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B09229	The apocalyps unveyl'd, or, A paraphrase on the Revelation of the holy apostle and evangelist John the Devine in which the syncronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the expositions of other interpreters are called in question, and a new exposition given of the prophecies of the Revelation, never before extant in any author, from the 6th chapter to the 18th, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by An Orthodox Divine.	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1224; ESTC R202384	176,063	254

is seven kinds of Governours succeeding one another First Kings Secondly Consuls Thirdly Dictators Fourthly Decemvirs Fifthly Military Tribunes Sixthly Emperours Seventhly Popes therefore 3. The City whose five first heads were fallen in the Apostles time one then was and the other not then come is the City mentioned in this place v. 10. but Rome and no other City in the World had five heads fallen in the Apostles time First Kings Secondly Consuls Thirdly Dictators Fourthly Decemvirs Fifthly Military Tribunes one then in being to wit the Emperours and the other not then come that is the Popes therefore 4. The City which in the Apostles time reigned over the Kings of the earth is the City that is meant in this place as the last verse doth demonstrate but Rome and no other City in the World reigned over the Kings of the earth in the Apostles time therefore Rome and no other City in the World is Babylon mentioned in this place And these be the Arguments for the Affirmative which to my thinking are very fair ones and somewhat probable insomuch that the Jesuites themselves have confessed that by Babylon Rome is meant Ribera saith thus Scriptores qui aliter interpretati fuerant veritate ipsa coguntur nobis facere Romam esse hanc urbem fornicariam vastandam evertendam Ribera in cap. 17. § 20.22 that is the Writers which had otherwise interpreted before are compelled by the truth it self to make Rome to be this whorish City which is to be wasted and destroyed Bellarmin also saith thus Babylon urbs illa magna sedens super septem montes habens imperium super reges terrae est Roma Neque enim alia civitas est quae Johannis tempore imperium habuerat super reges terra quam Roma notissimum est supra septem montes Romam aedificatam esse Bellarmin lib. 2. de Pont. Rom. cap. 2. that is Babylon the great City sitting upon seven hills and Reigning over the Kings of the earth is Rome for there is no other City which in Johns time Reigned over the Kings of the earth but Rome and it is very well known that Rome was built on seven hills so he notwithstanding the confession of these men and the probability of the former Arguments I think it my duty not to rest here but that I may deal impartially in this point and discover to the reader what may be said against it as well as for it I crave leave to set down such Arguments as have come into my mind for the Negative in the next Section Arguments for the Negative §. 2. 1. This Prophecy was written in behalf of Asia and should in all likelihood belong to them but what hath Rome to do with Asia it neither stands in Asia nor on the borders of it nor hath any thing to do therewith and if it be said that Constantinople is not in Asia neither hear what Scaliger saith of it Europae impositae haec Asiaeque objecta potenti Limes uirique olim nunc utriusque caput In Europe set against potent Asia placed of old the bound and now the head of both 2. Where shall we find seven Hills in Rome and no more Heathen Rome had so many whose names are reckoned in the former Section but besides these there were three more added to the City afterward whereof the first was called collis hortulorum the Hill of Gardens the second mons aureus the Golden Mountain the third Vaticanus the Vatican Mountain so that Rome first and last had ten in all and as for Papal Rome that now is it hath but two and no more 3. Is there no City in the world which hath seven Hills but Rome if there be as indeed there is for Constantinople stands on seven Hills at this day and so many other Cities too for ought we know therefore let not men be too peremptory in this point but consider what they say 4. The seven heads be seven Kings but where shall we find so many Kings in Rome and no more For if we take Kings properly and understand thereby so many Monarchs as the ten Kings v. 12. are taken properly for so many Monarchs where shall we find so many Kings in Rome and no more Heathen Rome had Kings and Emperours before Popes began but they were more then seven and Papal Rome hath not one 5. Suppose by seven Kings be meant seven kinds of Governours as 't is commonly interpreted where shall we find so many kinds in Rome For Heathen Rome had not so many and Papal Rome hath but one and it is not likely that Heathen Rome and Papal too should be meant in this place 6. But let us joyn them both together and take Rome in its latitude as it compriseth Heathen Rome and Papal too yet where shall we find so many kinds of Governours in Rome Kings Consuls Dictators Decemvirs Military Tribunes Emperours and Popes make not up the number For the Dictators differed not from Kings but in name Godwins Antiquities p. 171.174 175. and in continuance of their office and the Kings differed not from Emperours but in name and if these three be but one kind of Governours where then be the other six 7. There is a great difference between the Roman Beast and the Roman State now 't is true the Roman State had many heads but the Roman Beast that is the Roman Empire had but one and that is the Emperours and no more 8. None of the seven heads which the Prophecy speake h of did live and rule together but the Dictators lived and ruled with some of the Consuls while they stood Helvicus pag. 66.68 and also with some of the Tribunes while they stood and therefore the Dictators and the Consuls be none of the heads which the Prophecy speaketh of 9. Every one of these heads which the Prophecy speaketh of be long lasting heads and of long continuance except the seventh but the Dictators were but for half a year and they were never chosen but when the common-weal was in some great trouble or danger and at half a years end under pain of Treason they yielded up their office 10. Every one of these heads be the heads of a Beast that is of an Empire for that 's the meaning of the word Beast as appears Dan 7.17.23 but the Consuls Dictators Decemvirs and Military Tribunes were not the heads of an Empire but of a Common-weal for Rome was not an Empire till the Emperours began and the first of them was Julius Caesar 11. Every one of these heads were supreme heads and not subject to the power and authority of others but the Consuls Dictators c. were subject to the Senate and under their Command and therefore they be not the heads here spoken of 12. None of these heads did rise again after they were fallen except the eighth but the Consuls whom they reckon for the second head did rise again after they were fallen For first the Decemvirs did