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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.
This body of death it is not actual transgressions, but a powerful body of carnal corruption that hangs about us; that though we do not break out into actual sins as other men do, yet we see a body of death in us, and this is our captivity. So then, if the Lord hath redeemed a soul, and purchased these comfortable blessings as brings us to the sense of our woeful condition by reason of the loss of this liberty, all these are witnesses of the redeeming love of Christ.
This body of death it is not actuall transgressions, but a powerfull body of carnall corruption that hangs about us; that though we do not break out into actuall sinnes as other men do, yet we see a body of death in us, and this is our captivity. So then, if the Lord hath redemed a soul, and purchased these comfortable blessings as brings us to the sence of our wofull condition by reason of the losse of this liberty, all these are witnesses of the redeeming love of Christ.
Lastly,1 it may be a use of consolation to every such soul thus far (even so far as there is no bounds and limits to it) it is a marvellous satisfaction to a soul in temptation, nothing more then this I now speak of. One would think it were a great misery to live in horror of conscience continually, and so it is: but if a man be redeemed by the blood of this Lamb, then it is not terror of conscience that can ⟨p. 186⟩separate thee from God; for Christ himself was under terror of conscience as much, and more then thou art without sin, that he sweat drops of blood, and cries out and bemoans it in a holy manner. Why will you say, but will you have me set such things at my heel? the desertions of God at my heel? Is the favour of God to be set a• the heel? it will not hinder your union with your head, though you have lost the sense of it.
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