An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

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, ⟨p. 26⟩this was devilish Authority to make Laws to bind all Christian Congregations, to take their Government from them. 3ly. In every Council they devised some new Doctrine, and some new form of worship and Government, which was the seed out of which this transcendent power was hatched.

So that he gave to the Catholick church his power of signs and lying wonders, of all kinds of efficacy of delusions, and power of making Warre, and he gave him great authority over the Scriptures, over mens Consciences, over the treasures of the Church, over Kingdomes, 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 himselfe to the Catholick visible Roman Church: You must not wonder that the Catholick 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 spiritualls his power, speaking like a Dragon) had got all this transcendant power. In the mean time, from the very first you shal find this power in the representative Catholick Church; They quartered them into severall Jurisdictions, into Bishopricks; 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, ⟨p. 26⟩