1633 THOMAS TAYLOR. Christ's Victory and Satan's Downfall. Rare Puritan on Revelation 12. 800+pp!

Very scarce and desirable work on the triumph of Christ over Satan on behalf of the people of God; a rare sustained eschatological exposition of the period.  Thomas Taylor [1576-1632] was educated at Cambridge, where he was chosen fellow. The son of pious parents of independent tendencies, his father having shown generosity to silenced ministers as the recorder in their hometown of Richmond [Yorkshire]. He was also publicly sympathetic to and generous toward exiles of the persecuted Scottish church.  It was no surprise then that Thomas was of a puritan mind and disposition. While at Cambridge, he excelled and was, while yet a student, chosen fellow and Hebrew lecturer of the College. For his non-conformity, he was for some time silenced, and threatened to be degraded, for a sermon which he preached in St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, from Canticles, v. 7. ”The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me.” W