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

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.

4. They expresse 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 Catholick 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 Heretick, 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 Turke, whereas in very deed, whilst the Pope stands, it is not possible any War should prosper against him; for it was for the sinne of Rome that the Turk was advanced, a barbarous and beastly Enemy, to punish a beastly Religion: This was their admiration.

And all the world wondered after the Beast.] He means as he expounds himself, ver. 8. Those whose names are not written in the book of the life of the Lamb. They that were redeemed from the world, they were not of the world, though they lived in it: but those in the world that were of the world, they did honour this beast, and were subject to him, and gave all their devotion to the Catholic Church: And when I say all the