An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

The next note is this;

That though God do wound and crush,¹ and repress the arrogance of Church officers, affecting headship over all ⟨p. 41⟩Churches for a time, yet he doth sometimes again heal their wounds, and bind up their breaches, and give free passage to their ambitious designs.

That though God doe wound and crush,¹ and represse the arrogance of Church officers, affecting headship over all ⟨p. 41⟩Churches for a time, yet he doth sometimes again heal their wounds, and binde up their breaches, and give free passage to their ambitious designes.

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This is evident here, I saw one of his heads, as it were wounded to death (and you have heard when, and how) and yet, which is wonderful, His deadly wound was healed, and that to the admiration of all the world; And all the world wondered after the Beast, to see a wound so really and perfectly healed: when this Church was wounded, afterwards the Pope was perfectly recovered, but the wound of Caesars head was left bleeding, both in the East and West. This head must therefore be the spiritual head of Rome: God though he repress some insolency, yet he doth many times give free passage to their designs at length. He did so with Balaam, he met with him in the way, and had not the Ass hindered, certainly he had slain him,