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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.
1. It is said in the second vers. That the Dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority; but that he did not to the Christian Emperors, for they would not live at Rome, but at Constantinople.
1. It is said in the second vers. That the Dragon gave him his power, and his seate, and great authority; but that he did not to the Christian Emperours, for they would not live at Rome, but at Constantinople.
2. It was never made a sign of reprobation to worship the Roman Christian Emperors, but it is made a sign of reprobation to worship this Beast.
2. It was never made a signe of reprobation to worship the Roman Christian Emperors, but it is made a sign of reprobation to worship this Beast.
It remains therefore, that this Beast described in the former pare of the Chapter, is the third Roman State; which being not Rome-Pagan, nor Rome-Christian, it must needs be the Roman Papal State, under the government of the Pope, and that is no other but the Roman Catholic visible Church, to which all the description you have heard opened doth naturally belong.
It remayns therefore, that this Beast described in the former pare of the Chapter, is the third Roman State; which being not Rome-Pagan, nor Rome-Christian, it must needs be the Roman Papall State, under the government of the Pope, and that is no other but the Roman Catholick visible Church, to which all the description you have heard opened doth naturally belong.