A09434:662
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Both these places the enemies of this, censure, seek to elude, that they might make it less forcible: for that in Matth. 18. they interpret of seeking civill remedy, against civil harm or wrong, as though the sense were thus: If thy brother injury thee, admonish him first privately; and if he refuse to hear thee, bring him before the Magistrate, thou mayest go to law with him, and use him as an heathen man, in calling him before the heathen Magistrate. But this exposition cannot stand; for to show that it is no direction of the manner to revenge civil wrongs, but appertaineth unto the conscience, it is added in the very next words, verse 18. Whatsoever they bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever they loose in earth, shall be loosed in heaven. For the other place 1. Corin. 5. they expound it of an extraordinary punishment, which might be executed in those days by Satan upon the bodies of such offenders: Deliver him to Satan: that is, say they, that he may torment his body. But this cannot be a bare bodily punishment, but an excluding of the sinner from the Communion and fellowship of the Church, and must be done in the face of the Church, by the consent of the whole Church, which appear to be so vers. 2. and 4. Again, if it had been meant of some such extraordinary punishment, Paul by his Apostolical Rod could have done that alone, and needed not have troubled the whole Church with it.
Both these places the enemies of this, censure, seek to elude, that they might make it lesse forcible: for that in Matth. 18. they interpret of seeking ciuill remedie, against ciuil harme or wrong, as though the sense were thus: If thy brother iniurie thee, admonish him first priuately; and if hee refuse to heare thee, bring him before the Magistrate, thou maist goe to law with him, and vse him as an heathen man, in calling him before the heathen Magistrate. But this exposition cannot stand; for to shew that it is no direction of the manner to reuenge ciuil wrongs, but appertaineth vnto the conscience, it is added in the very next words, verse 18. Whatsoeuer they binde on earth, shall be bound in heauen: and whatsoeuer they loose in earth, shall be loosed in heauen. For the other place 1. Corin. 5. they expound it of an extraordinarie punishment, which might be executed in those daies by Satan vpon the bodies of such offenders: Deliuer him to Satan: that is, say they, that hee may torment his bodie. But this cannot be a bare bodily punishment, but an excluding of the sinner from the Communion and fellowship of the Church, and must be done in the face of the Church, by the consent of the whole Church, which appeare to bee so vers. 2. and 4. Againe, if it had been meant of some such extraordinarie punishment, Paul by his Apostolicall Rod could haue done that alone, and needed not haue troubled the whole Church with it.