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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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If a man upon this foundation build some wood, nay, stubble,1 or chaff, though these shall be burned, yet himself shall be saved, notwithstanding as it were through fire. Secondly, those errors must not be joined with either a willing, […] wilful ignorance, for such errors are desperate and bring swift damnation.2 And thus where God reveals no more but naked Christ, and where there is a subjection of the heart to the word, causing it to depend on the Ministry for further and more full instruction, the acknowledgement of every divine truth is not of such absolute necessity to salvation, but that true faith may stand with some (even Popish) errors. The Ruler is said to believe (and that was by a justifying faith) when as yet he was only overcome by the Majesty of Christ;3 appearing in the miracle of raising his son, to assent unto and acknowledge the main truth that Christ was the Messiah: but so, as himself and his household depended on his mouth for further instruction, and became his disciples. Yea even the Disciples themselves were long after their calling and conversion very ignorant in no small points of Christianity. Philip, of the first person in Trinity: Lord show us the Father. ⟨p. 158⟩4Others of them conceived of Christ as a worldly King: whence two of them desire to sit the one at his right hand, 5and the other at his left, when he came to his kingdom. Others of them (even after his resurrection) harping on the same string, and hearkening after temporalities expect it. 6Others ask him when he would restore it to Israel. Peter himself held not as he ought the doctrine of the passion,7 seeing he dissuaded Christ from it. Wherein marvellous ignorance descrieth it self in them being true believers: but so much the more tolerable, in that first Christ revealed no more unto them, either not opening the things, or their understandings to apprehend them, till afterwards that he sent the spirit of truth. And secondly this ignorance (the mother of their errors) was accompanied with a desire of knowledge: for they were ever questioning with him, desiring him to open unto them his parables, and resolve their doubts, instantly listening unto the gracious words of his mouth, and in a word were blessed even in hungering and thirsting after righteousness.