A09432:656
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the first: the words are thus in the original, and thy father which ⟨p. 228⟩is a seer in secret: for the word there used signifieth a discerning seer: whereby Christ would teach us, that God sees and beholds things that1 no man can see, even the secret thoughts and desires of mans heart.
For the first: the words are thus in the originall, and thy father which ⟨p. 228⟩is a seer in secret: for the word there vsed signifieth a discerning seer: whereby Christ would teach vs, that God sees and beholds things that1 no man can see, euen the secret thoughts and desires of mans heart.
- 1God the secret seer.
Hence we must learn three things: I. to examine our selves strictly1 not only of our gross & open sins, which all the world may see; but also of our most inward and hidden corruptions, and when we cannot see them, yet we must suspect our selves of our secret wants: for though men know them not, no nor we our selves, yet God the secret seer beholdeth them. II. Never to hide our sins within our selves, but freely2 to lay them open before God to our own shame, yea to confess our unknown sins: we must not like Adam, sew fig-leaves together to cover our nakedness, or fly from God thinking to hide our selves from his sight: for he discerneth in secret. III. To be careful not only to do3