THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN illustrated with analysis and scholions wherein the sense is opened by the scripture & the event of things fore-told shewed by Histories. by BRIGHTMAN, Thomas.: - 1644

London, Samuel Cartwright, 1644.. FOURTH EDITION 1644 corrected and amended "with Supply of many things formerly left out". Small 4to, approximately 195 x 140 mm, 7¾ x 5½ inches, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, engraved pictorial title page with a border of 8 images from Revelations, 1 pictorial initial repeated a few times, pages: [8], 1-96, 99-490, 501-1088, jumps in pagination in all copies, register and text are continuous, collation: A-B2, C-4Z4, 5A-5V4, 6A-6K4, 7A-7P4, separate dated title page for the section on the Prophecies of Daniel and the section on the Commentary on the Canticles, bound in modern panelled speckled calf with blind decoration, raised bands to spine, gilt lettered and bordered red morocco label, new endpapers. Untidy early inscriptions on blank verso of frontispiece and blank final leaf, portrait and engraved title page have neat repairs to bottom margin, no loss of printed area, both well thumbed in margins, fore-edge margin trimmed on B1, no loss to text , a few very small closed edge tears to margins with neat repairs, very occasional light soiling, mainly to margins, small piece missing from corner of 4 pages, some pages lightly browned, small worm track to lower inner margin of Vvvv1 to Ccccc1, continuing as a tiny single hole to Kkkkk4, another area of worming in the same place from Nnnnn1 to Rrrrr1 continuing as a single hole to Aaaaaaa2, small ink stain on final leaf of text, no loss of legibility. A good copy. Divided into 4 sections: A Revelation of the Apocalypse; Against Bellarmine, touching Antichrist; Most comfortable exposition of the last and most difficult part of the Prophecie of Daniel; Commentary on the Canticles or the Song of Solomon. Thomas Brightman (15621607) was an English clergyman and biblical commentator. His exegesis of the Book of Revelation, published posthumously, proved influential. According to William M. Lamont, Brightman and Joseph Mede were the two most important revisionists of the interpretation and eschatology set down by John Foxe; among Brightman's contributions was to weaken the imperial associations tied to the Emperor Constantine I. The detailed reading, in favour of the Genevan and Scottish churches, and condemning the 'Laodicean' (lukewarm) Church of England, helped to move on the Puritan conceptions of church reform and its urgency... As a preacher he was celebrated, though his disaffection from the church establishment was no secret. Brightman persuaded himself and others that a work of his on the Apocalypse was written under divine inspiration. In it he makes the Church of England the Laodicean church, and the angel that God loved the church of Geneva and the kirk of Scotland. The main object of his system of prophecy in a commentary on Daniel, as well as in his book on the Apocalypse, was to prove that the pope is that anti-Christ whose reign is limited to 1290 days or years, and who is then foredoomed by God to utter destruction. (Wikipedia); ESTC R175601. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.