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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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Object. Good trees cannot bring forth evil fruit: therefore the Angels being good, could not sin of themselves. Answ. A good tree remaining good bringeth forth good fruit; but being changeable may bring forth evil. So much of the cause of the fall of Angels.
Obiect. Good trees cannot bring foorth euill fruite: therefore the Angels being good, could not sinne of themselues. Answ. A good tree remaining good bringeth foorth good fruite; but being changeable may bring forth euill. So much of the cause of the fall of Angels.
The second thing in their fall is the parts of it, which here are two: first, They kept not their first beginning. Secondly, They left their own habitation. First they fell from their first estate: which words are expounded Joh. 8.44. they stood not in the truth. By this truth is meant the image of God in righteousness and true holiness, Eph. 4.24. and this image is truly called [truth] because it never deceiveth men, as unrighteousness doth; which maketh a glorious show of pleasure, or profit, but indeed it deceiveth men, who find nothing less therein. Secondly, because herein is no hypocrisy, it maketh no show or appearance of other, than indeed it is, as the manner of falsehood is. The sense then is, that the Angels voluntarily departed from their original condition, and stood not in that image of God wherein they were created. The second part of this one sin is, that they left their habitation; which a man might esteem but a small matter, but yet the sin is not small: for God in the beginning appointed most excellent places for his several creatures; wherein they were to perform their service and homage unto God; as Heaven was the proper place assigned to Angels: to man Paradise in his innocency; as after his fall the families of the Patriarchs: before and in Christs time the Temple: since that time, the societies and congregations of the faithful are these places appointed for man to set […] the special praises of the Creator in. Now the Angels leaving their place incurred two grievous sinne•: first, they left the presence of God: secondly, their office and calling, in which they ought for ever to have been employed in the glorifying of God. Ob. But do not the Divel keep in the air? Ans. Some of them do by Gods permission, but not as in their proper place, or first habitation, for that was in the comfortable presence of God in heaven. The third point in this sin is the measure of it: They left: that is, wholly and totally [their condition,] they quite forsook God, his image, heaven it self, and that office which therein they were assigned unto. Object. Here it may be objected: If the Angels in their innocency and excellency fll wholly and utterly from God, much more […] sinful man, although believers, wholly fall from God, and utterly cut themselves by […] from Christ. Ans.