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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.
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.
6. Such a frame of Church-government as keepeth all in a politick 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 selfe 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 plausable to naturall reason: And for our Fathers which grew zealous of that Religion, we should not damn them to hell, Reason abhors that.
Thirdly, for natural Conscience; it will counter-work with God, and walk in equipage with God all the way, that is to say, for a man to look to find according to his works, natural Conscience hath this in Nature, it is ingrafted in nature from the God of Adam, from his Ordinance in Nature, or the rudiments of it restored.