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An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…
An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent servant of the Lord, Mr. John Cotton ... ; taken from his mouth in short-writing, and some part of it corrected by himself soon after the preaching thereof ; and all of it since viewed over by a friend to him ... wherein some mistakes were amended, but nothing of the sense altered.
London: printed for Tim. Smart, 1656
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
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3. There is a third Interpretation that make indeed the days, and time, and months definite; that is, determined and •et, and do limit them according to the account of the Prophets that take a day for a year: A like proportion of 42. months, of a time, times, and half a time, and of 1260. days; taking a day for a year, they will all come to the same period, to the same computation of 1260. years. Now that the Prophets do sometimes so reckon them, appears from Ezek. 4. 5, 6. where the Lord did direct the Prophet to lye upon his side 390 days, according to the defection of Israel from the house of David, in all which time the Prophet did bear the burden of the defection of the People; and to represent that: Son of man (saith he) I have given thee to lye so long, I have appointed each day for a year; thou shalt lye so many days, as their apostasy hath continued in years: For from the defection of Jeroboam, to the captivity of the Land, they continued 390. years. And after that (saith he) thou shalt turn thee, and lye upon thy other side forty days, and that was the time of the renewing of the Covenant by Josiah, in which the Lord was reconciled with his people: but the people falling into apostasy again, it proved forty days more.
3. There is a third Interpretation that make indeed the dayes, and time, and moneths definite; that is, determined and •et, and do limit them according to the account of the Prophets that take a day for a yeare: A like proportion of 42. moneths, of a time, times, and halfe a time, and of 1260. dayes; taking a day for a yeare, they will all come to the same period, to the same computation of 1260. yeares. Now that the Prophets do sometimes so reckon them, appears from Ezek. 4. 5, 6. where the Lord did direct the Prophet to lye upon his side 390 dayes, according to the defection of Israel from the house of David, in all which time the Prophet did beare the burden of the defection of the People; and to represent that: Son of man (saith he) I have given thee to lye so long, I have appointed each day for a yeare; thou shalt lye so many dayes, as their apostacy hath continued in yeares: For from the defection of Jeroboam, to the captivity of the Land, they continued 390. years. And after that (saith he) thou shalt turne thee, and lye upon thy other side forty dayes, and that was the time of the renewing of the Covenant by Josiah, in which the Lord was reconciled with his people: but the people falling into apostacy againe, it proved forty dayes more.