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A commentary or exposition, upon the five first chapters of the Epistle to the…A commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the…
A commentary or exposition, upon the five first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians: penned by the godly, learned, and judicial divine, Mr. W. Perkins. Now published for the benefit of the Church, and continued with a supplement upon the sixth chapter, by Rafe Cudworth Bachelor of DivinityA commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians: penned by the godly, learned, and iudiciall diuine, Mr. W. Perkins. Now published for the benefit of the Church, and continued with a supplement vpon the sixt chapter, by Rafe Cudworth Bachelour of Diuinitie
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1604Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1604
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The use. When Paul saith, Have ye suffered, &c. he signifies §30unto us the estate and condition of all believers in this life, that they must be bearers and sufferers. The reason. To this are we called, 1. Pet. 2. 21. for we are called to resign all revenge to God, and therefore of our selves to be bearers and sufferers. Math. 5. 39. Resist not evil. And we are called to imitate the §35passion of Christ, who suffered being innocent, and being reviled, reviled not again. Moreover, it is for our good that we should bear and suffer. 1. Pet. 1. 6. and Psal. 119. 71. It may be demanded, What if my cause be good, must I then suffer? Ans. Yea. The better thy cause is, the better are thy sufferings: ⟨p. 169⟩they are blessed that suffer for righteousness. Paul commends himself by the multitude of his sufferings. 2. Cor. 11. 13. Again, it may be demanded, how long we must suffer? Ans. Even to the shedding of our blood, if it be for the resisting of sin. Heb. 12. 4. Lastly, it may be said, how shall we be able to do this? Ans. God is faithful, and will not lay on us more then we shall §5be able to bear. 1. Cor. 10. 3. By this we are admonished, not to make a reckoning in this world, of pleasure, and delight, as though the Gospel were a Gospel of ease, and as we use to say, a gospel made of velvet; but every one of us must take up his §10own cross. Luk. 9. 23. If thou wilt be my disciple, deny thy self, take up thy cross: that is, the particular affliction, and misery, which God lays on thee. Again, if in this world we must be sufferers by condition, then in dissentions, and differences, we may neither give nor take the challenge, but must be content to bear and put up wrongs, and abuses. Lastly, in these days of