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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.
Fourthly,1 It may be of instruction to us, that never any evil can befall us, but there is a remedy prepared before it come upon us: The Lamb was slain from the beginning of the world.
Fourthly,1 It may be of instruction to us, that never any evill can befall us, but there is a remedy prepared before it come upon us: The Lamb was slaine from the beginning of the world.
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Though we lived before Christs time, and much more, if after it: there is no sin that Adam nor his wife committed, but there was a remedy prepared for it before the foundation of the world; it was of infinite value, it was provided from eternity, and promised from the foundation of the world; it was shadowed in types, and exhibited in sundry representations, and in the lively efficacy of it in the hearts and lives of his people since the world began: All that we read of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of David, and Solomon, of Kings, Priests, and Prophets, and Apostles, what have they all been, but lively representations and foot-steps of the power of the blood of the Lamb: the Lord provided his slaughter of the Lamb, for the redemption of all his people, out of the world, before the world began.
Though we lived before Christs time, and much more, if after it: there is no sinne that Adam nor his wife committed, but there was a remedy prepared for it before the foundation of the world; it was of infinite value, it was provided from eternity, and promised from the foundation of the world; it was shadowed in types, and exhibited in sundry representations, and in the lively efficacy of it in the hearts and lives of his people since the world began: All that we read of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of David, and Solomon, of Kings, Priests, and Prophets, and Apostles, what have they all been, but lively representations and foot-steps of the power of the blood of the Lamb: the Lord provided his slaughter of the Lamb, for the redemption of all his people, out of the world, before the world began.