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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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Secondly, those who bring the beginnings of faith and repentance (if so be the beginning be true) constant and still increasing,1 to these Christ becometh a Saviour: Matth. 9. Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance: that is, those who acknowledge themselves to be sinners, confessing and forsaking their sins, and not such as presume of their own righteousness: Matth. 25. I am sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel: even those who in their own judgement are lost, who are in the mouth of the lion, and in all mans judgement lost. Isai. 45.1. The well of water of life is promised to all those that thirst: that is, such as want water and long after the wellsprings of it, and wish after nothing so much: Isai. 42.3. A bruised reed he will not break, the smoking flax he will not quench; even small beginnings of grace be they never so weak nor feeble, so they be true, he despiseth not. Thus are the persons to be qualified unto whom Christ will become a Saviour. Now because all men are not thus disposed, it followeth that redemption, and the work of salvation is not universal.
Secondly, those who bring the beginnings of faith and repentance (if so be the beginning be true) constant and still increasing,1 to these Christ becommeth a Sauiour: Matth. 9. Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance: that is, those who acknowledge themselues to bee sinners, confessing and forsaking their sinnes, and not such as presume of their owne righteousnes: Matth. 25. I am sent to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel: euen those who in their owne iudgement are lost, who are in the mouth of the lion, and in all mans iudgement lost. Isai. 45.1