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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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And indeed this will yet humble us the more, in case the Lord make it appear that all this is done for me, and thee; we may say as Mephibosheth, 2 Sam. 19. 28 what are we, but as dead dogs in the sight of God, that the Lord should give his only Son to recover such dead dogs as we from that woeful estate in which we and our fathers lived, and many of them dyed in, yet the Lord hath been more merciful to us; but what are we all but that the Lord might have cut us off? Herein the Lord commends his love to us, that when we were sinners Christ dyed for us, Rom. 5. 8.
And indeed this will yet humble us the more, in case the Lord make it appear that all this is done for me, and thee; we may say as Mephibosheth, 2 Sam. 19. 28 what are we, but as dead dogs in the sight of God, that the Lord should give his onely Sonne to recover such dead dogs as we from that wofull estate in which we and our fathers lived, and many of them dyed in, yet the Lord hath been more mercifull to us; but what are we all but that the Lord might have cut us off? Herein the Lord commends his love to us, that when we were sinners Christ dyed for us, Rom. 5. 8.
Secondly,1 it may serve to teach us, the wonderful and unspeakable love of God and of his Christ to us; the one, that was thus willing to send his Son, the other thus willing to go, that his blood should be thus spilt like water upon the ground, and himself cast aside of men for the while (but for ever accepted of God) that we might be saved. Herein the Lord magnifies his mercy to mankind; his justice, that he will be satisfied; his mercy, that he will have satisfaction in his Son, and doth not require it of our persons. It is rich Grace, that so we may stand, and wonder that the Lord should ever do it to such as we, to give his Son (an innocent Lamb) for us.