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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;
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.
The third point is: The Adversaries:1 who are, first, every man by nature, the wisdom of whom herein is enmity with God. For every one naturally is willing to yield unto God some external service, and ceremonial worship; as in the Church to draw near to God with their lips: but when they should come to their renewing, and the mortifying of their lusts, O then they storm and swell, and cast off this yoke, because they say it abridgeth them of their ease, liberty and pleasure, and they cannot be their own men for it. Secondly, the Roman religion, which for many hundred years hath stood in ceremonial and bodily actions, rites, gestures, apparel, and most of all in outward penance, borrowed partly of the Jews, and partly of the Heathens: but all this doctrine of the new birth,2 of mortifying hidden lusts, and denial of a mans self, is dead and buried among them, little hereof is spoken or written in the great volumes of their greatest Clerks. But the doctrine which is from God is spiritual, as God himself is, and most concerneth the inner man. Secondly, they are great adversaries hereof, in teaching that man (though captive to sin) hath a power in his nature, whereby, if the holy Ghost free him, he can of himself will and do that which is good: which if it were so, then he is but in part new, and so is no new man. Secondly, a regenerate man must be a new creature: now creation is a framing of something out of nothing, not of something into something. Thirdly, thus a man should be but half dead, and so could not be borne again, ⟨p. 30⟩but only strengthened, even as a man in a swoon, of whom we cannot say properly he is revived, because he was not dead, but recovered.
The third point is: The Aduersaries:1 who are, first, euery man by nature, the wisedome of whom herein is enmitie with God. For euery one naturally is willing to yeeld vnto God some externall seruice, and ceremoniall worship; as in the Church to draw neere to God with their lippes: but when they should come to their renewing, and the mortifying of their lusts, O then they storme and swell, and cast off this yoke, because they say it abridgeth them of their ease, libertie and pleasure, and they cannot bee their owne men for it. Secondly, the Romane religion, which for many hundred yeres hath stood in ceremoniall and bodily actions, rites, gestures, apparrell, and most of all in outwarde penance, borrowed partly of the Iewes, and partly of the Heathens: but all this doctrine of the new birth,