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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.
1. Over Heaven. He claims transcendent power in that, and doth abuse that place in Mat. 16. 19. To thee will I give the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, that whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven: Therefore he can open the gates of Heaven to them that are dead. 2. They have power over Purgatory; Upon so much done and given, they can help them out of Purgatory: They make account the torments of Purgatory are equal to the pains of Hell; but that Hell is for ever, and Purgatory but till the last Judgment. 3. They have power over Hell: they have not absolute power to deliver out of Hell (only Gregory is said to have delivered Trajans soul out of Hell;) but though they cannot deliver out of Hell, yet they can ease the torment. The witnesses of this will hardly own it, but it is the judgment of the most devout to that Sea.
1. Over Heaven. Hee claimes transcendent power in that, and doth abuse that place in Mat. 16. 19. To thee will I give the keyes of the Kingdome of heaven, that whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven: Therefore he can open the gates of Heaven to them that are dead. 2. They have power over Purgatory; Upon so much done and given, they can help them out of Purgatory: They make account the torments of Purgatory are equall to the paines of Hell; but that Hell is for ever, and Purgatory but till the last Judgment. 3. They have power over Hell: they have not absolute power to deliver out of Hell (only Gregory is said to have delivered Trajans soul out of Hell;) but though they cannot deliver out of Hell, yet they can ease the torment. The witnesses of this will hardly owne it, but it is the judgment of the most devout to that Sea.
So that he gave to the Catholic church his power of signs and lying wonders, of all kinds of efficacy of delusions, and power of making War, and he gave him great authority over the Scriptures, over mens Consciences, over the treasures of the Church, over Kingdoms, and Princes, and Powers of the world to come, and over Purgatory and Hell: And therefore consider, if this be not a vast power, which is here given, and acknowledged to be given by himself to the Catholic visible Roman Church: You must not wonder that the Catholic Church did not claim all this at first, but came to this by degrees, and more faster grew to this, especially at that time when this second Beast (that received in spirituals his power, speaking like a Dragon) had got all this transcendent power. In the mean time, from the very first you shall find this power in the representative Catholic Church; They quartered them into several Jurisdictions, into Bishoprics; and when they had done that, they rested not till they had set one over the rest, and that was this of Rome: And besides,