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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.
Secondly, from the efficacy of Satan in the power of deceitful sophistry, and doing wonders.
Secondly, from the efficacy of Satan in the power of deceitfull sophistry, and doing wonders.
And thirdly, by the plausibleness, trumpery, and bravery of that Religion, so suitable to carnal reason, that they were carried away thereto, and it could not be, but they should be carried away by the man of Sin.
And thirdly, by the plausiblenesse, trumpery, and bravery of that Religion, so suitable to carnal reason, that they were carried away thereto, and it could not be, but they should be carried away by the man of Sinne.
The use first may then be thus much;1 If all that dwell on Earth, whose names are not written in the book of life, do worship the Beast, and none are excluded but those whose names are written in the Lambs book of life, then this will unavoidably follow, that a Papist by his Religion cannot go beyond a Reprobate; what he may, and renounce his Religion, is another matter, as Bilney and Latimer sometimes did; they were written in the Lambs book of life: but by his Religion, take them that do believe, as the Catholic Roman Church believes, and believe no more, but practice that which that Religion directs them to, and go no further, and they continue and live and die in that, then I must pronounce it from the Text, they cannot go beyond a Reprobate, the reason is evident from the Text; for if none of them whose names are written in the Lambs book of life do worship the Beast, and only they do worship the Beast, whose names are not written in the Lambs book of life, then if they be not written in the Lambs book of life, the Text is very strong & clear in