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Excerpt from The Divine History of the Church; Or a Catechism of the Apocalypse: With a Plan of the Apocalyptic Drama, and a Chronological Table of the Principal Events Prefigured Arranged According to the Apocalyptic Time To the generality of Christians the Apocalypse is as much a Sealed Book as if the Lamb had never prevailed to open the Seals. They have a vague idea that the Church of Rome is the mystical Baby lon, and is in some way or other to be destroyed; that the final judgment is foretold in Chap. XX. And the happiness of heaven in Chapters XXI. And xxii. But this is the extent of their knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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