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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54594	The revelation unvailed, or, An essay towards the discovering I. When many Scripture prophesies had their accomplishment, and turned into history, II. What are now fulfilling, III. What rest still to be fulfilled, with a guess at the time of them : with an appendix, proving that pagan Rome was not Babylon, Rev. 17, and that the Jews shall be converted / by Samuel Petto.	Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1901; ESTC R33395	87,755	184

nothing else but the Kingdom of Babylon and the power of the strong hunter Nimroth when they Burnt Luthers works he burnt the Bishop of Romes Law and the Decree then lately published openly Ib. l. 2. So Calvin Melancthon Zwinglius and many others as well as Luther scorched men with Fire as Rev. 16. 8. and this is a sure Direction when this Vial was poured out viz. when men by their Preachings Writings Disputations c. denounced Fire and Brimstone and the greatest Torments against such Worshippers and so it is explained Rev. 14. v. 9 10 11. If any worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his fore-head i. e. openly or in his hand i. e. secretly v. 10. The same shall drink the Wine of the Wrath of God poured out without mixture and shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone which was clearly fulfilled in Luther and Calvins time How many Countreys and Kingdoms by such Preaching fell off from Rome and took up Reformation as desiring to preserve themselves from that Fire which therefore scorched the Papal party After a Disputation Religion was Reformed not only at Bernes but also proclaimed by Magistrates in sundry places thereabouts Masses Altars Images abolished in all places They wrote the day and year wherein they forsook the Popish Religion upon a Pillar in Golden Letters that it might be an everlasting memorial to their Posterity Likewise they of Geneva did imitate them of Bernes wherefore the Bishop and Clergy forsook the City in anger Then the Reformers began to be called Protestants of whom there were seven Princes The Protestants made a League that if any did stand in danger for Religion one might help another Ib. li. 6. Another symptom of its being then poured out is the great following persecutions raised by the Bestians being incensed by the torment of this fire as Rev. 14. 12. Here is the Patience of the Saints i. e. here at this time is the tryal of their patience that even death it self shall be desireable v. 14. Blessed are the dead answerable to which in the fourth Vial it is said Rev. 16. 9. men were scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of God and repented not All which was manifestly accomplished for after Luther and Calvin and others had proclaimed fire against the worshippers of the Beast they repented not witness the Council of Trent wherein they sought to establish their Abominations and then followed the great and sore Persecutions in most Kingdoms of the Beast in the West as France Spain Germany Bohemia England all which give evidence that then the fourth Vial was poured out 5. The fifth Vial is poured out upon the Throne of the Beast Rev. 16. 10. and the effect is his Kingdom is full of Darkness and they have anguish and indignation gnawed their Tongues Throne either is the Government of the Beast his Soveraignty and Authority as Psal 89. 36 37. Psal 122. 5. and if it be taken thus then this Vial might be poured when the Popes Supremacy was cast off by Protestant Princes as Hen. VIII Edw. VI. Q. Eliz. Duke of Saxony Brandenburgh and when Popish Orders and Branches of that Government were rejected The German Princes told the Popes Ambassadors they acknowledged not his authority in such matters and Q. Elizabeth would not suffer them to come into the Land Sympson of the Church p. 408. Or the Throne of the Beast most properly is the chief place of his residence wherein he appeareth in his highest Majesty and Glory And this Vial was poured out upon Germany or the German Empire since Ann. 1600. especially by Gustavus Adolphus I know many think the City of Rome to be the Throne of the Beast which this Vial falleth upon but the City of Rome is the Woman Rev. 17. 18. or whore of Babylon which sitteth upon the Beast v. 3. and so cannot be the Throne which the Beast sitteth upon And the more improbable is it that Rome should be this Throne for when a Vial cometh upon that it is with an utter destruction Rev. 18. and so it is by the sixth Vial whereas the fifth Vial doth not destroy but darken the Kingdom of the Beast It will be hard or impossible to prove that the Throne of the Two-horned Beast the Pope is intended here and if it be of the Ten-Horned Beast then although the Throne of the Dragon was given into his possession yet he made it not as his Throne For when the Beast was very young the Emperour did not take up his residence at Rome but at Ravenna Sigon de Reg. Ital. 1. speaking of Ravenna saith Postremo Honorius eam sibi atque Occidentis Imperio sedem urbe Rom. relicta constituit quod institutum Successores quoque illius tam Imperatores Rom quam Reges Gotthorum custodierunt That as Honorius was enthroned not at Rome but at Ravenna so other Emperours till Augustulus Ann. 475. and then there were no Emperours in the West or at Rome till Carol. Magn. Ann. 800. Neither have the Emperours ever since to this day made the City of Rome their Seat or Throne but Germany and there are seven Electoral Heads and Ten Horns or Provinces in the West as the Beast Let the Throne then upon which this fifth Vial falleth be Germany especially seeing the event doth admirably answer there to all that is said of this fifth Vial. For the Case was thus as it 's said Some Seeds of Division being sown by the proscribing and forcing Donawerdt on the occasion of a Tumult at a Procession there and mastering Gulick the German Protestants received the Alarm and assembled at Hall and the Catholicks at Wirtsburgh This quickly did fly like Wild-fire filled all Germany and involved all Europe in a prodigious War some compare it with that of Zisca and the Bohemians I shall give some short account of it out of J. Parival History of the Iron Age and shall refer to the Book it self for a larger and fuller discovery of it He speaketh much in favour of the Papists but declareth himself in this manner I abhor to begin the Discourse of the longest and most cruel War that ever was in Christendom and which drew more Blood more altered the Christian Faith and caused more ruine and desolation than all that ever were in Europe ib li. 3. c. 1. And Ann. 1630. Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden invited by the Germans incited by France England Venice the United Provinces as also by his own peculiar interests entered Germany with an Army was sure of his Allies and of the inclination of all the Protestants whose Cause and Religion he came to defend King Gustave takes Francfort beats the Imperialists cleansed Pomerania Ambassadours of the Princes Imperial Towns and Protestants States treated an Alliance with King Gustave These sparkles encompassed all Germany with a Fire which lasted till the year 1649. ib. cap. 17 18 19 20. Gustave worsted Tilly before the Fort of Werbern being joined