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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
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
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If you see any vanish away, or fall away from his grace, and from his Saints, and he hath no pleasure in them, they are not given to Christ, you see he is the giver of them; but if men be not given to Christ, they will fall away: All that the Father gives me shall come unto me, it is my Fathers will I should not loose one of them. If men will not hearken to the Bishop of their souls, the Lord Jesus Christ, see the desperate danger thereof, and the original root, They are not written in the Lambs book of life.
If you see any vanish away, or fall away from his grace, and from his Saints, and he hath no pleasure in them, they are not given to Christ, you see he is the giver of them; but if men be not given to Christ, they will fall away: All that the Father gives me shall come unto me, it is my Fathers will I should not loose one of them. If men will not hearken to the Bishop of their souls, the Lord Jesus Christ, see the desperate danger thereof, and the originall root, They are not written in the Lambs book of life.
It may be of singular comfort to all the elect of God,1 whose names are written in the book of Life: It is a great comfort that a man is written to life, he might have been written to death, had not the Lord been pleased so to do: You read in the Epistle of Jude, vers. 4. Of certain men crept in unawares, who were of old ordained to condemnation: The word in the Original is, fore-written, written afore-time to destruction: Now I say, that a man is not written to destruction, but to life, and to life in Christ; not as Adam, that was to stand by his own strength, and so long as he useth grace well, he shall live; but if not, he shall dye: and he so used it, that if God give him not life in Christ, he dyed for ever: This is in Adams covenant, not in Christs, that was for a man to live by his own righteousness: Do this and thou shalt live, Levit. 18. 5. How woeful was our condition in this case, but to be written