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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ: By degrees.
1. In the year 555. the Lord stirred up Justinian, who by his Generals, Belisarius and Morses, drove and destroyed the Goths out of Italy.
1. In the yeare 555. the Lord stirred up Justinian, who by his Generalls, Belisarius and Morses, drove and destroyed the Goths out of Italy.
2. By Justinian's novel Constitutions, we decree according to the Canons of the holy Councils, the most holy Bishop of old Rome to be the first (or to have the Primacy) of all Priests.
2. By Justinians novell Constitutions, we decree according to the Canons of the holy Councels, the most holy Bishop of old Rome to be the first (or to have the Primacy) of all Priests.
3. Phocas the Parricide about fifty years after, about the year 606. healed up the wound, granting to Boniface the third, that he should be universal Bishop, not only the first in order, but in honour also, and that all the whole world should be his Diocese: And this was the healing of his Head, which was so perfectly cured, that all the world wondered at the preservation of the head of this Church, and began by degrees more and more to adore both the Church, and the Head of it.