Commentary
A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1693 tract arguing from the oath of Revelation 10 that the Kingdom of Christ must enter its succession in 1697, the date he says he had “so often fixed”.
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Edition and location
T. Beverley, A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ: Demonstrating from that Solemn Oath of Christ, Rev. X. … It must needs enter its Succession 1697 (London: Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street, and John Salusbury, at the Rising Sun in Corn-hill, 1693). Title page (leaf n0) and pp. 27–28, from “Object. 2d.” to “shall come to pass at 1697.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-fresh-memorial_beverley-thomas_1693, leaves n32–n33). The printed forms “begnn”, “Time ot a former Date” and “beginning at 1597” are kept as printed. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
Title page; pp. 27–28