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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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III. Point. Whose bread do we pray for, our own, not other1 mens. But how doth bread or any other temporal blessing become ours? Ans. First, when we have true right thereto before God: secondly, when we have lawful possession thereof before men. Our right before God is needful, for we lost all in Adam, and have recovery of our right in the creatures only in Christ Jesus, when by saith we become his members: 1. Cor. 3. 22. All things are yours, & you are Christs. And yet for all this, the child of God may not use all things as his own though he have right thereto in Christ, unless by Gods providence he have also lawful right thereto or possession thereof before men, as by lawful gift, purchase, labour, or such like. Indeed right in Christ is the chief title, but yet right before men is also necessary: for Christian liberty doth not abolish good orders in civill estates, but establish them rather: Christ is no enemy to Cesar; and therefore the Scripture enjoins ⟨p. 288⟩every man to eat his own bread, 2. Thess. 3. 12. that is, such whereto he hath right in Christ by faith, and also enjoyeth by Gods providence in some honest means allowed of men; for by good orders established among men, we are put into possession of those things whereto we have right in Christ.
III. Point. Whose bread doe we pray for, our owne, not other1 mens. But how doth bread or any other temporall blessing become ours? Ans. First, when we haue true right thereto before God: secondly, when we haue lawfull possession thereof before men. Our right before God is needefull, for we lost all in Adam, and haue recouerie of our right in the creatures onely in Christ Iesus, when by saith we become his members: 1. Cor. 3. 22. All things are yours, & you are Christs. And yet for all this, the child of God may not vse all things as his owne though he haue right thereto in Christ, vnlesse by Gods prouidence he haue also lawfull right thereto or possession thereof before men, as by lawfull gift, purchase, labour, or such like. Indeede right in Christ is the chiefe title, but yet right before men is also necessarie: for Christian libertie doth not abolish good orders in ciuill estates, but establish them rather: Christ is no enemie to Cesar; and therefore the Scripture inioynes