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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

In their warines lest any of our books especially of our translations of the Bible should be had or read among them whence it is that no bookes which passe not the Inquisition may bee sold in Italy to which purpose also studiously they teach it to be a sinne against the first Commandement to reade any of their prohibited bookes of which they haue a large Index very common and consequently being such a mortall sinne it must necessarily be confessed at time of shrift yea as men euery way foreseeing what way our doctrines might bee induced among them to shut vp surely euery crany and entrance they scarsely suffer to see or bee seene in the light their owne greatest Writers such as Bellarmine Gr●gory de Valencia c. that our positions allegations and answeres though answered by themselues in those books may not be made known lest perhaps it should befall others of them as it did Pighius who reading ouer Caluins Institutions with purpose of refuting it was ere he was aware won to the defence of the doctrine of iustification by free imputation according to the Apostle So as Spaine maketh not a more diligent annuall search that the Iewes among them haue no armes in their houses than both Spaine and Italy vigilantly secure themselues in this behalfe and no marueile if our books be so auoided seeing that they inhibite men from reading the Scriptures themselues lest they should become heretikes condemning it and bringing men in daunger of their liues for reading them as for an hereticall practise In a word at this day such a night doe these Owles delight to liue in that among themselues euen their Regulars much lesse their Laicks may not without licence from the Pope or their Prelates reade the Bible no not in the Catholike translation Fourthly consider their irreconciliable hatred against ours farre aboue all other although most hereticall and damnable religions for why else can they content themselues with so studious preuention of the Protestants profession onely whereas both Iewes and Grecians euen in Rome it selfe the Popes Sea are suffered with their Ceremonies Synagogues Seruices yea Circumcision it self administred to the dead as well as to the liuing which lowdly proclaimeth that farre they are frō iudging deeming so indifferently of our differences as some among our selues seeme to doe and that they would sooner be wone to the Iewes or Turkes in profession then the Protestants which one of them saith is in nothing better then that of the Alcaron and in many things far worse and more detestable And good reason me thinkes they haue of suffering among them the forenamed Sectes and Heretikes as from whom together with the heathen the whole body of Poperie is peecemeale patched together and yet the name of a Protestant bee as much detested of them as the Iewish names were of the heathen Kings For which cause Daniel his fellowes must haue all their names changed before they may bee brought into the presence of Nebuchadnezzar whēce their ordinary practise proceedeth that in their writings their bitternes and disdaine suffer them not to name but in most reproachfull tearmes the first reformers and restorers of our Religion calling them vsually Caluinists Puritans Innouators and Heretikes neither doth this inbredde malice of Papists against our Religion stay it self heere but hath broken out into most barbarous butcheries and most cruell bloodsheddings which yet they could neuer account sufficiently sauage not of their owne subiects only and within their owne Territories but within other dominions not of priuate only but of publike persons not of meaner but of most noble yea Royall discent and not of persons only but of Cities States Kingdomes and Countries But where should I begin or if I should where should I make an end of instācing their most matchlesse and endlesse tyranny euer a note of false Religion and inseparable to the Romish whose cursed rage like that of Symeon and Leui Gen. 34.39 and 47.7 euen fierce and cruell causing them to stincke among the inhabitants of the earth hath made the streetes of infinite Cities which either their force or fraud and false arts could cast open to runne with the blood of Protestants as did once Ierusalem with the blood of the Saints which Manasseh shed like water What shall I neede to speak of that notorious bloodie inquisition in Spaine Italy the chiefe seates of it what of the many miserable massacres Canniball like conspiracies and tragicall murthers in France and the low Countries In our owne country who but strangers at home are ignorāt what fiercenesse feares and fires were raised to consume the innocent bodies of the Saints liuing and dead in such sort as euery corner of the Land seemed as hot as Nebuchadnezzars furnace euen seuen times hotter then it vsed to be wherein were to bee cast whosoeuer would not fall downe and worship the Image which the Romish Nebuchadnezzar had erected Neither yet were those fires thought furious inough for such as might haue appeared if the Lord had not taken the rodde out of those wicked hands in that season whē he did since that time what a number of diuelish plots and conspiracies were attempted against the noble person of her late Maiestie of blessed memorie by Ard●n Someruile Babington P●rry Lopez Squire and others and those stratagems not performed by persons exorbitant but with the priuitie of the Pope and Principals of their religion backing the same not only with their doctrine to which it is most sutable as appeareth by sundrie their seditious positions lately collected by Mr. Morton but with pardons promises paies to particular persons and cōmandemēts generally to all subiects whosoeuer as appeareth by the Popes Bull against her late Maiestie Volumu● iub●mus vt aduersus Elizabetham c. subditi arma capessant And yet as though all were well they can couer al the ill hearing of such traiterous practises vnder the name of Catholike pretenses for the furthering of which intentions what may not and must not be attempted Now to these purposes maintaine they innumerable Catholike intelligencers instruments I meane their Priestes and Iesuites sent out by them not only as eies to search out the secrets of states countries and watch their best aduantages but as hands full of blood to execute whatsoeuer mischiefe vpon any of the Lords annoynted ones not only opposing thēselues to the Papal power but which is more if they be but suspected not so firme to the Pope as they wish or which is most of all to bee marked though they bee their owne dead sure yet if they shew not the●selues as ready to execute the Popes bloodie designes as he to command which was the case of the late King of France slaine treacherously for no other cause by a Iacobin What argument then can bee brought to perswade vs of their euer according with vs in whole or part in our Religion of

