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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 it astonished S. John, we see that even holy and righteous men cannot abide the presence of Christ his majesty and glory: much less can the works of righteous men stand before his just judgement, or answer to his justice: for the person must be first accepted before the work can be accepted: now if a righteous man cannot abide the presence of Christ, no more can his work. Then damnable is the doctrine of the Church of Rome, who will have men to stand at Gods bar, and bring their works as part of their justification, but our works be but in part holy▪ no more then we be our selves but in part just.
Seeing it astonished S. Iohn, we see that euen holy and righteous men cannot abide the presence of Christ his maiestie and glory: much lesse can the works of righteous men stand before his iust iudgement, or answer to his iustice: for the person must be first accepted before the worke can be accepted: now if a righteous man cannot abide the presence of Christ, no more can his worke. Then damnable is the doctrine of the Church of Rome, who will haue men to stand at Gods bar, and bring their workes as part of their iustification, but our workes be but in part holy▪ no more then we be our selues but in part iust.
Now followeth the effect of this fear in S. Johns body:1 He fell at his feet as dead. It was not a small but a great fear, which astonished his senses, made him as a dead man. Physicians say, that the mind followeth the constitution and temperature of the body, but we may here as truly say, the body followeth the temperature and constitution of the mind: for the mind can work that on the body, which other diseases can work: it can cast men into a swoon, make the body cold, and many other things which diseases work in the body. So Ahab being grieved, and fearing he could not get Naboths vineyard, was sick and almost dead. So then affections of love, and fear, and hatred, &c. can change & kill the body: therefore the body followeth the ten perature and constitution of the mind. Again, we see diseases are not always to be cured by art and physic: but often when physic cannot help, the body is cured by ordering and composing the affections of the heart, seeing these can order and dispose the body, and change it as their nature is.