A09434:579
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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Verse 18: Vers. 18. How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time, which s…
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Use. This part of the testimony is most truly verified in our age.1 First in the Romish Church whose religion setteth up a plain• mockery of God, and of Christ, of Scripture and of true religion. First, for Christ they make but a mock of him: the true Christ is a King, and so they say, but the Pope must control him, both in making laws of his own to bind the conscience, as also in adding and detracting from Christ laws what he will: the true Christ is a Saviour; but they make every man a saviour of himself, by meriting salvation: for they teach that Christ merited, that we might merit our own salvation: yea the true Christ is a Mediator, but yet Saints must be intercessors: and his Mother, whom they entitle the Queen of Heaven, must command her son by the right of a Mother, to hear their prayers, and forgive their sins; what is this but to make his Mother Mediator in his stead? Secondly, as for the Scriptures, they renounce the original Bible, and the Greek and Hebrew text as corrupt, and will admit of none as authentical, but the Latin translation: yea and of that allow no sense, but that which the Pope authoriseth, and setteth down: what is this else but to make a mockery of the Scriptures? no Bible, no sense will serve, nor must stand, but the Popish sense, which is indeed to reduce all scripture to the Popes will and determination.
Vse. This part of the testimonie is most truly verified in our age.1 First in the Romish Church whose religion setteth vp a plain• mockerie of God, and of Christ, of Scripture and of true religion. First, for Christ they make but a mocke of him: the true Christ is a King, and so they say, but the Pope must controule him, both in making lawes of his owne to binde the conscience, as also in adding and detracting from Christ lawes what hee will: the true Christ is a Sauiour; but they make euery man a sauiour of himselfe, by meriting saluation: for they teach that Christ merited, that we might merit our own saluation: yea the true Christ is a Mediatour, but yet Saints must bee intercessors: and his Mother, whom they intitle the Queene of Heauen, must commaund her sonne by the right of a Mother, to heare their prayers, and forgiue their sinnes; what is this but to make his Mother Mediatour in his stead? Secondly, as for the Scriptures, they renounce the originall Bible, and the Greeke and Hebrew text as corrupt, and will admit of none as authenticall, but the Latin translation: yea and of that allow no sense, but that which the Pope authoriseth, and setteth downe: what is this else but to make a mockerie of the Scriptures? no Bible, no sense will serue, nor must stand, but the Popish sense, which is indeed to reduce all scripture to the Popes will and determination.