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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.
Now that a man may come to do this, we must daily consider of that coming of Christ, not as a thing to be delayed or far off, but as a thing present: we must every day call our selves to a reckoning and account, persuade our selves this may be the last day, and so to carry our selves every day, as we would in the last day. Now if we were so persuaded, then we should see ⟨p. 54⟩less wickednesses in our life, we would repent, and seek to be reconciled to God in Christ, we should be more faithful, & see more grace daily in our lives. And the cause of the want of faith and repentance, and of grace, it is the want of this persuasion, that we should carry our selves every day, as we would in the last day, even in faith and repentance.
Now that a man may come to do this, we must daily consider of that coming of Christ, not as a thing to be delayed or farre off, but as a thing present: we must euery day call our selues to a reckoning and accompt, perswade our selues this may be the last day, and so to carie our selues euery day, as we would in the last day. Now if we were so perswaded, then we should see ⟨p. 54⟩lesse wickednesses in our life, we would repent, and seeke to be reconciled to God in Christ, we should be more faithfull, & see more grace daily in our liues. And the cause of the want of faith and repentance, and of grace, it is the want of this perswasion, that we should carie our selues euery day, as we would in the last day, euen in faith and repentance.
In that he saith,1 He cometh: Hence we gather, he is absent in bodily presence in regard of his manhood, he is not here, but in heaven till the day of judgement: for if Christ were always bodily present, he could not be said to come, but only to manifest himself, being before present. Then the opinion of the Papists, which hold the body of Christ is present in or about the bread of the Sacrament, is most false and frivolous.