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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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Secondly, this power of the Sword is added to distinguish it from all private power, as in Schools, families, which have a power of commanding, but not of the Sword. Lastly, I add for the common good of mankind, Rom. 13.4. The Magistrate is the minister of God, for thy wealth, that is, procuring the welfare of soul and body: which standeth in two things: first, true Religion: secondly, civill justice; both which are by Magistracy maintained. It may be here demanded▪ […] Church appeareth, in that the […] preparation and performance of the same, 2. Chron. 35. and […] here two differences in this authority must be marked. First, that civill […] doth not after the same […] order causes ecclesiastical as […] in civill causes is ordereth all, and […] all likewise; but in ecclesiastical it hath power to order all, but not […] execute them. The Magistrate indeed ordereth and prescribeth in all, but the Minister is •e that executeth in ecclesiastical causes. Secondly▪ that civill authority hath power over all the things of men, but not over the things of […] ▪ as the Wo•d and Sacrament•, faith, conscience, the graces of God in […] Ci•ill power hath no rule over these; concerning which Christ comm•nded to give unto God the things of God and unto Caesar Caesars. Secondly, this authority extendeth it self to all persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civill, but so, as it stretcheth only unto the […] man, to the body, life, […] ▪ and outward things, but not to the soul and conscience, of which God is the only Lord and governor. […] asked what are the kinds of this power▪ I answer, it is of three sort•: first, in one person man or woman, which is a Monarchy: secondly in moe, when the government is in a few states and […] ▪ thirdly, in the body of the people, which is a popular government by one of these three is every Common-wealth governed. These are the Government despised by these seducers.