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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 a third Reason is taken from the due desert of soul-murder: Reas. 3 There is none of all these Priests, or Jesuits, or Heretics, that sin in the like kind, corrupting the precious truth of God, in the very foundations of it; but they worry and devour the souls of Gods people, I mean those that should not die, (though Gods elect cannot be seduced) yet those whom we ought to look at, that should not be thus murdered, and brought to death by such means. In the 7. Mat. 15. Beware of ⟨p. 12⟩false Prophets which come unto you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves: Is it not an acceptable service to the whole Country to cut off the ravenous wolves? what is the wolf to the sheep? is he not the very death of them all that he lights on, or fall in his jaws? so is it with the sheep of Christ, that fall into the jaws of these Romish ravenous wolves.
And a third Reason is taken from the due desert of soul-murther: Reas. 3 There is none of all these Priests, or Jesuites, or Heretiques, that sin in the like kind, corrupting the precious truth of God, in the very foundations of it; but they worry and devour the soules of Gods people, I meane those that should not die, (though Gods elect cannot be seduced) yet those whom we ought to looke at, that should not be thus murthered, and brought to death by such means. In the 7. Mat. 15. Beware of ⟨p. 12⟩false Prophets which come unto you in sheeps cloathing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves: Is it not an acceptable service to the whole Countrey to cut off the ravenous wolves? what is the wolfe to the sheep? is he not the very death of them all that he lights on, or fall in his jawes? so is it with the sheep of Christ, that fall into the jawes of these Romish ravenous wolves.
It is said of those false teachers,