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A09434	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 ...	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Taylor, Thomas.	1606 (1606)	STC 19724.3; ESTC S100865	274,393	200

Balaam and Iudas but seeke carefully to haue our hearts truly seasoned with grace with the loue and feare of God which for the present will cause vs to decline euerie euill way yea to detest and hate euery sinne and for time to come with a resolute and constant purpose and endeuour neuer to offend God againe for otherwise a shew of some good things may often deceiue and delude vs and wee may perish for all them as Balaam did Lastly we are hence taught neuer to giue reines to our affections and desires but curbe crucifie and mortifie them carefully for if once they get head and bee yeelded vnto they will not easily be subdued nor suffer a mā quiet til he haue powred forth himself vnto all wickednes and so brought him into the high way of perdition And are perished in the gainsaying of Core In these words the Apostle laieth downe the sixth sinne of these seducers to vnderstand the meaning whereof consider two things first the historie it selfe secondly the application of it The historie is recorded in Numb 16. wherin Moses mentioneth three things concerning Corah first the cause of his sinne which was ambition and pride for Core being a Leuite affected the Priesthood of Aaron and Dathan and Abiram being heads of the tribe of Ruben stroue to take the gouernment of the people out of Moses his hand who was appointed by God as King ouer the Israelites Deut. 33.5 Secondly the sinne it selfe namely in this their discontentment they enterprised an insurrection against Moses and Aaron they stood vp against them contradicted and gainsaid them in their offices and charged them first that they vsurped authoritie and tooke too much vpon them and lifted vp themselues aboue the congregation without the Lord vers 3. and therefore they would not obey Moses commaundement vers 12. and secondly that Moses had dealt deceitfully with the people and onely in policie to make himselfe a King had promised them a land flowing with milk and honey whereas they saw no such matter nay rather hee had brought them out of Egypt to destroy them in the wildernes ver 13.14 Thirdly their punishment for their sin which was an horrible destruction vpon them and their companie being all of them partly swallowed vp of the earth partly deuoured by fire from heauen verse 32.35 Secondly the historie of Corah Dathan and Abiram is applied to these false teachers by way of comparison and they are compared in two things First as Core and his companie most ambitiously and proudly gainsaid Moses and Aaron so doe these false teachers the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Secondly as they were destroyed for their such resistance euen so shall these perish in their gainsaying of the truth Thus the meaning of the words is made plaine This Epistle was writtē for a warning vnto the last times euen vnto vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come and therfore that which is affirmed of these men is verified in sundrie sorts of men in this age For example first the Bishop of Rome is the next follower of Core for looke as Core gainsaid Moses and Aaron in regard of their lawfull authoritie so doth the Pope gainsay Christian Kings and Princes in striuing to take out of their hands all their power and authoritie in causes Ecclesiastical within their owne dominions nay herein he goeth beyond Core in that hee vsurpeth that power ouer them which the Lord hath put into their owne hands and so being inuested in their own persons most rightfully belongeth vnto themselues Secondly his shauelings and Masse-priests not onely gainsay and contradict Christ in his doctrine but also attempt to vsurpe his office in offring a real and proper sacrifice of attonement for the sinnes of the quicke and dead yea and wherein they strip Core they take vpon them to become mediatours betweene Christ and the Father in praying the Father that he would accept the sacrifice of his Sonne as hee did the sacrifice of Abel Thirdly of this sort are all Traytors and Rebels either Priests or Iesuits or other traiterously minded men at home or abroad who no otherwise than Core gainsay the ordinance of God and stand out in deniall or resistance of their lawfull and naturall Prince whom he same punishment shall assuredly finde out which consumed Corah and his companie in the end of their conspiracie Fourthly many amongst vs who professe the Gospel yet walke in the gainsaying of Core of whō some wil openly say they 〈◊〉 not what the Ministers speake whatsoeuer it is they will withstand it yea many wretched creatures who come to the Lords Table will not sticke to say that they hope to see the day when they shall bee hanged which argueth them to bee abetter● in the wicked conspiracie of Gore Lastly it were to bee wished that some of our students euen of Diuinitie had not a spice of this sinne of Core for within this sixe or seuen yeeres diuers haue addicted themselues to studie Popish writers and Monkish discourses despising in the meane time the writing● of ●hose famous instruments and cleere lights whom the Lord raised vp for the raising and restoring of true religion such as Luther Caluin Bucer Be●a Martyr c. which argueth that their mindes are alienated from the sinceritie of the truth because the writings of these the soundest expositors of the Scriptures raised since the Apostles are not sauourie vnto them yea some can reuile these worthie lights themselues which is a spice of Cor● his sinne 2. Doctr. Secondly hence wee are taught to beware of ambition and studie to bee contented with that condition of life wherein God hath placed vs not seeking things beyond our estate Dauid would not meddle with things beyond his reach Psal. 131.1 Paul had learned in euery estate to bee conted to be abased as well as to be exalted Our first parents in the ambitious conceit of further highnes fell from a most happie condition and brought ruine vpon themselues and vs their posteritie The vertue of contentation is indeed necessarie for al men but especially let students seeke it at the hands of God and the rather because that within these few yeeres diuers of them not possessing the benefit of this vertue being frustrated here of their expected preferments which they thought were due to their gifts haue departed away discontented and haue growne to resolution in heresie Papistrie treason● and most desperate attempts Now that euery man may learne to bee contented with his conditiō be it better or worse let him think well vpon these two considerations first that the present estate and condition of life wherin euery man is set by God is the best estate for him health is best in time of health and sicknes in time of sicknes riches when they are enioyed pouertie and want when the Lord changeth his hand life whilest he liueth yea and death it self is the best when as that change befalleth and all this is

