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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. To hold forth such an obedience as a man may be able to perform and keep the whole Law of God, which he thinks to be easy: And this doth please natural Sense to work our own salvation.
3. To hold forth such an obedience as a man may be able to perform and keep the whole Law of God, which he thinks to be easie: And this doth please naturall Sence to work our own salvation.
4. To hold forth pardon of sin for money, and for bodily exercises.
5. Uncertainty of Salvation.
6. Such a frame of Church-government as keepeth all in a politic order and unity: That all Popish Churches be subordinate to such a Bishop, as he is to some Metropolitan, and they to some Primate, and all to the Bishop of Rome. And why? From one unity ascends, and it is good to keep unity: And so to look at a mans self as unworthy to come into the presence of God, and to call ⟨p. 119⟩upon Christ, and therefore manners would make a man cleave to some he-Saints or she-Saints, and they shall present their prayers to Christ, and Christ to the Father, which is very plausible to natural reason: And for our Fathers which grew zealous of that Religion, we should not damn them to hell, Reason abhors that.