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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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Fourthly, observe the distinction of Angels; of which some kept their first estate, others (of which he here speaketh) left their first condition: some stood, and some fell: the ground of which distinction Paul mentioneth 1. Tim. 5.21. I charge thee before God and his elect Angels. Some therefore are elected, and (because election presupposeth a refusal) others are rejected; no other cause of this distinction is known to man, but the will of God, and his good pleasure. Ob. If any man say, it was because God foresaw that some would fall, and others would stand. I answer, that is no cause: for God did not only foresee the fall of some, but decreed also before all worlds to confirm some in their state, and to pass by others in his justice: so as the cause shall ever rest in his good will, which willing the same maketh it most just, not giving us any leave otherwise to dispute of this doctrine, or curiously to search out the secrets of it, but rather to stand in admiration, and say with Paul: O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! 1how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past finding out!
Fourthly, obserue the distinction of Angels; of which some kept their first estate, others (of which hee here speaketh) left their first condition: some stoode, and some fell: the ground of which distinction Paul mentioneth 1. Tim. 5.21. I charge thee before God and his elect Angels. Some therefore are elected, and (because election presupposeth a refusall) others are reiected; no other cause of this distinction is known to man, but the will of God, and his good pleasure. Ob. If any man say, it was because God foresaw that some would fall, and others would stand. I answere, that is no cause: for God did not onely foresee the fall of some, but decreed also before all worlds to confirme some in their state, and to passe by others in his iustice: so as the cause shall euer rest in his good will, which willing the same maketh it most iust, not giuing vs any leaue otherwise to dispute of this doctrine, or curiously to search out the secrets of it, but rather to stand in admiration, and say with Paul: O the depth of the riches both of the wisedome and knowledge of God! 1