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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 third sin; [walking after their own lusts] is fitly expounded in Eccles. 11.9. where the young man is ironically willed to walk in the ways of his own heart, and in the sight of his own eyes, &c. even so these men live in their sins, according to the leading and lusting of their own corrupted hearts: which sin is before in the fourth verse touched; and somewhat also is further to be spoken of it in the rest of the Epistle. Our contrary duty is two-fold: first, if at any time by frailty we fall into any sin, never to go on in the same, but break it off, and return unto God: for to walk after his own hearts lusts, is a note of a wicked person and an enemy of God. Psal. 68.21. Surely God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy pa•• of him that walketh on in sin. Secondly, we are to frame our lives clean against the lusts and inclinations of our own hearts; waging battle continually against them, ever crossing and thwarting them: Rom. 13.14. Take no thought to fulfil the lusts of the flesh. Galath. 3. They that are Christs have crucified the flesh, with the lusts thereof: for whosoever believeth truly the pardon of his sins by Christs death, cannot but mortify the lusts of his wicked heart; besides that the whole course of Christianity is nothing else but a continual conversion and turning unto God.