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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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Sixthly, the excellency of this calling: which we shall perceive by these considerations. First, in that it is a great work, as was the creation of man at the first, Rom. 4.18: so the Apostle maketh it, 2. Cor. 4.6. he that at the beginning called light out of darkness, the same hath shined in our hearts, &c. that as God calls the first time and dead creatures come forth to life: so with no less powerful voice the Lord calls the second time the heart of man dead in sin, and it is quickened with the life of God.
Sixtly, the excellencie of this calling: which wee shall perceiue by these considerations. First, in that it is a great work, as was the creation of man at the first, Rom. 4.18: so the Apostle maketh it, 2. Cor. 4.6. he that at the beginning called light out of darknes, the same hath shined in our hearts, &c. that as God cals the first time and dead creatures come foorth to life: so with no lesse powerfull voyce the Lord cals the second time the heart of man dead in sinne, and it is quickened with the life of God.
Secondly, this effectual calling goes beyond the work of our creation: for here a man is taken out of the first Adam, and set into the second, and at the same instant power is given to believe, being in time both together, though in order faith is first, and then ingrafting, wherein is not only a bare privation as in the creation when God called things that were not, as though they were: but here is a plain resistance and rebellion, God calling not only things that are not, but things that would not and refuse to be. Thus to raise a man out of the blood of Christ, is more than to raise Eve out of Adams side▪ to raise a dead soul from the death of sin far more glorious and powerful, than to raise a dead body from bodily death; to raise a man to supernatural life, far greater than to a natural only.