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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.
Swift destruction.] There are many swift things, none swifter than the reprobates destruction, when God will hasten it. Birds are swift, the Eagle cuts the air, and is gone. Therefore Solomon compares the suddenest vanisher, Riches to an Eagle, that makes her self wings and flies away, Prov. 23.5. Yet is this destruction swifter. An arrow is swift, 1 King. 22.34. A certain man drew a bow at a venture, sm•te the King of Israel, and rid him. Destruction is a swift arrow, that same Sagitta per diem volitans, the arrow that flieth by day, Psalm. 91.5. Surer and swifter than the arrow of Cephalus; Consequitur quodcunque petit. 1Or that Hercules shot into Nessus, Met. 9. When he ran away with his Deianira; he told him that though he could not come to him, he would send after him: Vulnere, non pedibus te consequar: •nd he made it good; Fugientia terga sagittâ Trat•icit. These are not Jonathans prick-•rrowes, to give warning: but destructive arrows, such as God shot against Sodom, •etherd with fire, consuming in a moment. Such, Psal. 18.14. He sent out arrows •nd scattered them, he shot out lightnings and discomfited them. Thunder and lightning, […] swift and dispatching arrow. Psal. 144.6. Cast forth lightning and scatter them: •hoote out thine arrows and destroy them. Man may shoot and miss, or his arrows be so slow of flight that it may be avoided: but if God shoots, he hits and kills. The Parthian arrow was so admired for swiftness, that Lucan says of Cesar, he was •orto Balearis verbere fundae Ocyor, & missâ Parthi post terga sagittâ. And Philoctetes rrowes are noted Sophocles for fatal deadliness; [Greek or Hebrew], fore-runners of eath: & habent sub arundine plumbum, headed with heavy vengeance. Yet are all these oth weaker in fight, and duller in flight, than Gods arrows, which as the Psalmist peakes, come from the hand of a Giant. When he shall draw them up to the head, hey wound with an incurable blow.