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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.
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.
Now that being the first beast, what is this second beast? This is apparently distinct from it; and it is not so proper to say, that the first beast was the Pope, as he had sovereign authority in Temporals; and that he is the second Beast as he hath supreme power in Spirituals, for he had his Temporal power l•st: and therefore that would not agree to the P•p•ll State; he first had supreme power in Spirituals, before he had supreme power in Temporals. Now the beast here being not the Roman Catholic Church, what is it then? It is the head of that Church; and what is that? It is no other but the Pope of Rome; The heads of the Roman Catholic visible Church, from one succession to another, they are this second best; and that will appear in a double note, which will both clear that, and the rest of the Text.