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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 the end of this book,1 as of the other books of scripture, is to bring men to happiness, we see the opinion and practise of the Church of Rome is damnable, who bar the people of God from reading and hearing the Scriptures in their ⟨p. 16⟩vulgar tongue: for in barring them of the means, they bar them of their salvation the end of them; whereas S. John would by these words, Blessed, &c. draw men and allure them to to read and delight in the Scriptures.
Seeing the end of this booke,1 as of the other bookes of scripture, is to bring men to happinesse, we see the opinion and practise of the Church of Rome is damnable, who barre the people of God from reading and hearing the Scriptures in their ⟨p. 16⟩vulgar tongue: for in barring them of the meanes, they barre them of their saluation the end of them; whereas S. Iohn would by these wordes, Blessed, &c. drawe men and allure them to to reade and delight in the Scriptures.
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Seeing the end of this book and the rest, is to bring men to happiness, we are here admonished, all of us to read and meditate in them, and search them, as Joh. 5. 39. even as we would search for gold, or some precious thing which we would fain find, (so the word imports.) And he addeth the reason: For in them you think to have eternal life.