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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.
Rev. 13. 8. latter part of the vers. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Rev. 13. 8. latter part of the vers. The Lamb slaine from the foundation of the world.
HERE is something yet to be handled in this Verse, and that is the antiquity of the sufferings of Christ. He doth not only say that Christ was a Lamb, and slaughtered, but his death is described by the antiquity of it, From the beginning of the world: Or as it is here translated (and very fitly) from the foundation of the world; though I would not put any great weight in the very nick of the foundation, for the foundation of the world was laid the first day of the creation, when the Lord made the highest heavens, and the lowest earth: the highest heaven, the kingdom of the blessed Saints and Angels, of whom it is said, Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world: There was a kingdom in the foundation of the world, and therefore the Angels were created the first day: and it is true Christ was slain even then also, else those Angels had not been in that kingdom: But whether you take it for the foundation in the creation, or in the nick of the creation, it is not greatly material, for the death of Christ reached both to the fall of Adam, and in some respect before it, and the explication of that will show the truth thereof, and I would not be exquisite nor curious in opening of it.
HERE is something yet to be handled in this Verse, and that is the antiquity of the sufferings of Christ. He doth not only say that Christ was a Lamb, and slaughtered, but his death is described by the antiquity of it, From the beginning of the world: Or as it is here translated (and very fitly) from the foundation of the world; though I would not put any great weight in the very nick of the foundation, for the foundation of the world was laid the first day of the creation, when the Lord made the highest heavens, and the lowest earth: the highest heaven, the kingdom of the blessed Saints and Angels, of whom it is said, Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world: There was a kingdome in the foundation of the world, and therefore the Angels were created the first day: and it is true Christ was slaine even then also, else those Angels had not been in that kingdome: But whether you take it for the foundation in the creation, or in the nick of the creation, it is not greatly material, for the death of Christ reached both to the fall of Adam, and in some respect before it, and the explication of that will shew the truth thereof, and I would not be exquisite nor curious in opening of it.