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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, that so long as the Pope holdeth his headship over the Church, with that erroneous position, that he cannot err; (which he is likely to lay down with his Crown and Crosier, (for sooner to part with them were a foul error) if by much sweat some indifferent parley were compassed (himself still remaining both party and judge, as he was in the Council of ⟨p. 161⟩Trent) improbable, yea impossible it were that any conclusions could on their part be passed,1 (if on any at all propounded) which any way might be derogatory to his usurped power and pretended supremacy.
Secondly, that so long as the Pope holdeth his headship ouer the Church, with that erroneous position, that he cannot erre; (which hee is likely to lay downe with his Crowne and Crosier, (for sooner to part with them were a foule error) if by much sweate some indifferent parley were cōpassed (himselfe still remaining both partie and iudge, as hee was in the Councell of ⟨p. 161⟩Trent) improbable, yea impossible it were that any conclusions could on their part bee passed,1 (if on any at all propounded) which any way might be derogatorie to his vsurped power and pre•ended supremacie.
- 1Noli quaestu•sum ulcus tangere Erasm.Noli quaestu•sum vlcus tangere Erasm.
Thirdly, their cautelous circumspection, lest by any means the knowledge of our doctrine might perhaps be scattered among them, argueth an utter aversation in them for ever acknowledging it, which appeareth in sundry their practises: 1. In that they bind the consciences of all Catholics, to a perpetual separation from all our Ecclesiastical assemblies in religious public duties; which is the ground of all Recusancy: to which purpose they teach it to be a sin to hear our sermons, for that were a