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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 of this main ground are;Verse 1 › Aduersaries of this maine ground are;
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The 16. ground is this:1 Except a man be borne anew, of water and of the hol•e Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God, Joh. 3.5. In which observe first the meaning, secondly the weight, thirdly the adversaries. In the first consider two points: first, what it is to be borne again: secondly, of what necessity it is. For the former, we must know, that there must be in him that is borne again three things: first, a real change from one estate to another. Secondly, there must be a root from whence this change may arise. Thirdly, a new life. First, the change is, when a man of a mere natural man is made a new man: not in regard of his body or soul, or powers of them, all which a man retaineth the same after his regeneration, but in regard of Gods image restored, and renewed by Christ, Ephes. 4.24. This is the restoring of that new quality of righteousness and holiness lost in Adam, for so the Apostle describeth this new birth in the place alleged. This change is attributed to water and the holy Ghost, wherein [by water] our Saviour alludeth to some speeches of the old Testament; as Ezech. 36.25. where the Prophet speaketh of the cleansing of the Church, by pouring clean water upon it: that is, infusing new graces into the heart, which take place of the old corruption. And by the holy Ghost, he showeth that this cleansing of us is by the inward working of the holy Ghost. Object.2 But it will be said, if a man be a new man, he must have a new soul.3 Ans. This new quality of righteousness and holiness is as it ⟨p. 29⟩were a new soul, for in a regenerate man, there is a body soul, and besides the spirit, which is the grace of sanctification, opposed to flesh, and corruption of nature, Rom. 8.10. This is as it were the soul of a soul renewed.