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

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⟩they call them) on the other side, Protestants and Papists might be easily reconciled. These are the whisperings of flesh and blood; but that which is written in the word, doth bear express testimony against such a conclusion: For if Jesuits were removed, and Puritans too, yet if there were any left that thought they could worship the Church of Rome, as they require, that you must believe as they believe, your faith is built upon the Church, and upon the dispensation of the keys of that Church, such a faith and obedience as falls short of Christ Jesus, that all salvation is to be expected from him, if both Jesuits, and those they call Puritans were removed, if there were none, but that take up their faith and obedience in that worship they hold forth: I say there is not any one of them that so live, and so dye, knowing what they believe, that can be saved. Indeed you read in Rev. 3. many know not the depth of Satan, and it is another matter what God may dispense to them in private; but men that know what they do, and believe according to the doctrine of that Church, and worship according to the direction of it: I say, men living, and so dying, there is not one of them whose names are written in the Lambs book of life, and therefore shall be cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.

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 doe, that if it were not for hot-spur'd Jesuites on the one side, and hot-spur'd Puritans (as ⟨p. 145⟩they call them) on the other side, Protestants and Papists might be easily reconciled. These are the whisperings of flesh and blood; but that which is written in the word, doth bear expresse testimonie against such a conclusion: For if Jesuites were removed, and Puritans too, yet if there were any left that thought they could worship the Church of Rome, as they require, that you must believe as they believe, your faith is built upon the Church, and upon the dispensation of the keyes of that Church, such a faith and obedience as fals short of Christ Jesus, that all salvation is to be expected from him, if both Jesuites, and those they call Puritans were removed, if there were none, but that take up their faith and obedience in that worship they hold forth: I say there is not any one of them that so live, and so dye, knowing what they believe, that can be saved. Indeed you read in