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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.
And he hath horns like a Lamb, that he pretends nothing but (Saint Peter as they call it) the Keys of the kingdom of Heaven; But he speaks like a Dragon, as if he had the Keys of the bottomless pit; he thunders such sentences, gives dispensations both against the laws of Paul and Moses, to dissolve oaths, and covenants, and relations, they shall marry whom they will, their own sisters: he will venom with such noisome doctrine, as the breath of them will stink: he will speak so terrible, that time was, when Princes were to tremble; he hath spoken as a Dragon: The Devil himself as he ruled the Roman Pagan Empire, hath not spoken greater words then he: Those that spake, Whoever will not worship an Image set up, shall be cast in a fiery furnace, it is not a greater word then he speaks.
And he hath horns like a Lamb, that he pretends nothing but (Saint Peter as they call it) the Keys of the kingdom of Heaven; But he speaks like a Dragon, as if he had the Keys of the bottomlesse pit; he thunders such sentences, gives dispensations both against the lawes of Paul and Moses, to dissolve oaths, and covenants, and relations, they shall marry whom they will, their own sisters: he will venom with such noysome doctrine, as the breath of them will stinke: he will speak so terrible, that time was, when Princes were to tremble; he hath spoken as a Dragon: The Devil himselfe as he ruled the Roman Pagan Empire, hath not spoken greater words then he: Those that spake, Whoever will not worship an Image set up, shall be cast in a fiery furnace, it is not a greater word then he speaks.
Secondly,1 this doth justly reprove all the Popish admiring and adoring of the man of Sin; They look at him as their holy Father, and Bishop of Christ, and Vicar of God, as one that hath an infallible judgment, that cannot err, that he is above all power of censure: If he should draw missions of souls to hell, no man must say, Sir, why do you so? they have this opinion of him: No matter what they conceive, he must be judged by the King of Kings, and by the God of Gods, and by the Saints of that God that judgeth according to the word; and they look at this Father as a Monster, as a wild beast, whom no Scripture, no Church can keep in awe, but he is Lord paramount above them all; they look at him as the Dragon of the bottomless pit, as he that destroys the Christian world: and however he may pretend, as if he had nothing but Lamb-like power, yet he speaks like a Dragon; thus John saw him.