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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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IV. Point. The causes or occasions of a religious fast, which may1 justly move us thereunto: and they be seven. First, when we our selves2 have fallen into any grievous sin or sins, whereof our conscience accuseth us, and whereby we procure the wrath of God against us; then to reason our selves, and to escape the wrath of God, we had need to give our selves to prayer and fasting: 1. Sam. 7. 6. The Israelites having fallen to Idolatry, put away their strange gods, and turn unto the Lord with weeping and fasting: and when they kept the feast of Expiation, which was a type of their forgiveness by the Messiah, then they humbled themselves in fasting before the Lord, Levit. 16. 29. Secondly, when3 some among us fall into any grievous sin, though we our selves be clear from it, yet then we must fast, because for the sins of others, Gods judgements may justly fall upon us. Hence it was that Paul blames the Corinthians, obecause they sorrowed not for the sin of incest committed among them. And in this regard, every godly person ought to humble himself, because of the grievous sins of Atheism, ⟨p. 331⟩blasphemy, oppression, &c. which abound among us. Thirdly, when the hand of God in any judgement lies upon us: so did the pIsraelites,6 when they fell in battle before the Beniamites: and so ought we to do for many judgements of God that have lain long upon us. Fourthly, 7when the hand of God in any fearful judgement lies heavy on others, among whom we live, though we our selves be free: in this case David oft times humbled himself, not only when his child gotten in adultery was sick,