The Catholic church, a woman (The Bulwark, or, Reformation journal, vol. 1.—1851-52)
Text: "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." 2 Corinthians 11:2,3 ; "...and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." Revelation 17:3-5
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[...] On another medal, struck at Rome so recently as 1825, and of which a fac-simile is given below, we have Pope Leo XII. on one side, and on the other, a woman representing the Church, seated on a globe, with the motto "Sedet super universum," and stretching forth her hand with a cup, as in the act of delivering it to some one. Here is a picture to the life of the Apocalyptic woman, whom John saw "sitting on many waters . . . with a golden cup in her hand;" and "the waters . . . are peoples and multitudes, and nations and tongues."
"Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant", The Bulwark, or, Reformation journal, in defence of the true interests of man and of society, especially in reference to the religious, social, and political bearings of popery [London: Seeleys, and J. Nisbet & Co.; Edinburgh: J. Nichol; Dublin: Curry & Co., 1852], vol. 1.—1851-52, pp. 5-9 [quote on p. 8].
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