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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.
Or on their foreheads; they have a mark answerable to ⟨p. 235⟩their name; their name, what is that but Roman Catholics? or else there is no fellowship with them; and all must at length have that name, and go under the number of that name, Roman Catholics; there is the number of that name: but I leave that to the next time (as being too large to enter into at present.) In the mean time, you see these things thus opened, touching the nature and character of this second Beast.
Or on their foreheads; they have a marke answerable to ⟨p. 235⟩their name; their name, what is that but Roman Catholicks? or else there is no fellowship with them; and all must at length have that name, and go under the number of that name, Roman Catholicks; there is the number of that name: but I leave that to the next time (as being too large to enter into at present.) In the mean time, you see these things thus opened, touching the nature and character of this second Beast.
Now to make some use of all.
First,1 it may be an evident conviction, and demonstration, and designation of this Beast who it is: Is hath been much disputed, but all the parts of this description doth directly fall upon the Bishop of Rome; that if John had lived in these days, he would have seen all this with his eyes, which he saw in a vision: No man can tell where to bestow all this description for 1260. years, but upon the Bishop of Rome, that is of such a wild nature, that no Church, no law of God, no society of men, no Kings, nor Princes can rule; and all the world that knows this Beast, knows this to be true of the Pope, whose Original (all Christians know) springs from the Earth, to keep men in unity, and to preserve the Empire from inundations of Barbarians, to keep Christian Princes closer together, and in better order, all carnal policy out of which he springs, yet insensibly, and slowly, that he is not discerned for many years together.