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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
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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.
3. Look as the Catholick visible Roman Church doth claime 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 Latine, that shall stand: This power the Catholick Church challengeth power to do, and the same doth the Pope.
4. If the Roman Catholic visible Church challenge a power of interpreting Scripture, and judging of controversies with infallibility of judgement: The Pope challengeth that to himself when he interprets Scripture, or decides controversies about Religion, he cannot err, and so they make account he is a fit Judge therein.
4. If the Roman Catholick visible Church challenge a power of interpreting Scripture, and judging of controversies with infalibility of judgement: The Pope challengeth that to himselfe when he interprets Scripture, or decides controversies about Religion, he cannot erre, and so they make account he is a fit Judge therein.
5. Look as you see the Roman Catholic visible Church had power of binding and loosing, challengeth all appleal• and great things they will do by that privilege, excommunicate some of many Churches that are absent, some they excommunicate ⟨p. 230⟩