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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.
These are the several respects in which Christ is said to be the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; In regard of the purpose of God, in regard of his promise, in regard of the types of him, in the Sacrifices that were shadows of Christ, and did really hold him forth; in regard of the virtue of it, and in regard of the faith of Gods people that lived from the beginning of the world; in regard of all these Christ was slain from the beginning of the world,
These are the severall respects in which Christ is said to be the Lamb slaine from the foundation of the world; In regard of the purpose of God, in regard of his promise, in regard of the types of him, in the Sacrifices that were shadowes of Christ, and did really hold him forth; in regard of the vertue of it, and in regard of the faith of Gods people that lived from the beginning of the world; in regard of all these Christ was slaine from the beginning of the world,
For the Reasons of the point;
All the ways and respects I have spoken to,1 are as so many Reasons; yet if a man should stand upon a Reason, I would first say this; the first may be from the eternity of that which is infinite; what ever is infinite, is eternal: Now the value and virtue of the death of Christ is infinite, as being the blood of the son of God, Acts 20. 28. Now that which is infinite, as well reacheth that which is before, as after it; infinite it is, or else it cannot be eternal: and infinite it had need to be, or else the infinite wrath of God could not be satisfied thereby; but being infinite, it was of eternal efficacy, and therefore he was a Lamb slain, and slain from the foundation of the world: So that all that are elect were in Christ before the foundation of the world.