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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.
1Hereby we are taught not to content our selves with the beginning of repentance, but we must renew the same continually, & that not for gross sins only, but even for the wants that be in us, as for our dullness and deadness of heart, and for our hypocrisy, and decay in Gods graces.
1Hereby we are taught not to content our selues with the begining of repentance, but we must renue the same continually, & that not for grosse sins only, but euen for the wants that bee in vs, as for our dulnesse and deadnesse of heart, and for our hypocrisie, and decay in Gods graces.
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And because this Church was very dead and dull of heart; therefore Christ addeth a reason to move them to the practise of this duty: which is, a most terrible threatening, in these words: If thou wilt not watch, I will come on thee […] a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
And because this Church was verie dead and dull of heart; therefore Christ addeth a reason to mooue them to the practise of this dutie: which is, a most terrible threatning, in these words: If thou wilt not watch, I will come on thee 〈…〉 a theefe, and thou shalt not know what houre I will come vpon thee.
Here mark Christs order and dealing: having prescribed a remedy for their fault, he giveth them a direction to practise the same; and after addeth a most terrible threatening to drive them thereunto; as if he should say, if thou wilt not watch against sin, and against death, and for that end remember my word, hold fast the same, and repent; then look as a thief comes upon a man on a sudden, and spoils his goods and cuts the throat of his children; so will I come on thee on a sudden, and power upon thee my wrath, whereby I will […] cut the throat of thy soul, and thou shalt have no means to escape my punishment.