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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, concerning those who cannot discern such essential differences between our Religions, both of v• (as they say) professing salvation by the same Christ▪ and all the articles of the same faith; I wish them no worse then that their eyes were cleared with the eye salve,1 that they might see, that he that seeth not such a Papist as i• men tioned to profess a false Christ, and a false faith, seeth in Religion scarce any thing at all: neither doubt I live (to whom malice, […] ignorant superstition shutteth not their eyes) to show plainl•• in few words, that whatsoever in words they confess with us, yet in doctrine and deed they altogether reverse it and dissent from us, in cases wherein we may never consent unto them. And first, seemeth it a small matter of difference, that in general they charge our whole doctrine of novelty, whence ordinarily they term the Teachers thereof Non•••rs ▪ and in special, first, that our doctrine of justification by faith alone (for this striketh at the head, and unbowelleth all their shifting devices) is but a new device of ours? as appeareth in their Champian's challenge.2 But confounded herein was he, his cause and abetters▪ our learned men at the conference with him in the Tower not only mightily by the Scriptures convincing; but out of Greek and Latin Fathers also, who lived above a thousand years ago,3 oppressing him with those very formal words, that faith only justifieth; so driving him to ridiculous shift•, and newly coined distinctions (so near the Min• was he) before unheard of: even as in this controversy being much straitened, they were forced to cast about for that as false as new distinction of justification into the first and second, never heard of for the space of a thousand and five hundred years after Christ.