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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 being in the Isle of Patmos, 1a desert place, yet he kept the Sabbath in all such duties as he could perform: hence we see, that they which are absent from the Church, as in prison, sick of some great disease, or on the sea, yet they must keep the Sabbath, they must pray, fast, and call on the name of God, &c.
Seeing Iohn being in the Isle of Pathmos, 1a desert place, yet he kept the Sabboth in all such duties as he could performe: hence we see, that they which are absent from the Church, as in prison, sicke of some great disease, or on the sea, yet they must keepe the Sabbath, they must pray, fast, and call on the name of God, &c.
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In that he received the vision then,1 when he was exercised in praying and fasting, here is a comfort for the children of God, that when men draw near to God, he draweth near to them, Jam. 4. John a worthy Apostle being in banishment, he draweth near to God in fasting and prayer, and the Lord he draweth nigh to him, and revealeth his will to him: so if we draw near to God by faith & repentance, by prayer and invocation of his name, then he will draw near to us. But if we draw our selves back from him, he draweth back from us. This then should move us above all things to seek to draw as near him as can be: then he will come and show his goodness to us. And the cause why we are so little acquainted with his goodness, is, because we will not be acquainted with him.