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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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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.
1Fifthly, Students especially of Diuinitie, must take heede of this spirit of contradiction and gainesaying, whereby no wholesome doctrine can easily please them; which was Cores sinne: and content themselues with that truth of doctrine, and those sound grounds of Diuinitie, 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 meete with nothing sooner than error and vnsoundnes) and reading seriously their workes and writings, as the soundest and best grounds of Diuinitie, and expositions of the Scriptures, which haue been set out since the daies of the Apostles.
- 1The worst kind of discontentment is in things concerning mans salvation.The worst kinde of discontentment is in things concerning mans saluation.
Sixthly, let inferiors hence learn obedience, and silent subjection unto superiors; the servant or subject must not be a gainsayer, nay not an answerer again, Tit. 3. This cutteth off all disputation between the Master and servant, father and child, prince and subject: for the very appearance of Cores sin must be avoided.