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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
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And as he was thus innocent as a Lamb: So he was meek and patient as a Lamb: and the holy Ghost hath respect unto it, Acts 8. 32. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a Lamb dumb before the shearers, so opened he not his mouth. And therefore there is something respected in his silence and quiet subjection to the slaughter knife: And his patience or meekness doth express it self in two things chiefly.
And as he was thus innocent as a Lamb: So he was meeke and patient as a Lamb: and the holy Ghost hath respect unto it, Acts 8. 32. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a Lamb dumb before the shearers, so opened he not his mouth. And therefore there is something respected in his silence and quiet subjection to the slaughter knife: And his patience or meeknesse doth expresse it self in two things chiefly.
1. In submitting not himself only, but his will to his fathers will. Father, saith Christ (in his agony in the Garden) if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it, thy will be done, Mat. 26. 39. 42 And that is properly after Gods own heart, when a mans heart is subdued to the will of God; in which respect he did not murmur at his Fathers hand, nor did expostulate his being delivered into the hands of wicked men, 1 Pet. 2. 23. Who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: And so meek was be in this very kind, as that be prayed for his very enemies and persecutors. Luk. 23. 34. Then said Jesus, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.