A09434:740
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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1and if the daughters of Moab may have free access to Israel in Sitti••, Israel will easily be joined to Baal Peor, 2till the wrath of the Lord be kindled, & there fall in one day, three & twenty thousand. The certain peril and inevitable danger whereof, the Lord well perceiving, did not only charge his people to have nothing to do at all with the Heathen, lest by any means they should be snared: but also that they should be so opposite unto them, that they should in all appearances and circumstances (and yet none will say the Lord herein was too severe and strait) be unlike unto them both in Religious and Civill exercises: for if they look towards the East in their Temples in the honour of the Sun, his people shall in his Sanctuary and Temple contrarily look to the West: and in the West shall the Sanctum Sanctorum be set. If they offer sacrifices unto Oxen, Sheep, Doves, Goats &c. as unto Gods: the Lord in detestation hereof, will have his people to consume and burn these creatures before him in sacrifice: and hence was it,3 that every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians: with whom they might not eat and converse, because they did kill, eat, and sacrifice those beasts, whom the other worshipped as Gods. If they use to eat almost none but Swines flesh, and yet neither that, before they have sacrificed of the kind to the Moon or Bacchus: the Lord especially prohibiteth this meat of all other to his people, they shall not meddle with it, it shall be abomination unto them. If their Priests, make their 4pates bald, shave the lock• of their beards, & make cuttings in their flesh,5 as Baals Priests did; the Priests of the Sons of Aaron may not do so. If they make glorious Altars, & plant Groves about them; the Israelites may not do so, (especially in the Wilderness) but either Altars of earth,6 which presently upon the removal might be demolished and cast down, left the remains should be abused to superstition: or if of stones, they must be rough and rude, unhewn, & unpolished, lest any beauty of them should solicit their preservation: as for groves see