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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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First we must be rooted. In this rooting two things are required: first, there must be a root: this root is Christ, Joh. 15.1. He is the vine, we the branches. Rom. 5.6. If we be planted into him, Col. 2.7. rooted in him. Here we must consider Christ not as God alone, or man alone, or the Son of God alone, but as God-man; as God made man; as an Immanuel, God with us, even our Mediator and Redeemer. Thus he is our root, in whom are hid the treasures of graces, Col. 2.3. and of whose fullness we all receive grace for grace, Joh. 1.16. The second thing in this rooting is ingrafting: for trees of righteousness grow not by nature. Psalm. 1. A good man is as a tree planted: for by nature the best men are but wild olives, and ⟨p. 106⟩must be transplanted from the first Adam into the second. The author of this ingrafting is God himself, who doth it by two actions: first, he giveth Christ truly and really in the word and Sacraments, not out of the word, but in and by it. So 1. Cor. 3. Paul planteth, Apollo watereth; that is, God by their ministry ingrafted the Corinthians into Christ. Secondly, when on his part he giveth Christ, he giveth also a power to the believer to apprehend him, and receive him with his merits unto salvation, and that by the only hand of faith. Ob. But this can be no ingrafting, seeing Christ is in heaven, we are on earth. Ans. It is not indeed a natural ingrafting, which cannot be but by the fit applying of two bodies one to the other, but spiritual, yet as sure and as straight as that is. We see in nature, the mind is present and joined with the thing it thinketh of, although it be distant many thousand miles: if this can be true in nature, then much more in faith which is a work supernatural, and far above the reach of nature. Again, a man hath land given him in Spain, Turkey, or America, many thousand miles off him, he was never at it, he never saw it, and yet is truly the Lord of it, and may say of it, it is his own, by virtue of the donation. Even so God in his word giveth Christ and his merits to the believer, who as he hath received him by faith, so he retaineth him by grace: by virtue of which donation, and acceptation, a man may as truly say, Christ is his, as though he were now in heaven already with him;