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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.
On the contrary, all the Roman Catholics they are built upon the Popish Laws and Decrees, all which require subjection to the Popish Church, and submission to that Church, and to the Pope as the head of that Church, receiving doctrine, and worship, and discipline from that Church, and that was founded in six, on the six books of their Decrees, and it is multiplied according to the same books, to maintain all the Clergy, from the Pope to the lowest Parish priest: And it is wisdom to find this out, and it requires heavenly wisdom to see the dangerous state of this, and yet they that have wisdom may find this out; and when they search it out, They will find it but the number of a man, not of the Angel, or of the Apostles, or of any messenger of God.
On the contrary, all the Roman Catholickes they are built upon the Popish Lawes and Decrees, all which require subjection to the Popish Church, and submission to that Church, and to the Pope as the head of that Church, receiving doctrine, and worship, and discipline from that Church, and that was founded in sixe, on the sixe books of their Decrees, and it is multiplyed according to the same books, to mayntayn all the Clergy, from the Pope to the lowest Parish priest: And it is wisdome to find this out, and it requires heavenly wisdome to see the dangerous state of this, and yet they that have wisdome may finde this out; and when they search it out, They will finde it but the number of a man, not of the Angel, or of the Apostles, or of any messenger of God.
I remember the speech of one of the Saints of God,1 That it is a most unworthy thing that the Church of Christ should be governed by the Laws of Antichrist (and such were all their six books) and it is most unworthy, that both the Church it self, and all the Images of it, that they are all governed by these six books; and it is most unworthy that Antichrist should govern all the Administrations of the Church; that if a man be cited, it shall be by a Latin writ; and if he appear, he shall be proceeded against according to Canon ⟨p. 255⟩