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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 second thing in the meaning is, to know what the ratification of this power is: namely, to be bound and loosed in heaven; that is, when the Churches judgment, following the judgement of God, doth acquit, or condemn a sinner, God in heaven hath done it already and ratifieth it. For in absolution (as also in the other) pardon of sin is first given in heaven: secondly, the Church pronounceth this according to Gods will: & thirdly, God ratifieth it thereupon in heaven, and confirmeth it as sure as if on earth he had pronounced the pardon.
The second thing in the meaning is, to know what the ratification of this power is: namely, to be bound and loosed in heauen; that is, when the Churches iudgment, following the iudgement of God, doth acquite, or condemne a sinner, God in heauen hath done it alreadie and ratifieth it. For in absolution (as also in the other) pardon of sinne is first giuen in heauen: secondly, the Church pronounceth this according to Gods will: & thirdly, God ratifieth it thereupon in heauen, and confirmeth it as sure as if on earth he had pronounced the pardon.
The second point. The weight of this ground may appear, Mat. 16.18. where the main promise of the Gospel for the stablishment of the Church is contained: Upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it: and the ground of our ⟨p. 32⟩assurance thereof, is added vers. 19. I will give thee the keys of the kingdom. This maketh the Church prevail against the gates of hell, because it openeth & sh•• teth heaven. Secondly, hereby the word and Sacraments are preserved from pollution and profanation, the souls of men pulled out of the snares of the Devil, and Gods kingdom set open unto them: which being taken away, there will be no difference left between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the Devil. Which power of the keys in opening and shutting heaven by the ministry of the word, seeing we have established by the laws of the land, we have the state of a true Church, and therefore no man can in good conscience separate from us as no Church and people of God: indeed if it had not the power to open heaven unto men, it were time to separate from it.