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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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Further, where he saith [ordained of old to this condemnation] we learn, that as God hath before all worlds decreed the electing of some to salvation: so he hath decreed the refusal and rejecting of others to condemnation. 1. Pet. 2.8.1 Many were disobedient▪ unto the which they were even ordained. 1. Thess. 5.9. God hath not ordained you to wrath, but to obtain salvation through Christ: showing that some are ordained to wrath, who are not to obtain salvation through Christ. Rom. 9.22. God is compared to a potter, framing vessels of honour and dishonour, vessels of mercy, and vessels of wrath. In the same place, I have loved Jacob, and hated Esau; that is, I have decreed so to do. For the whole chapter speaketh of Gods counsel & unchangeable decree.2 Ob. If this be so (will some say) then God dealeth iniustly, that absolutely ordaineth some men to condemnation and perdition.3 Ans. We must know, that we are creatures, and may not presume to prescribe a law of justice to the Creator; whose will is justice it self (whatsoever we may conceive) and maketh the things willed good, because it is willed, and not willed because it is good. Secondly, though God refuse and reject men, yet he doth it in most wise order and just proceeding, in these two degrees: first, he vouchsafeth to some men the riches of his grace tending to life everlasting; which special abundant grace he denieth to some other passing by them, who being left of him unto themselves fall into sin. Secondly,4 for sin God decreeth judgement and condemnation, so as he doth not simply and absolutely ordain his creature to hell, but in regard of sin: not that sin is a cause of the decree moving him unto it, but that he decreeth not condemnation without respect of sin and relation unto it: which speech we ⟨p. 49⟩