The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

REVEL. CHAP. XVII.

MYSTICAL Babylon pictured with the colours of the old Babylon, Rome so cal∣led, as being the mother of Idolatry, as Babel was the beginning of Heathenism, and the mother of persecution: Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, so did Rome, and made ha∣vock of the Church continually.

She is resembled to a woman deckt with gold, &c. as Isa. 14. 4. sitting upon a seven∣headed and ten-horned Beast; as Chap. 13. 1. Which Beast was and is not and yet is, it shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go to perdition. Rome under the Papacy was not the same Rome it had been, and yet it was: Not Rome Heathen and Imperial as it had been before, and yet for all evil, Idolatry, persecution, &c. the same Rome to all purposes. It is plainly described as sitting upon seven hills, upon which there is hardly a Roman Poet or Historian, but makes a clear comment. The seven heads denoted also seven Kings or kinds of Govern∣ment that had passed in that City: Five are fallen, vers. 10. Kings, Consuls, Tribunes, Dictators, Triumvirs: and one then was when John wrote, namely Emperors: And one not yet come, Christian Emperors, which continued but a short space before the Beast came which was and is not. He is the eight and he of the seven: They that hold Rome to be the fourth Monarchy in Daniel, cannot but also hold from this place, that that Mo∣narchy is not yet extinct. The ten horns upon the Beast in Dan. 7. 24. are ten Kings ari∣sing and succeeding one another in the same Kingdom: but here at ver. 12. they are ten several Kingdoms, all subject to the Beasts both Imperial and Papal, but at last shall rise up against the mystical Whore and destroy her. It is like there must yet be conversion of some Kingdoms from the Papacy, before it fall.