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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.
It shall be a terror to the wicked,1 & to all impenitent sinners, who shall (will they nil they) be brought to the bar of Christs judgement seat, and then look on him who is their Judge, whom they had in their life contemned. And this consideration may serve to move us to repentance, which have not begun to repent, and to labour to become the members of Christ. We think when we die all is done, there is no harm to follow: but though we lie rotting in our graves a thousand or two thousand years, yet we shall rise: and if we repented not, we shall hear the sentence of condemnation, and look upon our Judge with our own eyes. Then it is best for us now in the time of grace while we live here, to prepare, that we need not fear to come to appear and behold this Judge. No doubt if we were persuaded that we should thus appear, it would move us to repent.
It shall be a terror to the wicked,1 & to all impenitent sinners, who shall (wil they nil they) be brought to the barre of Christs iudgement seate, and then looke on him who is their Iudge, whom they had in their life contemned. And this consideration may serue to moue vs to repentance, which haue not begun to repent, and to labor to becom the members of Christ. We think when we die all is done, there is no harme to follow: but though we lie rotting in our graues a thousand or two thousand yeares, yet we shall rise: and if we repented not, we shall heare the sentence of condemnation, and looke vpon our Iudge with our owne eyes. Then it is best for vs now in the time of grace while we liue here, to prepare, that we need not feare to come to appeare and behold this Iudge. No doubt if we were perswaded that we should thus appeare, it would moue vs to repent.
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