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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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The second thing in their sin is the measure of it. They sinned in like manner, &c. The original signifieth and implieth not only a bare committing of sin, but a giving of themselves over to commit their filthy lusts,1 and that impudently and shamelessly: which the Prophet Isaiah noted also chap. 3.9. They declare their sins at Sodom, they hide them not: showing that they were past all shame in these most shameful sins. Yea they boasted and gloried in them: both which may be gathered in Genesis 19.•. and 9.
The second thing in their sinne is the measure of it. They sinned in like manner, &c. The originall signifieth and implieth not onely a bare committing of sin, but a giuing of themselues ouer to commit their filthie lusts,1 and that impudently and shamelesly: which the Prophet Esay noted also chap. 3.9. They declare their sins at Sodom, they hide them not: shewing that they were past all shame in these most shamefull sinnes. Yea they boasted and gloried in them: both which may be gathered in Genesis 19.•. and 9.
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Doctr. 1. By these sins we are taught to take a view of the sins of these last times unto which that of Ezekiel unto Jerusalem may be properly applied: Thou hast justified thy Sisters (namely Samaria and Sodom) in all their abominations. So these last times justify Sodom in her abominations, which I prove thus: First▪ the Church of Rome is that Sodom wherein the two Prophets were slain,