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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Look yet lower, and consider the infernal pity, full of horror and amazedness: Where is no remission of sin, no dismission of pain, no intermission of sense, no permission of comfort, Bernard. Where friend shall cry to friend; Percute, dilacera; infer prunas, & ebullientibus impone lebetibus. That Parisian massacre was but a sense-school to this bloody field: yet think of that dismal cry there; of ⟨p. 325⟩enemies insulting and butchering, kill, kill; of innocents suffering and dying, save, save. But Matth. 8.12. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Flet us ob ignem qui non extinguitur, stridor ob vermem qui non moritur, Bern. Weeping, for the fire that shall never be quenched: gnashing of teeth, for the gnawing worm that shall never be satisfied. Fletus oculorum ex dolore, stridor dentium ex furore, Gregor. Weeping of eyes, the effect of a passive agony: gnashing of teeth, the effect of an impatient fury. Illic dentes stridebunt, qui hîc de edacitate gaudebant; If the rod of affliction which scourgeth the dear ones of GOD, be so smart: what are their plagues, in whose righteous confusion GOD insulteth; I will avenge me of mine enemies! Isaiah 1.24. Bernard observes on the 25. of Saint Matthew. That the blessed are first called to the Kingdom, before the cursed be cast into thraldom. Ut sty acrius doleant, videntes quid amiserint: illi foelicius gaudeant, noscentes quid evase•int; That the ungodly may be the more vexed, seeing what joys they have missed: and the faithful the more solaced, seeing what sorrows they have escaped. If our mortal eyes were suffered to view the horrors of that lake, how would we loath sin which only can endanger us thither!
Looke yet lower, and consider the infernall pittie, full of horror and amasednesse: Where is no remission of sinne, no dismission of paine, no intermission of sense, no permission of comfort, Bernard. Where friend shall cry to friend; Percute, dilacera; infer prunas, & ebullientibus impone lebetibus. That Parisian massacre was but a sense-schoole to this bloudy field: yet thinke of that dismall cry there; of ⟨p. 325⟩enemies insulting and butchering, kill, kill; of innocents suffering and dying, save, save. But