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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.
The wicked in hell still remain sinners. So Christ saith; All that came before me are thieves and robbers: Are; in propriety of speech he should have said; Fu• runt, they were theeves: no, Sunt, they are still, they remain so. Luk. 13.27. Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity: Operarij, & ab actu praeterito, & habitu presenti, Chrys. Workers, in reference both to the act past, and present habit. For he doth not say, yea that have wrought, but workers: quia iniqui nec post mortem des• nunt esse iniqui. They that dye sinners, remain sinners even dead: although they cannot sin, yet they retain the desire of sinning: and he that is a liar in purpose, ceaseth not to be a liar in practice. Mors separate animam à carne, non peccatum […] anima. Death separates the soul from the flesh, it separates not sin from the soul.
The wicked in hell still remaine sinners. So Christ saith; All that came before me are theeves and robbers: Are; in propriety of speech he should have said; Fu• runt, they were theeves: no, Sunt, they are still, they remaine so. Luk. 13.27. Depart from mee all ye workers of iniquity: Operarij, & ab actu praeterito, & habitu presenti, Chrys. Workers, in reference both to the act past, and present habit. For he doth not say, yea that have wrought, but workers: quia iniqui nec post mortem des• nunt esse iniqui. They that dye sinners, remaine sinners even dead: although they cannot sin, yet they retaine the desire of sinning: and he that is a lyer in purpose, ceaseth not to be a lyer in practice. Mors separat animam à carne, non peccatum 〈…〉 anima. Death separates the soule from the flesh, it separates not sin from the soule.
Seeing the effect of those horrors is weeping, which shall never be comforted; let us prevent them, by weeping where we may be comforted. The time of living, is the time of repenting. If a man dies without repentance, repentance is dead to him forever. If we compare,