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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 point is, in what regard these seducers are said to follow Cain• way, and that is in regard of all these seven sins: but especially in the hatred and cruelty which he practised against his brother: for as he was bloodily, and maliciously minded towards his brother, though he gave him good words, till he saw his time convenient to execute his conceived malice: so is ⟨p. 93⟩it with these seducers, they may seem for the season otherwise affected, yet indeed they carry a hateful affection to the Church of God, and against those also that endeavour in the building up of the same.
The second point is, in what regard these seducers are said to follow Cain• way, and that is in regard of all these seuen sinnes: but especially in the hatred and crueltie which he practised against his brother: for as he was bloodily, and maliciously minded towards his brother, though he gaue him good words, till he saw his time conuenient to execute his conceiued malice: so is ⟨p. 93⟩it with these seducers, they may seeme for the season otherwise affected, yet indeed they carrie a hatefull affection to the Church of God, and against those also that endeuour in the building vp of the same.
Doct. Hence first note that the way of Cain is the high and broad way of the world. The Turks and Jews follow Cain's footsteps in the profession and practise of all profaneness, in that they deny and despise the Messiah the Son of God, yea and persecute with a deadly hatred all Christians, and are never satisfied with the spilling of their blood.1 The way of the Papists also is the way of Cain, carrying within them the same heart towards Protestants, which Cain did towards Abel; without any conviction of them either of heresy, or of wickedness; and (no otherwise than Cain) they now carry themselves quietly and silently till opportunity may serve them: which if it were offered, we should feel and have fearful experience of the fruits of a Cainish heart in them, as Abel did. Besides, the doctrine of the Romish Church teacheth the way of Cain, for it standeth wholly in outward Ceremonies, borrowed partly from the Jews, partly from the Heathen; yea it traineth up men to be hypocrites, because it is only a dumb and dead show, without any power or life of godliness. Again, it teacheth desperation, in that by it no man ought to be assured of his salvation (for that were presumption) as also that a man must satisfy the justice of God for his sins, and can never obtain pardon without confession of all his sins in the ear of the Priest. And to come nearer home even among our selves, this way of Cain is not unbeaten; our hypocrisy, lying, malice, but above all, our profaneness will convince us hereof. Do not men go backward in religion, as those that shake off the ways of God? Is not the Gospel of far less reckoning among us, than it hath been heretofore? Is that wholesome doctrine not less respected now, than it was twenty years ago? and much less therefore obeyed? which is a manifest argument that Cain's way is generally the beaten way of this age.