Revelation 13

He does not care for their purses but their hearts (Ephesians 2:2). Satan is served upon the knee (Revelation 13:4): "They worshipped the dragon" — that is, the Devil. Satan's empire is very large; the most kingdoms in the world pay tribute to him.

And this we find now in experience to be true, for the see of Rome never flourished until the empire decayed and the seat thereof was removed from the city of Rome. Again, Revelation 13 makes mention of two beasts: one coming out of the sea, whom the Papists confess to be the he…

Indeed a known harlot may afterward remain a wife and be so termed — yet after the bill of divorcement is given she ceases to be a wife, though she can show her marriage ring. Now the Church has received the bill of her divorcement in the written word, namely 2 Thessalonians 2 a…

Men come to Zion, and follow Christ in ones and twos of a whole Tribe (Jeremiah 3:14). They go to hell in thousands; a whole earth (Revelation 13) worships the Western Beast; and the Eastern Leopard has the far greatest part of the habitable world; Indians and Americans worship…

Zephaniah 3:10: From beyond the river of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the daughters of my dispersed shall come. 4. Their names are particularly enrolled in the Lamb's book of life (Luke 10:20; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 20:15). As citizens of some famous incorporation, or sena…

Answer: I will show a third. Paul says, that before the end, there shall be a departure (2 Thessalonians 2), and this departure is general in all nations (Revelation 13:16), and after a thousand years there shall be the first resurrection (Revelation 20:5), and this resurrection…

Such was the mighty power and deep policy used by Pharaoh to destroy Gods Israel, that to the eye of reason, it was as impossible to survive it, as for crackling thorns to abide unconsumed amidst devouring flames; by which Emblem, their miraculous preservation is expressed, Exod…

Christ is called the Lamb of God, Johnn 1:29. which he was in reference unto the Sacrifices of old, as 1 Peter 2:18, 19. whence he is represented in the church, as a Lamb slain, Revelation 5:6. or giving out the efficacy of all Sacrifices to his church. Now he is said to be a La…

This is a contrivance of the devil to turn the ministry of the Christian church into a ministry of the devil, and to turn these angels of the churches into fallen angels, and so into devils. In the tyranny, and superstition, and idolatry, and persecution, which he sets up, he co…

Rev. 3:5 and 22:19. They who truly have their names written in the Book of Life, are God's true Saints, that have saving grace: as is evident by Rev. 13:8. And all that dwell on the Earth, shall worship Him, whose Names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from…

Thus when the devil was silenced in his oracles (as it is well known he was upon the setting up of Christianity in the world) his mouth was opened in lies and slanders; and being forced to quit his pretensions to a deity, he appears bare-faced, as a devil, a false-accuser. The R…

Mahomet, though he industriously adapted his religion, to the sensual appetites of men, whose reason only, and not their lusts, could object against it, yet he obtained no strength, nor interest at all, till by a thousand artifices he had got the power of the sword, and with it…

See in Dan. 7. there is mention made of a cruel Tyrant that should make War with the Saints, and should persecute Gods people, that devoured and brake in pieces, yet there were some that should bear out all, that should have the Kingdom given them, and God should reward them glo…

Fourthly, an afflicted condition gives opportunity for much exercise of grace, it calls forth whatever grace there is in the heart to the exercise of it. Rev. 13:10 St. John speaking of the sufferings of the Saints, Here (says he) is the faith and the patience of the Saints; her…

A good report, is a great security against open violence. 2. To destroy the church, under the pretense of the church; as the beast in Revelation pushed with the horns of the Lamb (Revelation 13:11). It was a proverb, All evil began in the name of the Lord; In Nomine Domini incip…

We cannot be men without patience; passion does unman a man, it puts him beside the use of reason; we cannot be martyrs without patience, patience makes us endure (James 5:10). We read (Revelation 13:2) of a beast like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and the…

You dwellest where Satan has his throne; and that such a one as no earthly Prince may compare; few Kings are enthroned in the hearts of their subjects, they rule their bodies, and command their purses, but how oft in a day are they pull'd out of their thrones by the wishes of th…

First, for the world as container — generally for the whole fabric of heaven and earth with all things in them contained, which God created in the beginning (Job 34:13; Acts 17:24; Ephesians 1:4); and distinctly, first for the heavens and all things belonging to them distinguish…

And herein his Intercession consists, being nothing (as it were) but his oblation continued. He was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8); now his Intercession before his actual oblation in the fullness of times, being nothing but a presenting of the en…

But though the furnace of affliction discovered some dross in him (as it will in the best of men), yet he came forth as gold. In this furnace also grace is manifested: it is said (Revelation 13:10): 'Here is the patience and faith of the saints,' that is, here is the trial and d…

It comes to your hand, Reader, in a day of straits and fears, a dark and gloomy season, when the nations about us are made drunk with their own blood, and filled with [illegible] of astonishment; in a day when [illegible] ready to pass to us, and a storm seems to be rising in th…

To this I answer, first I never had much esteem among great men; no, in every age of the world very few gave credit to me; and now being come (almost to the end of my travels) into the last and worst age, I could expect no other usage than what I meet with. How should I have man…

Because we are justified from eternity, only we are said by Paul to be justified by faith, in that by faith we come to the knowledge and assurance of the state of election, and of justification, and God's act of not imputing sin to us, which acts were passed upon us from eternit…