A09434:731
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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First, that their faith being not cApostolical, their Religion a dfalse Religion, their Church a efalse Church, and their worship a false worship: it will prove not a matter of repairing (as requiring less cost and labour) but of founding their faith, before they can be raised unto us: which how hard it is for them to be brought unto, who are so settled in their lees and dregs for so many hundred years, they cannot be ignorant, who know how difficult it is for a Bl••kem••re to ch••ge his skin, or a Leopard his spots: for so hard is it for those who are accustomed to evil, to be drawn to good.
First, that their faith being not cApostolicall, their Religion a dfalse Religion, their Church a efalse Church, and their worship a false worship: it will prooue not a matter of repairing (as requiring lesse cost and labour) but of founding their faith, before they can bee raised vnto vs: which how hard it is for them to bee brought vnto, who are so setled in their lees and dregges for so many hundred yeeres, they cannot be ignorant, who know how difficult it is for a Bl••kem••re to ch••ge his skin, or a Leopard his spots: for so hard is it for those who are accustomed to euill, to be drawne to good.
- cSadeel refut. assert. Pos•a•. c. 9.