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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 third conclusion: That this power conveyeth it self from Christ the head to all his members, Ephes. 3.20. To him that is able to do abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Coloss. 1.29. I also labour and strive according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Now being conveyed unto the members of Christ, it is not idle in them, or unprofitable, but worketh proportionably in them all, as it did in Christ himself: for as it caused Christ to die for our sins, so it maketh us die to our own sins: as this power made him to live again to his Father, so it maketh us his members to live unto God; that as he by virtue hereof rose again, so it causeth us to rise to a new life in this life, and to our eternal life in the life to come.
The third conclusion: That this power conueyeth it selfe from Christ the head to all his members, Ephes. 3.20. To him that is able to doe abundantly aboue all that we aske or thinke, according to the power that worketh in vs. Coloss. 1.29. I also labour and striue according to his working, which worketh in me mightely. Now being conueied vnto the members of Christ, it is not idle in them, or vnprofitable, but worketh proportionably in them al, as it did in Christ himselfe: for as it caused Christ to die for our sinnes, so it maketh vs die to our owne sinnes: as this power made him to liue againe to his Father, so it maketh vs his members to liue vnto God; that as hee by vertue hereof rose againe, so it causeth vs to rise to a new life in this life, and to our eternall life in the life to come.
Further, this power is commended here by four effects: first, it is able to keep them that they fall not, namely into manifest sins joined with obstinacy: for of such sins and sinners he had spoken in the former words; and cannot be meant of every kind of fall, seeing the children of God fall daily, but of such as David prayed against,