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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 third property of it is, when it giveth God his due honour, to deny him the true manner; which causeth the ungodly man to content himself with a form and show of godliness, outwardly bearing himself as godly, but inwardly wanteth the power of it;1 the heart is not single, but full of fraud, of doubling and deceit before God, who looketh into it, and delighteth not with the approaching of the lips, when the heart is removed. By which we see the practise of the ungodly man, sundry ways robbing God of his due honour, which one sin entertained, breedeth and nourisheth sins of all sorts: and so much we are given to understand in the placing of it here, as the first sin of the seducers producing a great number of sins more, noted in them through the Epistle; neither can any other be looked for but that the life should be plentiful in all sins, where the heart is possessed of this ungodliness. Rom. 1.26. The Gentiles acknowledged not God, and therefore he gave them up to vile affections, and this was the ground of all those sins reckoned there, above twenty in number. Abraham thought not amiss that he might easily be slain for Sarah his wife (whom therefore he durst not confess) if the fear of God were not in Abimilech• Court, Genes. 20. giving us to know, that where the fear of God is not in the heart, there is no bones made of any sin in the life, no not of murder it self.
The third propertie of it is, when it giueth God his due honour, to denie him the true manner; which causeth the vngodly man to content himselfe with a forme and shew of godlines, outwardly bearing himselfe as godly, but inwardly wanteth the power of it;1 the heart is not single, but full of fraud, of doubling and deceit before God, who looketh into it, and delighteth not with the approching of the lippes, when the heart is remoued. By which wee see the practise of the vngodly man, sundrie waies robbing God of his due honour, which one sinne entertained, breedeth and nourisheth sinnes of all sorts: and so much wee are giuen to vnderstand in the placing of it here, as the first sinne of the seducers producing a great number of sins more, noted in them through the Epistle; neither can any other be looked for but that the life should be plentifull in all sinnes, where the heart is possessed of this vngodlines.