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An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…
An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent servant of the Lord, Mr. John Cotton ... ; taken from his mouth in short-writing, and some part of it corrected by himself soon after the preaching thereof ; and all of it since viewed over by a friend to him ... wherein some mistakes were amended, but nothing of the sense altered.
London: printed for Tim. Smart, 1656
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
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Take all other Monarchies that the Scripture describes, the Leopard of Greece, the Lyon of Babel, and the Bear of Persia, and they are either of them but a beastly state, but here all these Beasts are mingled and confounded in one: And besides, It hath seven heads, and ten horns. A Leopard, a Lyon, and a Bear, they are orderly creatures, according to some Institution: But here is a Beast that runs besides all institution, and description of Scripture, and societies of men that ever was raised. The Catholic visible Roman Church, is the most monster; God forbid we should blaspheme any Church, but I do but speak Scripture; Let the world be judg, if the Scripture can be accommodated to any but to this Roman-Catholic mother Church. It is evident in Scripture, these seven heads, and ten horns, must be some Roman State, the Roman Pagan State it cannot be, nor yet the Roman Christian State, and a Roman State it is: but there hath been no other Roman State, but the Roman-Catholic visible Church, and that hath claimed such great power and authority, which is doubtless as incompatible to Scripture as may be, which by the wit of man hath not been invented, but by the Dragon; and yet so goodly in the eyes of the world, which great Princes are deluded and besotted withal, and happy they that can be reconciled to that State.
Take all other Monarchies that the Scripture describes, the Leopard of Greece, the Lyon of Babell, and the Bear of Persiae, and they are either of them but a beastly state, but here all these Beasts are mingled and confounded in one: And besides, It hath seven heads, and ten horns. A Leopard, a Lyon, and a Beare, they are orderly creatures, according to some Institution: But here is a Beast that runs besides all institution, and description of Scripture, and societies of men that ever was raised. The Catholick visible Roman Church, is the most monster; God forbid we should blaspheme any Church, but I do but speak Scripture; Let the world be judg, if the Scripture can be accommodated to any but to this Roman-Catholick mother Church. It is evident in Scripture, these seven heads, and ten horns, must be some Roman State, the Roman Pagan State it cannot be, nor yet the Roman Christian State, and a Roman State it is: but there hath been no other Roman State, but the Roman-Catholick visible Church, and that hath claimed such great power and authority, which is doubtlesse as incompatible to Scripture as may be, which by the wit of man hath not been invented, but by the Dragon; and yet so goodly in the eyes of the world, which great Princes are deluded and besotted withall, and happy they that can be reconciled to that State.