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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, others take occasion of offence from the contents of the 1Bible; as when they read of the Miracles wrought by the Prophets, by Christ and his Apostles; they say, the like may be done by Magic, and so blasphemously do father upon the Scripture that most wicked practise of sorcery; like to the malicious Jews, who said of Christ, that he cast out devils by the power of Beelzebub, Luk. 11. 15. Others deny the History of Moses to be true, by reason of Noah's Ark, which (they say) as it is described for quantity could not contain a couple of every kind of creatures, with provision and fodder for them, for a whole years space: of this opinion was Apelles an ancient heretic in the primitive Church: and many upon these occasions have become Atheists, denying the truth of Gods word to their damnation. To these I answer; first, for the Miracles, that no creature, men, or Angels, is able to do such works, as are recorded in Scripture, to be done by the power of God: Joh. 9. Christ opened the eyes of one that was borne blind. The ⟨p. 129⟩devil by his skill, and man by Art can do much in curing blindness, caused by wounds and diseases, but no power of nature, nor of magic, no not all the power of all Angels, is sufficient to procure sight to one that was borne blind; that must be done by a power creating, which is in no creature. Again, as Histories record, the devil is able to enter into a dead body, and cause it to move, and can speak in it; but to raise up one to life that had been dead four days, as mChrist did Lazarus, is a work that all the devils in hell, nay all the Angels in heaven, are not able to do. And for Apelles the heretic, who took occasion from Noah's Ark to condemn the books of Moses: the answer3 made to him in the Primitive Church may serve the turn; to wit, that it was in quantity sufficient to contain couples of all kinds of creatures, and provision for them for a whole years space: for to omit the height and breadth of it; it was n