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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 8: Vers. 8. Likewise notwithstanding these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise gou…
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In handling the words we will first speak of the fountain, because it is first in nature, and then secondly of their sins flowing from thence. The original of these sins is that they are dreamers;1 which word leadeth us to a double cause of them: first, that they are sleepers made […] with sleep▪ and secondly, in this sleep of theirs they are deluded with dreams▪ We are then to understand first what th•• sleep is: and in the next p••ce, what be the dreame• which in […] sleep […] ⟨p. 73⟩them. This sleep is not that natural sleep which oppresseth the body; but a spiritual sleep, like unto that in divers things going over the soul, binding up the faculties of the same, and bringing a heaviness or deadness rather into all the powers of man; so far forth as they ought to be moving in spiritual actions and affairs. It causeth the mind never to think seriously of God or a mans own estate: the conscience never or seldom to accuse for sin committed: the will never or seldom to will that which is truly good: the affections never or seldom to be moved at Gods word or works. Thus it goeth over the whole soul, and casteth it in a dead sleep, so as it is altogether unfit to go about the actions of an heavenly life. Example hereof we have in the old world, they eat and drank, &c. and knew nothing till the flood came: they dreamed continually of many other things, but never of their own destruction. Dives also was cast on such a sleep; he f•red deliciously every day, he never thought of heaven, for he was never to come there; nor of hell fire till he felt the flame. This spiritual sleep is three-fold• first, the natural sleep of heart by which every one is overtaken; so as by nature no man can so much as move himself to the least good, till God awake him, and say to him, Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from the dead. 2The second sleep is a slumber, and indeed the remainders of this natural sleep in the children of God, being awakened out of their dead sleep; for even they are overtaken often with a spiritual slumber, by reason of remainders of sin in them. So the spouse acknowledgeth