Commentary
The Beloved City, or, The Saints Reign on Earth a Thousand Yeares
Johann Heinrich Alsted (English translation attributed to William Burton)
English translation (London, 1643) of Johann Heinrich Alsted’s Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis (1627), a defence of a coming thousand-year reign of the saints on earth. Among its reasons it reckons from Daniel 12 that the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner.
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Edition and location
Johann Heinrich Alsted, The Beloved City, or, The Saints Reign on Earth a Thousand Yeares (London, 1643), the English translation of his Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis (1627), “Faithfully Englished” with notes (ESTC attributes the translation to William Burton); “The third Classis of Arguments”, “Reasons, or Consequences”, nos. VI–VII, p. 57 (heading p. 56). Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A25221). Long s (ſ) rendered s; TCP line-end hyphenation markers joined; page breaks joined; marginal notes and running heads omitted; roman and italic type not distinguished; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as keyed; omissions marked […].
Third class of arguments, reasons VI–VII, p. 57