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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 4: Vers. 4. For there are certain men crep• in, which were of old before ordained to this…
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The second adjunct whereby the seducers are described, is their estate before ⟨p. 48⟩God; being men of old 1ordained to this condemnation.] That is, they were before all times, locked, enrolled, or billed unto condemnation, even as though their names had been set down in a book. By condemnation is meant judgement, as the particle This doth plainly show: which maketh this the plain meaning: They were of old ordained to this judgement in this life, to try, to exercise and molest the Church of God, and so consequently to procure unto themselves at length their own just condemnation.
The second adiunct whereby the seducers are described, is their estate before ⟨p. 48⟩God; being men of old 1ordained to this condemnation.] That is, they were before all times, locked, enrolled, or billed vnto condemnation, euen as though their names had been set downe in a booke. By condemnation is meant iudgement, as the particle This doth plainly shew: which maketh this the plaine meaning: They were of old ordained to this iudgement in this life, to trie, to exercise and molest the Church of God, and so consequently to procure vnto themselues at length their own iust condemnation.
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In which words we are taught: first, that God keepeth his books of Registry and records, in which all things are set down, the persons, behaviours and eternal estate of all men: which books are of three sorts: first, the book of his Providence, containing all particulars of things past, present and to come, in which the Lord saw the members of David when he was yet unformed,