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ON

THE APOCALYPSE;

WITH

ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM

ENGLISH HISTORY.

SECOND EDITION,

WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS,

BY

R. B. SANDERSON.

Nephew of Ford Chancellor Eldon; and late
a Fellow of Griel College, Oxford.

"Not a novice."-1 Timothy, chap. iii., ver. 6.

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NEWCASTLE:

FINLAY AND CHARLTON;

OLIPHANT AND SON, EDINBURGH; W. CURRY AND CO., DUBLIN ;
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., LONDON.

1838.

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of the two allusions above mentioned is at the bottom of the Third Page of the soldion's Letter to his Colonel "But if this Poperic continuive they will be younge "Popes doubtlesse, and poperie itself will growe up " againe : the Wounde of the first Beaste will be heated " in that the Seconde shall doo the same things which " the firste hath done". The other allusion is in the 7th page of Letter D; for there is no raging employed anywhere. – The Soldier says to his Companion; "That Olde Doctor Turner (reverende in other Nations. "abroad for his great learning, and amongste the "godly at home for his great heale, his travailes, his perils so long sustained, this great constancil) "did almoste thirtie geares ago espie, and bewre bewray " Into the Worlde, the Crafte of Satan, that laboured "to make poperie policie, and so to gre aboute to cure "The wounde of the beast, which being in itselfinen"rable, schold get in another beast be cured: who " shoulde doc all things that the first beast could "doe before him, and so, after a sorte shoude cause " men to worship the first blast, whose deadly wounde " was in this seconde healed. His invention was pretie " and pleasaunte of the croppecared Fope, who now " was become the vinge's Beast, and the Kinger "Game that no man might he sit it; wherein he wor"thilie reproved that foolish policie." - The above Dr Turner, born in the early part of the reign of Newry!!!!! Physicians a Divine - compelled tremigrate on account of his Religions principles in the days Both of Henry & of Mary - and though more Ja YuNewcastle: printed by Pattison and Ross. than could have please) Elizabeth, he contrived to retain the Deanory of Well smutil his deach. There is a full accomet of hime he Tanner's "Bibliotheca Britannico - Hibernica," from which it appears that his Book : entitled "The Huntynge and finding out of the theo-"

was both a

-vitale

" – mish Fox which more than seven yeares hath been
"hyd among
the Bishops of Englande, after that the King's
"Highness hall commanded hym to be dryven oute of the tealm
"Basil. 800. MDXL]ll. sub nomime Will. Wraughton.
7019 there was no copy of

Down to
Turner's Book at the

British Museum. (since the above note was written &

copy of Turner's Book has come into my possession, and

I suspect it to be the same mentioned in Mott Heber's Catalogue

Bibliotheca Heberiana - Part second No. 6375.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE first of these Essays was originally published under the title of "The Church of England identified," and contains a sketch of the history of that church, from its origin to the time of the Restoration. The second, entitled “ The Seven Vials,” is a continuation of the outline of that history from the Restoration down to the present period; and the third, under the name of "Babylon," comprises a more extended view of the question of Church and State generally, and of the Conservative system as connected therewith.

Such are the subjects of the following Essays. It may be expected, further, that we should give some intimation, at least, wherein this edition of them differs from the preceding one. That difference will chiefly be found in the Illustrations, which are entirely new; have been selected with great care from a great variety of sources; and form altogether such a body of Historical evidence, as, it is apprehended, the most determined

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