An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

And there is a third fundamental Reason,¹ and that is taken from the power and presence of the Spirit of Gods grace, in the hearts of his people. We are kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation, 1 Pet. 1. 5. That is, by the spirit of God, and by the power of that spirit, he keeps our faith, and by faith keeps us in the way of his ordinances, and in the way of sanctification to salvation: Little children, ye are of God, and you have overcome these Antichrists; why? for greater is he that is in you, then he that is in the world, 1 John 4. 4. The power of God is in you, they are of the world, and the world is carried away with them; you are of God, and you hear them not; for greater is he tha• is in you, then he that is in the world. These are three fundamental Reasons which are indeed the demonstrative cause of the impossibility of them to be finally ⟨p. 142⟩carried to the worship of the Beast, the election of God will not suffer it, the unchangeableness thereof, the faithfulness of Christ, the efficacy of the blood of Christ, and the power of the spirit, and that which flows from it is the experience of Gods love, and the virtue of their faith in Christ: Their faith is unchangeable, not possible to be rooted out, in Luke 22. 31, 32. I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not: It may be shaken, but it shall not finally fail; I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me, Jer. 32. 40. and that is the proper act of faith: Be not high minded, but fear; his mercy is sufficient for us, trust steadfastly on the grace of Christ; and though Peter seemed not to trust on the grace of Christ, yet in his worst state he knew that all the courses of Satan were vanity, and he durst not but in his heart believe that Christ was the Messiah: so all the elect of God know the Beast is a Beast, and the Catholic Roman Church is a Beast, and the head of that Beast is a beastly head, and they know that their Doctrine is sensual, and carnal, and that they all shall go into perdition; and withal, their experience doth evidently convince them, that were it not in a pang of temptation in which they are not able to abide by it, yet by a renewal of the blood of the Lord Jesus sprinkled on their souls, they are brought a fresh to see the work of Gods grace stirred up in them; but otherwise their constant course is, as in