Baptisme yea in it the very action of the Minister is a worship of God and doth confer grace ex opere operat● this was their old doctrine which now they colour with this addition If the partie be well and rightly disposed but besides the vse yea the lawfull and common vse there is by this ground required an holy vse of any thing to make it acceptable to God or rightly profitable to the doer himselfe Secondly their hallowing of Water Bels Palmes Ashes Spettle is a meere mockerie of God seeing they haue neither word nor promise from God that these creatures should thus be hallowed to preserue from euill bodie or soule Thirdly they erre in the foundation of religion diuer● waies euery which such error is blasphemie Fourthly that religion oppugneth the sanctification of Gods name in the vse of a lawfull oath teaching first that the Pope hath power to dispense with an oath Secondly that men may sweare by the Masse and so doing make it a God Thirdly euen the learned among them with one consent hold that a man may sweare ambiguously euen when he knoweth the thing to be otherwise The seuenth ground is Galath 5.14 The whole law is fulfilled in this one word Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe The meaning is not that we should loue our neighbour equally with our selues and with no lesse affection or degree of loue but that with the same cheerefulnes willingnes and truth of heart that we perform duties of loue to our selues ought wee also to reach them out vnto others The weight of this ground appeareth in that not onely Christ saith It is like the great Commandement but also in that it is the summe of the whole law for the first table must be practised in the second and the loue of God testified in loue to men The Aduersaries of this ground bee the Popish Church who thus expound it First loue thy self and then thy neighbour making the loue of our selues the foundation of the loue of others but sometime wee may loue our neighbour aboue our selues as Ionathan loued Dauid more than his own soule and Christ loued his enemies more than his owne life Secondly it teacheth that a man must not loue particularly his particular enemie nor salute him in particular but generally as if hee salute a whole companie together his enemie being there The eighth ground Exod. 20.12 Honour thy father and thy mother c. In the words two things are to be considered first an ordinance of God secondly the meanes to preserue it The ordinance is that all men must not be equall in degree but there must bee orders of men of whom some are to be in higher degree as superiours some in lower condition as inferiours the former are aboue others in regarde of power to command and to punish the latter are in subiection vnder others by whose discretion and will they are to be gouerned This ordinance is described Rom. 13.1 Let euery soule be subiect to the superiour power that is be content to be vnder others which are above him in power so here some must bee as fathers and mothers some must bee subiected vnto them The meanes to preserue this ordinance is the yeelding of honour vnto whom it belongeth which standeth in three things first in reuerence towards the persons of superiours Secondly in obedience to their iust commandements Thirdly in thankefulnes for their paines in gouerning thus is that golden sentence to be expounded Matth. 22. Giue vnto C●sar the things that are Caesars that is giue him reuerence obedience thankfulnes according to that Rom. 13.7 Giue feare vnto whom feare belongeth honour to whom honour tribute to whom tribute The weight of this ground is plaine because without it can be no practise of true religion for first by it stand the three things the Familie the Church and Common-wealth all which are maintained by gouernment and subiection wherefore the Lord set this Commandement the first of the second Table as whereupon he would found all humane societies Secondly gouernour● in any of these societies are the keepers of both Tables without whose helpe and authoritie Gods kingdome could haue no abiding on the earth Aduersaries of this Commandement are the Papists who weaken the authoritie of the Magistrate in exempting their Clergie from all Ciuill power of Magistracie in causes both iudiciall that is matters controuersall and criminall that is matters of trespasse although the Apostle saith Let euery soule be subiect Secondly that Church hath set vp a power to bring into order and subiection all the Kings vpon earth namely the power of the Pope who challengeth to himselfe to ouerrule yea and to depose at his pleasure Kings and Queenes who in their dominions are aboue al and only vnder God Thirdly that religion lesseneth the power of parents for in the Councel of Trent they establish first Mariages and Contracts made by children without consent of parents Secondly Vowes also made by children vnder age and without consent of parents are held lawful and not to be broken The ninth ground is Micha 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord requireth of thee surely to do iustly to loue mercie to humble thy selfe and to walke with thy God The meaning Three vertues are here required first Iust d●aling secondly Mercie thirdly Humilitie Touching the first wee are commanded to do● iustly and this execution of iustice between man and man hath fiue substantiall parts First to giue honor to whom honor is due Secondly by thought word and deed to preserue the body and soule of our neighbour that is his life spirituall and temporall Thirdly his chastitie which is the honor of bodie and soule in single life and Matrimonie Fourthly his worldly estate Fiftly his good name This is the scope of all the Commandements of the second Table Now because the due execution of iustice must bee tempered with mercie therefore is mercie required of man in the second place which is a readinesse to relieue the miserie of the distressed And thirdly because iustice and mercie without godlinesse are but ciuil vertues we are in the last place commaunded to walke in humilitie with our God which containeth the summe of the first table and standeth in three things first wee must acknowledge our sinnes secondly intreate for pardon thirdly purpose not to offend God any more but endeuour to preuent sinne to come Concerning y● weight of this ground it appeareth in Micha 6.7 where the Lord testifieth himselfe to be more delighted with the practise of loue and mercie than with oblations of thousands of Rammes and tenne thousand riuers of oyle and elsewhere I will haue mercie and not sacrifice Yea Titus 2.12 This is made the end of the appearing of the grace of God that we should liue soberly in regard of our selues iustly in regard of others and godly in regard of God These vertues are so respected of God