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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.
I mean such an one was not written in the Lambs book of life: And they that are not, are cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, that is the issue: And therefore what a fearful thing is it in such that do all they can to reconcile Nations to the Church of Rome, and are mad upon Romish religion? what desperate service do they undertake, to bring men to such a religion as destroys many millions of souls? It is true, Those that are written in the Lambs book of life; God looseth none of his sheep: but it is evident they are bloody Butchers of many Christians not chosen, yet devout Christians, many an one under pang of Conscience, with sense of many sinful passions and lusts, are not able to get out but by a Priests absolution; and if they be covered with a Friars coal, they hope they shall do well enough: Such a conscience as can be opened and healed by such wooden keys as these, if they know no more, such cannot be saved.
I meane such an one was not written in the Lambs booke of life: And they that are not, are cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, that is the issue: And therefore what a fearfull thing is it in such that do all they can to reconcile Nations to the Church of Rome, and are mad upon Romish religion? what desperate service do they undertake, to bring men to such a religion as destroys many millions of soules? It is true, Those that are written in the Lambs booke of life; God looseth none of his sheep: but it is evident they are bloody Butchers of many Christians not chosen, yet devout Christians, many an one under pang of Conscience, with sence of many sinfull passions and lusts, are not able to get out but by a Priests absolution; and if they be covered with a Fryars coule, they hope they shall do well enough: Such a conscience as can be opened and healed by such wooden keys as these, if they know no more, such cannot be saved.
I will not enlarge it, but it were necessary to be pressed and urged in some places, look not at it as a matter of curiosity and circumstance what Religion a man dyes in, and think as some States-men do, that if it were not for hot-spurred Jesuits on the one side, and hot-spurred Puritans (as ⟨p. 145⟩