A09434:739
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 because I must shut up many matters in few words, let us see the prejudice which would ensue upon such pretended mediation,1 in matter of Religion: and first seeing they are a seed of the wicked, corrupt children, having forsaken the Lord, in whom from the sole of the foot, to the crown of the head, there is nothing but wounds, and swellings and sores full of corruption: and seeing themselves are become open Idolaters, their Cities cages of Idolatry, their services all Idolatrous, having thus forsaken the covenant of their youth; seeing filthiness appeareth on their skirts; & finally seeing by seeking their justification by the works of the law, they are abolished from Christ, and fallen from grace: (the which particulars have been clearly proved by many our unanswered, and unanswerable books) to communicate with them by accepting; yea not abstaining from the least appearance of any of these evils; were no other but to expose and lay our selves open, and naked to all manner of danger, of infection of our souls, defection from our God, & in the end of destruction both of body and soul. It was a dangerous disease which Israel brought out of Egypt, 2having through their long continuance there, by reason of those marishes, and the River Nilus, (to which Lucretius in a distich appropriateth this disease) contracted the same upon them: for the proving,3 and purging whereof, the Lord instituted so many ceremonies and separations: but far more fearful was that inward leprosy, even that abominable Idolatry which they brought forth with them, and which cost them so dear both in the wilderness and in the land of Canaan: ⟨p. 164⟩yea so habitual and inbred was the infection, that although the Lord used most wise preventions every way: yet presently upon their delivery out of the sea, will it burst forth, and become in the end their utter overthrow.4 It cannot be but the strangers which come with Israel out of Egypt, being accustomed to the Egyptian fashion & diet, will still be harping on their cucumbers, leeks, onions, and garlic: and draw the Israelites to the same lustings, though with the loathing of Manna it self; but such an exceeding plague shall proceed from the Lord, that in perpetual memory thereof, the place shall be called the graves of lusting: