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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
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
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Answ. Whether do you think it more charity to forewarn men of a desperate danger, or to be indulgent to men, and to tell them they may be saved in both Religions, when the word of God is plain against it? What charity count you that to gull men in a charitable, but a foolish conceit of their own good estate? It is cruel charity, and most uncharitable, when the Holy Ghost doth profess• ▪ Their names are not written in the Lambs book of life, whosoever worship the Beast.
Answ. Whether doe you thinke it more charity to forewarn men of a desperate danger, or to be indulgent to men, and to tell them they may be saved in both Religions, when the word of God is playn against it? What charity count you that to gull men in a charitable, but a foolish conceit of their own good estate? It is cruell charity, and most uncharitable, when the Holy Ghost doth profess• ▪ Their names are not written in the Lambs booke of life, whosoever worship the Beast.
Obj. 2. But you will say, Are not all the Catholics in the world persuaded of it, that the devotion to the Catholic Roman Church is a way of salvation? Catholics are confident of it, and you Protestants dare not deny it: And then I pray you whether is it not safer to be devoted to that Church, wherein all confess there is a possibility of salvation, then unto that Church in which one say there is salvation, the other not?
Obj. 2. But you will say, Are not all the Catholicks in the world perswaded of it, that the devotion to the Catholique Roman Church is a way of salvation? Catholiques are confident of it, and you Protestants dare not deny it: And then I pray you whether is it not safer to be devoted to that Church, wherein all confesse there is a possibility of salvation, then unto that Church in which one say there is salvation, the other not?