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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 you should desire any further testimony to confirm it, consider what the Holy Ghost saith, in Rev 11. 2. where he tells you of the Court that is without the Temple: Measure it not (saith he) for it is given to the Gentiles and to the holy City, they shall tread under foot forty and two months. Where you shall see that he speaks of the same persons, and of the same distance of time: He would have a Temple of God measured, even in the darkest times of Popery: But for the Court (alluding to the outward Court of Solomons Temple where a•l the people came in) do not measure that: Look at them • not capable of measuring b• the rule of the word of God, count them as given to the Gentiles: And the holy City shall ⟨p. 209⟩they tread under foot forty and two months, the same time that here the Beast is to rule: Now Gentiles are accounted without Christ, and without God in the world, Ephes. 2. 12. He means Pagan Gentiles, nor Christian Gentiles, for such are we. And in Rev. 11. 8. The dead bodies of the witnesses, they shall lye in the street of the great City; and he doth account it spiritually Sodom and Egypt: Sodom for lewdness, and beastly lusts: and Egypt for barbarous and base idolatry, and oppression of Gods people; This is the esteem the holy Ghost hath of him.
If you should desire any further testimony to confirm it, consider what the Holy Ghost saith, in Rev 11. 2. where he tels you of the Court that is without the Temple: Measure it not (saith he) for it is given to the Gentiles and to the holy City, they shall tread under foot forty and two moneths. Where you shall see that he speaks of the same persons, and of the same distance of time: Hee would have a Temple of God measured, even in the darkest times of Popery: But for the Court (alluding to the outward Court of Solomons Temple where a•l the people came in) do not measure that: Look at them • not capable of measuring b• the rule of the word of God, count them as given to the Gentiles: And the holy City shall