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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.
The second instrument is John the Apostle and Evangelist, which penned one of the Gospels, that Disciple whom Jesus loved, son to Zebedeus, kinsman to Christ.
The second instrument is Iohn the Apostle and Euangelist, which penned one of the Gospels, that Disciple whom Iesus loued, sonne to Zebedeus, kinsman to Christ.
Now to procure credit and more reverence to his revelation, he describeth himself by two arguments. First, calling himself his servant John. Secondly, by an effect, Which bare record, &c. First he calls him self the servant of Christ, not the Disciple of Christ, not Christ his cousin or kinsman, which he might have done, but he calls himself the servant of Christ. For he had learned that which Christ speaks Mat. 12. 50. He which doth the will of my Father, he is my mother, sister and brother: not he which is kinsman or cousin, but in this, to do his fathers will, stands the note of his kinsman. And in this, to be the servant of Christ, stands the dignity of a Christian. Had not the blessed Virgin Christs mother been a servant of Christ, she had never bin saved by Christ. Then by this we see, it is nothing to help a man to salvation to be borne of great kindred, to come of Princes & noble blood, but to be the servants of Christ, to do the will of Christ, this is to be allied and cousin to Christ. And if we will be the servants of Christ, we must become new creatures, we must leave off our old service, and as S. Paul saith, he knew not Christ in the flesh, but served him in the spirit. And we must not content our selves to be his servants in the general calling of a Christian, but in our particular callings. For S. John was his servant not ⟨p. 13⟩only in believing in him, and obeying him generally; but in believing and obeying him in the particular calling of an Apostle. So Paul, 1