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John Trapp on Revelation 13:5

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Revelation13:5

Verſe 5. And there was given unto him] As once was to Antiochus that little Antichriſt, Dan. 7.25. What cracks the Pope makes of his illimited power and prerogatives, who knows not? What blaſphemies he belcheth out of the fable of Chriſt, of eating his pork, Al despito di Dio, in deſpite of God; of ſuffering himſels to be ſtiled the lamb of God that taketh away the ſins of the world, as Pope Martin the fourth did, of drinking an health to the devil, as another of them did, who hath not heard? Baronius at the year 964 reckoning up certain of the Popes, calleth them monſters, an abomination of deſolation in Gods Temple, &c. Cardinall Benno ſaith of Pope Hildebrand, That he was a blaſphemer, a murderer, a whoremaſter, a necromancer, an heretike, and all that's nought. The Church of Rome (ſaith another of their own Writers) hath deſerved now for a long time no better of God, then to be ruled by reprobates. Marcellius the ſecond, Pope of Rome, Jac. Revius, p 175. ſaid, That he could not ſee how any Pope could be ſaved.

Fourty and two moneths] Here Mr Brightman calculates and pitches the ruine of Antichriſt upon the year 1686. or thereabouts.

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