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A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his executors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one, of special points here handled; the other, of choice places of Scripture here quotedA godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his exequutors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one, of speciall points here handled; the other, of choise places of Scripture here quoted
Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1608Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1608
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To come therefore to that which I take to be Christs true meaning:1 The words contain in them divers similitudes: In the first words, ⟨p. 355⟩The light of the body is the eye, is a parable taken from a candle in an house; for as a burning candle set up in an house lighteth the house and all that be in it; so the light of this eye (which is the understanding) lighteth the whole body and giveth direction to the whole man, in all his actions. In the next words, If thine eye be single, &c. to the end of the 23. verse, is a second similitude, which standeth thus: If a man have a good and clear bodily eye, he can guide himself i• the right way, and keep his feet from stumbling and from falling: but if his eye be dim and dark, then he cannot walk without stumbling: and if he want an eye, or that his eye be stark blind, then of himself he cannot walk without stumbling and wandering: so in like manner, if the understanding, which is the eye of the mind, be sound and clear, able to judge of good and evil, then is the whole life well ordered: but if the judgement be corrupt, then is there much disorder in the life: & if it be clean put out, then is there nothing but brutish confusion.
To come therefore to that which I take to be Christs true meaning:1 The words containe in them diuers similitudes: In the first wordes, ⟨p. 355⟩The light of the bodie is the eye, is a parable taken from a candle in an house; for as a burning candle set vp in an house lighteth the house and all that be in it; so the light of this eye (which is the vnderstanding) lighteth the whole bodie and giueth direction to the whole man, in all his actions. In the next words, If thine eye be single, &c. to the end of the 23. verse, is a second similitude, which standeth thus: If a man haue a good and cleare bodily eye, he can guide himselfe i• the right way, and keepe his feet from stumbling and from falling: but if his eye be dimme and darke, then he cannot walke without stumbling: and if he want an eye, or that his eye be starke blind, then of himselfe he cannot walke without stumbling and wandering: so in like maner, if the vnderstanding, which is the eye of the minde, be sound and cleare, able to iudge of good and euill, then is the whole life well ordered: but if the iudgement be corrupt, then is there much disorder in the life: & if it be cleane put out, then is there nothing but brutish cōfusion.