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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 this voice of Christ is so loud and powerful a voice that the dead are able to hear it:1 this shows the security and deadness of those men, which though they hear it daily sounding and crying in their ears, as the noise of many waters, yet they will not, as did the dead body of Lazarus, hear and stand up, and come forth of their graves of sin, but still snort in security and rot in their sins. This argueth our great drowsiness, that the dead which have lain six thousand years, shall at this voice rise and awake, and we hearing it both loud and powerful, and public in our ears, will not put up our head nor our heart, not seek to get one foot out of the grave of sin and security.
Seeing this voice of Christ is so loud and powerfull a voice that the dead are able to heare it:1 this shewes the securitie and deadnesse of those men, which though they heare it dayly sounding and crying in their eares, as the noise of many waters, yet they will not, as did the dead bodie of Lazarus, heare and stand vp, and come forth of their graues of sinne, but still snort in securitie and rot in their sinnes. This argueth our great drowsines, that the dead which haue layne six thousand yeares, shall at this voice rise and awake, and we hearing it both loud and powerfull, and publike in our eares, will not put vp our head nor our heart, not seeke to get one foot out of the graue of sinne and securitie.
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And he had. 1Here S. John describeth him by his parts, and the properties of every part. In his right hand seven stars: that is, seven Angels, seven Ministers of the seven churches of Asia. The Ministers are compared to stars: first, because as stars send