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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 second point is the reason of this rule, taken from the danger of the delay of it: Pulling them out of the fire. They are in peril of present danger, they must therefore presently be saved: even as things that are in the fire must be presently pulled out violently, or else they are presently consumed: so must these offenders be presently preserved and pulled out of the fire of hell. Out of these two former points we learn divers instructions.
The second point is the reason of this rule, taken from the danger of the delay of it: Pulling them out of the fire. They are in perill of present daunger, they must therefore presently bee saued: euen as things that are in the fire must be presently pulled out violently, or else they are presently consumed: so must these offenders be presently preserued and pulled out of the fire of hell. Out of these two former points wee learne diuers instructions.
First, that their censure of excommunication is an ordinance of God, and no invention of man: for even in this verse we may observe, first, that obstinate ⟨p. 144⟩offenders are to be saved by terrible means, some must be saved by fear. Secondly, violent and sudden means must be used, they must be as it were snatched out of the fire. Thirdly, they must be separated from in regard of society, in the next words: all which three things cannot agree to any thing but only to excommunication.
First, that their censure of excommunication is an ordinance of God, and no inuention of man: for euen in this verse wee may obserue, first, that obstinate ⟨p. 144⟩offenders are to bee saued by terrible meanes, some must bee saued by feare. Secondly, violent and sudden meanes must be vsed, they must be as it were snatched out of the fire. Thirdly, they must bee separated from in regard of societie, in the next words: all which three things cannot agree to any thing but only to excommunication.