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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,1 Let all the sons of nature, and all other sons of grace, know, that if Christ was slaughtered from the beginning of the world, and only to break the Serpents head, ⟨p. 200⟩which had plotted our destruction from the foundation of the world, then certainly it is not possible we should live in those sins by which we have slaughtered Christ; can any man that knows the difference between the right hand and left, commit sin that slaughters Christ Jesus, and live and die in it well enough? and think with himself, that notwithstanding the lewd lusts that hurry me, I shall do well enough with it? an oath is not such a great matter, or to sit •ippling till we be drunk, or gaining too much in bargains, it is no such great matter: I tell thee, if it be breach of the law of God, thou canst not live in it; Christ himself could not, it cost his breaking.
Secondly,1 Let all the sonnes of nature, and all other sons of grace, know, that if Christ was slaughtered from the beginning of the world, and onely to break the Serpents head, ⟨p. 200⟩which had plotted our destruction from the foundation of the world, then certainly it is not possible we should live in those sinnes by which we have slaughtered Christ; can any man that knows the difference between the right hand and left, commit sinne that slaughters Christ Jesus, and live and die in it well enough? and think with himselfe, that notwithstanding the lewd lusts that hurry me, I shall do well enough with it? an oath is not such a great matter, or to sit •ippling till we be drunk, or gaining too much in bargains, it is no such great matter: I tell thee, if it be breach of the law of God, thou canst not live in it; Christ himselfe could not, it cost his breaking.
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