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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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Further, consider the manner of the separation of these wicked men: there be three sorts of separation: First, by apostasy, when a man falleth wholly from his religion, from the Church, and from common grace. Heb. 6.4. It is impossible that they which were once enlightened, if they fall away, &c. Secondly, by heresy, when men err in the substance of doctrine and religion, and that of obstinacy. Thirdly, by Schism; and that is when men hold the same faith and foundation, and yet disagree and separate in regard of order and ceremony. These seducers separated themselves by heresies: their heresies were these: first, that men being in Christ might live as they list, and so they were Libertines. Secondly, that among the people of God there ought to be no civil Magistracy, and so they became also Anabaptists. Here observe that even in the Apostles time and days were many heretics; among whom was Hymeneus and Philetus, 2. Tim. 2.17. and many wolves entered even in their days which spared not the flock. Which may serve to stablish our minds against the Papists, who object that our religion is the foundation of all heresies: as at the rising of which many heresies were revived: in so much as they call all our religion heresy, and the professors of it heretics: by which reason they might as strongly prove, that the doctrine of the Apostles themselves was heresy, and that the Primitive Church in the Apostles time was heretical and no Church: for in the first hundred years after Christ the Church swarmed with heresies, sown by Satan's instruments, to the choking of that holy doctrine which was sown by the Apostles and their successors in the field of the Church: nay rather we conclude our religion to be Apostolical, because the same heresies which arose up in the Apostles times against their doctrine, now revived again upon the reviving of our religion.
Further, consider the manner of the separation of these wicked men: there be three sorts of separation: First, by apostasie, when a man falleth wholy from his religion, from the Church, and from common grace. Heb. 6.4. It is impossible that they which were once enlightened, if they fall away, &c. Secondly, by heresie, when men erre in the substance of doctrine and religion, and that of obstinacie. Thirdly, by Schisme; and that is when men hold the same faith and foundation, and yet disagree and separate in regard of order and ceremonie. These seducers separated themselues by heresies: their heresies were these: first, that men being in Christ might liue as they list, and so they were Libertines. Secondly, that among the people of God there ought to be no ciuil Magistracie, and so they became also Anabaptists. Here obserue that euen in the Apostles time and daies were many heretikes; among whom was Hymeneus and Philetus,