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A godly and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Jude, containing threescore and…A godlie and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Iude, containing threescore and…
A godly and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Jude, containing threescore and six sermons preached in Cambridge by that reverend and faithful man of God, Master William Perkins, and now at the request of his executors, published by Thomas Taylor, preacher of Gods word ; whereunto is prefixed a large analysis, containing the sum and order of the whole book, according to the authors own method, to which are further added, four brief tables to direct the reader ...A godlie and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Iude, containing threescore and sixe sermons preached in Cambridge by that reverend and faithfull man of God, Master William Perkins, and now at the request of his executors, published by Thomas Taylor, preacher of Gods word ; whereunto is prefixed a large analysis, containing the summe and order of the whole booke, according to the authors owne method, to which are further added, foure briefe tables to direct the reader ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1606
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A brief view of the whole Epistle, drawn according to the Authors own method.
A briefe view of the whole Epistle, drawne according to the Authors owne method.
The Epistle containeth three parts: 1. Salutation, wherein are considered the Person saluting described by his Name: Jude. Office: a servant of Jesus Christ. Alliance: brother of James. Persons saluted, members of the militant Church, which are Called, Sanctified of God the Father, Reserved to Jesus Christ. Form of salutation, uz. a prayer for Blessings, Mercy. Peace, Love. Increase of blessings: be multiplied. 2. Exhortation, wherein are considered th• Motives exciting the Apostle, uz. 1. His Love. Beloved. 2. His Ready mind: Gave diligence, enlarged by three arguments. 1. All diligence. 2. To write unto you (when he could not speak•.) 3. Of most weighty matters: Of the common salvation. 3. The present necessity: It was needful for me. Matter. Propounded, uz. to maintain the faith: wherein are considered the 1. Parties Maintaining: Saints. Oppugning: Seducers. 2. Means of maintenance, uz. By fight: the 1. Kind: Spiritual. 2. Weapons. 1. Doctrine. 2. Confession. 3. Example. 4. Prayer. Confirmed by 1. The state of the Church in his time pestered with enemies, described by their 1. Hypocrisy: Crept in. 2. State before God: Ordained of old to this condemnation. 3. Religion: Ungodly men they are. 4. Doctrine: which turn the grace of our God into wantonness. 5. Lives: and deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. A prolepsis answered in a perfect form of syllogism, consisting of a 1. Proposition, uz. Whosoever taketh liberty to sin shall be destroyed: proved by example of Men. Here consider the Persons destroyed: the people, uz. Israelites. Time: after he (God) had delivered them out of Egypt. Cause: with believed not. Angels, here consider the 1. Persons sinning: the Angels. 2. Sin it self, and in it the 1. Author set down Negatively: not God. Affirmatively: but themselves▪ […] 2. Parts Negative: which kept not their first […]. Affirmative: but left their own habitation. 3. Measure of their fall: A total defection. 3. Punishment in two degrees. 1. Custody: Reserved in chains under darken. 2. Full punishment: unto the judgement of the […] Cities with their 1. Names: Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them. 2. Sins 1. According to Nature 1. Committed fornication. 2. Followed strange flesh. 2. Against Nature 1. Committed fornication. 2. Followed strange flesh. 3. Punishment: wherein Use, set forth for example.