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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.
But there is also the book of Life, by which we shall be judged, in Rev. 10. 12. Now for the book of life that hath a double exception in Scripture, for sometimes it is put for the Church register, in which all are registered, as those that were the living in Jerusalem. Isa. 4. •. It is said, Every one that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: Or as the word is in the ⟨p. 133⟩margin or bigger Bibles written, To life in Jerusalem; In the Original it is capable of both constructions, Every man capable of life is written in Jerusalem:
But there is also the booke of Life, by which wee shall be judged, in Rev. 10. 12. Now for the book of life that hath a double exception in Scripture, for sometimes it is put for the Church register, in which all are registred, as those that were the living in Jerusalem. Isa. 4. •. It is said, Every one that remaineth in Hierusalem shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Hierusalem: Or as the word is in the ⟨p. 133⟩margent or bigger Bibles written, To life in Hierusalem; In the Originall it is capable of both constructions, Every man capable of life is written in Hierusalem:
There is a book written of them that live there, of which it is said, Psal. 87. 6. the Lord will recount when he writteth up the people, that this or that man was born there: Of this book also you read in Ezek. 13. 9. where the Lord doth threaten the false Prophets, that his hand shall be upon them that see vanity, and divine lies; they shall not be as members of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house o Israel; they shall neither have fellowship with Church nor Common-wealth: There is a writing, therefore a Register, a Record of them, which in the Old Testament were counted Genealogies, and very carefully did they keep them; that if they could not show their pedigree from this Genealogy, they were as polluted.