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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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Vers. 21. And keep your selves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Vers. 21. And keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life.
These word• contain the second rule of the Apostle tending to the preservation of faith, and true religion concerning love, and it is indeed of special use, and direction for the framing of our lives: Christ calleth the love of God and men the sum of the whole law: Paul calleth it the end of the Commandments. This caused Paul to keep faith & good conscience: 2. Cor. 5.14. The love of Christ constraineth us. Now for the better informing of our understandings, and our furtherance in observing this rule, five things are to be considered: first, what is meant by the love of God? Ans. We are to understand by the love of God a divine virtue in the hearts of the believers, whereby they love God and Christ, properly and simply for himself, rest in him, and cleave unto him as the most absolute good: for by Gods love in this place is not meant that love whereby God loveth man, but whereby man loveth God. Quest. Why doth the Apostle here omit the love of man? Ans. Because the love of man to man is included ⟨p. 134⟩and to be understood in the other as a fruit necessarily flowing from it: for first, when a man loveth his neighbour, herein after a sort he loveth God: for then is God loved not only when our affection of love is directed unto himself, but also when his ordinances, his creatures, image, and other things pertaining unto him are loved. Secondly, the Apostle Paul calleth the love of the neighbour the fulfilling of the law;