3. It is said, the wound here given, was healed, to the admiration of the world: Now certain it is, the wound given by the Goths and Vandals, it was never healed to this day: but the Eastern part was swallowed up by the Turk. And for the Emperors of the West, Charles the great, and his Successors, though they healed a branch of it, yet it was far off from healing the wound of the Roman Empire, those wounds have decayed, and fall short of that which was the admiration of the Nations: Nor was it the healing of this wound from the first time it was given, that was the admiration of the world. Therefore it must be some head that was so wounded, as all the world wondered at it, and were captive to it; You heard it was not the Roman Christian Emperors, it must be him that claims to be head over all the Churches, and who is that but Pontifex maximus? It was that which Theodosius abhorred, he thought it an unworthy style for a Christian Emperor to be accounted the great high Priest of the Church; but what he laid down, they willingly took up, to be accounted the great Pastor of the Church, and therefore he is the head of the Church: For if it be neither Pagan nor Christian Emperors, it must be the government that succeeded them, they were the sixth, and he is the seventh: It is the seventh head that was thus wounded, and whose wound was afterward healed.
3. It is said, the wound here given, was healed, to the admiration of the world: Now certaine it is, the wound given by the Goths and Vandalls, it was never healed to this day: but the Eastern part was swallowed up by the Turk. And for the Emperors of the West, Charles the great, and his Successors, though they healed a branch of it, yet it was far off from healing the wound of the Roman Empire, those wounds have decayed, and fall short of that which was the admiration of the Nations: Nor was it the healing of this wound from the first time it was given, that was the admiration of the world. Therefore it must be some head that was so wounded, as all the world wondered at it, and were captive to it; You heard it was not the Roman Christian Emperors, it must be him that claimes to be head over all the Churches, and who is that but Pontifex maximus? It was that which Theodosias abhor'd, he thought it an unworthy style for a Christian Emperour to be accounted the great high Priest of the Church; but what he laid down, they willingly took up, to be accounted the great Pastor of the Church, and therefore he is the head of the Church: For if it be neither Pagan nor Christian Emperours, it must be the government that succeeded them, they were the sixth, and hee is the seventh: It is the seventh head that was thus wounded, and whose wound was afterward healed.
