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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.
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. Ephes. 1. 4. He hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world; in Christ, and in Christ crucified before the foundation of the world; for being of infinite value, it must of necessity be eternal; there is nothing infinite, but is eternal, they are co-incident; that which is finite will end, it began in time, and will end in time: But that which is infinite must needs have respect to eternity; and therefore saith our Saviour, John 8. 38. Before Abraham was I am: So that take him whether as God, or in point of the virtue and efficacy of his mediation, he was before Abraham; it could not be eternal, if it be not infinite; and if it be infinite, it must needs be eternal.
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 eternall: Now the value and vertue of the death of Christ is infinite, as being the blood of the sonne of God,