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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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Verse 1 › Adversaries of this main ground are;Verse 1 › Aduersaries of this maine ground are;
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1The fourth ground of practise concerneth the worship of God: Exod. 20.5. Thou shalt not make to thy self any […] image, &c. The first point. The meaning: This Commandment hath two parts: the former forbidding the making of Images: the latter, the worshipping of them. The former in these words: Thou shalt not make unto thy self &c. In which is not simply forbidden the making of Images, as if they be for political or historical use, •ut the making of them in way of religion or conscience, to put us in remembrance of God, or to worship God in, by, or at the same. The latter in these words: Thou shalt not bow down &c. That is, thou shalt not so much as bow down thy body before such an Image made by others, neither to worship it, no• the true God in it: which exposition because it is oppugned by a great part of the world, I will prove by some reasons: First, that which was the sin of the Israelites in making Images, is here forbidden: but their common sin in the use of Images, was to make them representations of the true God, and to worship the true God in them, as appeareth Exod. 32.4.5. The Israelites having made a golden Calf, said: These be thy Gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: that is, this is a representation of that God who brought thee out of Egypt: for they should have been worse then mad men, if they had called that Calf which was but one day old, that God which brought them many days before out of Egypt: besides that, Images true or false are usually called by the name of Gods, as being so in the reputation of the worshippers. F•rther, Aaron said,2 To morrow shall be the holy day of the Lord: signifying that the Calf was made to represent the true God, whom in the Calf they were to worship. Again, Judg. 17.3. Michael mother showeth that her intent was to worship God in the Image, when she saith, that she had dedicated eleven hundred shekels of silver to the Lord, to make a graven and molten Image; and having made the Image, she saith, Now will the Lord bless me: