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The pouring out of the seven vialsThe powring out of the seven vials
The pouring out of the seven vials: or An exposition, of the 16. chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods pouring out the full vials of his fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholics. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and the Popes supremacy. 5. Episcopal government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the stream of their supportments. 7. Their gross ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age. Preached in [sic] sundry sermons at Boston in New-England: by the learned and reverend John Cotton BB. of Divinity, and teacher to the church thereThe powring out of the seven vials: or An exposition, of the 16. chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods powring out the full vials of his fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholicks. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and the Popes supremacy. 5. Episcopall government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the streame of their supportments. 7. Their grosse ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age. Preached iu [sic] sundry sermons at Boston in New-England: by the learned and reverend Iohn Cotton BB. of Divinity, and teacher to the church there
London: printed for R.S., 1642
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.
and the ground was, because they had bloody intendments in their coming, intending to kill the Queen, or corrupt the State with unwholesome and pernicious Doctrine, to draw the people from their allegiance, to the obedience of the Sea of Rome, that so as it was said, a generation of Catholics was the ⟨p. 5⟩corruption of her subjects: To prevent which mischief, this Law was enacted, and so upon this occasion, many suffered that year, and others in after years, most part of her Reign.
and the ground was, because they had bloudy intendments in their comming, intending to kill the Queene, or corrupt the State with unwholsome and pernicious Doctrine, to draw the people from their allegeance, to the obedience of the Sea of Rome, that so as it was said, a generation of Catholiques was the ⟨p. 5⟩corruption of her subjects: To prevent which mischiefe, this Law was enacted, and so upon this occasion, many suffered that yeare, and others in after yeares, most part of her Raigne.
Now what is then the meaning of the next words, I heard the Angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus: so it was blood recompensed with blood. This Angel of the waters, it was he or she that poured out this vial on these waters: She with the consent of her Council, and Parliament, they were this Angel of the waters that had this power over these rivers and fountains, and this was accomplished two or three years after, when she set Secretary Cicill on work to write a Book with this Title, JUSTITIA BRITANNIAE, The Justice of Britain, wherein Secretary Cicill, by her appointment, doth make it clear to all neighbour Nations, (and for that end published his Book in sundry Languages, French, Dutch, and Spanish) that what was decreed in that Parliament was just, according to the Law of God, and the true principles of Christian State Policy, that there was no hope of safety to the Queens Person, or of peace to the Common wealth, or of liberty to true Reformed Religion, if such persons were suffered to go up and down in that pestilentious manner, to pervert and corrupt the people, and withdraw them from their Allegiance, and subject them to the Bishop of Rome; that they did not suffer merely on point of Religion, though on those points of their Religion which gave them occasion so to work, he doth not deny that neither, but in respect that the frame of their Religion was not compatible to any Protestant State: And the very Book it self holds forth this in effect, that the Lord was just herein; and as the Text here tells us, Thou art righteous, O Lord, because thou hast judged thus: And he attributes not only righteousness to God in this, but immutability, and constancy, which art, and wast, and shalt be alway. The same from the ancient Law of retaliation, in the 24. of