A47607:1532
Zion in distressSion in distress
Zion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Church [sic]Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]
London: printed by George Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
(a) The Pope's the Beast, usurping over all, A Power Supreme and Magistratical; This Scarlet Beast does in the strictest sense, Lay claim to Secular Preeminence. The Roman Empire lost the Ruling Seat, The Pope usurped it, and from thence grew great, All Kings that he could by his craft allure, Receive their Power; and Investiture,
(a) The Pope's the Beast, usurping over all, A Power Supream and Magisttraticall; This Scarlet Beast does in the strictest sence, Lay claim to Secular Preheminence. The Roman Empire lost the Ruling Seat, The Pope usurpt it, and from thence grew great, All Kings that he could by his craft allure, Receive their Power; and Investiture,
This Whore cannot be the Beast.
(a) 1. Because the Beast is expressed in the Masculine Gender, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, and the Beast that was, and is not even HE is the Eight and of the Seven, i. e. He came up by means of the Liberty and large Revenues The Seven Heads, viz. The Christian Emperors gave to the Ch• rch and Church-Men, though a different and distinct sort of Government to all before it, but Mystery Babylon is expressed by the Feminine Gender, a Woman a Whore, Mother of Bar•••; I saw the Woman drunk with the Blood of the Saints, […] And when I saw her I wondered, &c.
(a) 1. Because the Beast is exprest in the Masculine Gender, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, and the Beast that was, and is not even HE is the Eight and of the Seven, i. e. He came up by means of the Liberty and large Revenues The Seven Heads, viz. The Christian Emperors gave to the Ch rch and Church-Men, though a diffrent and distinct sort of Government to all before it, but Mystery Babylon is exprest by the Feminine Gender, a Woman a Whore, Mother of Bar; I saw the Woman drunk with the Blood of the Saints, And when I saw her I wondered, &c.