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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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Verse 40. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
Verse 40. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him haue thy cloake also.
Here Christ propounds the second example of wrong done unto men,1 wherein he forbids the party wronged to revenge himself; to wit, being injured in his goods, either privately, or under colour of law, for both these may here well be understood. By coat properly is meant the inner garment; & by cloak the outward: but here the words are not so strictly to be taken, but indifferently for any divers garments; for in Luke they are thus set down, And him that would take away thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also. And Christs meaning is this; If one unjustly contend with thee, to take from thee one garment, let him have another also, ⟨p. 183⟩whether coat, or cloak, or such like thing. And yet this commandment is not simply, but comparatively to be understood; to wit, rather then a man should seek private revenge, he must not only suffer the loss of one garment, but of moe, and so of other temporal goods.
Here Christ propoūds the second example of wrong done vnto mē,1 wherein he forbids the party wronged to reuenge himselfe; to wit, being iniuried in his goods, either priuatly, or vnder colour of law, for both these may here well be vnderstood. By coate properly is meant the inner garment; & by cloake the outward: but here the words are not so strictly to be takē, but indifferently for any diuers garments; for in Luke they are thus set downe, And him that would take away thy cloake, forbid not to take thy coate also. And Christs meaning is this; If one vniustly contend with thee, to take from thee one garment, let him haue another also, ⟨p. 183⟩