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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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Fourthly, Christ here forbidding private revenge, which is unlawful,1 doth hereby establish that revenge, which is lawful and just. Now lawful revenge (to speak somewhat hereof) is the work of a just and lawful power, requiting evil for evil. This just revenge is two-fold, Divine, and Humane; Divine revenge, is the work of Gods absolute power,2 taking vengeance upon offenders: of the lawfulness of this revenge in God, there is no question: only this we must remember, that God executes this vengeance daily, in the manifold miseries of this life▪ and likewise in the just condemnation of the impenitent after death. Indeed as a father he chasteneth his Church and children, for vengeance in Christ becomes nurturement; but as a severe judge he plagues the wicked, pouring vengeance on them, both temporal and eternal. Humane revenge is the ordinance of God, whereby men being thereunto3 called by God, do execute vengeance in the name of God; and it4 is twofold, extraordinary, or ordinary: Extraordinary, when men are extraordinarily stirred up by the spirit of God, to execute vengeance upon offenders, in the name of God. Thus sP•i•e•as slew Zimri and Cosby: and thus many of the Judges of Israel, specially tEhud & uSampson, took revenge upon the enemies of Gods people: thus Elijah the Prophet slew Baals priests, 1. King. 18. 40. and destroyed the two Captains and their fifties, with fire from heaven,