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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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The eighth ground is:1 That God made the heavens and the earth, and all things that have being in them: Col. 1.16. By him were created all things which are in heaven and in earth. This is a principle: for if creatures had no beginning, then are they become Gods; which would overthrow the Godhead. But all things were not made besides God.2 For the highest heaven the Throne of God is eternal as God himself is. Ans. The Throne of God is a creature as well as the rest:3 Heb. 11.10. He looked for a city having a foundation, whose builder and maker is God. 4In the world are many evils which could not be from God, the foundation of all goodness. Ans. Evil is of three sorts: first natural, 5which cometh by nature corrupted, as sickness, diseases, plagues, and death it self. Secondly, material evils, as hurtful beasts, poisons in trees, plants, beasts; these are created, and the very poison of them is a creature. Thirdly, morally evils, which be transgressions against the Moral law and Commandment of God. Of the two former God is the author and cause: Isaiah. 45.7. I create evil: that is, natural and material: but of the third, that is, moral evils which be sin, God is no cause.6 Ob. But God is the cause of all things, and sin is some thing. Ans. Sin is no creature,7 but the destruction of Gods image which is a creature, effected by the creature: for though the ⟨p. 21⟩creature cannot make a creature, yet it can destroy a creature.