A09434:488
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, here Magistrates and Ministers must learn, not to be discouraged if they be gainsaid and contradicted by such as Core, Datha•, and Abiram, who were great men in their Tribes; it was Moses and Aaron's lot. Christ himself was a rock of offence, and […] stumbled ⟨p. 99⟩at him; he was made a wonder of men, and few of the great believed his doctrine: yea few there were that did not gainsay it: it is not well with men when all men speak well of them; meek Moses shall have his patience tried by very many such in the world.
Fourthly, here Magistrates and Ministers must learne, not to be discouraged if they be gainsaid and contradicted by such as Core, Datha•, and Abiram, who were great men in their Tribes; it was Moses and Aarons lot. Christ himselfe was a rocke of offence, and 〈…〉 stumbled ⟨p. 99⟩at him; he was made a wonder of men, and few of the great beleeued his doctrine: yea few there were that did not gainsay it: it is not well with men when all men speake well of them; meeke Moses shall haue his patience tried by very many such in the world.
1Fifthly, Students especially of Divinity, must take heed of this spirit of contradiction and gainsaying, whereby no wholesome doctrine can easily please them; which was Cores sin: and content themselves with that truth of doctrine, and those sound grounds of Divinity, which are propounded in the writings of those famous and excellent instruments aforenamed, who were the restorers of pure religion; preferring them before all Popish writers and corrupt postillers (in whom a man shall meet with nothing sooner than error and unsoundness) and reading seriously their works and writings, as the soundest and best grounds of Divinity, and expositions of the Scriptures, which have been set out since the days of the Apostles.