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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There may be a double reason of that.1
- 1Answ.
1. When he describes what the Children of God do, he sums up their actions by days. Children of light, it is meet that their actions should be measured out by the period of days: The Witnesses prophesying, and the woman's flight into the wilderness is said to be 1260. days: But as God gave the Sun to rule the day, so the Moon to rule the night, Psal. 136. 8, 9. Now therefore when you are to speak of superstitious devotions, they are works indeed of darkness, and therefore are best reckoned by months, by that Creature in Heaven which measures out Night, the Moon: And therefore it may be, and so the holy Ghost useth it, if he speak of the Gentiles treading under foot the holy City, though it be by day-light, yet it is a work of darkness; They tread under foot the holy City forty two months, Rev. 11. 2. And if Antichrist be to continue long, all his continuance is but a work of darkness, and therefore he is said to continue 42. months: But what the Church do, and what the Witnesses do, is reckoned by days, but it is the same time, the one makes day-work of it, and the other night-work.
1. When he describes what the Children of God doe, he sums up their actions by dayes. Children of light, it is meet that their actions should be measured out by the period of dayes: The Witnesses prophecying, and the womans flight into the wildernesse is said to be 1260. dayes: But as God gave the Sunne to rule the day, so the Moon to rule the night, Psal. 136. 8, 9. Now therefore when you are to speak of superstitious devotions, they are works indeed of darknesse, and therefore are best reckoned by moneths, by that Creature in Heaven which measures out Night, the Moon: And therefore it may be, and so the holy Ghost useth it, if he speak of the Gentiles treading under foot the holy City, though it be by day-light, yet it is a work of darkness; They tread under foot the holy City forty two moneths,