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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.
Secondly, the great adversary is the Papist, and that divers ways: first, in that they teach that the very doing of some work is a sanctification of God; as the outward work of Baptism, yea in it the very action of the Minister is a worship of God, and doth confer grace, ex opere operat• ; this was their old doctrine, which now they colour with this addition: If the party be well and rightly disposed: but besides the use, yea the lawful and common use, there is by this ground required an holy use of any thing to make it acceptable to God, or rightly profitable to the doer himself. Secondly,1 their hallowing of Water, Bells, Palms, Ashes, Spittle, is a mere mockery of God, seeing they have neither word nor promise from God, that these creatures should thus be hallowed to preserve from evil, body or soul. Thirdly, they err in the foundation of religion diver• ways; every which such error is blasphemy. Fourthly, that religion oppugneth the sanctification of Gods name in the use of a lawful oath, teaching first that the Pope hath power to dispense with an oath. Secondly, that men may swear by the Mass, and so doing make it a God. Thirdly, even the learned among them with one consent hold, that a man may swear ambiguously, even when he knoweth the thing to be otherwise.
Secondly, the great aduersarie is the Papist, and that diuers waies: first, in that they teach that the very doing of some worke is a sanctification of God; as the outward worke of Baptisme, yea in it the very action of the Minister is a worship of God, and doth confer grace, ex opere operat• ; this was their old doctrine, which now they colour with this addition: If the partie be well and rightly disposed: but besides the vse, yea the lawfull and common vse, there is by this ground required an holy vse of any thing to make it acceptable to God, or rightly profitable to the doer himselfe. Secondly,1 their hallowing of Water, Bels, Palmes, Ashes, Spettle, is a meere mockerie of God, seeing they haue neither word nor promise from God, that these creatures should thus be hallowed to preserue from euill, bodie or soule. Thirdly, they erre in the foundation of religion diuer• waies; euery which such error is blasphemie. Fourthly, that religion oppugneth the sanctification of Gods name in the vse of a lawfull oath, teaching first that the Pope hath power to dispense with an oath. Secondly, that men may sweare by the Masse, and so doing make it a God. Thirdly, euen the learned among them with one consent hold, that a man may sweare ambiguously, euen when he knoweth the thing to be otherwise.