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…

infinite in recital: and partly for that these have most valiantly like Davids worthies broken thorough these Philistines forces, and brought unto us in despite of them the pure water of the well of life; among whom this our Author last named was not the least, nor of so small note through the Christian world, that I can think by my pen to add any moment unto his: whose writings so savoury and so innocent have sufficiently proclaimed his profound knowledge in all learning, his prudent zeal, his mature judgement, with an admirable dexterity and facility, yea I may say felicity, (for herein he reigned, that I may use the phrase of the reverend Dean of his Majesties Chapel, properly applied unto him at his funerals, which with singular approbation he performed) in the direct resolving the obscurest doubts of Divinity, and the acute loosing and dissolving the hardest knots of Papists, so briefly and yet so perspicuously, as that his most polemical writings,¹ being first by himself in our vulgar tongue published, could scarce meet even amongst our common people, with such an uncapable reader (if any whit catechised) into whom they might not convey some competent conceit and understanding of the deepest and darkest differences between the Papists, those patrons and defenders of darkness, and our selves. But besides these, such a tongue of the learned had the Lord God given him, that he knew to minister, and ministered according to knowledge a word in due time to him that was weary: ²the which most weighty duty of the Ministry was so familiar unto him, that he made it his holidays exercise (as his recreation) to resolve cases of conscience. In his ordinary Ministry how powerful was he? Which of his hearers cannot confess that he spake as one having authority? Add now unto these his labours, an holy and harmless life: for why should I disjoin them, seeing they were so happily combined in him? between which two (both of them conspiring to the glory of God, and his cause) was such a sweet harmony and consent, that in reading his writings any man might see the manner of his life, and in seeing his life, he might also therein read his writings: for his life spake what his pen writ, and his person was the president of his written precepts.

infinite in recitall: and partly for that these haue most valiantly like Dauids worthies broken thorough these Philistims forces, and brought vnto vs in despight of them the pure water of the well of life; among whom this our Author last named was not the least, nor of so small note through the Christian world, that I can thinke by my penne to adde any moment vnto his: whose writings so sauory and so innocent haue sufficiently proclaimed his profound knowledge in all learning, his prudent zeale, his mature iudgement, with an admirable dexteritie and facilitie, yea I may say felicitie, (for herein hee raigned, that I may vse the phrase of the reuerend Deane of his Maiesties Chappel, properly applied vnto him at his funerals, which with singular approbation he performed) in the direct resoluing the obscurest doubts of Diuinitie, and the acute loosing and dissoluing the hardest knots of Papists, so briefly and yet so perspicuously, as that his most polemicall writings,