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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. The Pope hath power to convent general Councils; or if the Emperors will call a general Council, it shall not stand in •o•ce unless the Catholic Church and the Bishops meet in a representative Synod, it concludes with their determination; this he pleads for to this day, it belongs not to the Emperors, nor to Christian Princes, but to the Bishop of Rome: It is one of Bellarmines affirmations, that one Church shall have power to call all Churches, be it to Florence, or Basel, thither they must go whether he will.
1. The Pope hath power to convent generall Councels; or if the Emperours will call a general Councel, it shall not stand in •o•ce unlesse the Catholick Church and the Bishops meet in a representative Synod, it concludes with their determination; this he pleads for to this day, it belongs not to the Emperors, nor to Christian Princes, but to the Bishop of Rome: It is one of Bellarmines affirmations, that one Church shall have power to call all Churches, be it to Florence, or Basseil, thether they must go whether he will.
2. As the Catholic Roman Church did usurp power to make Laws and Canons to bind all Churches; So the Pope doth challenge the same power to make Laws to bind all Churches; he pleads for it, and will not be content without it.
2. As the Catholick Roman Church did usurpe power to make Laws and Canons to binde all Churches; So the Pope doth challenge the same power to make Laws to binde all Churches; he pleads for it, and will not be content without it.
3. Look as the Catholic visible Roman Church doth claim Authority of ratifying Scriptures; if they put in the Apocrypha, it shall be good Scripture; and if the Church do not approve the Gospel of Matthew in Greek, but in Hebrew, it shall be that; or if they refuse both them, and take the vulgar Latin, that shall stand: This power the Catholic Church challengeth power to do, and the same doth the Pope.