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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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For the first part: ye are the light of the world. If Ministers be lights, why saith the Scripture, that John Baptist was not the light of the world? Joh. 1. 8. Answ. There be two kinds of lights, Original, and Derived: Original is that, which is the cause of all light; and so Christ alone is the light of the world: and in this sense doth the Scripture deny John Baptist to be that light. Derived light, is that which shineth forth, but yet is received from another; and so xJohn Baptist was a burning and a shining lamp: so were the Apostles lights, yfor God that caused the light to shine out of darkness, shined into their hearts, to enable them to give the light of knowledge in the face of Jesus Christ. And so must these words be understood, that whereas the world naturally sits in darkness, and in the shadow of death, the Apostles by the light of their ministry were to shine unto them.
For the first part: ye are the light of the world. If Ministers be lights, why saith the Scripture, that Iohn Baptist was not the light of the world? Ioh. 1. 8. Answ. There be two kindes of lights, Originall, and Deriued: Originall is that, which is the cause of all light; and so Christ alone is the light of the world: and in this sense doth the Scripture denie Iohn Baptist to be that light. Deriued light, is that which shineth forth, but yet is receiued from another; and so xIohn Baptist was a burning and a shining lampe: so were the Apostles lights, yfor God that caused the light to shine out of darkenesse, shined into their hearts, to inable them to giue the light of knowledge in the face of Iesus Christ. And so must these words be vnderstood, that whereas the world naturally sits in darkenes, and in the shadow of death, the Apostles by the light of their ministerie were to shine vnto them.
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