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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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Not the first, for this rose after that was cast down; after the Dragon was cast out of Heaven, and had no more to rule that State. Also you heard in Chap. 12. that Beast had ten crowns on the heads; this hath not Crowns on the heads, ⟨p. 225⟩but on the horns; the Princes and heads of that State were crowned: This doth not wear the temporal Crown, but those Princes that maintain him, they wear the Crowns.
Not the first, for this rose after that was cast down; after the Dragon was cast out of Heaven, and had no more to rule that State. Also you heard in Chap. 12. that Beast had ten crowns on the heads; this hath not Crowns on the heads, ⟨p. 225⟩but on the horns; the Princes and heads of that State were crowned: This doth not weare the temporall Crown, but those Princes that mayntaine him, they weare the Crowns.
Again, that Beast, Pagan Rome, did not begin his time of prosperity, and flourishing, with the woman's flight into the wilderness, and the two witnesses prophesying in sackcloth, a thousand two hundred and sixty days; for their government ended, when the Christian State began, and therefore it could not be Pagan-heathen Rome; Nor could it be the Christian Imperial Roman State: For
Againe, that Beast, Pagan Rome, did not begin his time of prosperity, and flourishing, with the womans flight into the wildernesse, and the two witnesses prophecying in sackcloath, a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes; for their government ended, when the Christian State began, and therefore it could not be Pagan-heathen Rome; Nor could it be the Christian Imperial Roman State: For