A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.
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A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.
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Jones, William, 1561-1636.
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London :: Printed by R[ichard] B[adger] for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-Yard, at the signe of the Blacke Beare,
1635.
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Philemon -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04619.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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VERSE 2.
THe last is the procreant cause of this love. Where first there is the Loadstone, that drew this love. 2. The per∣manencie of this love, in regard of the foundation where∣upon it is built, for the truths sake, truth lasts for ever, so shall this love doe. They did not love her, because she was an honou∣rable Lady, a beautifull Lady, &c. but because of the truth of the Gospell, that had taken firme roote in her heart.
Some love for pleasure, Isaac loved Esau, because Venison was his meate that was his delight. An adulterer loves an harlot,* 1.1 for the satisfying of his filthy lust. Some love for profit, they love their friends as they doe their cowes, horses, and grounds, for
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the benefit they reape by them.* 1.2 Some love for beauty; so She∣chem loved Dinah. Some love for honour and promotion, in hope to be preferred by such a great man. All these stand upon a tickle ground, pleasure vanisheth, and that quickly too; then love vani∣sheth together with it.* 1.3 When Amnon had gotten his pleasure of Tamar, he hated her more, than before he loved her. Riches be∣take themselves to their wings, as Salomon speaketh, and flie away, then love flies away too. If a rich man become a poore man, we set not much by him. Honour is mutable; the naile that is now aloft, is in the dirt, as it fell out with Haman, then he is little re∣garded of any of his followers. Beauty fades away like a flower, then love fades away too; love for the truths sake, for Christs sake, for the Gospels sake, and that will be a permanent love.
But what is this truth? Is not that changeable? No verily. For (as Aquinas doth well distinguish) though fides,* 1.4qua creditur, cea∣seth when we be in heaven: yet fides quae creditur, shall be in hea∣ven, though justifying faith ceaseth, for we shall not neede to be∣leeve in Christ any longer, when we shall see him face to face. Yet the doctrine of faith which wee beleeve touching eternall happinesse purchased by Christ, shall remaine when wee be in heaven, the truth shall be with us for ever.