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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
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By which he shows our estate, that it is to be under the cross, to live in affliction; not to be companions of peace and ease, but partakers of affliction and tribulation: and therefore those which will be Christs Disciples and follow him, they must deny themselves, and take up their cross daily; and because of this estate the Church in this world is called the militant Church. Now seeing the state of the Church is in tribulation:1 we in this land and Church, which have had peace and quietness so long without persecution, we must know that it is given us, that now in the time of peace we might prepare our selves against the day of trial and persecution: for seeing the estate of the Church is to be under affliction and persecution, we are bound to look for it, and know that the Lord will come and try his Church: for it must increase and grow by trial. The Lord hath sent labourers into his harvest a long time, which have gathered much wheat into the Lords barn. Now there must come a day when the ⟨p. 66⟩Lord will take his fan and sieve into his hands, and will with the fan and sieve of persecution try the wheat and winnow the corn from the chaff, that it may appear who are his true children. Then stands it us in hand, to take heed we be found good corn and not chaff, that we may abide the sieve, that we prove not light corn, blown about with the wind, and fit to be cast into the fire to be burnt.
By which he shewes our estate, that it is to be vnder the crosse, to liue in affliction; not to be companions of peace and ease, but partakers of affliction and tribulation: and therfore those which will be Christs Disciples and follow him, they must deny themselues, and take vp their crosse dayly; and because of this estate the Church in this world is called the militant Church. Now seeing the state of the Church is in tribulation:1 we in this land and Church, which haue had peace and quietnes so long without persecution, we must know that it is giuen vs, that now in the time of peace we might prepare our selues against the day of triall and persecution: for seeing the estate of the Church is to be vnder affliction and persecution, we are bound to looke for it, and know that the Lord will come and try his Church: for it must increase and grow by triall. The Lord hath sent labourers into his haruest a long time, which haue gathered much wheate into the Lords barne. Now there must come a day when the