A09432:775
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.
Come] That is, to us men in the world; and then it cometh, when1 God doth erect & establish the same in their hearts: now unto perfection it comes by 5. degrees; 1. When God gives unto men the outward2 means of salvation, wherein he doth reveal his grace & favour in Christ; as the Gospel preached, which is therefore called the word of the kingdom, Matth. 13. 19. And so Christ (having relation to his preaching, which he confirmed by miracles, among the Jews) saith, The kingdom of God is come unto you, Luk. 11. 20. and being demanded by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he tells them, it was among them, Luk. 17. 21. meaning, that it was brought unto them, by the ministry of John Baptist, of himself, and of his Disciples; although indeed, it were without profit to many of them. 2. When the3 word preached enlightens the mind, so as a man knows and understands the mystery of the Gospel, which is the law of this kingdom. 3. When a man is thereby regenerate, and so brought into this kingdom;4 for by regeneration we have effectual entrance into the state of grace, wherein Christ rules in us by his word and spirit, and we yield subjection unto him. 4. At the end of this life, when the body goeth5 to the earth, but the soul to God that gave it, being translated to the joys of heaven, in the glory of this kingdom. 5. At the last judgement,6 when body and soul being united again, are both made partakers of the glory of this kingdom: and this is the full and perfect coming of it.
Come] That is, to vs men in the world; and then it commeth, when