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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.
Seeing John was banished for Gods word,1 all Ministers are to cast their accounts, to make a reckoning that they may and must suffer persecution, nay, banishment for the word of God. For that which the principal founders and chief builders of the Church have suffered, that cannot be avoided of them which are ordinary Ministers. Christ he acquainted his disciples with this, and telleth them, that they are even accursed, when all men speak well of them. Luk. 6. 26. They must not seek to have all think well of them, but rather fear if all men like of them, they are accursed.
Seeing Iohn was banished for Gods word,1 all Ministers are to cast their accompts, to make a reckoning that they may and must suffer persecution, nay, banishment for the word of God. For that which the principall founders and chiefe builders of the Church haue suffered, that cannot be auoyded of them which are ordinarie Ministers. Christ he acquainted his disciples with this, and telleth them, that they are euen accursed, when all men speake well of them. Luk. 6. 26. They must not seeke to haue all thinke well of them, but rather feare if all men like of them, they are accursed.
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And witness bearing. That is, for the testimony of the history and doctrine of the Gospel: the sum whereof is, that Jesus Christ the son of Mary is our Redeemer, to procure to us righteousness and life everlasting. Now he addeth after the other, this of the Gospel, as a doctrine how to come to life everlasting and righteousness in Jesus Christ: to show, for what part of the word we are most hated and persecuted, not so much for the law as for the Gospel: because the law is partly natural, the Gospel is above nature: as, to believe that God made his covenant with our first parents,