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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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Now having handled this commandment in the former verse, I1 will here only observe this point of doctrine touching the distinction of people before the death of Christ: for here Christ saith unto the Jews: Be ye not like them: that is, like the Gentiles: where he putteth a plain difference between the Jews and all the Nations of the world besides. And therefore when he first sent his Disciples to preach, he forbade them athe way of the Gentiles and the cities of Samaria: commanding them to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And this distinction was not only in Christs time, but had been from the beginning for the space of 4000. years. In the first age of the world there ⟨p. 246⟩were athe sons of God, and the daughters of men: after the ••ood the bchildren of the flesh, and the children of the promise. And under the law, a cpeople of God, and no people. This distinction stood in two things. 1. In regard of the grace of adoption, and of the special favour of God; for in this Text Christ saith, the Jews had God for their Father, which the Gentiles had not, for they were strangers from the covenants of promise, Ephes. 2. 12. 2. In regard of Gods true worship, for concerning prayer, a special part thereof, Christ here saith to the Jews, Ye shall not be like the Gentiles: If any shall here think that this preferment of the Jews before the Gentiles, in regard of Gods special mercy, came from this, that God foresaw something in them, which was not in the Gentiles, let them hear what Moses saith to the Jews; dThe Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you for your multitude, but because the Lord loved you, & would keep the oath which he sware to your fathers.