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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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but as hands (full of blood) to execute whatsoever mischief upon any of the Lords anointed ones, not only opposing themselves to the Papal power; but which is more, if they be but suspected not so firm to the Pope as they wish; or (which is most of all to be marked) though they be their own dead sure; yet if they show not themselves as ready to execute the Popes bloody designs, as he to command: which was the case of the late King of France, slain treacherously for no other cause by a Jacobin. What argument then can be brought to persuade us of their ever according with us in whole or part in our Religion? of which they deem no other, then as of a peccant humour necessarily to be purged out every few years, either by murder, if it prevail in the head: or by massacre, if in the body of any country; and rather then it should not, they will not stick with Blasts at the commandment of their great Gracch•• to ⟨p. 163⟩set on fire or to blow up even the Capitol it self:1 although nature and Gentilism condemn such graceless devotedness. The late most diabolical and furious attempt against his Majesty & the whole state that ever was invented; (the like whereof both in the contriving and whole carriage could never be showed, no I think if there were Annals and Chronicles kept in hell it self) crieth out against them long ere this time in all the corners of Christendom. God Almighty still deliver his Highness and Royal race from them: and by his Majesties means, us and our Land from them. For how much better had it bin, that his Majesty had been moved to have banished these vipers out of his Realms, then those who profess the same Lord Jesus,2 and labour (though with acknowledgement of too much weakness & wants,) to be found faithful before the Lord and their Sovereign? But not to depart from our purpose: These be the ways wherein the Popish Baalamits would mee•e us, and with us; if the Lord should not meet with them, coming against them in every corner. While then they walk in these ways of Cain, 3what booteth it us to speak of a peace with them? for while we speak of peace,