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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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Object. • ▪ It will be said, the Scripture else-where seems to make1 against thi• ▪ as Psal 139▪ 21, 22▪ Do not I hate them, O Lord, (saith David) that hate thee▪ and do I not earnestly contend with them, that rise ⟨p. 203⟩up against thee? I hate them with an unfeigned hatred▪ whereby it seems, that in some cases a man may▪ hate his enemies▪ Answ. First, we must put a difference between our enemies cause, and his person▪ their evil causes, and their s••••s must be ha•••, and we must give no approbation thereof: but yet their persons being Gods creatures, and be a ••ng his image in some sort, must be loved. Again, enemies be of two2 sorts, private, and public; a private enemy is he that hateth a man for some private cause in himself, or concerning his affairs: and such a one we must love, and not hate, as Christ here commandeth. A public enemy, is he that hates a man for Gods cause, for religion and the gospels sake; and these public enemies be of two sorts▪ curable, and incurable: If our public enemies be curable, we must pray for their conversion, hating their conditions: If they be incurable, and we have plain signs of their small impeni••••e, the• we may hate them; for so we hate the devil▪ So Paul saith,