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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 fourth sin. Whose mouths speak proud or swelling things.] That is, they boast themselves of knowledge, holiness, and things not to be found in them. The same with the Devils sin, Luk. 4. All this will I give thee, for they are mine, and I give them to whom I will: wherein he showeth himself the father of lying and boasting. It is noted also to be the property of Antichrist, as to whom was given a mouth which spake great things and blasphemies, Reu. 13.5. which was meant of the Emperor indeed, but so as the second beast, which is that Antichrist, should do all things which the first beast could do before him, ver. 12. It is also the noted vice of all heretics and seducers, 2. Cor. 10.12. to exalt and praise themselves. The contrary duties are, first, In common speech neither to praise, nor dispraise our selves, for vanity lurketh in both: besides that, modesty will not suffer the former; and the latter is to occasion others to praise us, which is but vanity. Secondly, when in speech we compare our selves with others our equals, we must ever think and speak better of them than our selves. Phil. 2.3. Let every man esteem other better than himself. Paul comparing himself with the Apostles, said he was the least of them all; because he had been a persecutor, 1. Cor. 15.9. Thirdly, if any speak of his own wants, when just occasion is offered, he must speak even the most against himself. As Paul, that he was the head and chief of all sinners. ⟨p. 118⟩Fourthly, if a man upon just occasion be moved to commend himself, first he must do it in all humility and modesty: so Paul speaketh of himself in another person: 1. Cor. 12.1. I knew a man in Christ which was taken up into Paradise, &c. And in nothing was I inferior unto the very chief Apostles, though I be nothing, vers. 11.
The fourth sin. Whose mouthes speake proude or swelling things.] That is, they boast themselues of knowledge, holines, and things not to be found in thē. The same with the Diuels sinne,