John Napier Quotes

33 Proposition. The armies of Gog and Magog (cap. 20) are all one with the armies of the sixt Trumpet and sixt Viall.

32 Proposition. Gog is the Pope, and Magog is the Turkes and Mahometanes.

31 Proposition. The visible marks of the Beast, are the abused characters, of λρς and crosses of all kindes, taken out of the number of the first beasts name.

30 Proposition. The marke of the Romane beast, is that invisible profession of servitude and obedience, that his subjects hath professed to his Empire, since the first beginning thereof, noted afterward by the Pope, with divers visible markes.

29 Proposition. The name of the beast expressed by the number 666. (cap. 13.) is the name λαγεινος onely.

28 Proposition. The image of the Beast, is these degenerate Princes, that in name onely were called Roman Emporours, and were neither Romans of blood, nor Emperours of Magnanimitie.

27 Proposition. The image, marke, name, and number of the beast: are of the first great Romane beast, and whole Latine impyre universallie, and not of the second beaste, or Antichrist alone in particular.

26 Proposition. The Pope is that only Antichrist, prophecied of, in particular.

25 Proposition. The two horned Beast, is the Antichrist and his kingdome, it alone.

24 Proposition. The great ten-horned beast, is the whole bodie of the Latine Empire, whereof the Antichrist is a part.

23 Proposition. The Whoore, who in the Revelation is Stiled Spirituall Babylon, is not reallie Babylon, but the verie present Citie of Rome.

22 Proposition. The Woman clad with the Sunne (chap. 12) is the true Church of God.

21 Proposition. The two witnesses mentioned (Reve.11) are the two Testamĕts, and (metonymicè) the whole true professors thereof.

20 Proposition. Gods Temple, although in heaven, is also taken for his holy Church among his heavenly Elect upon the earth, and metonymicè for the whole contents thereof.

19 Proposition. The foure beasts are the foure Evangelles with all the true writers and professors thereof.