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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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Fourthly, the time of this calling. The particular time of any mans calling is not revealed, but laid up in the secret counsel of God, in whose hands times and seasons are: yet the extent of the time is large enough though stinted, even the time of this life, some at the sixth hour, some at the ninth, and others at the eleventh, &c. but not after, because that then all means of calling men cease. Now because men know not the date of their days, it behoves them out of hand to strive to enter, not to defer from day to day, alleging that some are called at the twelfth hour, but accept of the Lords call while it is yet the acceptable time. If the Lord now say, Seek my face, let thy heart answer as an echo which •akes the word out of the mouth, thy face O Lord I will seek, Psalm. 27.8. such a pleasant harmony God is delighted with. If he say (as the Prophet speaketh) Behold now my people, they are presently ready to answer: Behold now our God; and the rather because the Lord will be free, and not stinted by thee, that either he should call thee in thy crooked years, or not at all: he will not be prescribed unto extraordinarily to call thee at the twelfth hour, as he did the thief on the cross, when thou howlest upon the bed of thy sorrow, and gaspest upon thy death-bed. Therefore while it is called to day let us ⟨p. 7⟩hear the voice, and harden our hearts no more.
Fourthly, the time of this calling. The particular time of any mans calling is not reueiled, but laid vp in the secret counsell of God, in whose hands times and seasons are: yet the extent of the time is large enough though stinted, euen the time of this life, some at the sixt houre, some at the ninth, and others at the eleuenth, &c. but not after, because that then all means of calling men cease. Now because men know not the date of their daies, it behoues them out of hand to striue to enter, not to deferre from day to day, alleaging that some are called at the twelfth houre, but accept of ye Lords call while it is yet the acceptable time. If the Lord now say, Seeke my face, let thy heart answere as an eccho which •akes the word out of the mouth, thy face O Lord I will seeke, Psalm. 27.8