A09434:741
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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neither shall Moses body be known where it is buried, lest they should make an Idol of it. Nay which is more, and as worthy the noting, we may observe how the Lord even in civill things draggeth his people from their society and fellowship: for first Israel is charged, that they should go no more back to Egypt that way; so as the danger was (if any) by their neighbours, whose countries were adjacent unto them: the which the Lord useth all means to prevent: both in that he willeth his people to nourish a perpetual emnity with the Moabite, and Ammonite,1 the peace and prosperity of whom they may never seek all their days: as also to debar them from pressing into his people,2 he chargeth that neither of them ever enter into the congregation of the Lord, to the tenth generation: intending hereby that they should not rise to preferment, authority, or Magistracy among them. And as for the other strangers, though Israel seemed in private respects to be, if not somewhat obliged & indebted to divers of them, yet as it were bound to peace, and to hold their hands from open hostility;3 yet might they not be admitted into the congregation of God, unto the third generation. Besides this, foreseeing that the next and most direct way, whereby the heathen might league & link in them selves with his people, might be by marriages and contracts: the Lord is very studious that all such means be cut off; and therefore would have the distinctions of Tribes observed; with ⟨p. 165⟩strait prohibition, that no Jew (except the Levite) should marry out of his own Tribe, much less without his own people: whereof although I acknowledge other more main causes (as the distinction of the Tribe of the Messiah from the rest; the clear acknowledgement of his race; the execution of the Lords whole regiment Ecclesiastical and Civill in that policy, fitted according to that distinction to their several offices,4 and possessions) yet I think this is one included reason not to be neglected, especially seeing they had strait charge against it. Again, in case a servant Jew would marry a stranger into his Masters house, he was not at his departure to carry his wife and children, for they were to be his Masters: but if he would abide still with her, he was then shamefully to come before the Magistrate, and for ever renounce his liberty, until the Jubilee released him: