptures For then there had been no danger of mistaking it or cause why this exposition should have been added It seems therefore that this kinde of measuring by furlongs and cubits which the Angell doth in this place use doth properly belong to a man and yet so that it is not that kinde of measuring which is most commonly and most ordinarily used either by men or in the scriptures And now to finde out what this not so usuall although most proper kinde of measuring is it is diligently to be enquired how many kindes of measuring by furlongs or cubits or by any other such like measures are at all vsed among men And upon this inquirie there are three kindes of measures and three only which will offer themselves to our consideration For as there are onely three severall kindes of quantities which are commonly called linea superficies corpus that is Length Breadth and Thicknesse so there are three kindes of measures used by men which are properly answerable to these three kindes of