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

In Judgment he cannot err: in practice, though he may err, yet other men may be judged; but God hath put such an uncontrollable power upon him, as he thinks that none may meddle with him; Though he should carry millions of souls to Hell, yet no man must say, Sir, why do you so: Councils may not judge, Princes may not judge, inferior States may not judge him, all the world may not judge him; ⟨p. 66⟩He stands and falls to the Canonists, his own well-studied Canonists have so determined it: A great word to be infallible judge of Scripture, and to be uncontrollable; it is a great matter, and greater then any man can reach unto: Never did any earthly Prince challenge that he could not err, nor that none must control him if he did: There have been Laws made to control the greatest Princes: Nebuchadnezzar was taught to be controlled, that in the end Shadrach, Mesech, and Abednego go away rewarded,

In Judgment he cannot erre: in practice, though he may erre, yet other men may be judged; but God hath put such an uncontrollable power upon him, as he thinks that none may meddle with him; Though he should carry millions of soules to Hell, yet no man must say, Sir, why do you so: Councels may not judge, Princes may not judge, inferiour States may not judge him, all the world may not judge him; ⟨p. 66⟩He stands and falls to the Canonists, his owne well-studied Canonists have so determined it: A great word to be infallible judge of Scripture, and to be uncontrollable; it is a great matter, and greater then any man can reach unto: Never did any earthly Prince challenge that he could not erre, nor that none must controll him if he did: There have been Laws made to controll the greatest Princes: Nebuchadnezzar was taught to be controlled, that in the end Shadrach, Mesech, and Abednego goe away rewarded,

3. The Catholic Church, and the Pope is the head of it, claims a power of binding and loosing. To bind mens consciences by his Laws, and to loose mens consciences by his Indulgences, and that not ministerially, as Ministers do from the Word, but by a Judiciary power, to dissolve the bond of natural Obedience, incestuous Marriages, Oaths and Covenants in Marriage; Natural relations between Parents and Children, and moral Relations between Princes and Subjects: There is not any bond that he cannot loose, nor any liberty which he cannot restrain: And this not over a few only, but over the vast world so far as it is Christian. And