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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.
The ambition and arrogancy of Church Officers claiming headship over the Church of Christ,1 the Lord plagues it with a mortal wound, and crusheth it even to the death.
The ambition and arrogancy of Church Officers clayming headship over the Church of Christ,1 the Lord plagues it with a mortall wound, and crusheth it even to the death.
- 1Doctr. 1.
I gather it out of these words, I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; It was one of the heads of the Catholic Church; As the body was a Monster, so was the head; to set a head over such a vast body it was a Monster in Gods sight: The Lord will not suffer him to go on in this ambitious design, but will meet him as he did Balaam, when he crushed his foot against the wall, and if he had gone on, he had slain him, Numb. 22. 32, 33. So doth the Lord here meet the Bishop of Rome; if he will be the head of the visible Church, and animate such a Body, what will the Lord do? He will wound him to death, and slay him, and crush his spiritual arrogancy, that under pretence of Vicarship to Christ, will yet be the Lord of the Church.
I gather it out of these words, I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; It was one of the heads of the Catholick Church; As the body was a Monster, so was the head; to set a head over such a vast body it was a Monster in Gods sight: The Lord wil not suffer him to go on in this ambitious designe, but will meet him as he did Balaam, when he crushed his foot against the wall, and if he had gone on, he had sleine him, Numb. 22. 32, 33. So doth the Lord here meet the Bishop of Rome; if he will be the head of the visible Church, and animate such a Body, what will the Lord doe? He will wound him to death, and slay him, and crush his spirituall arrogancy, that under pretence of Vicarship to Christ, will yet be the Lord of the Church.