Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht: containing a confutation of the three degrees of popery, viz. papacy, prelacy, and presbitery; answerable to the triple crowne of the three-headed Cerberus the Pope, with his three fold hierarchies aforesaid. With a dispelling of all other dispersed clouds of errour, which doth interpose the clear sun-shine of the Gospel in our horrizon. Wherein the chiefe arguments each of them have, for the vindication of their erronious tenents are incerted, and refuted; with a description of such whem [sic] the true Church of Christ doth consist of: as also how, and by whom, they may be gathered, and governed, according to the will, and appointment of Jesus Christ, and his apostles, in the primative purity thereof. By Iohn Spittlehouse, assistant to the Marshall Generall of the Army, under the command of his Excellency, the Lord Generall Fairfax. Imprimated by Theod. Jennings, and entred in the Stationers Hall.

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  • Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht: containing a confutation of the three degrees of popery, viz. papacy, prelacy, and presbitery; answerable to the triple crowne of the three-headed Cerberus the Pope, with his three fold hierarchies aforesaid. With a dispelling of all other dispersed clouds of errour, which doth interpose the clear sun-shine of the Gospel in our horrizon. Wherein the chiefe arguments each of them have, for the vindication of their erronious tenents are incerted, and refuted; with a description of such whem [sic] the true Church of Christ doth consist of: as also how, and by whom, they may be gathered, and governed, according to the will, and appointment of Jesus Christ, and his apostles, in the primative purity thereof. By Iohn Spittlehouse, assistant to the Marshall Generall of the Army, under the command of his Excellency, the Lord Generall Fairfax. Imprimated by Theod. Jennings, and entred in the Stationers Hall.
  • Rome ruin'd by Whitehall Emblem of Antichrist in his three fould hirerchyes of papacy, prelacy, & presbytery
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Imprint
Printed at London: by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold at his house in Goold [sic] Smiths Alley in Redcrosse Street, 1650. [i.e. 1649]
Publication year
1649
ESTC No.
R203633
Grub Street ID
80729
Description
[36], 80, 73-360, [4] p., : ill ; 4⁰
Note
First leaf bears a verse explanation of the frontispiece.

Frontis. illustration (pi2) has caption: An emblem of Antichrist in his three fould hirerchyes of papacy, prelacy, & presbytery ..

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb. 31."; the 50 in imprint date has been altered to 49.Citation/references Wing (2nd ed.), S5013

Thomason, E.586[2]