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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
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By this we see a manifest and common fault in our churches,1 wherein wicked men are not only suffered to live, but to receive the sacraments, and hear the word preached, as though they were good: yea though many of them want knowledge, be contemners ⟨p. 128⟩of the word & sacraments, many be tainted with drunkenness and vices, which accompany that […]. But such as want knowledge or be wicked men in life or doctrine, ought not to be suffered to preach to the people, and receive the sacraments: therefore we must seek all good means to disburden the church of them. Secondly, seeing they sought to be disburdened of them, we see Christ hath given his church judicial power to disburden her self of wicked men, to excommunicate and cast them out of the church, from receiving the sacraments: she could not bear them, but sought to be disburdened, which she would not unless Christ had given her power to do it.
By this we see a manifest and common fault in our churches,1 wherein wicked men are not only suffered to liue, but to receiue the sacraments, and heare the word preached, as though they were good: yea though many of thē want knowledge, be cōtemners ⟨p. 128⟩of the word & sacraments, many be tainted with drunkennesse and vices, which accompany that 〈…〉. But such as want knowledge or be wicked men in life or doctrine, ought not to be suffered to preach to the people, and receiue the sacraments: therfore we must seek al good meanes to disburthen the church of them. Secondly, seeing they sought to be disburthened of them, we see Christ hath giuen his church iudicial power to disburthen her self of wicked mē, to excommunicate and cast them out of the church, from receiuing the sacraments: she could not beare them, but sought to be disburthened, which she would not vnlesse Christ had giuen her power to do it.
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