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John Trapp on Revelation 16:11

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Revelation16:11

Verſe 11. And blaſphemed the God of heaven] As they did in 88, when the Spaniards gave out, That Chriſt was turned Lutheran: And as Faux the Gunpouder-traitour did, when he told thoſe that took him, that not God, but the devil had brought to light and to naught that deſperate deſign.Lonicer. theatr. hiſtor. Thus they ſet their mouths against heaven, and their tongue walketh thorow the earth: as if Augustus Caeſar were dealing with ſome god Neptune: or the three ſons, trying their archery at their fathers heart, to ſee who can ſhoot nigheſt. What an execrable blaſphemy is that of John Hunt a Roman Catholike in his humble appeal to King James in the ſixth Chapter of that Pamphlet?See D Sheld. mark of the[illegible: 1 letter] Beaſt. The God of the Protestants is the moſt uncivil and evil-mannered God of all thoſe who have born the names of gods upon the earth: yea worſe then Pan god of the clowns, which can endure no ceremonies, nor good manners at all.

And repented not] This leopard (Chap. 13.2.) can never change his ſpots: becauſe they are not in the skin, but in the fleſh and bones; in the ſinews and moſt inward parts. Tigers rage and tear themſelves at the ſound of a drum, and at the ſmell of ſweet ſpices: ſo doe theſe ſavage Papiſts, when called to repent.

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