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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.
That look as it is with some men when in a consumption, & have little hope of recovery, then they will kill some lamb, and while it is warm, will take the warm body of the lamb and fasten it to them that they may be repaired: Truly thus doth the Lord with us, he knows we are far consumed, in a state of worldliness, and a state of sin, and Satan: how shall the Lord rescue us, and repair us? No way but this, here is an innocent Lamb, he wraps him about us, warms us with his blood, and so he recovers us again from our consuming condition, consuming with sinful lusts, and passions, and Satanical delusions. Look as Physicians, they will soon guess what the disease is by the receipt: If the Lord prescribe such a receipt as this, the blood of the innocent Lamb of God, then know it for a certain truth, we were in a desperate condition, ⟨p. 179⟩consuming and wasting, and dead too, overspread with the world and Satan, and so had everlastingly perished, had not the Lord provided such a plaster as this.
That look as it is with some men when in a consumption, & have little hope of recovery, then they wil kill some lamb, and while it is warme, will take the warme body of the lamb and fasten it to them that they may be repaired: Truly thus doth the Lord with us, he knowes we are farre consumed, in a state of worldlinesse, and a state of sinne, and Satan: how shall the Lord rescue us, and repaire us? No way but this, here is an innocent Lamb, he wraps him about us, warmes us with his blood, and so he recovers us againe from our consuming condition, consuming with sinfull lusts, and passions, and Satanical delusions. Look as Physitians, they will soon ghesse what the disease is by the receipt: If the Lord prescribe such a receipt as this, the blood of the innocent Lamb of God, then know it for a certain truth, we were in a desperate condition, ⟨p. 179⟩consuming and wasting, and dead too, overspread with the world and Satan, and so had everlastingly perished, had not the Lord provided such a plaister as this.