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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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Learn how the lilies of the field do grow. Here Christ makes the1 lilies and herbs of the field a schoolmaster unto man, yea to his own disciples (for he spake to them.) And this he doeth for special causes. First, to teach them and us, that the silly creatures in the field do in their kind yield more obedience unto God then man doeth, and that man is more rebellious unto God then they are: hence aIsay calls heaven and earth to hearken to his rebuke of the Jews for their ingratitude: and the prophet rebuking Jeroboam for his Idolatry, cries, bO Altar, Altar, thus saith the Lord▪ Jerem•e rebuking Jechoniah, calls to the earth to hear, Jer. 22. 29. and Ezekiel must prophesy to the mountains, Ezek. 6. 3. By all which they would show, that if these unsensible creatures had reason as man hath, they would be more obedient to the will of their creator then man is. Secondly, hereby Christ would teach his disciples and us, that though we have the creatures, and behold and use them daily, yet partly through blindness and ignorance, and partly through negligence, we do not discern in them, nor learn from them those good things which we ought to do: for the invisible things of God, that is, his eternal power and godhead, being considered in his works, are seen by the creation of the world, Rom. 1. 20. ⟨p. 385⟩This then is a check to our dullness and negligence in the things of God: for what shall we do in matters of salvation, when in these inferior matters we may learn of the unsensible creatures?
Learne how the lilies of the field doe grow. Here Christ makes the1