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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.
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.
Secondly,1 this doth justly reprove all the Popish admiring and adoring of the man of Sinne; 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 erre, that he is above all power of censure: If he should draw missions of soules 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 wilde beast, whom no Scripture, no Church can keepe in awe, but he is Lord paramount above them all; they look at him as the Dragon of the bottomlesse pit, as he that destroys the Christian world: and however he may pretend, as if he had nothing but Lamb-like power, yet hee speakes like a Dragon; thus John saw him.
- 1V;see 2.V;se 2.