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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.
The second point is the thing promised, to wit, life everlasting, noted by this gift, To eat of the tree of life. And it is set out unto us by two circumstances. First, by the cause of it. Secondly, by the place where it is to be found. The cause is Christ Jesus: I will give to him to eat of the tree of life. Where he maketh an opposition between himself and the first Adam. The first Adam sinned; and thereby cast himself with all his posterity out of the earthly paradise, and lost the benefit of the tree of life: But Christ the second Adam cometh and suffereth for sin, and thereby openeth the way to a better paradise, than the first Adam lost: and to all that overcome he giveth liberty to enter in, and to eat of the tree of life. The tree of life properly, was a tree placed in the middest of the earthy paradise: and it was so called, first because it was a pledge and sacrament unto Adam, that he should live for ever if he continued in obedience to God: secondly, because it had in it (as may be proved) virtue and power, whereby it would have preserved him from death and old age for ever, if he had stood in his innocency.
The second point is the thing promised, to wit, life euerlasting, noted by this gift, To eate of the tree of life. And it is set out vnto vs by two circumstances. First, by the cause of it. Secondly, by the place where it is to bee found. The cause is Christ Iesus: I will giue to him to eat of the tree of life. Where he maketh an opposition betweene himselfe and the first Adam. The first Adam sinned; and thereby cast himselfe with all his posterity out of the earthly paradise, and lost the benefit of the tree of life: But Christ the second Adam commeth and suffereth for sinne, and thereby openeth the way to a better paradise, than the first Adam lost: and to all that ouercome he giueth libertie to enter in, and to eate of the tree of life. The tree of life properly, was a tree placed in the middest of the earthy paradise: and it was so called, first because it was a pledge and sacrament vnto Adam, that he should liue for euer if hee continued in obedience to God: secondly, because it had in it (as may be proued) vertue and power, whereby it would haue preserued him from death and old age for euer, if hee had stood in his innocencie.