A09432:724
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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I. The Meaning. Our Father] This title Father, properly belongs to God, who is a father simply, by creation giving being to all things, and preserving them by his providence. Men indeed are called fathers, but that is only secondarily, because in some properties of fatherhood they resemble God. Now this title is given to God, sometime simply considered without personal relation; as Deut. 32. 6. Do ye s• reward the Lord, O foolish people? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Otherwhile it is given to the particular persons in Trinity; as first and principally to the first person, who is commonly called the Father. And the second person in Trinity is sometime called Father, as Isa. 9. 6. the father of Eternity: because he is the ground of our adoption, whereby we become eternally the sons of God: and therefore he is brought in thus complaining of reproach; Behold, I, and the children which the 1Lord hath given me, are as signs and wonders in Israel: for the author to the Hebrews expounds that place of Christ, Heb. 2. 13. & he is said ⟨p. 253⟩to have seed, Isa. 53. 10. And the holy Ghost may proportionally be called Father, because with the Father and the Son he gives being to all things. But in this place by father, is meant properly the first person, who is first and chiefly the father of Christ, and in Christ our father. He is the father of Christ, first by nature, begetting him as he is the Son, of his own substance before all worlds, by communicating unto him his whole essence or Godhead. Secondly, he is the father of Christ, a• Christ is man, by the grace of personal union: for the manhood of Christ doth wholly subsist in the Godhead of the second person, and therefore Christ as he is man (I say not his manhood, which is a nature, not a person) may well be called the Son of God. And in this relation of himself to the first person, Christ saith, My Father is greater then I,