Mysteries discovered, or, A mercuriall picture pointing out the way from Babylon to the holy city for the good of all such as during that night of generall errour and apostasie, 2 Thes. 2.3. Revel. 3.10 have been so long misted with Romes hobgoblin / by me Paul Best ...

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Mysteries discovered, or, A mercuriall picture pointing out the way from Babylon to the holy city for the good of all such as during that night of generall errour and apostasie, 2 Thes. 2.3. Revel. 3.10 have been so long misted with Romes hobgoblin / by me Paul Best ...
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Best, Paul, 1590?-1657.
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[London :: s.n.],
1647.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Heresies, Christian -- History -- Modern period, 1500-
Socinianism.
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"Mysteries discovered, or, A mercuriall picture pointing out the way from Babylon to the holy city for the good of all such as during that night of generall errour and apostasie, 2 Thes. 2.3. Revel. 3.10 have been so long misted with Romes hobgoblin / by me Paul Best ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27527.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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CHAP. 6.

THus we may perceive how by iniquity of time the re∣all truth of God hath been trodden under foot by a verball kinde of Divinity, introduced by the Semi∣pagan Christians of the third Century in the Western Church, immediately upon the ceasing of the Heathenish Emperours, who for their open hostility were likened to a Lyon, 2 Tim. 4. 17. as their successors to a Dragon, for their serpentine subtilties, continuing 1260 years, begun by the first Nicen Councill about 328, and made Catholike by the Imperiall decree at Thessalonica, 342, Hist. Tripart. 9. 7. but that prescription is no plea against God, and God be thanked, the time of this generall Apostasie is expired, the mystery discovered, and the unity of God, Zach. 14. 9. come upon the stage, Covenant. The second particular, that I cannot forbeate but to cry out with the people, it is fallen, it is fallen, Babylon the great, whiles I perceive that first resurrection from Antichristian errour, as Napier, and the calling of the Jews comming so fast on, Rom. 11. 15, &c. to make one sheepfold, Joh. 10. 16. Wherefore to make the G. Whore stigmaticall, first, by her brand in the forehead, Reveal. 17. 5. by that which is in the very frontis∣piece of all the Catholiks Confessions concerning the Tri∣nity. Secondly, by prescription (or marke in her hand) thereunto Revel. 13. 16. Thirdly, by her seat and place notorious, by seven hils, and ten Kingdoms, 17. 9. Fourth∣ly, by that so well known name Latemos, 13. 18. as Moulin in his accomplishment of Prophecies. Fifthly, by her

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persecution of the Saints, 12, 13, 7, 17. 6. Dan. 17. 11. Sixt∣ly, by a heathenish Polytheosie of many Gods, and Apo∣theosie of a man-God. Seventhly, by her Tricotomy of the three Catholike professions, Revel. 16. 19. holding with the Whore in tail generall.

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