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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.
Punishments of mans estate, concern either his goods, or calling. In goods there be these miseries; want of things necessary; for by reason of sin it is a punishment, & in it own nature a curse: and all the hurts that come by the creatures: for their enmity towards man, & towards one another; as also their subjection to vanity; all these be miseries, and the punishments of mans sin. In mans calling there is misery: for therein man is subject to trouble, to losses, and sorrow; which come as a punishment of mans first sin. And all these be the miseries of man in this life.
Punishments of mans estate, concerne either his goods, or calling. In goods there bee these miseries; want of things necessary; for by reason of sin it is a punishment, & in it owne nature a curse: and all the hurts that come by the creatures: for their enmity towards man, & towards one another; as also their subiection to vanitie; all these be miseries, and the punishments of mans sinne. In mans calling there is miserie: for therein man is subiect to trouble, to losses, and sorow; which come as a punishment of mans first sinne. And all these be the miseries of man in this life.
At the end of this life, comes bodily death, the separation of soul and body asunder; which in it self is a most fearful curse, for so, it is the very gate of Hell.
At the end of this life, comes bodily death, the separation of soule and bodie asunder; which in it selfe is a most fearfull curse, for so, it is the verie gate of Hell.
But after this life, is the accomplishment of all miseries, & that is eternal destruction ⟨p. 205⟩and condemnation in hell fire, which to be the end of all misery, appears by this; because it is a separation of mans person from the society & presence of God: and an enduring of Gods wrath in the whole person even in the place of the Devil and damned souls, & that not for a time, but for ever and ever eternally. And thus we see what punishment is, and answerably what misery is, whereby we may see what it is to be wretched: namely in a word to be subject to all miseries; whether we consider them in the rot thereof, original sin; or under the form of punishment; in this life, in the whole person, and in soul & body severally: in goods and calling: at the end of this life, and in the world to come.