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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 reason: Christ wrought miracles, which could not be done either by natural or Satanical power▪ as to raise the dead, to make them which were borne blind to see; and these by a divine and omnipotent power, and not as an instrument but as an author of them; and therefore he was true God▪ Now, if they allege here, that we have no proof hereof, but out of the new Testament, which they reject as they do the other Scriptures. I answer, that many of the same things in effect are extant also even in Heathen writers themselves. Ob. But they allege against the Divinity of Christ, that Christ is inferior unto God: Joh. 14.18. The Father is greater than I: 1. Cor. 11.3. God is the head of Christ, as the man is the woman's head: and chap. 15.28. The Son shall be subject unto him that subdued all things under him. But as none is above God, so God is inferior to none, and therefore Christ is not God. Ans. The two former places must be understood of Christ as he is man and Mediator: which hindereth not but that as he is God he is equal to the Father. The third place in 1. Cor. 15.28. must be thus understood: that the Son is made eternally subject unto the Father, not as he is God, but in regard of his humanity. Secondly, of his mystical body, that is, the Church: so as this subjection & inferiority of Christ, is nothing else but a manifestation of the difference of Christ as he is Man and as he is God, and of the inferiority of his Manhood to the Godhead: which shall be especially revelled at the day of judgement. The second objection: Acts the 20.35. It is a more blessed thing to give, than to receive: but Christ receiveth wisdom, life, yea and his substance from his Father, and so the Father is more blessed than he? Ans. That place speaketh of such a receiving, as presupposeth want, which is more miserable than to be able to give, which argueth plenty and abundance: but Christ receiveth not thus his substance, wisdom, and life, for he never wanted them: when he received them he had them; and having them he received them, and both had and received them before all worlds, and so that allegation is to no purpose. The third objection: Christ is a Mediator and prayeth unto God, and so he is not God, for nothing prayeth to it s•lfe. Answ. Christ is directly a Mediator to the Father the first person in Trinity: