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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.
II. point. At what time did the Jews begin to be a synagogue of Satan? Answ. Not at the crucifying of the Lord of life, (though that were a most heinous sin) for though some therein sinned of malice, yet many did it of ignorance. This Peter confesseth, Acts. 3.17. And therefore in his first Sermon after Christs ascension telleth them, That the […] belonged to them and to […] that were a far off, Act▪ •.••. But when the Apostles had a long time preached Christ unto them, & convinced their consciences out of the old testament that he was the true Messiah, and yet they remained obstinate, rejecting and persecuting both them and their doctrine▪ then they ceased to be a church of God, and became the synagogue of Satan: for this cause Paul and Barnabas shook off the dust of their feet against them, and turned to the G•••ils, 1Whereby we see when a church of God becometh no church, namely, not so soon as they hold an heresy: for the church of the Galatians held justification by works, yet thereupon ceased not to be a church▪ but when they embrace an heresy against the foundation of religion, and be convicted of it, not by private men, but by Apostolical authority, or by public judicial sentence of the church, from the authority of Gods word.
II. point. At what time did the Iewes begin to be a synagogue of Sathan? Answ. Not at the crucifying of the Lord of life, (though that were a most heinous sinne) for though some therin sinned of malice, yet many did it of ignorance. This Peter confess•th, Acts. 3.17. And therfore in his first Sermon after Christs ascension telleth them, That the 〈…〉 belonged to them and to 〈…〉 that were a farre off, Act▪ •.. But when the Apostles had a long time preached Christ vnto them, & conuinced their consciences out of the old testament that he was the true Messias, and yet they remained obstinate, reiecting and persecuting both them and their doctrine then they ceased to bee a church of God, and became the synagogue of Sathan: for this cause Paule and Barnabas shooke off the dust of their feet against them, and turned to the Gils,