An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

Thirdly,¹ It may teach us the unity of our Religion with the Religion of the ancient Patriarchs since the world began; how did they look to be saved? In Acts 15. 11. they all looked ⟨p. 201⟩to be saved by grace, and by the blood of the Lord Jesus, as we do in doing and suffering all for them, and we know no other way: There is no name under heaven whereby we must be saved, but only the name of Christ, and by that we are saved from the guilt and filth of sin, and supplied with grace to conform• us to Christ Jesus, and to make us like to him our head and husband; there is the old way of salvation, and it is the same now; there is unity and true antiquity. The Papists speak much of antiquities, but let them bring no other way of salvation but the blood of the Lamb, and we will look at them as Churches for point of salvation; we will grant them the right hand of fellowship if they will look for no salvation neither from free will, nor from merits of their own, nor from the intercession of Saints and Angels, nor from dispensations of the Pope, nor from the going on pilgrimage, nor from the satisfaction of Saints, but that they look for salvation only from the blood of the Lamb; truly we will give them the right hand of fellowship; let them have errors, there may be many errors otherwise: but let them hold there, and look for all salvation there, and rest not upon any other hopes of salvation, but what they receive from the blood of the Lamb by faith in him (for so alone it is received) faith in the blood of the Lamb, breeds and sheds abroad every grace in some measure and makes fruitful. No man hath washed his robes in the blood of the Lamb, but is fit to walk with Christ in white to justification to his sanctification, Rev. 7. 14. And so you shall have a true and perfect agreement in Religion, if that we agreed upon looking there for salvation, and put not salvation else-where: but when men magnify nature, and pinch upon, and extenuate the blood of Christ, and in their deep devotion you shall have pictured, here is the blood of Christ, and the blood of the son of the Virgin; when he looks upon the son of the Virgin, he thinks there is perfect salvation; but when he looks upon other things, to the mik of his mother; oh there is more sweetness in milk then in blood! when he looks again to the passion of Christ, then he priseth that;