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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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We think Saint-ship is a peculiar privilege to the Saints in Heaven, when they have ended their days in peace and a good conscience, then they are accounted Saints and Angels; but the Lord accounts them Saints while they live upon the Earth, whiles they are the Church Militant, a warfaring Church; while men undertake war against them, and overcome them by war, even then they are called Saints. And which is wonderful, Saints when they are overcome, and that by their own sinfulness; for they loose not the Saintship, when they loose the victory. The Lord looks at his poorest children here as Saints, though there be a miserable body of death hang about them, that they cry out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this Body of Death, Rom. 7. 24. Yea though they complain of their Pride, and Passion, and Lusts, and Hypocrisy, and many offences ⟨p. 107⟩they find against themselves, though they think themselves more flesh then any, though they think themselves (as Paul did) Carnal, sold under Sin, (Rom. 7. 17.) yet then the Lord accounts them Saints when they are encompassed about with a body of Sin:
We think Saint-ship is a peculiar priviledge to the Saints in Heaven, when they have ended their dayes in peace and a good conscience, then they are accounted Saints and Angels; but the Lord accounts them Saints while they live upon the Earth, whiles they are the Church Militant, a warfaring Church; while men undertake warre against them, and overcome them by warre, even then they are called Saints. And which is wonderfull, Saints when they are overcome, and that by their owne sinfulnesse; for they loose not the Saintship, when they loose the victory. The Lord looks at his poorest children here as Saints, though there be a miserable body of death hang about them, that they cry out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this Body of Death, Rom. 7. 24. Yea though they complain of their Pride, and Passion, and Lusts, and Hypocrysie, and many offences ⟨p. 107⟩they finde against themselves, though they think themselves more flesh then any, though they thinke themselves (as Paul did) Carnall, sold under Sinne, (