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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.
IF any man have an ear, let him hear: What should he hear? For when he doth often use this phrase in the second and third Chapter, he tells you what they shall hear: Hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches.
IF any man have an eare, let him heare: What should he heare? For when he doth often use this phrase in the second and third Chapter, he tells you what they shall heare: Heare what the Spirit saith unto the Churches.
Now he doth not put in that object of hearing; but yet taking his meaning, he means that which the Spirit hath said unto you in the former description of the Beast, especially that which he said to them in the words before going, to wit, the universality of the worshippers of the Beast, and the certain destruction of those that do worship him, and the preservation of the elect children of God from that contagion.
Now he doth not put in that object of hearing; but yet taking his meaning, he meanes that which the Spirit hath sayd unto you in the former description of the Beast, especially that which he said to them in the words before going, to wit, the universality of the worshippers of the Beast, and the certain destruction of those that do worship him, and the preservation of the elect children of God from that contagion.
It is meet to be heard that such a Beast would come into the world as the Roman visible Church, and that he hath in him the resemblance of all the old Empires, of the Lyon of Babel, of the Bear of Persia, of the Leopard of Greece, and of other Beasts, and of that other Beast the old Roman Pagan Empire: And it is not unworthy to be heard, the wound that should be given gim by the Goths and Vandals, and the time of his greatness, and that those that worship him shall not be saved, only Reprobates shall worship him: And those whose names are written in the book of life, they shall either not be worshippers of him, (but bear witness against him) or else they shall be rescued from it, and not live and dye in that worship. So these two verses are Corollaries, or uses,