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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.
Reas. 2 And secondly, when the common people are corrupted, for their sin sake it pleaseth God either to send them corrupt Rulers like themselves, or else to lead their good leaders into temptation, to corrupt themselves and their people. You read, Prov. 28.2 For the wickedness of a land, many are the princes thereof; many and wicked Rulers too; They never lived long, nor well, after once the house of Israel had cried out, What portion have we in David, or what inheritance in the son of Jesse? The Lord never gave them good King ⟨p. 13⟩in Israel after, not in Israel I say, Judah indeed had sundry times good Kings, but for Israel (the 10 Tribes) that rejected the yoke, and the house of David, in regard of the hard payments that Solomons son put upon them; and therefore in their profaneness cried out, What portion have we in David? &c. Then immediately after that, the Lord never gave them any good King, 1 King. 12.16. So there grows Religion to be corrupted in the people, and then for their wickedness God gives them wicked Princes; I gave them a King in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self, Hos. 13.9, 10. Israel corrupts it self, & provokes God, and he gives them a King in his anger, and takes him away in his wrath: And it is written as a heavy curse of God, in Lev. 26.17. If you still trespass against me I will set Princes over you, that shall hate you: Mischievous Princes, odious Princes that shall be odious to God, and malignant to the people. If you still provoke me, and for all this turn not to me, I will set such over you, them that shall be odious to me, and odious to you, that shall make you more and more to corrupt your ways: And if God at any time give them good Princes, he will lead them into temptation for their sin. In 2 Sam. 24.1. you read there, the wrat• of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he provoked David against them to say, Go number Israel and Judah: The wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he provoked David, &c. To what end? That so a plague might come upon Israel: So that (mind you) how the sins of the time rise from the contagion of the hearts and lives of the people; That look as a man catcheth cold on his feet, it fills the head with distempers: Catch but cold in the lowest part, about the ankles or feet;