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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.
Now if you will ask why this six comes to be multiplied by ten? If ye observe it, all the government and maintenance of the Roman State is by tenths, by tithes; all the people must give the tenth to the Priest, and the Priest to the Bishop for the maintenance of the Catholic Church, and so the whole Government comes to be multiplied, maintained, and established.
Now if you will aske why this sixe comes to be multiplyed by ten? If ye observe it, all the government and maintenance of the Roman State is by tenths, by tithes; all the people must give the tenth to the Priest, and the Priest to the Bishop for the mayntenance of the Catholicke Church, and so the whole Government comes to be multiplyed, maintained, and established.
Thus you see what the number is, and the reason why the Holy Ghost calls it so, and how he doth oppose it to the contrary number of that which is delivered by the blessed Apostles, and followed by the holy Saints of God from one generation to another. Put then all these together, and all will amount to this; That whereas the number of Christ upon which both his followers are built, and his Church, and all the Dimensions and Administrations of it: Their foundation, their gates, their length, height, and breadth, all of them are founded in the Apostolical doctrine: For Christ prayed for his twelve Apostles, and all that should believe in his name through their word, John 17. 20. It is the comprehension of all Saints to the end of the world, whereas they are built upon Apostolical simplicity, both for their State and Church-administrations, they are all built upon twelve, and multiplied and enlarged by 12.
Thus you see what the number is, and the reason why the Holy Ghost calls it so, and how he doth oppose it to the contrary number of that which is delivered by the blessed Apostles, and followed by the holy Saints of God from one generation to another. Put then all these together, and all will amount to this; That whereas the number of Christ upon which both his followers are built, and his Church, and all the Dimentions and Administrations of it: Their foundation, their gates, their length, heighth, and breadth, all of them are founded in the Apostolicall doctrine: For Christ prayed for his twelve Apostles, and all that should believe in his name through their word,