A09432:851
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.
II. This petition for our own bread, teacheth us that every one1 should have a lawful calling, and therein so employ himself that he may eat his own bread, 2. Thess. 3. 12. No man ought to live out of a lawful calling, nor yet idly therein; the master must banish idleness out of his family; and the magistrate out of the commonwealth: vagrant persons ought not to be tolerated, for such eat not their own bread.
II. This petition for our owne bread, teacheth vs that euery one1 should haue a lawfull calling, and therein so imploy himselfe that he may eate his owne bread, 2. Thess. 3. 12. No man ought to liue out of a lawfull calling, nor yet idlely therein; the master must banish idlenesse out of his family; and the magistrate out of the commonwealth: vagrant persons ought not to be tolerated, for such eate not their owne bread.
- 1A lawful calling necessaric.
III. Here is condemned all fraud, injustice, and cruelty, in the getting1 of temporal blessings, for we pray for our own bread; but that which is so gotten, is not our own, but others: neither will the gamesters gain, nor that which is got by lottery, stand with this petition: for this is not to labour the thing that good is, as the Apostle requireth, Eph. 4. 28. neither are they sanctified means of getting. Quest. If this bread be our own, what need we to ask it? Ans. We ask it for good causes though it be our own: for in bread there be two things; the substance of bread, and the blessing of God therein, which in Scripture is called