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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. This power was given him by those States, the ten Horns which gave their Crowns with one accord to the Beast, that he should rule in their Dominions. The chief Kingdoms in Europe are in these ten; our Native Country for one, France, and Spain, and Navarre, Sweden, & Denmark, and the rest, they did with one accord give their Kingdoms to the Beast, that in point of Religion they should establish all Ordinances according to the wisdom of his sovereign power: And in Temporal matters they gave him greater ⟨p. 82⟩power to depose, and dispose of their Kings, then the Roman Emperor had in sundry respects; for his was lim•ed by Laws, but this was without Laws. 2 Thes. 2. 4. He opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God. That without all power of Laws he did out-rage out of measure. Given it was by their Devotion and Superstition, God piercing their hearts much in those times by the Ministry of their Friars, that did wound their consciences with the sense of their murders and lusts, that they were willing to do any thing for the peace of their Consciences, and therefore willingly gave up all their power and Kingdoms into his hands; so it was given him.
3. This power was given him by those States, the ten Horns which gave their Crowns with one accord to the Beast, that he should rule in their Dominions. The chiefe Kingdoms in Europe are in these ten; our Native Countrey for one, France, and Spaine, and Navarre, Sweden, & Denmarke, and the rest, they did with one accord give their Kingdomes to the Beast, that in point of Religion they should establish all Ordinances according to the wisdome of his soveraign power: And in Temporall matters they gave him greater ⟨p. 82⟩power to depose, and dispose of their Kings, then the Roman Emperour had in sundry respects; for his was lim•ed by Laws, but this was without Laws. 2 Thes. 2. 4. He opposeth and exalteth himselfe above all that is called God. That without all power of Laws he did out-rage out of measure. Given it was by their Devotion and Superstition, God piercing their hearts much in those times by the Ministery of their Fryars, that did wound their consciences with the sense of their murthers and lusts, that they were willing to do any thing for the peace of their Consciences, and therefore willingly gave up all their power and Kingdomes into his hands; so it was given him.