pates balde shaue the lock● of their beards make cuttings in their flesh as Baals Priests did the Priests of the Sonnes of Aaron may not do so If they make glorious Altars plant Groues about them the Israelites may not doe so especially in the Wildernesse but either Altars of earth which presently vpon the remouall might bee demolished and cast downe left the remainds should be abused to superstition or if of stones they must be rough and rude vnhewen vnpolished lest any beautie of them should solicite their preseruation as for groues see Deut. 16.21 If they shall in way of superstition or worship reserue any portion of their sacrifices the Lord rather then he will haue any portiō of the Paschall Lambe preserued till the morrow will haue it burnt with fire neither shall Moses bodie bee knowne where it is buried lest they should make an Idoll of it Nay which is more and as worthy the noting we may obserue how the Lord euen in ciuill things draggeth his people from their society and fellowship for first Israel is charged that they should goe no more backe to Aegypt that way so as the danger was if any by their neighbours whose countries were adiacent vnto them the which the Lord vseth all meanes to preuent both in that he willeth his people to nourish a perpetuall emnity with the Moabite and Ammonite the peace and prosperity of whō they may neuer seeke all their daies as also to debarre them from pressing into his people he chargeth that neither of them euer enter into the congregation of the Lord to the tenth generation intending hereby that they should not rise to preferment authoritie or Magistracie among them And as for the other strangers though Israel seemed in priuate respectes to bee if not somewhat obliged indebted to diuers of them yet as it were bound to peace and to hold their hands from open hostilitie yet might they not bee admitted into the congregatiō of God vnto the third generation Besides this foreseeing that the next and most direct way whereby the heathē might league linck in thēselues with his people might bee by marriages and cōtracts the Lord is very studious that all such meanes be cut off and therefore would haue the distinctions of Tribes obserued with straite prohibition that no Iew except the Leuite should marry out of his owne Tribe much lesse without his owne people whereof although I acknowledge other more main causes as the distinction of the Tribe of the M●ssiah from the rest the cleare acknowledgement of his race the execution of the Lords whole regiment Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill in that policie fitted according to that distinction to their seuerall offices and possessions yet I thinke this is one included reason not to be neglected especially seeing they had straite charge against it Againe in case a seruant Iew would marry a stranger into his Masters house he was not at his departure to carrie his wife and children for they were to bee his Masters but if hee would abide still with her hee was then shamefully to come before the Magistrate and for euer renounce his libertie vntil the Iubily released him by which straite lawes the Lord would restraine euen slaues and seruāts who for the most part are neglected from matching themselues with strangers Such another law to this purpose is recorded Deut. 21.10 that if an Israelite in warre should see a bewtifull woman taken captiue whom he did affect for his wife it was ordered by God that first all meanes should bee vsed for the alienating of his affection as that hee must haue her home a moneth before and not marrie vpon any sudden motion Secondly shee must shaue her head to make her as ill fauored in his eies as might be Thirdly she must nourish her nailes to make her yet more sordid Fourthly she must put off the garment wherin she was taken and put on base and neglected garments fit for a pensiue captiue Fifthly shee must bewaile her father and mother a whole moneth to shew how hardly and sorrowfully she was brought from her fathers house into the power of strangers and then if by al these meanes the man could not be drawn frō her loue it was permitted to him to marrie her for his wife which law letteth vs see how hardly the Lord endureth is drawne to admitte the least liberty in this behalfe How many ciuill things might I instance in wherein the Lord straitened his people that they might bee vtterlie vnlike the Gentiles in habit manner of liuing behauiour and other like circumstances otherwise in themselues very indifferent which I had heere inserted but that I must consider that I write an addition not a booke an admonition not an exposition if yet these ordinances of God himself seeme in some mens opinions too straite and not to be imitated of vs in regard of the Papists towards whom wee are not to be so seuere as so far to seuer our selues that is but the seeking of a knot in a rush and to be acute in distinguishing where God hath not distinguished and in effect to affirme either that the Idolatry of the Romish Church is not so vile and grosse as is that of other Idolaters or else seeing our people conuerse with them more then any Idolaters that to communicate with their Idolatrie is nothing so dangerous now as it was for Gods people to participate with the Idolatry of the heathē against Gods expresse Commandement But if with any such the testimony of man be greater then the testimony of God as it is commonly with the Popish minded who flie from the Scriptures vnto men because their doctrine is from below let them looke vnto those most auncient Councels which were the purer for sixe hundred yeares after Christ and they shall finde that the Church would haue her children diametrally opposed euen on lawfull things to the Iewes and heathen of whom they were in danger to be corrupted Those were more famous of Nice which decreed that the feast of Easter should not bee kept of Christians at that time and in that manner that the Iewes did that in nothing they might agree with them That also of Brac●a decreed that Christians should not decke their howses with bay-leaues and greene boughes than which what can be more indifferent neither rest the same day frō their callings wherin they did nor keepe the first day of euery moneth as they did It would be too tedious and argue forgetfulnes of my selfe and no remembrance of my reader to recite the testimonies of other Councels Fathers and our owne principal Writers in this behalfe which otherwise easily had I bin carried vnto by the tenacity and stiffenes of many in this argument But to end as our Sauiour wished his hearers Beware of the leauen of the Pharisies so let euery man beware of the leauen of the Papists for what is Popish