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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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Where note that sanctification is such a gift of God, as changeth the man, not the substance of the body, or the faculties of the soul, but the corruption,1 disorder and sinfulness of man; it rectifieth, but abolisheth not affections: if a man be of sad disposition, it neither increaseth nor taketh away, but moderates his sorrow, and keeps it in order: so if a man be of a merry disposition, it deprives him not of his mirth, but corrects it, that it exceed not: so in Choler and other complexions. Then those that fear to labour in their sanctification, because then they must be solitary, sad, and cannot be merry, and those that thus object against those who endeavour over their own reformation, may see themselves deceived, seeing it only tempereth the affections to such moderation as becometh holiness.
Where note that sanctification is such a gift of God, as changeth the man, not the substance of the bodie, or the faculties of the soule, but the corruption,1 disorder and sinfulnes of man; it rectifieth, but abolisheth not affections: if a man be of sad disposition, it neither increaseth nor taketh away, but moderates his sorrow, and keepes it in order: so if a man bee of a merrie disposition, it depriues him not of his mirth, but corrects it, that it exceede not: so in Choler and other complexions. Then those that feare to labour in their sanctification, because then they must be solitarie, sad, and cannot be merrie, and those that thus obiect against those who endeuour ouer their owne reformation, may see themselues deceiued, seeing it onely tempereth the affections to such moderation as becommeth holines.
- 1Religion rectifieth affection• but abolisheth th•• not.