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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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Now seeing we know these things, our duty is to labour to be settled and assured in our conscience that God is our God: for first, in this assurance is the foundation of all true comfort; all the promises of God are hereupon grounded, and herein accomplished, that God is our God: see Isai. 41.10. Be not afraid, I am thy God: yea Christ being upon the Cross, having the pangs of hell upon him, herein stayed himself, My God, my God: so David, Psalm. 22.1. and being ready to be stoned to death, comforted himself in the Lord his God, 1. Sam. 30.6. And not only is it the foundation of all our comfort in this life, but of our happiness after death it self, being the ground of those two main Articles of our faith, the resurrection of the body, and the immortality of the soul: for by virtue of this Covenant alone shall we rise again after death to life, glory, and immortality; as Christ himself disputing against the Sadducees, from hence proveth the resurrection, in that God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Secondly, it is the ground of all obedience; Psal. 95.7. the Prophet exhorting men thereunto, useth this as a reason: For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his hands: the preface of the Moral law enforcing obedience layeth the same ground; For I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: see also Psal. 50.71. and whosoever is truly persuaded that God is his God, cannot but obey him.
Now seeing wee know these things, our dutie is to labour to be setled and assured in our conscience that God is our God: for first, in this assurance is the foundation of all true comfort; all the promises of God are hereupon grounded, and herein accomplished, that God is our God: see Isai. 41.10. Be not afraid, I am thy God: yea Christ being vpon the Crosse, hauing the pangs of hel vpon him, herein staied himselfe, My God, my God: so Dauid, Psalm. 22.1. and being readie to be stoned to death, comfort•d himselfe in the Lord his God,