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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 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.
The Aduersaries of this ground bee the Popish Church,1 who thus expound it▪ First loue thy self, and then thy neighbour; making the loue of our selues the foundation of the loue of others: but sometime wee may loue our neighbour aboue our selues; as Ionathan loued Dauid more than his own soule, and Christ loued his enemies more than his owne life. Secondly, it teacheth that a man must not loue particularly his particular enemie, nor salute him in particular, but generally, as if hee salute a whole companie together, his enemie being there.
- 1Adversaries. A fit principle for that religion, which wholly seeketh it selfAduersaries. A fit principle for that religion, which wholy seeketh it selfe
The eighth ground: Exod. 20.12.1 Honour thy father and thy mother, &c. In the words two things are to be considered: first, an ordinance of God: secondly, the means to preserve it. The ordinance is, that all men must not be equal in degree, but there must be orders of men, of whom some are to be in higher degree, as superiors; some in lower condition, as inferiors: the former are above others in regard of power to command and to punish: the latter are in subjection under others, by whose discretion and will they are to be governed. This ordinance is described,