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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.
1Here note Gods dealing with sinners: In those thing• which they abuse for the furtherance of their sins▪ will the Lord plague and punish them Jezebel abused her bed with fornication▪ & thither she must be cast with sickness: Dive• in his life time abused his tongue and taste by gluttony, and therefore […] now in in hell, therein most of all plagued and tormented, at hi• crying (b)[…] drop of water to cool his tongue, doth import: gamesters take their pleasure in •••ding and dicing, which many times God turneth to their woe▪ for thereby they are usually brought to extreme want and misery▪ Ahab shed Naboths blood to get his vineyard▪ and for that sin must (c)his blood, the blood of Jezebel and his children▪ he shed. And now in these days the covetous for their gain do suck• the blood of the poor, but that blood will have blood from them again, The Lord will spoil the soul of him that spoyle• the poor, Prou. 22.2• ▪ This must make us to beware how we abuse any creature of God to serve us for any sin: for the Lord will cause that to be a means of woe and punishment unto us which we misuse unto our lusts.
1Here note Gods dealing with sinners: In those thing• which they abuse for the furtherance of their sinnes will the Lord plague and punish them Isabell abused her bed with fornication & thither shee must bee cast with sicknesse: Diue in his life time abused his tongue and tast by gluttonie, and therefore now in in hell, therein most of all plagd and tormented, at hi crying