A09443:755
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.
Here Christ reproveth this woman for her obstinacy and hardness of heart, whereby she went on in sin without repentance. By space to repent, we are to understand, liberty to live: for though by her sins she deserved present death, temporal and eternal; yet God of his mercy gave her liberty to live, that she might repent.
Here Christ reprooueth this woman for her obstinacie and hardnesse of heart, whereby shee went on in sinne without repentance. By space to repent, wee are to vnderstand, libertie to liue: for though by her sinnes she deserued present death, temporall and eternall; yet God of his mercy gaue her libertie to liue, that shee might repent.
1In her example we are taught what to judge of that space of time which God giveth us to live in this world; namely, th•• it is a time of repentance: for before a man be borne, and after this life, can none repent: but the time we now live▪ or have lived, or shall live, is the only time allotted for repentance. This point ought seriously to be considered of all estates, for it doth plainly rebuke the shameful practise of many at this day, who lead not their life as a time of repentance, but spend it wholly in another course: some in following their vain pleasures, as carding, dicing, &c. some in heaping up riches, seeking nothing but temporal profits: others in good fellowship (as they call it) that is, in company keeping, in eating and drinking. God in justice might have cut off these men so soon as they were borne, and yet in mercy he gives them time to repent, to some twenty, to others thirty, forty, or fifty years▪ but they abuse this mercy of God, and in steed of repenting, employ themselves in such works as are contrary thereunto. Their case is most fearful, they treasure up to themselves wrath against the day of wrath & declaration of the just judgement of God: like unto a man that every day for some certain time, carrieth a faggot for his own burning in the end.