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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.
Now that we may have this assurance of Gods love; we must in all good duties to God and man draw near to God with our hearts, keeping a good conscience in all things, and then will God draw near to us. If any man love me (saith Christ) he will keep my word, and then my father will love him, and we will come in unto him, and dwell with him. John 14.23. meaning by the holy ghost; which shall shed this love into our hearts, Rom. 5. vers. 5. causing us to increase in the feeling thereof, as we grow in faith and obedience towards him.
Now that we may haue this assurance of Gods loue; wee must in all good duties to God and man draw neere to God with our hearts, keeping a good conscience in all things, and then will God draw neere to vs. If any man loue me (saith Christ) he will keepe my word, and then my father will loue him, and we will come in vnto him, and dwell with him. Iohn 14.23. meaning by the holy ghost; which shall shed this loue into our hearts, Rom. 5. vers. 5. causing vs to increase in the feeling thereof, as wee grow in faith and obedience towards him.
And hath washed us from our sins in his blood. Here is the second benefit and action of Christ to his church. Where first of all the very phrase, hath washed us, doth import, that the sins of men are as filthy spots in their souls: and that himself and this church of God were touched with a serious consideration of their vileness, by reason of their sins: for washing presupposeth former filthiness and pollution. Thus did David most sensibly feel his own filthiness, and see his miserable estate, when he desired the Lord to (a)wash him throughly: confessing thereby, that his soul and body were so foully stained, and polluted with sin, that once washing was not enough: but saith he, Wash me again and again, rinse, bathe, and swill me in the blood of Christ, till I be purged and cleansed from all my sins. And this same affection should be in every one of us: we should labour, that our hearts may be touched with a lively sense of our vile estate, by reason of our sins, which make both body and soul most ugly and filthy in Gods sight and that the stain hereof is so deeply set in our souls, that we can never be cleansed, but by the washing of Christ his own hand, and that in his own hearts blood: yea, that one washing will not serve, but we must be rinsed and bathed therein. For till such time as this consideration do in