John Trapp on Revelation 13:4
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Revelation13:4
Verſe 4. And they worſhipped] Admiration bred adoration. Idolatrous Papiſts are worſhippers of the devil; whom though in word they defie, yet in deed they deifie.
Who is like unto the beaſt?] Papa poteſt omnia, qu[illegible: 1 letter] Chriſtus potest, ſaith Hoſtienſis. The Pope can do whatſoever Chriſt can doe: yea and more too, it ſhould ſeem by theſe wiſe wonderers:Cap. quarto. for who is like unto the beaſt? ſay they. Papa eſt plus quam Deus, ſaith Francis Zabarell, The Pope is more then a God.De Pap. Rom. lib. 4. And why? for of wrong he can make right, of vice vertue, of nothing ſomething, ſaith Bellarmine. Moſconius cannot be content to derive Papa from Papae the Interjection of admiring,De mojeſtat. militant eccleſ: l. 1 c. 1. becauſe he is ſtupor mundi, the worlds wonderment (that ye may know him to be the beaſt here mentioned) but he muſt ſtile him King of Kings and Lord of Lords: having ruledome over all rationall creatures, Duliâ ador andus, &c.
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