CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

They perished in the gainsaying of Core. 1 Pet. 3.6. The whole world is said to be drowned in water, so 2 Cor. 10 9. Sometimes it's used of a spiritual destruction, in respect of the soul by everlasting damnation; Now the word doth here take in both the senses, spiritual destruction as the principal, and temporal as the secondary; for that this is partly implied appeareth, cap. 18.9. I am he ye seek, let these go, and then follows, that none may perish: In respect of the first destruction it is chiefly that the devil hath his ⟨p. 349⟩Name [Greek or Hebrew], Revel. 9.11. only you must observe, that when the Scripture useth this word in a spiritual sense for a lost man in soul and body, it speaks of a twofold undone condition; First, There are some in a lost, perishing condition, but yet recoverable by the grace of God; they are as Moses drawn out of the water, where certain death would have been, and thus all the godly before their conversion, are lost. Thus Matth 18.11. Christ is said to come, that he might save such as were lost; he did not come to save a lost Judas, or such as were from all eternity, left by God in their undone condition, but those elect persons, that for the present were in a lost estate. Thus Luke 15.24. The Prodigal son is said to be lost or perished, but he was recovered again. The other sense is, when it's applied to such as are in an undone estate irrecoverably. They are in a state of perishing, and will never be brought out of it; and thus it's applied to Judas. Thus it's used 2 Cor. 15. The Gospel is a sweet savour to those that are saved, and in [Greek or Hebrew], those that perish, where it's opposed to [Greek or Hebrew]. The words thus explained, Observe,

They perished in the gainsaying of Core. 1 Pet. 3.6. The whole world is said to be drowned in water, so