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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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Revel. 13. 1, 2. And I stood upon the sand of the Sea, and saw a Beast rise up out of the Sea, having seven heads, and ten horns, and upon his horns ten Crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a Bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a Lyon: and the Dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Revel. 13. 1, 2. And I stood upon the sand of the Sea, and saw a Beast rise up out of the Sea, having seven heads, and tenne horns, and upon his horns ten Crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard, and his feete were as the feete of a Beare, and his mouth as the mouth of a Lyon: and the Dragon gave him his power, and his seate, and great authority.
YOU have heard from the last Chapter, that when the Dragon (that is the Devil, as he ruled the Roman Pagan Empire) was cast down out of Heaven, (that is, dethroned from his heavenly and Divine worship) he endeavoured by all means to oppress the Church (that is, the woman) that brought forth a Christian Emperor, her and her seed. 1. By persecution. 2. By an inundation of damnable Heresies, and barbarous Nations. 3. By open ⟨p. 2⟩War; which open war is expressed in the last verse of the former Chapter, and here more fully described in this Chapter, a whereof hath been now read.
YOU have heard from the last Chapter, that when the Dragon (that is the Devill, as he ruled the Roman Pagan Empire) was cast downe out of Heaven, (that is, dethroned from his heavenly and Divine worship) he endeavoured by all meanes to oppresse the Church (that is, the woman) that brought forth a Christian Emperour, her and her seed. 1. By persecution. 2. By an inundation of damnable Heresies, and barbarous Nations. 3. By open ⟨p. 2⟩