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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.
He calls himself their fellow partner in affliction, because his pitiful hart was moved with compassion to all his fellow members and partners in affliction, when he remembered their persecution and affliction they suffered under the cruel tyrant Domitian. Now look what was in him, the same affection should be in us, our hearts should be pitiful, full of compassion for the poor afflicted members of Christ: seeing they be our fellow members, we should have a fellow feeling with them, and show our compassion in pitying them. If the foot be pricked, the head stoops, the eye beholds and looks on it, the finger pulls it out, the hand applies the plaster, the other foot is ready to run for help, the tongue to ask for counsel, and all the members are ready to afford their mutual help in pity and fellow feeling: so when any members of the Church suffer affliction, be pricked with persecution for Christs cause, then should we, as fellow members of one body, be ready to do all the help we can to them, especially in showing our fellow-feeling with them.
He cals himselfe their fellow partner in affliction, because his pitifull hart was moued with compassion to all his fellow members and partners in affliction, when he remembred their persecution and affliction they suffered vnder the cruell tyrant Dominitian. Now looke what was in him, the same affection should be in vs, our hearts should be pitifull, full of compassion for the poore afflicted members of Christ: seeing they be our fellow members, we should haue a fellow feeling with them, and shew our compassion in pittying them. If the foote be pricked, the head stoopes, the eye beholds and lookes on it, the finger puls it out, the hand applies the plaister, the other foot is ready to run for help, the tongue to aske for counsell, and all the members are ready to affoord their mutuall helpe in pittie and fellow feeling: so when any members of the Church suffer affliction, be pricked with persecution for Christs cause, then should we, as fellow members of one body, be ready to do all the helpe we can to them, especially in shewing our fellow-feeling with them.
In the kingdom of Christ. That is, the kingdom of heaven. In that he sets first affliction, then adds a kingdom, he shows that the afflictions & cross for Christs sake, is the ready way to the kingdom of heaven: it is the way which is beaten and trodden by the Prophets, Apostles and the Saints of God: as the Apostle saith,