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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 so you may say of any other law justly punishable by death, and that are built on perpetual moral equity, Our God is the same God that he was; and so you shall have him count that righteous whiles the world stands.
And so you may say of any other law justly punishable by death, and that are built on perpetuall moral equity, Our God is the same God that he was; and so you shall have him count that righteous whiles the world stands.
For a sixth. This may serve to take off a corrupt interpretation Use 6 which some have made of this place, or a collection that they ⟨p. 22⟩have gathered from hence, that the Angels of God are deputed to several offices; here is one Angel of the waters; and some are deputed to govern the earth, some fire, some the waters and sea, as I might tell you, if it were meet to trouble you with humane inventions, and collections of mens brains; the collection is chiefly grounded on this place, but it is wholly mistaken, for the Angel of the waters here is not any particular Angel of God, any of those heavenly spirits, but the Angels and Ministers of Gods justice, upon metaphorical seas and waters. It is true, those here were Governors of the narrow seas, and the that gave commission to execute the righteous judgement of God upon those rivers, she was Admiral of the narrow seas, but that is not the meaning. But the Angel that poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters, it is he or she that did execute the righteous judgment of God upon the Popish Priests and Jesuits; and that did both Queen Elizabeth, and he that had a great hand in executing that judgement, and the Angel from under the Altar, they ratified that Law, and justified it when they had done. Now it is true, the Angels of God assist the servants of God in this glorious work, but they are sent forth, indifferently, to protect Gods servants by sea or by land: And I find no Scripture to show that they are more particularly sent to the sea, or to the earth, but indifferently to protect Gods servants in their out-goings and in-comings.