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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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3. The Dragon hath a devouring and ravenous mouth, whereby he speaks ravenous words: Whoever will not worship the Image that I have set up, shall be cast into a hot fiery furnace, and who is that God that is able to deliver you? Dan. 3. 15. And you have heard what worship the Pope claims, and what he threatens if it be neglected. Thus you see in Gods account, ⟨p. 228⟩and in the sight of John, the Pope is a wild Beast: and the holy Ghost as he inspired John, he directs him what to say; The holy Apostle he stood upon the sand of the Sea, and few two beasts; one arising out of the Sea of corruption in doctrine, &c. And another out of the earth, out of earthly pretences; He sees no holiness in this Beast, nothing but beastly cruelty, and beastly blasphemy, nothing but argues a wild beast that will not be tamed, neither by the Church of God, nor by the word of God, nor by Princes and States: He sees him rising out of ••ire pretences, pretending nothing but Lamb-like power; but •ee speaks like a Dragon, venomous and devouring words: Damnable heresies, as being spewed out of the Dragons mouth, such a volume of false worship, and doctrine, and government, as destroys the faith of the Church, and subverts the foundation of the Church: This is the very state of the Pope as John beheld it, as he was wrapped up in a vision by the Spirit, and he judged of it as he saw it.
3. The Dragon hath a devouring and ravenous mouth, whereby he speaks •avenous words: Whoever will not worship the Image that I have set up, shall be cast into a hot fiery furnace, and who is that God that is able to deliver you? Dan. 3. 15. And you have heard what worship the Pope claymes, and what he threatens if it be neglected. Thus you see in Gods account, ⟨p. 228⟩and in the sight of John, the Pope is a wild Beast: and the holy Ghost as he insp•red John, he directs him what to say; The holy Apostle he stood upon the sand of the Sea, and few two beasts; one arisig out of the Sea of corruption in doctrine, &c. And another out of the earth, out of earthly pretences; He sees no holinesse in this Beast, nothing but beastly cruelty, and beastly blasphemy, nothing but argues a wilde beast that will not be tamed, neither by the Church of God, nor by the word of God, nor by Princes and States: He sees him rising out of ire pretences, pretending nothing but Lamb-like power; but ee speakes like a Dragon, venomous and devouing words: Damnable heresies, as being spewed out of the Dragons mouth, such a volume of false worship, and doctrine, and government, as destroys the faith of the Church, and subverts the foundation of the Church: This is the very state of the Pope as John beheld it, as he was wrap't up in a vision by the Spirit, and he judged of it as hee saw it.