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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.
Now the note that first offers it self from this verse is this.
Now the note that first offers it selfe from this verse is this.
That such whose names are written in the lambs book of life,1 they all and they only are preserved from the worship of the Beast: For here it is said, That all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship him, saving they whose names are written in the Lambs Book of life, they shall not worship him; but all whose names are not written in the book of the life of the Lamb, they shall worship the Beast: So then they whose names are written in the Lambs book of life, they do not worship him; (for if their names be written there, they are expressly exempted;) but they that do worship him, they are said not to have their names written in the Lambs book of life: So that such whose names are written in the Lambs book of life, they and all they, and they only are preserved from the worship of the Beast. It is a speech to the like purpose that you read in Rev. 17. 8. and upon the like occasion: The Beast that thou sawest was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition, and they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder (whose names were not written in the Book of life from the foundation of the world, &c.) They admire and adore him, where he tells you of an ancient act, he doth not tell here when it was written, there he doth, that ancient book wherein from the foundation of the world they were written, and therefore before the world such as were written in the Lambs book of life, were locked up to be preserved from the adoration of the Beast, and ⟨p. 132⟩all the rest were left to worship the Beast.
That such whose names are written in the lambs book of life,1