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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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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,1 that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpents head. Now the Gospel is the glad tidings, in which there is declared, that the promised seed is come, and therefore the devil he hateth this part most of all, and laboureth man to hinder the course of the Gospel, rather then of the law. So three hundred years after Christ, he laboured by might and main to extinguish the Gospel, to keep men in ignorance of the Messiah: but when he could not prevail by force & might, he used sophistry and deceit, and brought in heresies to obscure the truth of the Gospel, and to overthrow the natures, offices and benefits of Christ.
And witnesse bearing. That is, for the testimonie of the history and doctrine of the Gospell: the summe whereof is, that Iesus Christ the sonne of Mary is our Redeemer, to procure to vs righteousnesse and life euerlasting. Now he addeth after the other, this of the Gospell, as a doctrine how to come to life euerlasting and righteousnesse in Iesus Christ: to shew, for what part of the word we are most hated and persecuted, not so much for the law as for the Gospell: because the law is partly natural, the Gospell is aboue nature: as, to beleeue that God made his couenant with our first parents,1 that the seed of the womā shold bruise the serpents head. Now the Gospell is the glad tidings, in which there is declared, that the promised seed is come, and therefore the diuell he hateth this part most of all, and laboureth man to hinder the course of the Gospell, rather then of the law. So three hundred yeares after Christ, he laboured by might and maine to extinguish the Gospell, to keepe men in ignorance of the Messiah: but when he could not preuaile by force & might, he vsed sophistrie and deceipt, and brought in heresies to obscure the truth of the Gospell, and to ouerthrow the natures, offices and benefites of Christ.