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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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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.
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 Sonne, the other thus willing to go, that his blood should be thus spilt like water upon the ground, and himselfe 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 mankinde; his justice, that he will be satisfied; his mercy, that he will have satisfaction in his Sonne, 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 Sonne (an innocent Lamb) for us.
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Thirdly,1 it may teach us for ever to loath and abhor all sin, as that which so deeply displeaseth God, so as no satisfaction might be made for sin, but the blood of his own Son; and no blood could satisfy but that, and this sin hath been the slaughterer of the innocent Lamb of God. It provokes God greatly, and slaughters his own Son; this is the power and venom of Sin. And therefore unless we take delight in the deep displeasure of God, which is unappeasable, but in the blood of his Son, how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?