A09432:662
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. •. And when thou pra••st, be not as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, because they would be seen of men: verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
vers. •. And when thou pra••st, be not as the hypocrites: for they loue to stand and pray in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streetes, because they would be seene of men: verely I say vnto you, they haue their reward.
In this verse and the rest to the fourteenth, Christ entreateth of the duty of prayer, wherein he dealeth as in the former point touching1 Alms-giving: for first he forbids a twofold vice in prayer: hypocrisy, and babbling; and then teacheth the contrary virtues, and the right practise of prayer. The vice of hypocrisy in prayer is forbidden in this fifth verse, and the contrary virtue enjoined in the next.
In this verse and the rest to the fourteenth, Christ intreateth of the dutie of prayer, wherein he dealeth as in the former point touching1 Almes-giuing: for first he forbids a twofold vice in prayer: hypocrisie, and babling; and then teacheth the contrarie vertues, and the right practise of praier. The vice of hypocrisie in prayer is forbidden in this fift verse, and the contrarie vertue inioyned in the next.
- 1Of prayer.