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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 seventh ground is, Galath. 5.14.1 The whole law is fulfilled in this one word, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self. The meaning is not that we should love our neighbour equally with our selves, and with no less affection, or degree of love; but that with the same cheerfulness, willingness, and truth of heart that we perform duties of love to our selves, ought we also to reach them out unto others. The weight of this ground appeareth, in that not only Christ saith, It is like the great Commandment, but also in that it is the sum of the whole law: for the first table must be practised in the second, and the love of God testified in love to men.
The seuenth ground is, Galath. 5.14.1 The whole law is fulfilled in this one word, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. The meaning is not that we should loue our neighbour equally with our selues, and with no lesse affection, or degree of loue; but that with the same cheerefulnes, willingnes, and truth of heart that we perform duties of loue to our selues, ought wee also to reach them out vnto others. The weight of this ground appeareth, in that not onely Christ saith, It is like the great Commandement, but also in that it is the summe of the whole law: for the first table must be practised in the second, and the loue of God testified in loue to men.
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The Adversaries of this ground be the Popish Church,1 who thus expound it▪ First love thy self, and then thy neighbour; making the love of our selves the foundation of the love of others: but sometime we may love our neighbour above our selves; as Jonathan loved David more than his own soul, and Christ loved his enemies more than his own life. Secondly, it teacheth that a man must not love particularly his particular enemy, nor salute him in particular, but generally, as if he salute a whole company together, his enemy being there.