Commentary
The Wonderful Confirmation of the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697
Attributed to Thomas Beverley
A four-page 1697 tract using the lunar cycle to argue that the Beast’s forty-two months end, and the Kingdom of Christ succeeds, in 1697.
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Edition and location
The Wonderful Confirmation of the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 ([London], 1697), four-page tract without title page, author not named in the text; library cataloguing (EEBO/Wing) attributes it to Thomas Beverley. Caption title (p. 1) and the whole of p. 4 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-wonderful-confirmati_beverley-thomas_1697, leaves n0 and n3); pp. 1–3 propositions omitted and marked […]. An ink blot in this copy covers part of “Confirmation” in the caption title; the reading follows the catalogue title and the running text. 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, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage 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.
Caption title and p. 4