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

And (I say) further, he had ample and great power; for to have power over all argues amplitude. It is said in the beginning of the 8 vers. (which I will take in, and open here) it is said, They shall worship him: That's a great power when it doth amount to inward worship, not civill, but divine worship. It was divine worship that he challenged, and all Nations gave him. To give Laws of faith, and worship, and government to all Churches in Christendom, that was divine power peculiar to the Lord Jesus. It was divine power to challenge to himself imposition of Kings, and deposition of Kings without consent of the people: To provoke the people to do it whether they liked their Prince or no, this is transcendent above all created power. Besides, it was divine worship they gave, in giving him power over their Consciences, challenging to himself (and they also yielding freely) a power to bind Conscience with the Laws he gave them, to loose their consciences either from the Laws of God, in matter of Oaths; to loose them from guilt of sin, to loose their consciences from Contracts, from Confederacies, this is divine power; They all worship him, whose names are not written in the book of the Lamb, and some of them too for a season, but they continue not, God opens their eyes to repent ⟨p. 115⟩of it, and to rise from under it. It was divine power to challenge infallibility of Judgment, to judg of Scripture out of the Oracle of his own brains: These were all divine worship they gave to the Catholic Church, and to the head of it, the Bishop of Rome. So that marvel not (as the Text saith) there was given, Exasia, [Greek or Hebrew] not a lame power, but an unlimited power over all people in Church and Common-wealth, and over conscience. There is nothing wherein the Catholic Church had not power throughout all Christendom.

And (I say) further, he had ample and great power; for to have power over all argues amplitude. It is said in the beginning of the 8 vers. (which I will take in, and open here) it is said, They shall worship him: That's a great power when it doth amount to inward worship, not civill, but divine worship. It was divine worship that he challenged, and all Nations gave him. To give Laws of faith, and worship, and government to all Churches in Christendom, that was divine power peculiar to the Lord Jesus. It was divine power to challenge toihimselfe imposition of Kings, and deposition of Kings without consent of the people: To provoke the people to do it whether they liked their Prince or no, this is transcendant above all created power. Besides, it was divine worship they gave, in giving him power over their Consciences, challenging to himself (and they also yeelding freely) a power to bind Conscience with the Laws he gave them, to loose their consciences either from the Laws of God, in matter of Oaths; to loose them from guilt of sinne, to loose their consciences from Contracts, from Confederacies, this is divine power; They all worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of the Lamb, and some of them too for a season, but they continue not, God opens their eyes to repent