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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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Vers. 1. Take heed that you give not your Alms before men, to be seen of them, or else ye shall have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Vers. 1. Take heede that you giue not your Almes before men, to be seene of them, or else yee shall haue no reward of your Father which is in heauen.
IN the former Chapter, the Evangelist hath faithfully recorded three parts of our Saviour Christs Sermon, and here he beginneth the fourth, which1 reacheth to the nineteenth verse of this Chapter; wherein our Saviour Christ goeth, about to reform his hearers of all abuses in doing good works, and he instanceth in these three; Alms deeds, Prayer, and Fasting: not so much commanding them, as giving direction for the right manner of performing them, so as they may be acceptable unto God. From the first verse to the fifth, he entreateth of Alms deeds, propounding two several2 commandments, touching the manner of giving Alms: The first is in this 1. verse, Take heed that you give not your Alms before men, to be seen of them: which he enforceth by an effectual reason in the words following, or else re shall have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. ⟨p. 217⟩And then exemplifieth it by a particular example of a corrupt manner of giving Alms, borrowed from the ambitions practise of the Scribes and Pharisees, v. 2. The second commandment touching Alms giving, is in the 3. verse; whereof he renders a reason in the 4. verse.
IN the former Chapter, the Euangelist hath faithfully recorded three parts of our Sauiour Christs Sermon, and here hee beginneth the fourth, which1 reacheth to the nineteenth verse of this Chapter; wherein our Sauiour Christ goeth, about to reforme his hearers of all abuses in doing good workes, and hee instanceth in these three; Almes deedes, Praier, and Fasting: not so much commanding them, as giuing direction for the right manner of performing them, so as they may be acceptable vnto God. From the first verse to the fift, hee intreateth of Almes deedes, propounding two seuerall