Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. To the Reader xi
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. 1. “Quaterniond into their celestiall Princedoms”: The Orders of the Angels 1
7. 2. “Ascending by Degrees Magnificent”: Connections Between Heaven and Earth 31
8. 3. “The Exact Compute of Time”: Estimates of the Year of Creation 52
9. 4. “Those mysterious things they observe in numbers”: Approaches to Numerology 64
10. 5. “With his face towards Heaven”: The Upright Form of Man 83
11. 6. “The first promise made to man”: The Edenic Origins of Protestantism 90
12. 7. “That great and indisputable miracle”: The Cessation of the Oracles 105
13. 8. “The beast with many heads”: Views on the Multitude 124
14. 9. “The bloody and cruell Turke”: The Judgments of God in History 137
15. 10. “A palpable hieroglyphick”: The Fable of Pope Joan 152
16. 11. “A horror beyond our expression”: The Dimensions of Hell 182
17. 12. “A Principle of infinite Love”: The Salvation of Satan 200
18. Index nominum 219
19. Index rerum 235