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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 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.
Now followeth the effect of this feare in S. Iohns body:1 He fel at his feete as dead. It was not a small but a great feare, which astonished his senses, made him as a dead man. Phisitions 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 worke that on the body, which other diseases can worke: it can cast men into a swound, make the body cold, and many other things which diseases work in the body. So Ahab being grieued, and fearing he could not get Naboths vineyard, was sick and almost dead. So then affections of loue, and feare, and hatred, &c. can change & kill the body: therfore the body followeth the tē perature and constitution of the mind. Againe, we see diseases are not alwayes to be cured by art and phisicke: but often when phisicke cannot helpe, 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.
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