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Lectures upon the three first chapters of the RevelationLectures vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation
Lectures upon the three first chapters of the Revelation: preached in Cambridge anno Dom. 1595. by Master William Perkins, and now published for the benefit of this Church, by Robert Hill Bachelor in Divinity. To which is added an excellent sermon, penned at the request of that noble and wise councillor, Ambrose, Earle of Warwick: in which is proved that Rome is Babylon, and that Babylon is fallenLectures vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation: preached in Cambridge anno Dom. 1595. by Master William Perkins, and now published for the benefite of this Church, by Robert Hill Bachelor in Diuinitie. To which is added an excellent sermon, penned at the request of that noble and wise councellor, Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke: in which is proued that Rome is Babylon, and that Babylon is fallen
London: printed by Richard Field for Cuthbert Burbie, 1604
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.
S. John in the first place describes the Father by his true nature, in these words, Which is, was, and is to come; in which he alludes to that, Exo. 3. 14. 15. where Moses demands of God, if the people should ask who sent him, what he should answer: the Lord tells him, say, I am, Ehjeh, Jehovah, hath sent me: where are two names to one end, namely, to express the nature of God. Now S. John he expounds them here, where he saith, He which is, which was, and is to come.
S. Iohn in the first place describes the Father by his true nature, in these words, Which is, was, and is to come; in which he alludes to that, Exo. 3. 14. 15. where Moses demaunds of God, if the people should aske who sent him, what he should answer: the Lord tels him, say, I am, Ehjeh, Iehouah, hath sent me: where are two names to one end, namely, to expresse the nature of God. Now S. Iohn he expounds them here, where he saith, He which is, which was, and is to come.
Further, these two names, Ehjeh, Jehovah, be two such names as cannot be translated fully in our English tongue, but are more significant in their original Hebrew tongue: for they import thus much; Grace and peace be from him which is in himself, and from himself, a most perfect and absolute substance, which was, and which is to come; a most absolute perfect simple substance and essence; so that he is a nature most simple, pure, and subsisting in and by himself, 1. Cor. 8. 4. An idol is not so, it is nothing in and of it self, but only in mans brain: it hath no subsisting and being of it self by nature, but by mans art: and thus the Lord differs from all false gods, seeing he hath his being in and from himself, not of or by any other thing. None other hath this property but God.
Further, these two names, Ehjeh, Iehouah, be two such names as cannot be translated fully in our English tongue, but are more significant in their originall Hebrue tongue: for they import thus much; Grace and peace be from him which is in himselfe, and from himselfe, a most perfect and absolute substance, which was, and which is to come; a most absolute perfect simple substance and essence; so that he is a nature most simple, pure, and subsisting in and by himselfe,