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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.
Now seeing we have lost our first estate, we must labour continually to have the image of Satan abolished in us, and the image of God daily renewed: we must become new creatures, & seek above all things to have our former fellowship with God which we lost in Adam: for in this fellowship with God stands all true happiness and joy eternal.
Now seeing we haue lost our first estate, we must labor continually to haue the image of Satan abolished in vs, and the image of God daily renewed: we must become new creatures, & seeke aboue all things to haue our former fellowship with God which we lost in Adam: for in this fellowship with God stands all true happinesse and ioy eternall.
Seeing it feared John that he was as dead,1 we see that the feeling of the presence of God, of his majesty and glory, it is a singular means to humble man, to cast him down, and make him know he is nothing in himself. So soon as John perceived and saw the presence of Christ, he was as dead, & fell at his feet. So Abraham, the more he perceived the glory of God, the more he humbled himself, confessing he was dust and ashes. And Peter Luke 5. 8, 9, 10. seeing but a glimmering of Christs majesty and might, he bids him depart from him, he was a sinner. So Esa. 6. 2. the Angels cover themselves with their wings, with three they covered ⟨p. 109⟩their face, and with 3. their feet, as fearing and not able to behold his majesty, as confessing they be nothing but sin in themselves.
Seeing it feared Iohn that he was as dead,1