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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.
First, you shall observe this, to find out the meaning; that such as have this number they all have liberty of commerce, either in the Catholic Roman Church or in the Image of that Church; they may trade with them, whether in spiritual or temporal businesses, they will not grudge you; you are a currant market man among them; you are a vendable commodity, and you may pass with them, and your money is good silver, as in Verse 16, 17. But if you be not a Priest of their order, nor a Roman Catholic, nor have his number, you may not buy, nor sell; that is something then.
First, you shall observe this, to finde out the meaning; that such as have this number they all have liberty of commerce, either in the Catholick Roman Church or in the Image of that Church; they may trade with them, whether in spiritual or temporal businesses, they will not grudge you; you are a currant market man among them; you are a vendable commodity, and you may passe with them, and your mony is good silver, as in Verse 16, 17. But if you be not a Preist of their order, nor a Roman Catholick, nor have his number, you may not buy, nor sell; that is something then.
Secondly, Mark this, that this number of the name is the degree of commerce with the Roman Catholic Church, for so he doth descend, Verse 17. No man may buy or sell but those that have the mark, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his ⟨p. 249⟩name: As who should say, they were of the lowest, they were the least sort of them, yet to them it did pertain that had the number of the name: yet there is so much real difference between them, that he saith plainly, They that receive the mark or his name, they shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation: And they shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels, and in presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment shall ascend up for ever and ever, and they shall have no rest day nor night, Rev. 14. 9, 10, 11