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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.
So it is said here, The Lamb (that is Christ, The Lamb of God) slain from the foundation of the world: the Lamb is Christ, evident it is that in fullness of time he was slaughtered ⟨p. 189⟩about 4000. years after the world was made, but yet the holy Ghost saith, He was slain from the foundation of the world; so that though it was actually accomplished and performed in fullness of time, yet as time began, the suffering of Christ began also; slain he was therefore from the foundation of the world.
So it is said here, The Lamb (that is Christ, The Lamb of God) slaine from the foundation of the world: the Lamb is Christ, evident it is that in fulnesse of time he was slaughtered ⟨p. 189⟩about 4000. years after the world was made, but yet the holy Ghost saith, He was slaine from the foundation of the world; so that though it was actually accomplished and performed in fulnesse of time, yet as time began, the suffering of Christ began also; slaine he was therefore from the foundation of the world.
First, In respect of Gods eternal purpose, who from the foundation of the world, and before the foundation of the world appointed Christ to this slaughter. We are redeemed, (saith Peter) not with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without spot, who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times, &c. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19, 20. Before the foundation of the world, and from the foundation of the world, many times in Scripture are both one in meaning; before the foundation of the world he was ordained to be slaughtered, the Apostles words are expressly so, as of a lamb slain he was ordained, and from the foundation of the world implies long before the time he was slaughtered, and then you know not where to put the period, but some reference it hath to the foundation of the world.