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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
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And so do I say for his mediatorship of intercession, you know they join saints, and angels, especially the Virgin Mary as the mothers and fathers of grace, and pray the Lord to hear for their merits sake, so that take the whole mediatourly office of Christ, for reconciliation, and intercession; you must have more Christs then one, and then he is of none effect, if he may not do all in point of merit and satisfaction: even all the righteousness that he hath taught us to do, it is unprofitable for such ends, we may profit our brethren, and help our selves by his grace, for many spiritual good ends, but for satisfaction, for merit and the like it is to set up a New Christ, besides the Lord Jesus, thus is his priestly office evacuated. And so his Prophetical office, to bring in other scriptures, as the Apocrypha that he confirms not, besides scriptures, of unwritten tradition carried from h•nd to hand, and yet many great points of their Religion are built thereon, even all the corrupt doctrine which they deliver by tradition. For his Kingly office, you know they set up other Lords and Governors of the Church besides him, I mean such governors as neither are the Lords, nor ever were instituted by him, as the Pope, and Cardinals and Primates, and Metropolitans, and the whole rout of Popish Hierarchy from the Apparitor to the Pope, they are of his invention and appointment; and as they have other Lords so ⟨p. 30⟩other laws; the whole cannon Law is none of the ordinances of the Lord Jesus, for the government of his Church, much of it contrary to the word of God, and as they have other Lords and laws, so they have other frames of C urches, Ecumenical, Catholic Church, Metropolitan, Patriarchal, Archiepiscopal, Episcopal, Diocesan, which Christ never ordained in the New Testament, and they have brought Kingly or Monarchical power into the Churches which Christ never gave them, and that not only to excommunication, but to dethrone Princes, and to substitute others in their rooms;
And so doe I say for his mediatourship of intercession, you know they ioyn saints, and angells, especially the Virgin Mary as the mothers and fathers of grace, and pray the Lord to hear for their merits sake, so that take the whole mediatourly office of Christ, for reconciliation, and intercession; you must have more Christs then one, and then he is of none effect, if he may not doe all in point of merit and fatisfaction: even all the righteousnesse that he hath taught us to doe, it is vnprofitable for such ends, we may profit our brethren, and helpe our selves by his grace, for many spirituall good ends, but for satisfaction, for merit and the like it is to set up a New Christ, besides the Lord Iesus, thus is his priestly office evacuated. And so his Propheticall office, to bring in other scriptures, as the Apocrypha that he confirmes not, besides scriptures, of unwritten tradition carried from hnd to hand, and yet many great points of their Religion are built thereon, even all the corrupt doctrine which they deliver by tradition. For his Kingly office, you know they set up other Lords and Governors of the Church besides him, I meane such governours as neither are the Lords, nor ever were instituted by him, as the Pope, and Cardinals and Primats, and Metropolitans, and the whole rout of Popish Hierarchie from the Apparritor to the Pope, they are of his invention and appointment; and as they have other Lords so