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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.
Golden candlesticks. That is, made of gold: so called for two causes. The Church of God is compared to a candlestick of gold: first, because as gold is most excellent of all metals: so the Church of God is the most excellent of all societies and companies of men. All companies and societies of men, in the family, town, city, kingdom, commonweals, they be all the ordinance of God, and excellent in their kinds: but the Church of God is above all these, it is most excellent, no society cometh near it: first, because in the Church there is salvation to be had and obtained, but in none of these societies of men it is to be had, as they be societies of men, but as they be Churches, or true members of the Church.
Golden candlestickes. That is, made of gold: so called for two causes. The Church of God is compared to a candlesticke of gold: first, because as gold is most excellent of all mettals: so the Church of God is the most excellent of all societies and companies of men. All companies and societies of men, in the familie, towne, citie, kingdome, commonweales, they be all the ordinance of God, and excellent in their kinds: but the Church of God is aboue all these, it is most excellent, no societie cometh neare it: first, because in the Church there is saluation to be had and obtained, but in none of these societies of men it is to be had, as they be societies of men, but as they be Churches, or true members of the Church.
2 It is a most excellent society, because this is the end of all other societies, they be all ordained to maintain this, as the chief, and this even the Church of God, is the end of them all.
2 It is a most excellent societie, because this is the end of all other societies, they be all ordained to maintaine this, as the chiefe, and this euen the Church of God, is the end of them all.