Commentary
The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering its Succession at 1697
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1689 Calendar of Time, drawn from the four monarchies and the time, times and half time of the Papacy, and carrying on his Scripture Line of Time. It sets the succession of the Kingdom of Christ between “the present 1689” and 1697, counting the last half time of 180 years from 1517.
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T. Beverley, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering its Succession at 1697. According to a Calendar of Time (Printed in the Year 1689). Title page (leaf n0), the General Preface, first paragraphs, from “The Preface I intend” to “the Stage of Power” (leaf n12), and p. 61, from “Being thus assur’d then” to “the first Trumpet.” (leaf n78) (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-kingdom-of-jesus-chr_beverley-thomas_1689). The running head of the discourse is “A Scripture Line of Time.” “Intencion” and “Costantine” 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; General Preface; p. 61