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A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the…A godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the…
A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the Revelation. Preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine, master William Perkins, Ann. Dom. 1595. First published for the benefit of Gods Church, by Robert Hill, Bachelor of DivinityA godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation. Preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and judicious diuine, maister William Perkins, Ann. Dom. 1595. First published for the benefit of Gods Church, by Robert Hill, Bachelor of Diuinitie
London: printed by Adam Islip for Cuthbert Burbie, 1606
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.
Fifthly, all Worldlings: which as Christ saith, Luk. 16.13. Serve God and Mammon, God and the world by setting their heart upon riches. These men abound every where, for though they hear God in the ministry of his word, and as it were touch him in the Sacrament, yet their hearts are far from him, running after their covetousness, Ezech. 33.31, and who are such, their consciences will witness: yea their behaviour proclaims it to the world; for though they will hear the word, yet their wit and strength is spent upon the world, and the things thereof.
Fiftly, all Worldlings: which as Christ sayth, Luk. 16.13. Serue God and Mammon, God and the world by setting their heart vpon riches. These men abound euerie where, for though they heare God in the ministrie of his word, and as it were touch him in the Sacrament, yet their hearts are farre from him, running after their couetousnesse, Ezech. 33.31, and who are such, their consciences will witnesse: yea their behauiour proclaimes it to the world; for though they wil heare the word, yet their wit and strength is spent vpon the world, and the thinges thereof.
Sixthly, those that profess Christs Religion in outward actions of his worship, but yet in their lives, give themselves to the common sins of the time, some to drunkenness, to fornication, to covetousness or cruelty: some to this sin, and some to that. To this sort, we must refer those, that in word approve Religion, and yet their hearts delight is, in garnishing themselves with the monstrous, brutish, and irreligious forms of strange and foreign attire; These spend their time and wit in the decking of their bodies, and so suffer their souls to go to wrack; when as apparel should be an occasion to put us in mind of a shame through sin: and by modest attire, we ⟨p. 201⟩