A09432:569
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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vers. 44. But I say unto you, Love your enemies: bless them that curse you: do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which hurt you, and persecute you.
vers. 44. But I say vnto you, Loue your enemies: blesse them that curse you: doe good to them that hate you, and pray for them which hurt you, and persecute you.
Here our Saviour Christ propounds his Answer unto the former false doctrine of the Jewish Teachers, for the hating of an enemy. Wherein first he lays down a general Rule, containing the sum of his whole answer, saying, Love your enemies: then he expounds that Rule in the same v. and after proveth it, v. 45, 46. Of these in order.
Here our Sauiour Christ propounds his Answer vnto the former false doctrine of the Iewish Teachers, for the hating of an enemie. Wherein first he laies downe a generall Rule, containing the summe of his whole answer, saying, Loue your enemies: then he expounds that Rule in the same v. and after prooueth it, v. 45, 46. Of these in order.
For the first, Love your enemies. In this Rule two things must be known: I. what is an enemy: II. what it is to love our enemy: both these are evident in the words following, wherein Christ expounds this rule, Bless them that curse you, &c. An enemy then, is any one that of1 hatred doth wrong unto his neighbour, either in word by cursing or evil speaking; or deed, by striking and persecuting him. But what is2 it to love our enemy? Love properly is an affection of the heart, whereby one is well pleased with an other. But here more generally, love comprehendeth these two things first, to be lovingly affected in heart towards an enemy; secondly, to use an enemy lovingly in speech and action: so it is taken, 1