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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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Secondly, this •eacheth us that all worldly pomp is but vanity: for1 in glory and beauty it comes short of the flower of the field, and yet what is more •raile and transitory then the flower, that is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven? This the holy Ghost would teach us, by comparing the glory of man to the flower of grass, 1. Pet. 1. 24. and seeing that the fashion of this world goeth away, 1. Cor. 7. 31. wherefore (as the Apostle there saith) we must use this world, as though we used it not for Solomon's conclusion is true of all •ar•hly things, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, Eccles. •. 2. And yet we must not here imagine that Christ condemns the glory of Solomon, though he thus debase it below the flower of the field: for it was the gift of God in extraordinary favour, 1. king. 3. 13. So that ho•soe•es the word of God condemn pride and curiosity in attire, and superfluity therein, yet it alloweth unto Princes, and personages of great state, the use of gorgeous and costly raiment: and therefore Joseph being advanced to dignity, was arrayed in garments of fi•e linen, had a ring on his singer, and a chain of gold ••out his neck, Gen. 41. 42. And that which Luke saith of Agrippa and Bernice, that they came in with great pomp to hear Paul, Act. 2•. 23. may as well be taken in good part, as in evil.
Secondly, this •eacheth vs that all worldly pompe is but vanitie: for