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Title:  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 ...
Author: Potter, Francis, 1594-1678.
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not only shew the first originall number of Cardinals or Anti-apostles, but doth also intimate that they are according to divers spirituall sen∣ses, the Gates, Angells, and Foundations of the Popes mysticall City, State, and Hierarchy; and doth also shew, how many furlongs in com∣passe the City of Rome should be; how many Gates it was to have about it; how many Chur∣ches for Baptisme in it; how many Pastors did first exercise Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction over it; into how many Titles, or Parishes it was first divided, and unto how many heads and Arti∣cles Christian religion should be there augmen∣ted; being, I say, this one number 25, doth not in one, nor in two, nor in three onely, but in all these particulars, and in all senses in every one of these particulars, truly and evidently, Num¦ber, Measure, Describe, and Characterise the City, State, and Hierarchy of Rome, and that state and City onely; so that it is not so fitly applica∣ble to any other state and City, no not in any one thing fitly answering any one of those six particulars above mentioned: then how can a∣ny man desire a more essentiall and exact de∣scription of the Papacie, then the right applica∣tion of this number 25, plainly exhibits to him, that doth fully understand it? or how can any 0