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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 point is our consequent duty, standing in our standing out with these adversaries of Gods grace and Gospel: never offering to communicate with them in their cup of fornications; nor once bethink us of leaguing such abhorring natures as are light and darkness: and truth (which is of an unstained nature) with most foul and deformed falsehood. For we cannot drink of the cup of the Lord & of Devils. 1Which point let me with good leave a little further declare: not that I love to kindle or keep in any coals of contention, (the Lord put far from me such unpleasant thoughts) but calmly to show the oversight of divers mediators, attempting to reconcile ours with the present religion of the Romish Synagogue: esteeming it to be too much peremptoriness so far as we do to depart from them: yea censuring it, either as wilfulness on the one hand, o• scrupulosity on the other, to be so opposite unto them as we are: reputing it a matter of no difficulty to frame both sides to a mean, either side (as they say) yielding a little: nay it is buzzed out, into the ears, by the tongues of common men, that there is no such discrepance and difference between us in matters of moment as is made; but that the substance of both our Religions is not far from the same: so as many are in a mammering whether way may be better: whereunto (after the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew],2 imitated also by the Greeks and Latins, that I may begin with the last for the helping of memory) first we may bewail, in beholding into what a §1fearful (if not desperate) degree of declining many are already come: that after so many years profession of the truth, powerfully both published, and protected, they should not only admit a dangerous deliberation;3 but even call the very main grounds thereof into question: whereas if it be in a motion to Idolatry, they ought instantly to say with Sidrach; 4We are not careful what to answer in this matter. But this judgement of God is just upon them, that whereas they never received the truth in love of it, they should lose of their ground, and be left unto further delusion. Good cause have we all to lament the remembrance of our ruin, through this Satanical stratagem: If the woman will needs be so unwise as (not needing) to enter parley with Satan, whom she ought to have resisted: