A Table of the X. first Persecutions of the Primitive time of Tiberius, unto Constantinus Emperor depiction of martyrs The Christians cruelly thrown down the mountaine●. 58. Christians driven by the mountains. 45. 102. And so failing down upon sharp stakes. The Christians with swords thrust through. 44. Their brains beaten out with Ma●les. 59 The Christians stoned to death. 44. 94. 115. The Christians stabbed in with forks. 44. 116. Matur●s and Sanctus fried in an iron chair. 62. Some burnt with their entrails torn out. 44. Peter the Apostle hanged upon the Cross. 44. Laurence laid upon the Gr●●yr●● by Galienus, or Decius. 93. The Christians most cruelly thrust through, 116. This side is now rolled enough● turn up, O tyrant great, etc. 93. depiction of angels and a man standing on a skull and crossbones ad hoc. ab hoc. per hoc. Xlii Months. Revelat. xi. three years and a half. three days and a half. Revelat. xi. A time, times, and half a time. Revelat. xii. M.CC.LX days. Revelat. xii. The tying and losing again of Satan. Revelat. xx. THese Persecutions in the Primitive Church lasted two hundred ninety four years, counting from the the holy City xlii. months. And again in the xiii. Chapter: And power was given to the Beast to Wherein is to be noted the error of them, which taking these xlii. months simply (as the letter Scripture, and so they make ccxciiii. years: During the time of which years, Antichrist then The like understanding also hath the three days and a half mentioned in the Revelation, Chap. xi. And so whether ye count by months or by days, both ways it giveth a time, times, and half a in the Revelation, chap. 12. Furthermore, where in the said Revelation of S. john, chap. 12. mention is made of M.cclx. days, it cometh likewise Note moreover, that after the time of these Persecutions expired, S. john in the said book of his Revelation, chap. xx. doom of the Turks first began under Ottomannus, wasting and destroying then the Churches of Asia, and afterward of