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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 consideration whereof must admonish us to seek the thing• that be above, that we may have a place in this heavenly paradise. For why should we set our heart• upon the vain glory of this world which passeth away as a shadow and cometh to nothing, and in the end is but labour and sorrow, when we have all that the world can afford? But the joys and glory of this paradise of God be endless and unspeakable: Let us therefore deny our selves, depend upon Christ, and in all things keep faith and a good conscience unto the end. And thus much for the first Epistle.
The consideration whereof must admonish vs to seeke the thing• that bee aboue, that wee may haue a place in this heauenly paradise. For why should we set our heart• vpon the vaine glorie of this world which passeth away as a shadow and commeth to nothing, and in the end is but labour and sorrow, when wee haue all that the world can affoord? But the ioyes and glorie of this paradise of God bee endlesse and vnspeakeable: Let vs therefore denie our selues, depend vpon Christ, and in all things keepe faith and a good conscience vnto the end. And thus much for the first Epistle.
Verse. 8. And unto the Angel of the Church of the Smirnians write, these things saith he that is the first and the last, which was dead and is alive.
Verse. 8. And vnto the Angell of the Church of the Smirnians write, these things sayth he that is the first and the last, which was dead and is aliue.
In this verse and the rest that follow, to the twelfth, i• laid down the second letter or Epistle of Christ to another church of Asia, called Smyrna. Before the Epistle Christ gives a second particular commandment unto John; touching the writing hereof unto this church in these words, And unto the Angel of the Church of the Smirnians write: Which is prefixed to this Epistle, that this church, and all other churches of God might be assured, that […] had sufficient warrant and calling for the writing hereof. Which thing is necessary to every pen-man of the holy Ghost, that the church need not to doubt of the authority of Scripture, but receive the same as the pure word of God.