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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 besides, all these had command to pour out the wrath of God on those subjects, upon which they poured out their Vials, as in the first Verse. Now God forbid we should conceive, that any wrath of God should be poured out upon Christ ever since his Resurrection, or that any wrath of God should be poured out upon the Scriptures: For although they that thus expound this Vial to be poured out upon the Sun, do not say that the wrath of God was poured upon the Sun, but upon the Antichristian state; yet the Text tells us, they poured out the Vials of the wrath of God upon that subject; that they poured them on, they poured them all upon the earth: So that all these things are but earthly matters, and such earthly matters as have been open justly to the wrath of God. It is therefore but an earthly sea, and they are but earthly rivers and fountains, and it is but an earthly Sun, and an earthly air, corrupt air, an unwholesome Antichristian air, upon which the Vials are poured. So that I cannot go so freely along with that Exposition, that the Sun here, is Christ revealed in the Scriptures, or the Scriptures revealing Christ.
And besides, all these had command to pour out the wrath of God on those subjects, upon which they poured out their Vials, as in the first Verse. Now God forbid we should conceive, that any wrath of God should be poured out upon Christ ever since his Resurrection, or that any wrath of God should be poured out upon the Scriptures: For although they that thus expound this Vial to be poured out upon the Sun, do not say that the wrath of God was poured upon the Sun, but upon the Antichristian state; yet the Text tels us, they poured out the Vials of the wrath of God upon that subject; that they poured them on, they poured them all upon the earth: So that all these things are but earthly matters, and such earthly matters as have been open justly to the wrath of God. It is therefore but an earthly sea, and they are but earthly rivers and fountains, and it is but an earthly Sun, and an earthly air, corrupt air, an unwholsome Antichristian air, upon which the Vials are poured. So that I cannot go so freely along with that Exposition, that the Sun here, is Christ revealed in the Scriptures, or the Scriptures revealing Christ.
If any man shall say, but the Sun spoken of in the Trumpets, was Christ in the Scriptures, or the Scriptures revealing Christ, & those Trumpets hold forth a like degree of judgement upon the Roman-Christian Empire, as here upon Antichristian Rome: For upon the sounding of the first Trumpet, judgement falls upon the earth, common Christians: The second Trumpet sounding, judgement falls upon the Sea, (as in the 8