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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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The name Pharisee betokeneth a sect, not an office; for there were1 three special sects among the Jews: The Essenes, the Sadducees, and2 Pharisees. The Essenes were like Popish Monks and Friars, which did separate themselves from the people, vowing and dedicating themselves to live in perpetual sanctity. The Sadducees were a sect that did3 expound the law, according to the letter and syllable, and with-all denied the resurrection, and the immortality of the soul; as is plain, Acts 23, 8. The Pharisees were such, as did forsake the common exposition4 of the Scribes▪ and taught and framed a more exact and strict exposition of the Law, according to the traditions of the Fathers; and they were most holy outwardly, and of chief account among the Jews: and therefore the Apostle Paul saith, nthat after the most strict sect of their religion, he lived a Pharis•• & that he was oa Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. Yet besides these, there were another sect, called Herodians, who (as some think) were courtiers, which held & taught that7 ⟨p. 85⟩Herod was the Messiah. And thus we see what the Scribes and Pharisees were, whom Christ here joineth together for amplification sake; understanding thereby such teachers among the Jews, Priests and Levites, as lived after the most strait custom of the Pharisees: for the Pharisees were by office Scribes, as we may plainly see by comparing together, Joh. 1. 19