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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.
If you speak of Christ as a Minister, the spirit of a Dove doth come upon him. For the Sacrifice, he is a Lamb. The wolf shall dwell with the Lamb, and the Leopard shall lye down ⟨p. 156⟩with the Kid; and the Calf, and the young Lyon, and the Fa•ling together, and a little child shall lead them. And the Cow and the Bear shall feed, their young ones shall lye down together; and the Lyon shall eat straw like the Ox, and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the Asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the Cock-atrice den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, Isa. 11. 6. to 9.
If you speak of Christ as a Minister, the spirit of a Dove doth come upon him. For the Sacrifice, he is a Lamb. The wolfe shall dwell with the Lamb, and the Leopard shall lye downe ⟨p. 156⟩with the Kid; and the Calfe, and the young Lyon, and the Fa•ling together, and a little child shall lead them. And the Cow and the Beare shall feed, their young ones shall lye down together; and the Lyon shall eate straw like the Oxe, and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the Aspe, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the Cock-atrice den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine, Isa. 11. 6. to 9.
Do you see a man boisterous in his spirit, and in his own will and ways, and will not be willing to see a difference in himself from the spirit of Christ Jesus (as it is possible that a child of God may be rough in his way, yet he dare not allow himself long in it, it is a body of death: But) if you see a man that doth allow himself in a passionate frame of spirit, that a man will have his own will (and will not be crossed in it) whether it be right or wrong, doubtless this is not the spot of Gods children; It is not the spirit of those whose names are written in the Lambs bok of life. God did not indeed elect us, because either we are such, or would be such, but he did elect us to be made such first or last, before we come to enjoy the everlasting Inheritance which this book hath written us down unto. And therefore it must cut off all our boisterousness and churlishness of spirit; all this ruggedness and churlishness it must be taken off; The wolf shall dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard shall lye down with the kid, and a little child shall lead them: Therefore all bitterness of contention, and pangs of passion that prevail, that are far from the spirit of love, must be removed: But this will prevail in all Gods people, that God will carry an end your spirits, in conformity to the spirit of his own. Be of that spirit therefore in all your Transactions, that is to say, mild, and patient, and innocent: And so it will require all the children of God in the same kind, to keep Lamb-like silence, when you are charged with any fault whereof you are guilty.