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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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but are blown over when they have a little exercised their faith and graces, so as they are bettered, yea and furthered by them. 1. King. 19. Elijah standing on Mount Horeb, there passed by him a mighty tempest which rent the rocks; and then an Earthquake, then fire: but God was not in any of these: afterward there came a still and soft voice, and God was in the voice. Afflictions are like that tempest, earthquake and fire, namely to the wicked, against whom the Lord cometh to shake and consume them: but to the godly are as a still voice to teach and instruct them: under which they quietly content them selves, because God is in that still voice, namely, by his grace and presence supporting and sustaining them even in the middest of their troubles.
but are blowne ouer when they haue a little exercised their faith and graces, so as they are bettered, yea and furthered by them. 1. King. 19. Elias standing on Mount Horeb, there passed by him a mightie tempest which rent the rocks; and then an Earthquake, then fire: but God was not in any of these: afterward there came a still and soft voyce, and God was in the voyce. Afflictions are like that tempest, earthquake and fire, namely to the wicked, against whom the Lord commeth to shake and consume them: but to the godly are as a still voyce to teach and instruct them: vnder which they quietly content thē selues, because God is in that still voice, namely, by his grace and presence supporting and sustaining them euen in the middest of their troubles.
Secondly, the practise of a wicked man is, when he is troubled and stirred by God to foam out his own shame; even as the sea his froth. Experience teacheth, that if a wicked man have any wrong or disgrace offered him, presently he discovereth the corruption of his heart, and breaketh out into railing, cursing, reviling, and all manner of revenge: so if Gods hand be upon him by sickness, or upon his family, he cannot cover his want of love of God, he cannot hide the infidelity of his heart: for he betakes himself the next way to the Sorcerer,