Revelation 17

He has a golden scepter to rule his people, but an iron rod to break his enemies. Revelation 17:12, 14: The ten horns you saw are ten kings; these shall make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is King of Kings. The enemies may set up their standard, but…

First on carnal reason, on which he chiefly works in this sort of temptations, the strength whereof lies in false reasonings, wherein, if in anything, he has the advantage. First, his abilities to forge and invent false reasonings and arguments to overthrow our faith are (as the…

Again (Revelation 18:16) it is said, that the ten horns, which be ten kings, shall hate the whore, and make her desolate and naked, which must not be understood of heathenish Rome, but of popish Rome: for whereas in former times all the kings of the earth did submit themselves t…

He persecutes the woman that brought forth the man-child (Revelation 12:13). He goes forth in his instruments to gather the kings of the earth, and the whole world, to the great battle of that great day of God almighty (Revelation 16:14), and makes war with the Lamb (Revelation…

Others to some carnal, fraudulent, oppressive course, whereby they are spotted by the world. The whore of Babylon propounds her abominations in a golden cup (Revelation 17:4), and the great motive here is, "All this will I give you." Though the Devil comes not in person to us wi…

The like was done in other cases, as to Ezekiel in his trance (Ezekiel 2:1): Son of man arise, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you. So to the apostle John (Revelation 17:18): When I saw him, I lay at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not,…

Such was the mighty power and deep policy used by Pharaoh to destroy Gods Israel, that to the eye of reason, it was as impossible to survive it, as for crackling thorns to abide unconsumed amidst devouring flames; by which Emblem, their miraculous preservation is expressed, Exod…

4. Gold and all external riches, are empty things to a spiritual discerner of Christ's worth; as it were, a new sort of gold must be invented, or imagined, to shadow forth the excellencies of Christ, gold itself is but an insufficient and dark shadow to represent him; whoever lo…

See (Jeremiah 52:12-13). But the most fearful instances of God's terrible voice by fire are yet to come: Thus God will speak by fire to Spiritual Babylon, which may easily be proved to be Rome, from (Revelation 17:18). She being the then great city, which reigned over the kings…

The persecutions with which the Protestants in one kingdom and another have been persecuted by the church of Rome, have in many respects been far beyond any of the Heathen persecutions which were before Constantine the Great, and beyond all that ever were before. So that Antichr…

What floods of heresy have been poured out in city and country, which have overflowed the banks, not only of religion, but civility. Ignatius calls error, the invention of the devil; and Bernard calls it a sweet poison: Men's ears like sponges have sucked in this poison: Never w…

Its body was like a dragon, and it had seven heads and ten horns. It made great havoc of children, and yet it was governed by a woman (Revelation 17:3). This monster propounded conditions to men; and such men as loved their lives more than their souls, accepted of those conditio…

If [in non-Latin alphabet] here mean all men, the apostle in direct contradiction to himself in this very expression, means that he himself, and all the other apostles, as well the rest of mankind, did corrupt the word of God. Revelation 17:1: I will show to you the judgment of…