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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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Uses. 1. This petition serves to confute a gross error of the Papists,1 who teach that a man truly justified before God, may finally fall from grace, and be condemned: as also the opinion of some Protestants, who though they will not say that the child of God may finally fall away and perish, yet they hold that he may wholly fall2 away for a time, and that every grievous sin which he commits, cuts him off totally, till he do repent; for look what the child of God asketh in prayer, according to Gods will, that shall be granted him: but in this petition he asketh preservation from total and final apostasy, and that according to Gods will, by the reaching of Christ himself, Lead us not into temptation: and therefore it shall be granted. Indeed it stands with the will of God, and the good of his children, that sometime they should be buffeted by Satan in temptation: and therefore we pray not here to be freed from all assaults, but that we be not wholly left unto our selves, nor forsaken of God, but so preserved by his grace, that we be not swallowed up in temptation: and this petition being according to Gods will, shall be granted to him that a•ks in faith, 1. Joh. 5. 14. And hence it is, that he that is once the child of God indeed, shall so remain for ever, & cannot finally or totally fall away from ⟨p. 306⟩grace. Davids fall and Peters were great and fearful, but yet therein they were not wholly forsaken of God, unless it were in their own feeling for a time.
Vses. 1. This petition serues to confute a grosse errour of the Papists,1 who teach that a man truely iustified before God, may finally fall from grace, and bee condemned: as also the opinion of some Protestants, who though they will not say that the childe of God may finally fall away and perish, yet they holde that hee may wholly fall2 away for a time, and that euery grieuous sinne which he commits, cuts him off totally, till hee doe repent; for looke what the childe of God asketh in prayer, according to Gods will, that shall bee granted him: but in this petition hee asketh preseruation from totall and finall apostacie, and that according to Gods will, by the reaching of Christ himselfe, Lead vs not into temptation: and therfore it shall be granted. Indeed it stands with the will of God, and the good of his children, that sometime they should bee buffeted by Satan in temptation: and therefore we pray not here to be freed from all assaults, but that we be not wholly left vnto our selues, nor forsaken of God, but so preserued by his grace, that we be not swallowed vp in temptation: and this petition beeing according to Gods will, shall be granted to him that aks in faith,