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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any priuate Interpretation:

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last dayes scoffers, walking after their owne lusts,

We loue him: because hee first loued vs.

And the Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse, vnto the iudgement of the great day.

1611 marginal noteOr, principalitie.

And from Iesus Christ, who is the faithful witnesse, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth: vnto him that loued vs, and washed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood,

1611 marginal note1.Cor. 15.21. coloss. 1.18.

1611 marginal noteHeb. 9.14

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and what thou seest, write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamos, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.

And when I sawe him, I fell at his feete as dead: and hee laid his right hand vpon me, saying vnto mee, Feare not, I am the first, and the last.

1611 marginal noteEsay. 41.4. and 44.6

Neuerthelesse, I haue somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first loue.

Remember therfore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and doe the first workes, or else I will come vnto thee quickly, and will remoue thy Candlesticke out of his place, except thou repent.

And vnto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna, write, These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is aliue,