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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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3. They fetched from Rome the Ordination of all their chief Officers: Any Arch-bishop, who-ever chose him, yet he was not installed, but he must fetch it from Rome, and pay well for it. And from thence they fetched all ⟨p. 50⟩their Coronation of Kings and Emperors; and sundry fundamental Laws of every Catholic Kingdom were derived from thence. All their Dispensations were fetched from thence, that Princes might marry where they would: And dispensation from Oaths, and from Marriages contracted, all these things they fetched from Rome: It was an admirable honour they put upon the Church of Rome, and upon the Head of it; what ever the first Beast did, the second Beast also did; and so in worshipping the one, they worshipped the other; and in admiring one, they admired both.
3. They fetched from Rome the Ordination of all their chiefe Officers: Any Arch-bishop, who-ever chose him, yet he was not installed, but he must fetch it from Rome, and pay well for it. And from thence they fetched all ⟨p. 50⟩their Coronation of Kings and Emperors; and sundry fundamentall Lawes of every Catholick Kingdom were derived from thence. All their Dispensations were fetched from thence, that Princes might marry where they would: And dispensation from Oaths, and from Marriages contracted, all these things they fetched from Rome: It was an admirable honour they put upon the Church of Rome, and upon the Head of it; what ever the first Beast did, the second Beast also did; and so in worshipping the one, they worshipped the other; and in admiring one, they admired both.
4. They express their admiration in this, that they will undertake establishing of Laws from the Sea of Rome, and persecution of such godly persons as did not submit, such as were different in their minds from the Catholic Church, if they never so little swerve from that, they undertook to execute the Laws of the Church: And if the Church declared him him to be an Heretic, there was no more to do, the Common-wealth presently put him to death: And as they took upon them persecution of their Subjects at home, so the Subjects took upon them to depose their Princes, and might depose them, if they would not submit their power to the Pope, so that there was no subsisting without submitting to them. And which is a branch of this, they undertook a vast and costly War abroad, against the common Enemy the Turk, whereas in very deed, whilst the Pope stands, it is not possible any War should prosper against him; for it was for the sin of Rome that the Turk was advanced, a barbarous and beastly Enemy, to punish a beastly Religion: This was their admiration.