Lingua testium: : wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 1620-1687.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.

Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Divine right of kings--Early works to 1800.

Continuity of the church--Anglican Communion--Early works to 1800.

Eschatology--Early works to 1800.

Eschatology.

Monarchy--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Religion and state--England--Early works to 1800.

Religion and state.

Monarchy.

Continuity of the church--Anglican Communion.

Divine right of kings.

England.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 47 pages, 3 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

[London : publisher not identified, 1651]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Testis-Mundus Catholicus = Edmund Hall.

Place of publication from Wing.

With a final errata leaf.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "July.1.".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 97:E632[22]) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) H327.

Thomason E.632[22].

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