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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.
Secondly, He is truly said to be slaughtered from the foundation of the world, in regard of the promise of God made to Adam since the world began; the same day that Adam was created he fell, or certainly soon after, but most probable the same day: the same day that he fell, it is clear the Lord gave him a promise of the death of Christ, in Gen. 3. 15. for that is the meaning of the promise: He shall break thine head, speaking to the Serpent, he shall crush the head of the Serpent: For the seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head; Thou shalt bruise his heel. Heel implies the humanity of Christ, which was to be tr•d•n upon, and indeed it was all that the tempter could do, but that bruising the heel was the crushing of his humanity, his soul and body was rent asunder, that was promised from the foundation of the world.
Secondly, He is truly said to be slaughtered from the foundation of the world, in regard of the promise of God made to Adam since the world began; the same day that Adam was created he fell, or certainly soon after, but most probable the same day: the same day that he fell, it is clear the Lord gave him a promise of the death of Christ, in Gen. 3. 15. for that is the meaning of the promise: He shall break thine head, speaking to the Serpent, he shall crush the head of the Serpent: For the seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head; Thou shalt bruise his heel. Heel implyes the humanity of Christ, which was to be tr•d•n upon, and indeed it was all that the tempter could doe, but that bruising the heel was the crushing of his humanity, his soul and body was rent asunder, that was promised from the foundation of the world.
Thirdly, From the foundation of the world, Christ was slain in the forerunning types of him; for it is said, that Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof, and that was a