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John Trapp on Revelation 13:3

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Revelation13:3

Verſe 3. One of his heads as it were wounded] Either by the invaſion of the Gothes; or by that fatall ſchiſme in the Church of Rome, anno 1378. when there ſat three Popes at once,Lib 3 de Papa Rom. cap. 11. for fourty years together: or by the falling away of Proteſtants from the Popedome, from the daies of Wicliffe, John Huſſe, the Waldenſes, Luther, to this preſent. Bellarmine bewails the buſineſſe, that ever ſince we began to count and call the Pope Antichriſt, his kingdome hath greatly decreaſed. And Cotton the Jeſuite confeſſes, that the authority of the Pope is incomparably leſſe then it was; and that now the Chriſtian Church is but a diminitive.

And his deadly wound was healed] By that falſe Prophet, ver. 11. that is by the Sorboniſts, Jeſuites, Trent-fathers, and other Popiſh Chyrurgeons. The Jeſuites give out, That the devil ſent out Luther, and God raiſed up them to reſiſt him: but great is the truth, and will prevail, when all falſhood ſhall fall to the ground. It is but a palliate cure we here reade of.

And all the world] ſc. Of Roman-Catholikes.

Wondered] Or had wondered, till the beaſt was wounded.

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