Far off, and fearless Fearless, yet keeping distance though undaunted, yet wary in approaching. whence this is taken, are of Opinion, that as Satan was, after his Rebellion, thrown out of Heaven in the beginning of time, so towards the end of it and the World, he shall be beaten out of his lower Dominion usurpt by him, and be no longer Prince of the Air, here called his second rout.

When the Dragon put to second rout Interpreters of Revel.

John, in the Island Patmos, whither he was banish'd by Domitian about the 14th Year of his Reign, 64 Years after the Death of our Saviour, and four Years before his own, as the Chronologers relate. This obscure Discovery was written by St. Apocalyps, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a Discovery, a Revealing of hidden Mysteries, thence translated the Revelations, of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to discover, tho' still extreamly obscure, like those Acroatick parts of Aristotle's Philosophy, which he says were 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. John (who though in the Front of the Revelation he be named the Divine) is yet held to be the same who writ the Gospel called by his Name, as Ire∣naeus, Hieronymus, Eusebius and others affirm the difference of the style being no more, than that in the one, he has used that of a Prophet and in the other, that of an Historian. WHO saw th'Apocalyps Who in a Vision saw the Revelation of what was to befal the Church of God to the end of the World.

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