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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Verse 1 › Adversaries hereof are▪Verse 1 › Aduersaries hereof are▪
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.
Adversaries hereof are▪
Aduersaries hereof are▪
The Papists, who hold that they are one doctrine only, but herein differing, that the Law is more dark, the Gospel more plain, the former more hard to fulfil, the latter more easy; that is as the root of a tree, this as the body & branches: by which premises they would conclude Christ to be no Saviour, but an instrument rather for us to save our selves by, he giving us grace to keep the Law: for a sinner must needs be saved by works, if there be no difference between the Law and the Gospel, and if the Law which requireth works were not moderated by the Gospel, which requireth not works but faith.
The Papists, who hold that they are one doctrine only, but herein differing, that the Law is more darke, the Gospell more plaine, the former more hard to fulfill, the latter more easie; that is as the roote of a tree, this as the bodie & branches: by which premises they would conclude Christ to be no Sauiour, but an instrumēt rather for vs to saue our selues by, he giuing vs grace to keepe the Law: for a sinner must needes bee saued by works, if there be no difference between the Law and the Gospell, and if the Law which requireth workes were not moderated by the Gospel, which requireth not workes but faith.