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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 Christ giveth light by his word, we must in all our life be guided and directed by that light. We are pilgrims, going through a vale of misery and darkness, Christ is the light, he shineth as a blazing torch: we must then do all our duties by direction of this light, we must in all our ways have our eyes fixed in this word which is the son of light and direction.1
Seeing Christ giueth light by his word, we must in all our life be guided and directed by that light. We are pilgrimes, going through a vale of misery and darknes, Christ is the light, he shineth as a blazing torch: we must then do all our duties by direction of this light, we must in all our wayes haue our eyes fixed in this word which is the sonne of light and direction.1
- 12. Pet. 1. end.
The action of the Sun is to warm and comfort dead and cold bodies, and to revive them: as we see in the spring time, it revives those creatures which before were as dead with cold: so Christ giveth not only light but life, he giveth spiritual comfort to bodies frozen for cold, he comforts them & revives them by his spiritual heat, and for this is called the Sun of righteousness, comforting our cold and frozen hearts in sin and iniquity.
The action of the Sunne is to warme and comfort dead and cold bodies, and to reuiue them: as we see in the spring time, it reuiues those creatures which before were as dead with cold: so Christ giueth not onely light but life, he giueth spiritual comfort to bodies frozen for cold, he comforts them & reuiues them by his spirituall heate, and for this is called the Sunne of righteousnesse, comforting our cold and frozen hearts in sinne and iniquitie.