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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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It may be of instruction and exhortation,1 to provoke you to make your election sure, then you make your salvation sure, and preservation from Popery and the world, and from the Devil, and from your own corrupt Nature, sure that you shall not be carried captive with the pollutions of the times and places you live in, though hundreds run from God one way, and ten thousands another way, & fall off hither and thither, yet you shall still be preserved: in John 6. 68. where our Saviour asked his Disciples, will ye also go away? when many of those that were his Disciples went away and fell off from him, being offended from something which he had spoken to them, and that was that Doctrine that we have now in hand, and some other corollaries from it, they walked ⟨p. 149⟩no more with him; then saith Christ to the rest, will ye also go away? Peter answered in the behalf of the rest; Lord, to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life: As who should say, whether shall a man go to mend himself? Thou hast the words of eternal life? and having the words of eternal life, how shall they do better else where? so it behooves us then as we desire, to be preserved from all apostasy and backsliding from God, notwithstanding all the temptations of the flattering world, or busy world, or from the destroying world, by persecution, and flattering by prosperity, and busy world, by the cares of the world, and continual cumber about the world, and distempers in our hearts on that ground, in such a case as this what shall preserve us? If our names be written in the Lambs book of life, truly we shall be preserved, that neither the world, nor our passions and lusts shall prevail against us. My father (saith Christ) is greater then all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand: and I and my Father are one, my Father and I will keep them, Joh. 10. 27, 28.
It may be of instruction and exhortation,1 to provoke you to make your election sure, then you make your salvation sure, and preservation from Popery and the world, and from the Devill, and from your own corrupt Nature, sure that you shall not be carried captive with the polutions of the times and places you live in, though hundreds run from God one way, and ten thousands another way, & fall off hither and thither, yet you shall still be preserved: in