Commentary
A Brief Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome, That Shortly Is to Come into the World
William Aspinwall
Fifth Monarchist tract by William Aspinwall (London, 1653) describing the coming kingdom of Christ on earth. Its closing prognostic sets 1673 as the uttermost end of Antichrist’s dominion.
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Aspinwall: Antichrist’s dominion ends by 1673, the Fifth Monarchy a little before · commentary →
Edition and location
William Aspinwall, A Brief Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome, That Shortly Is to Come into the World (London: M. Simmons for Livewell Chapman, 1653), concluding “Prognostick” on the time, p. 14 to the end. Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A75729). 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 […]. Checked against the Internet Archive page image (bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-brief-description-of-t_aspinwall-william_1653, leaf n17). Two keying defects corrected from the print: “Chr ſt” read “Christ”; the reference keyed “Dan. 7.11 24.26.” prints with a comma and is given as “Dan. 7.11.24.26,”. The print also has “Kingdomes It” without a stop, retained.
p. 14 to the end