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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.
For his resemblance, He hath horns like a Lamb.]
Horns express his power: Like a Lamb; that is, like the Lamb of God. Church-power he claims directly, no other at least for a long time; The power of binding and loosing were his two horns, to bind all, and loose all, and that lay in the closet of his own breast when to put it forth; this is but the power of the Lamb.
Horns expresse his power: Like a Lamb; that is, like the Lamb of God. Church-power he claims directly, no other at least for a long time; The power of binding and loosing were his two horns, to bind all, and loose all, and that lay in the closet of his own breast when to put it forth; this is but the power of the Lamb.
But he spake like a Dragon.]
You have two or three several speeches of the Dragon. In Rev. 12. 9. The old Serpent is called the Dragon: What did he speak?