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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 5: Vers. 5. I will therefore put you in remembrance, for as much as ye once know this, how…
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The fourth thing in the example is the manner of the speech, which at the first seemeth to be general, as though all they had been destroyed which believed not; whereas indeed it is special, for all that believed not were not destroyed, seeing that all under twenty years were exempted and saved, Num. 14.29. who were reserved that God might still have his Church among them, and that there might be of them a people left to possess the good land, according to the promise: where note that to be true which Habakkuk ascribeth to God, that in his justice he remembereth mercy;1 by which mercy the younger so•• are here spared; which warranteth us to pray in common judgements, that the Lord pour not ou• his whole wrath upon us; neither in our temptations utterly forsake us, and give us over to Satan's malice, seeing he hath manifested such goodness towards his Church, that in judgements he hath remembered his mercy. But here it may be asked, […] this can stand with equity that e•en th•se men should be destroyed▪ for it ⟨p. 61⟩seemeth that they repented of this sin? Numb. 14.40. yea they confessed it and mourned for it, and offered to pass into Canaan▪ yea and were very ready to hasten into the land? Ans. They repented indeed, but feignedly, it was far from true and sincere repentance and sorrow; for even in the very same place it appeareth that they disobeyed God; for when he had passed sentence against their sin, commanding that they should return into the wilderness of Arabia, vers. 25. and there abide forty years and die there; they would not submit themselves to that sentence, but in all haste they would go forward to Canaan, according to the promise; although against a particular commandment: yea Moses himself could not stay them: but that brought on their necks a more speedy destruction, as appeareth in the end of the Chapter. Whence note the wicked nature of the deceitful heart of man, which in distress when Gods hand is stretched out against it, can feign a false repentance, and counterfeit humiliation: which causeth many a man in sickness to vow amendment of life, if ever God raise him again; and yet as soon as the scourge is overpassed, he forgetteth the hand of God, his own vows and promises, and falleth back into the same bad courses again: